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-[[Image:Lab Pups.jpg|thumb|right|250x230px]]Many websites can help beginners with family history research. This article lists websites that can be used at the Family History Library, Family History Centers, from home, or wherever one has access to the Internet, such as cybercafés or libraries.
+Many websites can help beginners with family history research. This article lists websites that can be used at the Family History Library, Family History Centers, from home, or wherever one has access to the Internet, such as cybercafés or libraries.
 == '''Electronic Family Trees and Family Websites'''  ==
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 *[https://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch]: Largest free online collection of genealogical databases, including Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index, 1880 U.S. federal census index, Pedigree Resource File, U.S. Social Security Death Index, and the Vital Records Index—North America.
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 == Passenger Lists  ==
-*[https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/expanded-passenger-records-release The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.]: Free index to New York City passenger arrivals from 1820 to 1892, containing roughly 12 million immigrants.
+*[https://www.statueofliberty.org/discover/passenger-ship-search/ The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.]
-*[http://EllisIsland.org Ellis Island]: 1892-1924 New York City passenger arrival index and passenger list images showing ethnicity, arrival date, residence, age, ship, port of departure, passenger manifest image, and ship’s image. The site is also indexed at [http://stevemorse.org/ One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse].
+*[http://stevemorse.org/ One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse].
 *[http://www.immigrantships.net/ Immigrant Ships Transcriber's Guild]:&nbsp; Over 11,000 ships passenger manifests.
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 *[http://www.google.com/ Google]<br>
 *[http://www.dogpile.com/ DogPile]:DogPile is a metasearch engine.&nbsp;It gathers information from several search engines and&nbsp;displays them under&nbsp;one search site.&nbsp;This allows the user to search several search engines with only one&nbsp;display list.
-*[http://clusty.com/ Clusty]: Clusty is also a metasearch engine, but the results are delivered in clusters of information.
-*[https://www.kincrawler.com Kin Crawler] Kin Crawler is a genealogy SPECIFIC search engine. They have indexed thousands of genealogy homepages, ancestry trees, family history message boards, state/local genealogy resources, and much more
 *[http://stevemorse.org One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse]: A search engine for selected genealogical websites.
-*[http://www.mocavo.com Mocavo]: A genealogy search engine for free websites.
-== Free Genealogy Lookups  ==
-*[http://www.mocavo.com/karma Mocavo Karma]: Find volunteers to do free lookups.
 == Worldwide State Archives  ==