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Best Genealogy Websites of
2013
May P. Chan
Prairie History Librarian, Regina Public Library
Presented October 5, 2013
SGS Conference, Moose Jaw, SK
© 2013
Why do you need this list?
Selection criteria
“The Usual Suspects”
“Journey Around the World”
Canada, United States, UK,
Scandinavia, Europe, Australia and
New Zealand
Something Extra…
Conclusion
Outline
Why do you need this list?
 Not all genealogy websites are the same
Paid (monthly vs per image) vs Free (search
vs full record)
Database vs Index
Nominal Searching vs Geographic Searching
Different Creators - Institutions vs Individuals
 List of online resources is not meant to replace
“traditional” formats like books & microfilm.
Rather the list is meant to be used “in addition
to” and is meant to help save you time and
money
 List features both paid ($) and free web
resources
Selection Criteria
Offers the most authoritative and
trustworthy websites to use for genealogy
How did I select the best genealogy websites
for you to use?
Annual “Best of” featured on the Family
Tree website
Magazines such as Internet Genealogy &
Family Chronicle
Various genealogy blogs
Tips from other genealogists
Personal experience helping patrons
“The Usual Suspects”
 These websites consistently top the “Best of the
Best” online resources to use:
Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com or
http://www.ancestry.ca) - $
Helpful Tip!!! Check with your public library to see if
they provide access to Ancestry Library Edition
(library’s equivalent to Ancestry.com)
FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org) –
FREE
Cyndi’s List (portal; http://www.cyndislist.com/) –
FREE
World Vital Records (www.worldvitalrecords.com)
- $
Ancestry + FamilySearch = A
Very Good Combo!!!
Ancestry
largest paid genealogy resource
 US census records
 State census records
 Vital records
 England census records
 Scotland census records
 Canada census records
 1921 Canadian Census!!!
Searchable only by location
at the present moment
Prairie census records
Incoming passengers lists
FamilySearch
largest free genealogy resource
 Saskatchewan
 Homestead files (look
under SK Provincial
Records!)
 Probate Estate records
from 1887-1931 (SGS
volunteer project)
 Other countries’ records!
 Austria, Belgium, Russia,
South Africa, China, India,
Brazil, Argentina, etc.
Tip #1: Ancestry Insider Blog
http://www.ancestryinsider.blogspot.com
Another Great Site to Consider…
Internet Archive
http://archive.org/index.php
My favorite tool –
archived websites!
Internet Archive
Non-profit digital library offering books,
articles, movies, and audio recordings –
Best part, all of the content is FREE!!!
Hidden genealogy resources
US Census Records – 1790-1940 (not
indexed)
city directories
yearbooks
local and family histories
Henderson City Directory – Saskatoon
1911
Oh Canada!
 Canadian Genealogy Centre, Library and
Archives Canada (http://www.genealogy.gc.ca)
- FREE
 Canadian GenWeb (portal; http://
www.canadagenweb.org) – FREE
 Automated Genealogy (census; http://
www.automatedgenealogy.com) – FREE
 Peel’s Prairie Provinces (newspapers & city
directories; http://www.peel.library.ualberta.ca) –
FREE
 Manitobia (newspapers, maps & books;
http://manitobia.ca/content/en) - FREE
Oh Canada! Continued…
 OurRoots (local history books; http://ourroots.ca)
- FREE
 Canadian County Atlases (ON county atlases;
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas) –
FREE
 Canadiana (historical materials;
http://canadiana.ca/en/home) – $
 Hudson’s Bay Archives (biographical sheets;
http://
www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/index
) - FREE
 Google News Archives (http://news.google.com
/newspapers) - FREE
Oh Canada! Continued…
 Olive Tree Genealogy (portal;
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml) -
FREE
Definitely check out the
site’s passenger lists
links!!!
America Land of Plenty
National Archives and Records
Administration (1940 census, military &
immigration records; http://www.archives.gov/
) – FREE
US GenWeb Project (portal; http://
usgenweb.org/) – FREE
HeritageQuest Online (census, local
histories, & Freedman Bank records; http://
www.heritagequestonline.com) - $ but FREE
access for Regina Public Library card
holders!!!
