| Ancestry Home Page : http://www.ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is a mega-database of genealogical
information. Free
to all users is the Social Security Death Index, the Ancestry World
Tree,
the Civil War Research database, and the Map Center. Visit the Largo
Library
to access the complete database.
Census Online : http://www.census-online.com
Census Online is the Web's largest directory of links to
online census
transcriptions. The directory includes links to federal censuses
and indexes, state and territorial censuses, tax lists, voter lists,
military
pensioner lists, and more.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
: http://www.CyndisList.com
A genealogy metasite including more than 98,000 links to
genealogy sites,
categorized and cross-referenced in over 120 categories.
Ellis Island Records : http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
Offered by the American Family Immigration History
Center, this database
searches over 22 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members that
came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and
1924.
Free to use, but registration is required.
Family Tree Maker Home Page : http://www.familytreemaker.com
Home of the number one selling genealogy software.
Find your ancestors
in the 470 million name Internet Family Finder, create a home page,
share
on the message boards, and more.
FamilySearch : http://www.familysearch.org
From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
use this site
to search for ancestors, share information with other researchers, or
search
the Family History Library catalog.
Heraldry on the Internet : http://digiserve.com/heraldry/index.htm
This site provides information on heraldic research on
the Internet.
Included are links to sources of heraldic material, coats of arms by
family
name, coats of arms for cities and towns, and heraldry dictionaries.
Historical Occupations
: Use these sites to look up historical jobs and
professions.
http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html
http://www.genealogy.com/brigitte/occupat.htm
(German occupations)
Pinellas Genealogy Society : http://www.rootsweb.com/~flpgs
The official homepage of the Pinellas Genealogy Society,
a non-profit
organization dedicated to the furtherance of genealogical research and
preservation of Pinellas County genealogical material.
RootsWeb Home Page : http://www.rootsweb.com
This site is a genealogical data cooperative with a
100,000 entry Surname
List, ROOTS-L resources, state pages, and more.
US GenWeb Home Page : http://www.usgenweb.org
A completely volunteer organization, USGenWeb works to
make available
all genealogy records, online, for free. The site is organized by
category and by U.S. state. Each state also has its own home
page.
Census records, bible and marriage records, cemetery lists, will
abstracts,
and more are included.
Where to Write for Vital Records : http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm
Provides direct access to individual state and territory
information
on how to order birth, death and marriage records. Includes steps
for obtaining high-seas or foreign vital statistics.
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