Genealogy

INTRODUCTION TO GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH

Selected Online Sources

• Cyndi’s List
  Cyndi's List is an index to genealogical information on the web. It includes online forms, and links to additional guides for beginners. The topical index organizes links into broad subject areas, then more narrow topics. The A-Z list is just an alphabetical  index of all subjects.
• Family Search
  One of the best free sites on the web for genealogy research. Compiled and offered by the LDS Church. Lots of detailed guides to genealogy research, forms, web index, etc. Also an online index, however, searches limited information - only the 1880 United States, 1881 British Isles, or the 1881 Canadian Census; church records for Mexico and Scandinavia. Check out the "Research Guidance" tab, which suggests specific resources to search based on geographic location.
• Ancestry.com
  This is a fee-based subscription service. However, access is available at the Bangor Public Library and the LDS Family Research Centers. Provides online access to multiple censuses in full text. Includes an index.
• Heritage Quest
  This is a fee-based subscription service. Access is available to Maine Historical Society members. This database provides access to ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Collection of 25,000+ family and local history books, the page images and corresponding indexes for the entire US Census, 1790-1930, a comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, and more.
• Vitalchek
  Fee-based service which provides copies of vital records from anywhere in the United States.

Author: Darylyne Provost | Revised: 01/25/2008
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