Rootsweb is a great place to start your Family History – a part of Ancestry.com it has your building blocks, ancestral charts, and family group records.
Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add ‘virtual flowers’ and a note to a loved one’s grave, etc.
Cemetery and Headstone Records – obituaries and biographical information.
A comprehensive, categorized, and cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
Census Records by the National Archive
Census records can provide the building blocks of your research. The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790, and has been taken every ten years since. Because of a 72-year restriction on access to the Census, the most recent year available is 1950.
Ellis Island Passenger Search – explore a database of 51+ million Immigrant Arrival Records
Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative
The Library of Virginia’s “Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative” project aims to provide greater accessibility to pre-1865 African American history and genealogy found in the rich primary sources in the library of Virginia’s holdings.
The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration.
Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 600,000 digitized pages, representing 160+ individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. Due to copyright restrictions, CHNC does not generally include newspapers published after 1923. CHNC can digitize through 1963 if the publisher’s permission can be secured and funding identified.
Pueblo City County Library Genealogy Resources
PCCL allows you to search vital records and has New Mexico genealogy resources as well.
Denver Public Library Genealogy, African American & Western History Resources
DPL has Colorado census records back to 1885, city and housing directories, as well as biographies of real pioneers of Colorado.
St. Louis Public Library Genealogy Resources & Passenger Lists
St. Louis is known as the “Gateway to the West” and so many people came West via St. Louis. Search passenger lists for people who came to the United States somewhere besides Ellis Island. Sign up for their newsletter or search old issues for resources and tips on genealogy searches in other states.
Search through NYPL’s digital collections, photograph archives, articles and databases; and get help from their research guides and indexes.