"How to..." Resources

• SherLock Resources: Genealogical Research: LawResearch
• RootsWeb Surname List
• Librarians Serving Genealogists
• The Genealib Archives
• FreeBMD
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records."
• 101 Ways to Search Your Family Tree for Free
• How to Trace your Family History
• eHow:com: how to Trace Your Family Tree
• Geni: Create Your Own Family Tree

  Internet Guides and Directories

• The Genealogy Home Page
• Genealogy Resources
This mega site contains many links to Genealogy sites on the Internet,such as: links to societies, associations, and organizations, resources in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Hispanic, Jewish, African-American, Asian, Native American genealogy resources, library catalogs and archives, on-line directories, search services, and reunions, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints genealogy resources, commercial sites, on-line genealogy periodicals, bulletin boards, mailing lists and newsgroups, and genealogy software.
• Ancestry.com
This is a great site for genealogists. It contains links to 124 databases and other genealogical links. It has a name search engine, which searches 52 million names.
• FEEFHS Genealogy Toolkit
• Library of Congress Local History and Genealogy Reading Room
• RootsWeb.com  
• ProGenealogist

Research Resources: International

• Online Searchable Death Indexes
• FamilySearch: Internet Genealogy Service
• World-Wide Genealogy Resources
Contains links to many important sites around the world that may be useful for genealogists.
• Allen County, IN Public Library: International Genealogy Resources
• Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
• GeneaNet
• Surname Genealogy Search
• LDS Family History Centers
• Cyndi's List
Cyndi's List is one of the largest single list of genealogy list on the Internet, with more than 249,800 links, cross-referenced, in over 180 categories, and another 8,500+ uncategorized new links in the works.
• Genealogy.com
This site has a searchable database of 470 million names, gives tips and lessons on genealogy research, and has a a list of 85,000 links at : http://www.genealogy.com/links
• North American Genealogy Resources
• UK Birth Certificates
• 1901 Census of England and Wales Online
This is a searchable list of about 279,595 surnames that have been submitted by genealogists. When you type in a surname, a list of the people researching that surname appears.
• The General Register Office (Northern Ireland)
• The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• The General Register Office, Republic of Ireland
• The National Library of Ireland
• Irish National Archives
• Presbyterian Church in Ireland
• World GenWeb Project
• Online Seachable Death Indexes & Records

Research Resources: United States

• Find a Grave: Millions of Cemetary Records
• ROOTS-L Resources: United States Resources
• American Civil War Research Database
This database is being developed by Historical Data Systems, and it is an attempt to put in one database information about every soldier that fought in the Civil War. With a database of this magnitude historians can do statistical and analytical analysis of the war.  Right now the database contains over 2 million soldiers records, over 2000 Civil war regimental rosters, over 2000 regimental chronicles, over 1000 officer profiles, over 1000 Civil War soldier photographs, and over 3000 civil war battle synopses. To use this database you have to subscribe. The subscription cost is 25.00 per year.
• USGenWeb Project
The USGenWeb project began in Kentucky in the spring of 1996. The goal of the project was to provide a single entry point for genealogy data and research for all counties in Kentucky, which was accomplished by summer of 1996. Then the project was expanded to include the entire United States, with the goal of creating genealogy sites for all counties in the United States.
• Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals
While this site has been around for a while, it opened a brand new resource a couple of months ago.  You can now enter the name of an ancestor and, if the ancestor came through Alas Island, you can access his or her records in some detail.
• FamilySearch
• U.S. Government Genealogy Resources
• Social Security Death Index
• AncientFaces
• Oregon State Archives: Genealogy Records