America – Continued…
Ellis Island (immigration; http://
www.ellisisland.org) – FREE
Castle Garden (immigration; http://
castlegarden.org) – FREE
Distant Cousins (city directories & school
yearbooks; http://www.distantcousin.com) –
FREE
Chronicling America (newspapers; http://
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) – FREE
GenealogyBank (newspapers; http://
www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/) - $
America – Continued…
 Digital Public Library of America (newspapers,
photos & maps; http://dp.la/) – FREE
America – Continued…
Fold3 (military records, newspapers & city
directories; http://www.fold3.com/) - $ but
their War of 1812 Pension files are FREE
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR
lineage records; http://dar.org/) – FREE
Bureau of Land Management General Land
Office Records (land records; http://
www.glorecords.blm.gov/) - FREE
Find a Grave (cemetery records; http://
www.findagrave.com/) - FREE
Jolly Ol’ England
 FindMyPast (http://www.findmypast.co.uk/) - $
but FREE with valid SGS membership
Note: FindMyPast recently added Canadian
history books to its World Collection!
 Free BMD (UK civil registration; http://
freebmd.rootsweb.com) – FREE
 UK National Archives (immigration, wills and
military; http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) -
FREE
 Origins Network (wills; http://www.origins.net/) - $
 Genuki (portal; http://genuki.org.uk) – FREE
Jolly Ol’ England – Continued…
 Historical Directories of UK (http://
www.historicaldirectories.org/hd) - FREE
 Deceased Online (cemetery records; http://
www.deceasedonline.com) - $
 British Newspaper Archive, 1700s-1900s (http://
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/) - $
 Commonwealth War Graves Commission (British
Commonwealth; http://www.cwgc.org/) – FREE
 The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
(Criminal law proceedings,
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/) - FREE
Let’s not forget about Wales…
 The National Library of Wales
 Wills (http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=487) -
FREE
 Welsh Newspapers Online (http://
www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4723) - FREE
Scotland to “Emerald Isle”
ScotlandsPeople (Scottish census &
BMDs;
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) - $
Scottish Emigration Database
(immigration; http://abdn.ac.uk/emigration)
- FREE
National Archives of Ireland (Irish census;
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/) –
FREE
Irish Family History Foundation (census &
BMDS; http://www.rootsireland.ie) - $
“Land of the Vikings”
 Digitalarkivet (Norwegian census, probate &
parish;
http://arkivverket.no/eng/content/view/full/629) –
FREE
 Swedish National Archives (Swedish census;
http://www.svar.ra.se) – FREE
 Arkividigital (Swedish parish records;
http://www.arkivdigital.net) – $
 Finnish Family History Association (FFHA)
(Finnish church & census;
http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/index_eng.htm) –
FREE
“Land of the Vikings”
 Danish Demographic Database (Danish census &
church; http://www.ddd.dda.dk/ddd_en.htm) - FREE
“Europa”
WieWaeWie (Dutch census & civil registers;
https://www.wiewaswie.nl) - FREE
 Greek Genealogy (portal;
http://www.greekgenealogy.org) – FREE
JewishGen (cemetery;
http://www.jewishgen.org) - FREE
HalGal (portal for Western Ukraine & Galicia;
http://www.halgal.com) – FREE
EastEuropeGenWeb (portal;
http://www.rootsweb.com/~easeurgw) – FREE
“Europa” - Continued
Federation of East European Family History
Societies (portal; http://feefhs.org) – FREE
“Europa” - Continued
PolandGenWeb (portal; http://
www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polandgen.html) -
FREE
Black Sea German Research (family trees &
maps; http://blackseagr.org) – FREE
Atlas of the German Empire by Ludwig
Ravenstein (1883 German map;
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein) –
FREE
Bremen Passenger Lists, 1920-1939
(Germany; http://passengerlists.de/) - FREE
“Down Under”
 Trove, National Library of Australia (newspapers;
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper) - FREE
Nice feature –
geographical interface!
