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Suffolk
Web (http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us)
Contains
links to your home library where you can access the Virtual Reference Collection
that includes Ancestry Plus and New York Times Historical Newspapers.
Pedigree
Chart (http://www.gale.ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm)
You
can print out another copy of a pedigree chart.
Cyndi's
List (http://www.cyndislist.com/)
Links
to every imaginable genealogy topic. Start by scrolling down to Getting Started
which has many, many excellent links. You will be able to explore forever!
Long
Island Genealogy Events (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gfli/calendar.html)
Lists
all genealogy groups on Long Island, their meeting dates and basic information.
Brother's
Keeper (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/brothers_keeper/)
Free
genealogy software: makes great descendent charts.
Ellis
Island Passenger Manifests (http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/)
Passenger
Ship Manifests 1892-1924
Ellis
Island One Step (http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/eidb/)
This
search engine for Ellis Island allows for more flexibility in name variations.
Family
History Library (http://www.familysearch.org)
This
is the link to the LDS catalog.
RootsWeb
(http://www.rootsweb.com/)
Extensive
databases-excellent for general name searches throughout the US.
Civil
War Soldiers & Sailors (http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/)
Search
by name for Civil War personnel. Links to other information about the Civil War;
regiments, etc.
United
Kingdom version of Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.co.uk/)
Includes
1891 Census for England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as well as vital records.
Emigrant
Savings Bank (http://www.genexchange.org/esb/index.cfm)
Excellent
resource for Irish immigration and family information earlier than Ellis Island.
1880
US, 1881 England, 1881 Canada (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp)
1901
UK Census (http://www.pro.gov.uk/census/default.htm)
1901
Census searchable database for England and Wales
1910
Census ED finder
(http://erosenbaum.netfirms.com/1910census.shtml)
1930
Census ED Locator (http://1930census.archives.gov/)
You
MUST know an address and the cross streets to use this tool. It is helpful to
know the nearest major street.
Jewish
Genealogy Society of NY (http://www.jgsny.org/)
Databases:
WW I Draft Brooklyn Naturalization LDS records in Manhattan Jewish Burial
Societies Cemetery Project
Italian
Genealogy Group (http://www.italiangen.org/default.stm)
Naturalizations
for Nassau and Suffolk Counties and Military Naturalizations, and Southern
District Court of New York.
Irish
Family History Forum (http://www.ifhf.org/)
JewishGen
(http://www.jewishgen.org/)
Eastern
Europe +
New
York Public Library (http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/index.html)
Good
for city directories, maps, census, passenger ship records, naturalization
index, and unique resources
NYC
Municipal Archives (http://nyc.gov/html/doris/)
Information
for obtaining vital records up to 1939. After that, go to the NYC Department of
Health website.
NYC
Department of Health (http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/vr/vr.html)
Obtain
vital records from 1939 to the present.
Vital Records Information – United States (http://vitalrec.com/index.html)
National
Archives (http://www.nara.gov/)
Excellent
for naturalization, passenger ship lists and military records. Now has out of
town city directories for the 1930 census.
How
the Other Half Lives (http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html)
Study
done by Jacob Riis in 1890 describing the tenement life in NYC. This is
excellent social history of how immigrants lived on the Lower East Side of NY.
Oral
History Questions (http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oralhist.htm)
Timelines
of a Lifespan (http://www.ourtimelines.com/)
Social,
political, cultural events
www.ebay.com
Locates books, postcards, artifacts, and generally interesting
information.
www.knowx.com
Both of these sites will give you both names of a couple.
www.unclaimed.org
Searches for unclaimed property and bank accounts in every state
by name.
www.anybirthday.com
Searches for birthday by name and zip code (partial OK).