User:Obstinatesnooper/Online genealogy sources reference

Since I have bookmarks everywhere, and can never remember which one's where, I figured this would be a great place to annotate my genealogy links.

Databases

Don's List

Directories, Institutions, Yearbooks, Census, Military, Finding Guides, and Links to Offsite Collections. Early census images (not Ocrd). Amazing finding tool.

Family

BYU Digital Collections Search

USA

NARA

• Microfilm Roll Info Search

Michigan

• Western Michigan Genealogical Society searchable databases
• Search Dibean Marriage Index

Journals and Newspapers

• about the NY 1855 State Census: from the Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society (1859)
• Northern New York Historical Newspapers
• Fulton History

Census Info

• NY State Census info
• List of Questions on NY State Census
• Finding reels on the Internet Archive
• Phonetic Codes

Mayflower

• Application Helps

Canada

• National Archives
  • Census returns (will add link later; /genealogy subdirectory is down today: 12-25-11)
  • Ancestors Search - search combined genealogical databases
• Automated Genealogy - indices to Canadian censi, and other finding tools. Nifty, because the 1851/2 census is not indexed at the Archives.