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Northwoods Genealogical Society

National

US Bureau of Land Management Links to lands records in each state

Historical Markers Website Look for people who may have been listed at historical markers

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services each year to learn more about their family history.

Ancestry is a subscription database available free of charge from any NARA location nationwide. It offers searchable ancestor databases of over 600 million names, as well as specialized databases, including census images.

US Genweb provides free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone.

US Bureau of Land Management Links to lands records in each state (government land office)

Government Land Office. This web site provides "access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. We also provide image access to more than three million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908." The database includes land patents, surveys, and land status records.

Veterans Affairs Grave Search

Historical Markers Website Look for people who may have been listed at historical markers

US National Archives Free site. National archives

Castle Garden This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. More than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

DAR Genealogical Research Site The DAR Genealogical Research System (GRS) is a free resource provided by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to aid general genealogical research and to assist with the DAR membership process. The GRS is a collection of databases that provide access to the many materials amassed by the DAR since its founding in 1890.

Fold3 Subscription site associated with Ancestry.com Fold3 provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. Perfect for genealogists, researchers, historians and more.

Patriot and Grave Index: revolutionary war graves registry and patriot index from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors index: Civil War records from the National Park Service

Preserve the pensions War of 1812 pension records access

Ellis Island Create a free account to search for family arrival records and learn more about Lady Liberty and Ellis Island.

Fulton History historical newspapers from the US and Canada

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society You can see information about the history of Wisconsin, Civil War information and vital records.

Wisconsin Historical Society Vital Records search

And remember, the Wisconsin Historical Society has more than Wisconsin items – it is also a great resource for information from other states. Check their online catalog at:

http://search.library.wisc.edu/ Library catalog

http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/ Archives

Wisconsin Libraries

Eau Claire Public Library Use their site to explore and research Wisconsin history

LaCrosse Library Genealogy research site

Oshkosh Public Library genealogy resources

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee archives

Wisconsin Counties

Wisconsin Genealogy Website Project

Oneida County Website contains county records

Marathon County Historical Society

Portage County Historical Society Website

Lincoln County Genealogical Information Website

UW Steven's Point - Central Wisconsin Genealogy Search

UW Steven's Point Journal search site

Search Wisconsin land records by county

Michigan

Gogebic Range city directories - 1888 to 1947

Michigan Department of Community Health Death Index

Delta County Michigan Genealogical Society

Michigan County History and Atlases

Michigan Tech Historical collections (searchable)

Western Michigan Genealogical Society resources

Minnesota

Minnesota Discovery Center research site

Minnesota Official Marriage Index Requires free registration

Minnesota Historical Society (slow site)

Illinois

Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System

llinois Statewide Death Index Pre-1916 This database provides listings of death certificates filed with the Illinois Department of Public Health prior to 1916.

Illinois Death Certificates, 1916Â–1950 which is an index of of death certificates filed with the Illinois Department of Public Health between 1916 and 1950.

Ohio

Cleveland Public Library Necrology and Genealogy Site Genealogy resources at the Cleveland Public Library

Washington

Washington State digital archives

Skagit River Journal

International

East European Family Histories Study Website

Wilno Heritage Society - Polish settlement in Canada

Canada

Historical Atlas of Canada http://www.historicalatlas.ca/website/hacolp/index.htm

Family Search Immigration and Emigration https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Canada_Emigration_and_Immigration

http://www.the10and3.com/mapping-canadas-mosaic-of-immigrant-communities/

Canadian Passenger Lists Canadian Passenger lists, the official immigration documents from 1865 to 1935 for the ports of Canada, are housed at the Library and Archives Canada (RG 76 C1). Only the Quebec arrivals are indexed by name. All other port records are searchable by date and ship name only.

Passenger Lists http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-1865-1922/Pages/introduction.aspx

Library and Archives

*** http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/search/Pages/ancestors-search.aspx

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Library_and_Archives_Canada

Quebec arrivals http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-quebec-port-1865-1900/Pages/introduction.aspx

Canadian Genealogy Records Online

http://www.genealogysearch.org/canada/canada.html

http://www.canadiana.ca/

http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canwgw/

https://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/LePrdh

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial

http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html

https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/

https://www.thoughtco.com/researching-ancestors-in-the-canadian-census-1421726

Eastern Europe

EastEuropeGenWeb The purpose of the EastEuropeGenWeb Project is to provide guidance and advice to researchers who are trying to trace their ancestors in this region

TheJewishGenGazeteer The JewishGen Gazeteer is a database containing the names of all localities in the 54 countries of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The data is based on the U.S. Board on Geographic Names databases.

