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*Periodical Source Index (PERSI) at http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/persi/search/people People Search] allows searches for a family name in over a million article titles in genealogical periodicals. If the Article “Results List” is too long, redo the search but in the Keyword field add the two-letter postal abbreviation for the state where they lived. | *Periodical Source Index (PERSI) at http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/persi/search/people People Search] allows searches for a family name in over a million article titles in genealogical periodicals. If the Article “Results List” is too long, redo the search but in the Keyword field add the two-letter postal abbreviation for the state where they lived. | ||
*Google books at http://books.google.com - type in the surname and another key word such as the locality, i.e. town, or county or state/province | * $ and Free: Google books at http://books.google.com - type in the surname and another key word such as the locality, i.e. town, or county or state/province | ||
*[http://www.archive.org/ Internet Archive] | *[http://www.archive.org/ Internet Archive] | ||
*The [[Introduction to the Family History Library Catalog|Family History Library Catalog]] | *The [[Introduction to the Family History Library Catalog|Family History Library Catalog]] Do a “Surname” search. This searches the world’s largest genealogical library holdings for published works catalogued by surname. | ||
* | *[http://genforum.com/ GenForum of Genealogy.com] has 170 million names; quarter of million a week | ||
*Ancestry.com | *$ [http://Ancestry.com Ancestry.com] has one of the largest database listings of compiled data on families in their Family Trees. | ||
*USGenweb.org or Canadagenweb.org or BritishIslesgenweb.org–numerous aids | *USGenweb.org or Canadagenweb.org or BritishIslesgenweb.org–numerous aids, databases online by state & county | ||
*Genealogy.com (FamilyFinder) - has enormous databases (300m entries) for families | *Genealogy.com (FamilyFinder) - has enormous databases (300m entries) for families | ||