United States

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Region: North America
Border Countries: Canada, Mexico
Sub Regions: Midwest, Northeast, South, Southwest, Western States

Contents 1 Buildings and Historical Sites 2 Census 3 Culture and Religion 4 Directories and Addresses 5 Immigration and Naturalization 6 Law and Legal Documents 7 Libraries and Repositories 8 Maps 9 Newspapers and Magazines 10 Photographs 11 Societies, Professional and Ethnic 12 Transcriptions, Indices and Records 13 Transportation and Communication 14 Wars and Military 15 Written and Oral Histories

Buildings and Historical Sites

• Historic American Buildings Survey- from the Library of Congress.

Census

• Finding Enumeration Districts for US Federal Censuses- from Steve Morse, et al.

Culture and Religion

• Vintage Ad Browser

• Making of America- "The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."

Directories and Addresses

• Where to Write for Vital Records- from the CDC. Information on obtaining vital records from each state.

Immigration and Naturalization

• BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project

• Plymouth Families "Mayflower Research Index"- Indexes genealogical journal articles concerning Mayflower immigrants; organized by head of family.

Law and Legal Documents

• The Avalon Project- From Yale Law School. Pre-18th Century to 21st Century law and law-related documents online.

• Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England

• Reeve's The Law of Baron and Femme- Treatise on aspects of common law.

• Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856

• 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.

Libraries and Repositories

• NARA Archival Databases
• Allen County Public Library
• NUCMC- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Maps

• 1895 United States Atlas

• 1914 County Maps by State

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.

Photographs

• Thanatos.net- Momento Mori

• Ancient Faces

• Family Old Photos

• Dead Fred

Societies, Professional and Ethnic

• National Genealogical Society

• Board for the Certification of Genealogists

• Association of Professional Genealogists

• Jewish Genealogical Society

• POINT- Pursuing Our Italian Names Together

Transcriptions, Indices and Records

• USGenWeb Archives

• 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.

• Online Searchable Death Indexes

Cemeteries

• Interment.net

• TeaFor2-Grave photos

• Sons of Union Veterans- National graves registration database for Union soldiers of the Civil War.

Transportation and Communication

• Reference Section on Railroads in the United States- From the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society.

• Roots and Routes-"Heritage Travel Site" with migration maps and historical information on routes of travel in the United States.

• Postal History-Post Offices past and present.

• Mystic Seaport Ship and Yacht Register (1857 - 1900)

• Philatelic Genealogy- "Explores how envelopes and postcards from postal history collections can reveal an exact place of origin for European immigrants to the United States and Canada."

Wars and Military

• Naval Historical Center

• U.S. Army Heritage Collection Online

• Online Military Indexes and War Records- Links to online resources.

• National Museum of the Marine Corps

The Revolution

• Buried History of the American Revolution- The Revolution as seen from the Loyalist's side.

• DAR Genealogical Research Database

The Civil War

• The Civil War- Includes Harpers Weekly newspapers printed during the war.

• Civil War Veteran Burial Database- Union and Confederate

Written and Oral Histories

• America Hurrah!
• GenDisasters- Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods
• Digital History