genealogy
FOR BEGINNERS
Gen-Newbie Home Page	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~newbie/
Gen-Newbie Resources	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~newbie/GEN-NEWBIE-GENE-RESOURCES.htm
Genealogy 101	http://genealogy.about.com
Genealogy Classes Online	http://www.genealogy.com/genehelp.html
Getting Started	http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/getting_started
general aids
Free Genealogy Charts of All Types	http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com /~ruthann/charts/chartsrecbooks.htm
25 Tips for Researching at a Family History Center	http://www.familychronicle.com/25fhc.html
Finding Treasures in the U. S. Census	http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/uscensus.html
Deciphering Old Handwriting	http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html
How to Do Tombstone Rubbings	http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/t_stone.html
COMPREHENSIVE AND DIRECTORY SITES
Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet	http://www.CyndisList.com
Yahoo’s Guide to Genealogy Sites on the Internet	http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/humanities/history/genealogy
Genealogy.com	http://www.genealogy.com
RootsWeb	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
USGenWeb Project Links to state genealogy sites	http://www.usgenweb.org
MAJOR SEARCH SITES
FamilySearch Search engine for LDS (Mormon) databases	https://www.familysearch.org
Ancestry.com There is some free information available without a subscription. Subscription areas are available through "My Library's Databases" page as Ancestry Library Edition. But it may only be accessed at a library.	http://www.ancestry.com
Family Tree Maker Family Finder	http://www.genealogy.com/ifftop.html
Social Security Death Index	http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693
Genealogy Gateway to the Web	http://www.gengateway.com
ROOTS-L Mailing List Home Page	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/roots-l/
LOCAL AND LOUISIANA SITES
New Orleans Bee	http://www.jefferson.lib.la.us/genealogy/ NewOrleansBeeMain.htm
New Orleans Public Library Genealogy Links	http://nutrias.org/~nopl/links/genlinks/genlinks.htm
NOPL Guide to Genealogical Materials	http://nutrias.org/~nopl/guides/genguide/gguide4.htm
NOPL African American Genealogy Sources	http://nutrias.org/~nopl/guides/black.htm
NOPL New Orleans City Archives Finding Aids and Inventories	http://nutrias.org/~nopl/inv/invlist.htm
NOPL Orleans Parish Civil and Criminal Courts Finding Aids, Inventories and Indexes Page	http://nutrias.org/~nopl/inv/courts.htm
LaGen Web Project	http://www.lagenweb.org
Searching for Your Louisiana Ancestors Virginia Rogers Smith’s guide to microfilm and other genealogy resources available at the Louisiana State Library	http://www.state.lib.la.us/empowerlibrary/ ancestors20031.pdf
Louisiana.gov Louisiana's official Web site	http://www.louisiana.gov/
Louisiana Clerks of Court Names, addresses & phone numbers of clerks of court in each Louisiana parish	http://www.laclerksofcourt.org/courts.htm
Roots-L Louisiana Page	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/roots-l/USA/la.html
Saint Domingue	http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ~saintdomingue/S-D%20Opening%20Page.htm
French-Canadian Surnames From the American-French Genealogical Society	http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~afgs/index1.html
general resources
NARA Genealogy Page (National Archives & Records Administration) Lists publications and microfilm available	http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/index.html
Public Records Database	http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm
Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory “Free coverage of the genealogy world in a nutshell"; compiled and maintained by Chris and Tom Tinney, Sr.	http://www.academic-genealogy.com
The Olive Tree Genealogy	http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml
1930 Census Official Page	http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1930/
1940 Census Official Page	http://1940census.archives.gov
indexes and lists
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
NOPL Index to Marriage Notices in the Daily Picayune, 1837-1857	http://www.nutrias.org/~nopl/info/louinfo/ newsmarr/newsmarr.htm
Alphabetical Index of Deaths in Metro New Orleans “As published in the Times-Picayune.” Index covers January 1994 through April 2006 as of 10/2006. Ongoing project. Card file available at East Bank Regional Special Collections.	http://www.jgs25.com/obits/deathnx.htm
Obituary search Times Picayune January 1972- 1978	www.jefferson.lib.la.us/obit/ObitSearch.asp
Times-Picayune Obituaries Last 180 days only	http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/
Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths:England and Wales	http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
Obituary Daily Times Index of published obituaries	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~obituary/
Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA	http://www.deathindexes.com
Passenger Lists
Ellis Island Records Record of immigrants entering through Ellis Island from 1892-1924	http://www.ellisisland.org/
Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild	http://www.immigrantships.net/
Cemetery Records
Interment.net Cemetery Transcription Library	http://interment.net
Cemetery Junction	http://www.cemeteryjunction.com
USGenWeb Project, Louisiana Archives Index, Orleans Parish	http://usgwarchives.net/la/orleans.htm
Historic New Orleans Cemetery Lafayette #1	http://lafayettecemetery.org
Chalmette National Cemetery	http://www.nps.gov/jela/chalmette-national-cemetery.htm
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid	http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/
African-American Cemeteries Online	http://www.prairiebluff.com/aacemetery/index.htm
Miscellaneous Lists
NOPL Land Records	http://nutrias.org/%7E~nopl/guides/ genguide/landrecords.htm
Searchable Database of Land Records	http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/landrecords/
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System	http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
specialized sites
Guillory Family Genealogy Forum	http://www.genforum.com/guillory
AfriGeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy	http://www.afrigeneas.com
Christine’s Genealogy Website Links for African-American genealogy	http://ccharity.com
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy (1719-1820)	http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/
GENUKI: United Kingdom & Ireland Genealogy British Isles’ version of the U.S. GenWeb Project	http://www.genuki.org.uk
United Kingdom Family History Online	http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk
Genealogy.net German genealogy site	http://www.genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html
Italian Genealogy Page	http://www.italiangenealogy.com/
JewishGen The Home of Jewish Genealogy	http://www.jewishgen.org/
Canada GenWeb	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canwgw/
Irish GenWeb	http://irelandgenealogyprojects.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
Northern Ireland GenWeb	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nirwgw/
Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS)	http://feefhs.org
Genealogy Forum Hispanic Resource Center	http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/ gfaol/resource/Hispanic/
NativeWeb Native American genealogy	http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/ genealogy_tracing_roots_/
Selected Finding Aids Related to NARA’s World War II Holdings	http://www.archives.gov/research/start/index.html
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) For U.S. and Antarctica	http://geonames.usgs.gov/
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names	http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/ vocabulary/tgn/index.html
American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Digitized maps and other original sources	http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
organizations
Jefferson Genealogical Society	http://www.jgs25.com
West Bank Genealogical Society	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety
Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lagrsno/
Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society	http://www.louisianagenealogy.org/
Greater New Orleans Archivists	http://nutrias.org/gnoa/gnoa.htm
Jewish Genealogical Society of New Orleans	http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsno/
National Genealogical Society	http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/
African-American Historical and Genealogical Society in Georgia Metro Atlanta Chapter	http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gaaahgs/
Irish Genealogical Society, Intl.	http://www.irishgenealogical.org