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Genealogy

Beginners Guide to Family History Research
Need help getting started on your family history quest, this site has lots of helpful information.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Ellis Island Records
This site has records of 22 million immigrants who arrived at New York City's port between 1892 and 1924. The searchable database will include immigrants' names, ages, nationalities, hometowns and other information. More than 20 pieces of information about your ancestor's journey could be available. You could learn how old the person that you're tracing was, their physical characteristics, how much money they had with them, where they were coming from and where they were going, right down to the address.

Family Tree Maker Online Genealogy Classes
Online tutorials to help you learn how to do genealogy research. From the makers of "Family Tree Maker" software.

FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
Site is from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) The search engine here searches through records of over 35 million names in its Ancestral File, over 360 million names the International Genealogical Index (Britain, North America and Finland) and more than 2 million rolls of microfilm in the Family History Library Catalog.

The Genealogy Home Page

Genealogy Today

Genealogy.com

National Archives Genealogy Page

GenealogyPortal.com

The OHGenWeb Project Page

Ohio Death Certificate Index
This database indexes Death Certificates of persons that died in Ohio 1913 - 1944; useful for determining date of death and certificate number.

RAND Genealogy Club

Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative

Vital Records Information for the United States
"This page contains information about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States."

The WorldGen Web Project

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