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Genealogy Society / Gen-Web Links
Sites of General Genealogical Interest
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The Digital Librarian: Margaret Vail Anderson's
Genealogy site -- amazing! -
The Library Spot -- great!
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Ellis Island Database -- 22 million passengers cataloged
Alternative Search-engine for Ellis Island records
(Be sure to <Right-Click> on the "Alternative," and select
"Open in a New Window," or you cannot come back.) -
Social Security Death-Index -- search for an ancestor's SSN, and then write for their SS Application (which contains their place of birth, parent's names [including the mother's maiden name], their employer and residence address at the time).
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InGeneas -- Canadian passenger immigration records
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Dick Eastman's weekly Online Genealogy Newsletter
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Check passenger lists from ships sailing as long ago as the 1400s at Olive Tree Genealogy.
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Genealogy Links - Thousands of geographically arranged links, to passenger-ship registers, church records and cemetery transcriptions, plus military records.
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American Civil War home page -- hundreds of links!
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The Civil War Archive -- regimental histories, battles &
skirmishes fought, etc. -
Civil War Rosters -- arranged by State, then Regiment
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National Parks Service's "Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System" -- over 1.2 million records available
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Cornell University Library -- primary sources in American social history: searchable The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
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Rutger's University's Civil War Resources -- a lot of history and perspective with social commentaries from the era; online discussion groups, and a bibliography
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Civil War Maps, from the Library of Congress
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Topo-Zone -- search for location, and then create topographical maps of the area in several scales
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