“Down Under” - Continued
 Australian Cemetery Index (http://
austcemindex.com/) – FREE
 Australian War Memorial (military indexes; http://
www.awm.gov.au/) - FREE
 Papers Past (New Zealand newspapers;
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
)– FREE
 Websites of New Zealand Cemeteries (
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~
) - FREE
“Something Extra”
General Reference – Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
 The Canadian Encyclopedia (
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com) – FREE
 Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (
http://www.esask.uregina.ca/) – FREE
 Rudy’s List of Archaic Medical Terms – (
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/) - FREE
General Reference - Maps
 Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) – FREE
 Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/) – FREE
“Something Extra” - Continued
Keeping Organized
Free Genealogy Forms and Charts (http://
www.genealogysearch.org/free/forms.html) – FREE
GenSoftReviews (genealogy software; http://
www.gensoftreviews.com) – FREE
CNET (software and hardware; http://www.cnet.com/
) – FREE
Dropbox (cloud computing; www.dropbox.com) -
FREE
Evernote (online note taking; www.evernote.com) -
FREE
Online-Convert (file conversions;
www.online-convert.com) - FREE
“Something Extra” - Continued
Staying Up-to-Date
 Dick’s Eastman’s Newsletter (http://
blog.eogn.com/) – FREE
 Genealogy in Time Newsletter (http://
www.genealogyintime.com/index.html) -
FREE
 Dear Myrtle (http://blog.dearmyrtle.com) –
FREE
 Genealogy Blog Finder (http://
blogfinder.genealogue.com/) – FREE
Staying Up-To-Date – Continued…
Genealogy Guys (http://www.genealogyguys.com)
- FREE
Contact:
Email: maychan@reginalibrary.ca
http://www.slideshare.net/maychan
Thank-you!

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Best Genealogy Websites of 2013

  • 1. Best Genealogy Websites of 2013 May P. Chan Prairie History Librarian, Regina Public Library Presented October 5, 2013 SGS Conference, Moose Jaw, SK © 2013
  • 2. Why do you need this list? Selection criteria “The Usual Suspects” “Journey Around the World” Canada, United States, UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand Something Extra… Conclusion Outline
  • 3. Why do you need this list?  Not all genealogy websites are the same Paid (monthly vs per image) vs Free (search vs full record) Database vs Index Nominal Searching vs Geographic Searching Different Creators - Institutions vs Individuals  List of online resources is not meant to replace “traditional” formats like books & microfilm. Rather the list is meant to be used “in addition to” and is meant to help save you time and money  List features both paid ($) and free web resources
  • 4. Selection Criteria Offers the most authoritative and trustworthy websites to use for genealogy How did I select the best genealogy websites for you to use? Annual “Best of” featured on the Family Tree website Magazines such as Internet Genealogy & Family Chronicle Various genealogy blogs Tips from other genealogists Personal experience helping patrons
  • 5. “The Usual Suspects”  These websites consistently top the “Best of the Best” online resources to use: Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com or http://www.ancestry.ca) - $ Helpful Tip!!! Check with your public library to see if they provide access to Ancestry Library Edition (library’s equivalent to Ancestry.com) FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org) – FREE Cyndi’s List (portal; http://www.cyndislist.com/) – FREE World Vital Records (www.worldvitalrecords.com) - $
  • 6. Ancestry + FamilySearch = A Very Good Combo!!! Ancestry largest paid genealogy resource  US census records  State census records  Vital records  England census records  Scotland census records  Canada census records  1921 Canadian Census!!! Searchable only by location at the present moment Prairie census records Incoming passengers lists FamilySearch largest free genealogy resource  Saskatchewan  Homestead files (look under SK Provincial Records!)  Probate Estate records from 1887-1931 (SGS volunteer project)  Other countries’ records!  Austria, Belgium, Russia, South Africa, China, India, Brazil, Argentina, etc.
  • 7. Tip #1: Ancestry Insider Blog http://www.ancestryinsider.blogspot.com
  • 8. Another Great Site to Consider… Internet Archive http://archive.org/index.php My favorite tool – archived websites!
