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The USGenWeb is at www.usgenweb.org

The USGenNet is at www.usgennet.org

The American History and Genealogy Project is at www.ahgp.org

The American Local History Network is at www.alhn.org

The most important online American resources are

• USA Social Security Death Index at ◊◊◊www.ancestry.com
• 1880 Census at ◊◊◊www.FamilySearch.org

Government Archives

NARA National Archives & Records Administation ◊◊◊www.archives.gov

AAD Access to Archival Databases ◊◊◊ www.archives.gov/aad

New Jersey State Archives searchable databases are at
www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/databases.html

For addresses and phone numbers of State and County vital records offices go to ◊◊www.genealogy.com/00000229.html

Census Records

Sample census forms are in PDF format at www.ancestry.com/save/charts/census.htm and GIF format at www.genealogy.com/00000061.html

There are two Census Projects run by USGenWeb Project members.

• One can be accessed at ◊◊◊http://www.us-census.org.
• The other can be accessed at ◊◊◊http://www.rootsweb.com/~census.

Maryland State Archives Census Indexes (1776, 1778, 1870, 1880) are at ◊◊◊www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/html/censussearch.html
There are additional Maryland records identified at ◊◊◊www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/html/quickref.html

The Dakota Territory 1885 Census Database is at ◊◊◊www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/databases/census.php

Utah federal census indexes are at
◊◊www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/census_search.htm

Land Records

Search Federal Land Patents Databases at ◊◊◊www.glorecords.blm.gov.

McGill University's Canadian County Atlas Digital Project is at ◊◊◊digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas.  The county maps show the boundaries of every farm with the name of the resident. This is an outstanding genealogy resource, but I am not aware of a similar resource for the U.S.A. Similar historical atlases were printed for counties in the U.S.A.

The Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents from the Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office for the states of;

• Wisconsin is at ◊◊searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wisconsin/wisconsin.pl
• Arkansas is at ◊◊searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/arkland/arkland.pl
• Louisiana is at ◊◊searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/laland/laland.pl

Immigration Records

Ellis Island immigrant records between 1892 and 1924 are at
◊◊◊www.ellisisland.org

The NARA AAD Famine Irish Data Files 1846-1851 are at ◊◊◊http://aad.archives.gov (Set subject to Irish)

North Dakota naturalization records are at
◊◊◊www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/databases/naturalrec.php

Indiana naturalization records are at
◊◊◊www.in.gov/serv/icpr_naturalization

The Mayflower passenger list 1620 is at ◊www.mayflowerhistory.com

Nearly 250,000 Chinese people passed through the immigration stations in San
Francisco and Honolulu between 1882 and 1955. They are identified in a database at ◊◊http://casefiles.berkeley.edu

The Maritime Heritage Project: Ships to San Francisco 1849-1868 is at ◊www.maritimeheritage.org/log.htm

Passenger lists for ships traveling to California between 1848 and 1873 are at ◊www.pt5dome.com/PassHome.html

Galveston Immigration Database is at www.tsm-elissa.org

Indianola Immigrant Database is at http://vrhc.uhv.edu/manuscripts/indianola

Military Records

Louisiana State University's U.S. Civil War Center is at ◊◊◊www.cwc.lsu.edu

Florida State Archive's collections including the
World War I military service cards are at ◊◊◊www.floridamemory.com/Collections

The Library of Virginia World War I History Commission Questionnaires are at
◊◊◊http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas13&local_base=CLAS13

The Index to Tennessee World War I Veterans is at
◊◊◊www.state.tn.us

Pennsylvania Soldiers of the Great War database is at ◊◊◊www.clpgh.org/locations/pennsylvania/genealogy/wwi.html
The Pennsylvania Archives Records Information Access System is at ◊◊◊www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp

The NARA World War II Dead and Missing from Army and Army Air Forces is at  ◊◊◊www.archives.gov. 
The NARA World War II Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard is at  ◊◊◊ www.archives.gov

WWI U.S. Draft Registrations are at ◊◊www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/WWIdraft.html

Another site to check is The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System sponsored by the National Park Service at ◊◊◊www.itd.nps.gov/cwss. The system features an on-line database of names of soldiers, sailors, and United States Colored Troops who served in the Civil War.

For a fee, you can access the American Civil War Research Database at ◊◊www.civilwardata.com.

Steve Morse's Ellis Island and Census web site is at http://stevemorse.org

Directories

There are a number of historic city directories at ◊http://olddirectorysearch.com

An 1884 Berlin Vermont Business Directory is at www.rootsweb.com/~vermont

Newspapers

Univerisity of Utah's Digital Newspaper site is at
◊◊www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews.

Virginia historical newspaper index is at
◊◊www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/newsindex

Biographies

The Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress 1774-present is at
◊◊http://bioguide.congress.gov

Books Online

Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library is at ◊◊cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa.

Geography

Legal land descriptions in the U.S.A. is described at ◊◊www.outfitters.com/genealogy/land/land.html

MARDOS Memorial Library of On-Line Books & Maps is at www.memoriallibrary.com

The 1895 USA Atlas is at www.livgenmi.com/1895

The National Association of Counties shows US county geography at http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/usamap.cfm

U. S. Town/County Database is at ◊◊resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi. For example, a search for the town of Graymont results in the following table of 3 locations with that name.

Historical Atlas of Georgian Counties is at ◊www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps

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