EasternEurope Genealogy Society website

CzechRepublic Archives

Polishcemeteries

PomeranianGenealogical Association

How to read a Polish marriage certificate

Google translate Translates between 103 languages

Map of History of Europe in 10 mins

Family Search Guide to genealogy in Europe by region and country

England/Wales United Kingdom

FreeBMD: civil registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales

Free Reg: baptism, marriage, and burial records from parish registers of the UK

FreeCen: transcribed census records from the UK

GENUKI: reference library of genealogical resources for the UK and Ireland

British Library India Office: Records on British and European people in India pre 1950

UK National Archives: official National Archives of the UK

Germany

Grit Ende - Mecklenberg in German, use translator function

German Roots Resources for German Genealogy

Ireland

The National Archives of Ireland: official National Archives of Ireland

Irish Genealogy dedicated to helping you search for family history records. On-line sources of genealogical information e.g. the 1901 and 1911 Census returns, in addition to the Church records. Now the site also contains the Indexes to the Civil Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Irish Ancestors Search helps for Ireland organized by name, county, town, passenger lists etc

Northern Ireland Direct Search Birth, death, marriage or military record. Also has township maps

"The National Library of Ireland (NLI) launched a free online home for its collection of Ireland’s Roman Catholic parish registers Dating from the 1740s to the 1880s, these registers cover 1,091 parishes and consist primarily of baptismal and marriage records. The microfilms on which the registers were recorded have been converted into nearly 400,000 digital images, which are browsable by parish location only. You won’t be able to search for a name, so the site won’t be of immediate help to those who don’t know where in Ireland their immigrant ancestors came from. But it’s likely that genealogy data sites will rush to begin indexing the images as soon as the new site is live."

"While it doesn’t offer online access to census, vital or church records, the website of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is a top-drawer destination for family historians with connections to the six counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone."

Italy

Italian Genealogical Group: Italian American genealogy resources and databases

Lithuania

LitvakSig: Lithuanian-Jewish genealogy databases and resources

Netherlands

WieWasWie: for researching ancestors from the Netherlands (in Dutch)

Scottish Clans

Scottish Genealogy Information about clans

A list of Highland games and clan meetings worldwide by date A list of Clan meetings Worldwide

http://www.gmhg.org/ One of the, if not the, largest Highland games and clan gatherings in the USA at Grandfather Mountain. Listed under the clans and societies section will be contact information for many of the clan organizations.

Wikipedia list of clans A list of Scottish clans

Wisconsin Highland Games Wisconsin Games

Civil War

E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin In the War for the Union (Chicago, 1866)

“History of the campaigns in which Wisconsin soldiers have been conspicuous — regimental histories — sketches of distinguished officers- the roll of the illustrious dead— movements of the legislature and state officers, etc. “

National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database

Find all Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sailors and their regiments and ships.

Wisconsin in the Civil War –

Wisconsin Historical Society’s Civil War collections

Wisconsin volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

By-name list arranged alphabetically. Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin census enumeration, 1905 : names of ex-soldiers and sailors residing in Wisconsin, June 1, 1905

SUVCW Database

Sons of Union Volunteers in the Civil War gravesite data base

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial

Free but…

http://www.wigenweb.org/

WIGENWEB

Forest Home Cemetery database and map.

Perryville Battlefield data base of Soldiers who fought at Battle of Perryville, Ky, Oct. 8, 1862

US (Army) Center for Military History

Wisconsin Volunteers 1861-1865

A Facebook site with photos of Wisconsin Soldiers

Fold 3 by Ancestry Military Records site ($)

The Civil War Museum -- Upper Midwest

“The (Kenosha) Museum focuses on the Civil War from the perspective of the people of the seven states of the upper middle west: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.”

General

Cyndi's list A good place to start your research

http://stevemorse.org/ Links to how to fill out all kinds of genealogical search forms

Findagrave.com search engine

Moose roots grave search

Internet Archive

Mocavo blog A Find my past website with interesting tips and guides

US immigration Interesting reading

Badger Link for Genealogists

SOFTWARE

Family Search: https://familysearch.org/products

GRAMPS: http://gramps-project.org/