United States
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Region: North America
Border Countries: Canada, Mexico
Sub Regions: Midwest, Northeast, South, Southwest, Western States
[edit] Buildings and Historical Sites
- Historic American Buildings Survey- from the Library of Congress.
[edit] Census
- Finding Enumeration Districts for US Federal Censuses- from Steve Morse, et al.
[edit] Directories and Addresses
- Where to Write for Vital Records- from the CDC. Information on obtaining vital records from each state.
[edit] Immigration and Naturalization
[edit] Law and Legal Documents
- The Avalon Project- From Yale Law School. Pre-18th Century to 21st Century law and law-related documents online.
- Reeve's The Law of Baron and Femme- Treatise on aspects of common law.
- Journals of the Continental Congress- The Journals of the Continental Congress are the records of the daily proceedings of the Congress as kept by the office of its secretary, Charles Thomson.
- Statutes at Large- The United States Statutes at Large, commonly referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the official source for the laws and resolutions passed by Congress.
[edit] Libraries and Repositories
- NARA Archival Databases
- Allen County Public Library
- NUCMC- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
[edit] Maps
[edit] Newspapers and Magazines
- U.S. Newspaper Archives on the Web- Links to, and information about, online archives for papers across the United States.
- Small Town Newspapers Archive- Over 250 small town papers, both current and historical editions available online.
- Newspaper Archive- Paid subscription access to U.S. and global newspapers, with both historical and recent issues.
- U.S. Newspaper Program-A cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Provides contact information and site links for representative programs for each state.
- NewsLibrary.com-Vast archive of U.S. papers. Free to search and view article abstracts and term-in-context, pay-per-article retrieved.
- Chronicling America- Newspaper search from the Library of Congress.
[edit] Photographs
- Thanatos.net- Momento Mori
[edit] Societies, Professional and Ethnic
- POINT- Pursuing Our Italian Names Together
[edit] Transcriptions, Indices and Records
- USGenWeb On-Line Census Project- Online inventory of census transcriptions.
- Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records - Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. Also provide image access to more than three million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908
- Tools for Genealogy Researchers- Great site with links allowing you to perform "batch searches" on the familysearch.org website.
Cemeteries
- TeaFor2-Grave photos
- Sons of Union Veterans- National graves registration database for Union soldiers of the Civil War.
[edit] Wars and Military
- Online Military Indexes and War Records- Links to online resources.
- Buried History of the American Revolution- The Revolution as seen from the Loyalist's side.
[edit] Written and Oral Histories
- America Hurrah!
- GenDisasters- Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods
- Digital History
