www.Ancestry.com. This site has the most information, including an every-name index to the 1930 census. It is a fee site, but the serious researcher will find that it is worth the expense. Some libraries have AncestryPlus on their in-house computers for patron use. WorldConnect, pedigrees submitted by individual researchers, is a free portion of the site.

www.FamilySearch.org. Free site. Check out the everyname index to the 1880 U.S. and 1881 British censuses. Exercise caution when using the name databases. As with all name databases, the information is usually not verified. Use the data as a roadmap for your searches.

Labs.FamilySearch.org This pilot of the new FamilySearchwebsite contains thousands of digitized censuses, vital records, and other historical documents.

www.USGenWeb.com This site takes you to county level records contributed by volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.

www.Cyndi'sList.com. Cyndi Howells has compiled an online catalog to hundreds of thousands of genealogical webpages.

www.Google.com. Use this Internet search engine to locate Internet sites that contain information about your ancestors and the places where they lived. The GoogleBooks option is terrific. They have digitized thousands of out-of-print books, and many of them have genealogical information.

Geographic Names Information System, http://geonames.usgs.gov Check out this site to locate villages, towns, cemeteries, and just about any geographic place that your ancestors lived.

www.Ellis Island Records.com. Contains information about immigrants who came through the Port of New York from 1892 to 1924.

General Land Office Records (BLM), www.glorecords.blm.gov. Index to names of people who purchased federal land. A warning: sometimes this site is "down."

Cemetery Records Online - Cemeteries and Genealogy, www.interment.net. Browse more than three million cemetery records across almost seven thousand cemeteries from around the world

Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA, a guide for genealogists and other researchers, http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/deathrecords.html

National Genealogical Society (NGS), www.ngsgenealogy.org. NGS offers one of the best online genealogy courses. It's a "must take" for people who want to learn how to find sources for their family history.

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Connie Lenzen, CG^SM