  • 9. Internet Archive Non-profit digital library offering books, articles, movies, and audio recordings – Best part, all of the content is FREE!!! Hidden genealogy resources US Census Records – 1790-1940 (not indexed) city directories yearbooks local and family histories
  • 10. Henderson City Directory – Saskatoon 1911
  • 11. Oh Canada!  Canadian Genealogy Centre, Library and Archives Canada (http://www.genealogy.gc.ca) - FREE  Canadian GenWeb (portal; http:// www.canadagenweb.org) – FREE  Automated Genealogy (census; http:// www.automatedgenealogy.com) – FREE  Peel’s Prairie Provinces (newspapers & city directories; http://www.peel.library.ualberta.ca) – FREE  Manitobia (newspapers, maps & books; http://manitobia.ca/content/en) - FREE
  • 12. Oh Canada! Continued…  OurRoots (local history books; http://ourroots.ca) - FREE  Canadian County Atlases (ON county atlases; http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas) – FREE  Canadiana (historical materials; http://canadiana.ca/en/home) – $  Hudson’s Bay Archives (biographical sheets; http:// www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/index ) - FREE  Google News Archives (http://news.google.com /newspapers) - FREE
  • 13. Oh Canada! Continued…  Olive Tree Genealogy (portal; http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml) - FREE Definitely check out the site’s passenger lists links!!!
  • 14. America Land of Plenty National Archives and Records Administration (1940 census, military & immigration records; http://www.archives.gov/ ) – FREE US GenWeb Project (portal; http:// usgenweb.org/) – FREE HeritageQuest Online (census, local histories, & Freedman Bank records; http:// www.heritagequestonline.com) - $ but FREE access for Regina Public Library card holders!!!
  • 15. America – Continued… Ellis Island (immigration; http:// www.ellisisland.org) – FREE Castle Garden (immigration; http:// castlegarden.org) – FREE Distant Cousins (city directories & school yearbooks; http://www.distantcousin.com) – FREE Chronicling America (newspapers; http:// chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) – FREE GenealogyBank (newspapers; http:// www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/) - $
  • 16. America – Continued…  Digital Public Library of America (newspapers, photos & maps; http://dp.la/) – FREE
  • 17. America – Continued… Fold3 (military records, newspapers & city directories; http://www.fold3.com/) - $ but their War of 1812 Pension files are FREE Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR lineage records; http://dar.org/) – FREE Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records (land records; http:// www.glorecords.blm.gov/) - FREE Find a Grave (cemetery records; http:// www.findagrave.com/) - FREE
  • 18. Jolly Ol’ England  FindMyPast (http://www.findmypast.co.uk/) - $ but FREE with valid SGS membership Note: FindMyPast recently added Canadian history books to its World Collection!  Free BMD (UK civil registration; http:// freebmd.rootsweb.com) – FREE  UK National Archives (immigration, wills and military; http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) - FREE  Origins Network (wills; http://www.origins.net/) - $  Genuki (portal; http://genuki.org.uk) – FREE
  • 19. Jolly Ol’ England – Continued…  Historical Directories of UK (http:// www.historicaldirectories.org/hd) - FREE  Deceased Online (cemetery records; http:// www.deceasedonline.com) - $  British Newspaper Archive, 1700s-1900s (http:// www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/) - $  Commonwealth War Graves Commission (British Commonwealth; http://www.cwgc.org/) – FREE  The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (Criminal law proceedings, http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/) - FREE
  • 20. Let’s not forget about Wales…  The National Library of Wales  Wills (http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=487) - FREE  Welsh Newspapers Online (http:// www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4723) - FREE
  • 21. Scotland to “Emerald Isle” ScotlandsPeople (Scottish census & BMDs; http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) - $ Scottish Emigration Database (immigration; http://abdn.ac.uk/emigration) - FREE National Archives of Ireland (Irish census; http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/) – FREE Irish Family History Foundation (census & BMDS; http://www.rootsireland.ie) - $
  • 22. “Land of the Vikings”  Digitalarkivet (Norwegian census, probate & parish; http://arkivverket.no/eng/content/view/full/629) – FREE  Swedish National Archives (Swedish census; http://www.svar.ra.se) – FREE  Arkividigital (Swedish parish records; http://www.arkivdigital.net) – $  Finnish Family History Association (FFHA) (Finnish church & census; http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/index_eng.htm) – FREE
  • 23. “Land of the Vikings”  Danish Demographic Database (Danish census & church; http://www.ddd.dda.dk/ddd_en.htm) - FREE
  • 24. “Europa” WieWaeWie (Dutch census & civil registers; https://www.wiewaswie.nl) - FREE  Greek Genealogy (portal; http://www.greekgenealogy.org) – FREE JewishGen (cemetery; http://www.jewishgen.org) - FREE HalGal (portal for Western Ukraine & Galicia; http://www.halgal.com) – FREE EastEuropeGenWeb (portal; http://www.rootsweb.com/~easeurgw) – FREE
  • 25. “Europa” - Continued Federation of East European Family History Societies (portal; http://feefhs.org) – FREE
  • 26. “Europa” - Continued PolandGenWeb (portal; http:// www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polandgen.html) - FREE Black Sea German Research (family trees & maps; http://blackseagr.org) – FREE Atlas of the German Empire by Ludwig Ravenstein (1883 German map; http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein) – FREE Bremen Passenger Lists, 1920-1939 (Germany; http://passengerlists.de/) - FREE
  • 27. “Down Under”  Trove, National Library of Australia (newspapers; http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper) - FREE Nice feature – geographical interface!
