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'''The American Civil War Research Database:''' This site doesn’t seem to have anything that ancestry.com doesn’t have. It is not much help if you have already searched the Civil War records on ancestry.com. <br> | '''The American Civil War Research Database:''' This site doesn’t seem to have anything that ancestry.com doesn’t have. It is not much help if you have already searched the Civil War records on ancestry.com. <br> | ||
'''The American Civil War - Letters and Diaries: '''This site has letters, diaries, and memoirs from the civil war which can’t be found on any other site. It is very useful and sometimes you are able to find letters or diaries from your Civil War Veteran ancestors wrote. <br> | '''The American Civil War - Letters and Diaries: '''This site has letters, diaries, and memoirs from the civil war which can’t be found on any other site. It is very useful and sometimes you are able to find letters or diaries from your Civil War Veteran ancestors wrote. <br> '''Images of the American Civil War''' | ||
'''Images of the American Civil War''' | |||
'''[http://www.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com]:''' Largest set of worldwide family history databases including vital and civil registration births, marriages, deaths, divorces, passenger lists, census, naturalizations, church, cemetery, military, court, and land records, wills, directories, voting registers, family and local histories. <br> | '''[http://www.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com]:''' Largest set of worldwide family history databases including vital and civil registration births, marriages, deaths, divorces, passenger lists, census, naturalizations, church, cemetery, military, court, and land records, wills, directories, voting registers, family and local histories. <br> | ||
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'''Historic Map Works: '''<span style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">This site is a huge collection of maps consisting of over 100,000 cadastral, land ownership maps detailing the geographic and development history of the United States over several hundred years. There have rural and suburban areas, as well as cities and towns across America. There is also over 100,000 pages of illustrations from the present day and over 1,000 city directories related to the maps. They also have almost 100,000 maps from other parts of the world. This site is not very helpful for genealogical research. </span> | '''Historic Map Works: '''<span style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">This site is a huge collection of maps consisting of over 100,000 cadastral, land ownership maps detailing the geographic and development history of the United States over several hundred years. There have rural and suburban areas, as well as cities and towns across America. There is also over 100,000 pages of illustrations from the present day and over 1,000 city directories related to the maps. They also have almost 100,000 maps from other parts of the world. This site is not very helpful for genealogical research. </span> | ||
'''Historical Abstracts:''' This site covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This site also has more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. This site is not very helpful for genealogical research. <br>Images of the American Civil War: This site has thousands of images from the civil war that aren’t available on familysearch.org or ancestry.com. This site is useful if you have ancestors who served in the civil war.<br> | '''Historical Abstracts:''' This site covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This site also has more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. This site is not very helpful for genealogical research. <br>Images of the American Civil War: This site has thousands of images from the civil war that aren’t available on familysearch.org or ancestry.com. This site is useful if you have ancestors who served in the civil war.<br> '''JSTOR:''' This site is a collection of academic journals with letters and images corresponding to them. This site is useful for family history research because it gives online access to otherwise hard-to-find historical journals. Researchers sometimes learn about JSTOR entries by searching ''Google''. <br> '''Kinpoint ''' | ||
'''JSTOR:''' This site is a collection of academic journals with letters and images corresponding to them. This site is useful for family history research because it gives online access to otherwise hard-to-find historical journals. Researchers sometimes learn about JSTOR entries by searching ''Google''. <br> | |||
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'''LegacyStories.org:''' document, preserve, research, and share "living history" using multi-media. <br> | '''LegacyStories.org:''' document, preserve, research, and share "living history" using multi-media. <br> | ||
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'''Paper Trail:''' This site is dedicated to research of pioneers. It has journals, histories, of pioneers headed west from 1800 to 1899. It is very useful if you have ancestors who crossed the plains whether they were Mormon Pioneers or not.<br> | '''Paper Trail:''' This site is dedicated to research of pioneers. It has journals, histories, of pioneers headed west from 1800 to 1899. It is very useful if you have ancestors who crossed the plains whether they were Mormon Pioneers or not.<br> | ||
'''ProQuest Obituary Listings''': This site is primarily for US research. This site more than 10 million obituaries and death notices published in newspapers from 1800 onward. It is very useful in finding death dates of your ancestors.<br> | [http://www.proquest.com/products-services/databases/obits_shtml.html '''ProQuest Obituary Listings''':] This site is primarily for US research. This site more than 10 million obituaries and death notices published in newspapers from 1800 onward. It is very useful in finding death dates of your ancestors.<br> '''[https://puzzilla.org/ Puzilla Descendant Viewer:] ''' | ||
'''Puzilla Descendant Viewer: ''' | |||
'''Social and Cultural History:''' Letters and diaries online. <br> | '''Social and Cultural History:''' Letters and diaries online. <br> | ||
'''SVAR: '''This site is strictly for research in Sweden. You also need to click the link and the top right hand corner to view the site in English. This website is the National Archives of Sweden. It has access to Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Census records from the 1800s onward. It is very useful if you have ancestors from Sweden.<br> | [http://sok.riksarkivet.se/svar-digitala-forskarsalen '''SVAR:''']This site is strictly for research in Sweden. You also need to click the link and the top right hand corner to view the site in English. This website is the National Archives of Sweden. It has access to Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Census records from the 1800s onward. It is very useful if you have ancestors from Sweden.<br> | ||
'''The Times (London):''' This is a digital archives of the London Times newspaper from 1785-1985. This newspaper contains birth, marriage, and death notices from all over England. This site is extremely useful if you have any ancestors from England. | '''The Times (London):''' This is a digital archives of the London Times newspaper from 1785-1985. This newspaper contains birth, marriage, and death notices from all over England. This site is extremely useful if you have any ancestors from England. | ||