Genealogy Resources

Search for your ancestors using this interactive directory of the best free genealogy search engines. Search top world-wide & specialized genealogy databases from one genealogy search site! The Ancestor Search site also has unique custom genealogy search engines found no where else.

Ancestor Search Sites

Getting Started

• Genealogy Buff - A simplified research directory for the amateur family researcher.
• Genealogy Lessons - Step by step beginning instructions in genealogy research. Learn everything from starting with home sources to choosing the best federal and state sources to accomplish your research.
• The Genealogy Spot - The spot to start your genealogy research.
• GenHelp: Genealogy Help at your Fingertips - Interactive genealogy articles

Biographies

• GeneaBios - Genealogy Biographies - Biographies for online genealogy research.

Census

• Census Online - The web's largest directory of links to online census transcriptions! This directory includes links to federal censuses and indexes, state and territorial censuses, tax lists, voter lists, military pensioner lists, etc.

Death Records

• Ancestors at Rest - Obituary links and obituary archive search engine.
• Obituary Central - Death records such as coffin plates, death cards, funeral cards, wills, church records, family bibles, cenotaphs and tombstone inscriptions
• Death Records from Surname Genealogy Archive - Free genealogy database of transcribed documents, lists of names from the past, and obituaries to help you find your ancestors and surnames and gain an insight into their everyday lives.

Marriage Records

• A to Z Marriages - Find marriage records in this collection of directories and genealogical information for the USA, Canada, and the UK.
• GeneaLinks Marriage Records - Marriage records database and links to genealogy and history sites in a categorized genealogy directory of well-known and not-so-well-known genealogy and history sites.

Pennsylvania Websites

• Pennsylvania Civil War Rosters - Hundreds of searchable Civil War rosters, histories, diaries, draft lists, Medal of Honor winners, casualty lists
• Pennsylvania Spanish American War Rosters - Hundreds of searchable Civil War rosters, histories, diaries, draft lists, Medal of Honor winners, casualty lists
• Free Pennsylvania Databases - FREE genealogy databases of biographies, military records, and passenger lists with guides to online census, maps, local genealogy and historical societies, and vital records to help find your ancestors and build your family tree.
• RootsSearch.Net

Miscellaneous Records

• Distant Cousin - Genealogy records and scanned images of historical documents from a wide variety of sources, such as newspaper obituaries, city directories, census records, ship lists, school yearbooks, and military records.
• Free Genealogy Finds - Free genealogy data to help find your ancestors and surnames.
• All Ancestors - Find the records your ancestors left.
• Genealogy Today - Daily genealogy news, surname queries, research tips & articles.
• PastVoices - Find your ancestors through their letters

Passenger Lists

• Naturalization Records - USA & Canadian Naturalization & Citizenship Records
• Olive Tree Genealogy - Over 1500 ship passenger lists.

Surnames

• All Surnames Genealogy Resources - Surname links and other resources.
• Ancestor Surnames - Find your ancestors' surnames in transcribed documents
• SurnameWeb - The largest surname listing on the Web, with over 83,184 surname registry pages, 3174 one-name studies and 6261 researcher listings and 11,408 surname origins listings and name meanings.
• Find Ancestors and Surnames on Surname Site - Free genealogy data and links to other sites with data

Web Directories

• A Barrel of Genealogy Links
• All Genealogy Sites Directory - Directory of quality genealogy sites.
• All Genealogy Sites Directory - Directory of quality genealogy sites.
• Ancestor Genealogy Photo Archive - Free genealogy database of family photos containing online vintage photographs
• Genealogy LinkSearch - Resources for discovering ancestors, locating relatives, hiring professional researchers, constructing family trees, genealogy gifts, family tree gifts and products, software, family history books, reunion items, genealogy links, and more.
• GeneaSearch - Free Lookups and Genealogy Data Lookups, state genealogy pages, female ancestors, military rosters and data.
• Female Ancestors Information about hard-to-find female ancestors.
• Genealogy Data Genealogy data with links to more genealogy data
• I Dream of Genealogy - Free online databases, compiled family histories, vital record resources, famous and celebrity genealogies, lost and found family heirlooms, genealogy search, professional genealogy research services, and submit your own family's records to the free databases. Search over 60,000 free online databases of marriage, birth, death, cemeteries from the U.S., Canada, Ireland, England, and Australia.
• Kindred Trails - WorldWide Genealogy Resources - Linking the World Together with Roots.
• RootsSearch.Net
• StateGenSites