  • 28. “Down Under” - Continued  Australian Cemetery Index (http:// austcemindex.com/) – FREE  Australian War Memorial (military indexes; http:// www.awm.gov.au/) - FREE  Papers Past (New Zealand newspapers; http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast )– FREE  Websites of New Zealand Cemeteries ( http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ ) - FREE
  • 29. “Something Extra” General Reference – Encyclopedias & Dictionaries  The Canadian Encyclopedia ( www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com) – FREE  Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan ( http://www.esask.uregina.ca/) – FREE  Rudy’s List of Archaic Medical Terms – ( http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/) - FREE General Reference - Maps  Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) – FREE  Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection ( http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/) – FREE
  • 30. “Something Extra” - Continued Keeping Organized Free Genealogy Forms and Charts (http:// www.genealogysearch.org/free/forms.html) – FREE GenSoftReviews (genealogy software; http:// www.gensoftreviews.com) – FREE CNET (software and hardware; http://www.cnet.com/ ) – FREE Dropbox (cloud computing; www.dropbox.com) - FREE Evernote (online note taking; www.evernote.com) - FREE Online-Convert (file conversions; www.online-convert.com) - FREE
  • 31. “Something Extra” - Continued Staying Up-to-Date  Dick’s Eastman’s Newsletter (http:// blog.eogn.com/) – FREE  Genealogy in Time Newsletter (http:// www.genealogyintime.com/index.html) - FREE  Dear Myrtle (http://blog.dearmyrtle.com) – FREE  Genealogy Blog Finder (http:// blogfinder.genealogue.com/) – FREE
  • 32. Staying Up-To-Date – Continued… Genealogy Guys (http://www.genealogyguys.com) - FREE

Editor's Notes

  1. FindMyPast - $50 value add membership with SGS/annual; $10 day pass; Site offers tons of British records including the complete English Census from 1841-1911 as well as passenger lists Origins Network – site specializes in hard-to-find records including National Wills index; 1841, 1861 and 1871 censuses; Griffith’s Valuation tax census and 1841 & 1901 Dublin city censuses – Irish genealogy
  2. Digitalarkivet – offers census and parish records; the place to begin your Norwegian genealogy research; The 1910 Norwegian census is now available at this record-packed site from the National Archives of Norway, joining the enumerations from 1801, 1865, 1875 and 1900 Swedish National Archives – offers the 1880, 1890 & 1900 census records Arkividigital – nearly complete collection of Swedish parish records Finnish Family History Association – images of original church records (communion books)
  3. Danish Demographic Database – “Emigrants” section offers searchable list of Danes who left Denamkr from 1869 to 1908; site also offers census records - Here you can search nearly 13 million census records and 400,000 emigration records, 1868 to 1908
  4. HalGal - Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia; starting point for anyone doing genealogical research in Western Ukraine/Eastern Galicia EastEuropeGenWeb – free online data repository for queries, family histories & source records
  5. Federation of East European Family History Societies – organized in 1992; website contains a resource directory with links to organizations, databases & an extensive online map library (free to view)