Here are some links to websites to help in your historical research.
Documenting the Lineage for DAR – This document describes what information is needed in addition to a list of useful websites.
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- American Battle Monuments
- Ancestry.com – This site can provide a variety of records such as birth, marriage, death, census, wills, and tombstones.
- Atlas of Historical Counties
- Canadian Headstones
- Familysearch.org – Birth, marriage, death records, and census records can be found on this website.
- Findagrave.com – This site provides many photographs of tombstones. The information on the stones can be used as a source but the memorial information cannot as it may not be verified.
- Fold3 – Historical military records
- Genealogy Trails
- General Land Office Records – This site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States.
- Hathi Trust Digital Library – This site contains local histories and family histories in digital format.
- Interment.net
- Internet Archive – This site contains many online books including genealogies and vital records.
- Legacy.com
- Library of Archives Canada
- Library of Congress – This has several newspaper you can search for free.
- National Archives – A list of searchable databases.
- Randymajors.com – This site is useful as a way to identify what county the town was in on a specific date.
- Tombstone Birth Date Calculator
- US Gen Web Archives
- 100 Top Genealogy Websites
- Miscellaneous NH Revolutionary Documents
- Podcast – Genealogy Gems
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State Websites
- Alabama Dept of Archives & History
- Alabama Mosaic
- Alaska State Archives
- American Samoa Genealogy
- Arizona Memory Project
- Arkansas Digital Archives
- CaliSphere – University of California
- Online Archive of California
- Denver Colorado Public Library
- Connecticut Collections.
- Connecticut Digital Archives
- Delaware Public Archives
- DigDC
- University of Florida Digital Collections
- Digital Library of Georgia.
- Georgia Archives
- Guam Genealogy
- Hawai’i State Archives
- Idaho State Historical Society
- Illinois Digital Archives
- Illinois State Archives Databases
- Indiana State Library
- Iowa Digital Library
- Iowa Heritage Digital Collection
- Kansas Memory
- Kentucky Historical Society
- Louisiana Digital Library
- Digital Maine Repository
- Maine Genealogy
- Maine Memory Network
- Digital Maryland
- Maryland State Archives
- Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Early Vital Records of Massachusetts – This site is an ongoing effort to transcribe early vital record documents within Massachusetts from 1600 to 1850.
- Massachusetts State Library – This site provides the Massachusetts Soldier and Sailors in the American Revolution volumes.
- Michigan Biographical Index
- Michiganology
- Western Michigan Genealogical Society
- Minnesota Digital Library
- Mississippi Digital Library
- Missouri State Archives
- State Historical Society of Missouri Digital Collection
- Montana Historical Society
- History Nebraska
- Nevada Library Cooperative
- New Hampshire Genealogy & History
- New Jersey State Archives
- New Mexico’s Digital Collections
- New York Heritage Digital Collections
- NYC Historical Vital Records Project
- Digital NC
- North Carolina Digital Collections
- University of North Carolina: The Southern Historical Collection
- Digital Horizons – Life on the Northern Plains
- Northern Mariana Islands Genealogy
- Ohio Memory
- Digital Prairie
- The Gateway to Oklahoma History
- Oregon Digital
- Oregon Historical Society Digital Collections
- State Library of Pennsylvania Collections
- Puerto Rico Genealogy
- Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries
- South Carolina Dept of Archives and History
- South Carolina Digital Library
- South Dakota State Historical Society
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections
- Tennessee Virtual Archive
- The Portal to Texas History
- The Danish West-Indies
- Utah State Archives Name Indexes
- Vermont History
- Library of Virginia
- Washington Rural Heritage
- Washington State Archives – Digital Archives
- West Virginia Archives and History
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection