Bureau of Land Management – early (1820-1908) US land patents, printable copies of original documents.
Cyndi’s List – of Genealogy Sites on the Internet.
FamilySearch Wiki – over 35,000 articles on a variety of topics.
Google News Archives - extensive collection of mostly small town newspapers
Genealogy Blog Finder – database of over 1,600 blogs from around the world.
The National Archives – page for Genealogists and Family Historians.
One-Step Webpages – (stevemorse.org) Great site for easy access to Ellis Island records; also, valuable Jewish research site. This website sometimes takes a long time to load - be patient.
RootsWeb – oldest on the web, links to international, states, church, history, maps and much, much more; list-serves and message boards plus “how-to”.
Statue of Liberty Ellis Island – records of immigrants coming through Ellis Island.
USGenWeb – free record information from census, tombstone inscriptions and resource documents.
Ancestry.com’s channel has instructional videos like How to Search for Historical Records.
Appleton Public Library past programs in Find Your Ancestors series.
The National Genealogical Society Videos includes the video Finding Your Family at the National Archives.
The National Archives and Records Administration’s channel (NARA) has videos on a variety of topics. The one on Online Public Access is about their new software for searching their archives.
The search page itself is available here.
For general information on using YouTube, see the YouTube Help Page.