Where do I go for more help?

Please email me when you find a good website...Let's all help each other!

familysearch.org (6 databases, find family history centers, Salt Lake City's Family History Library catalog, post your genealogy)

rootsweb.com (free but some advertisements look like searches)

ancestry.com
This a fee based website. It's free at family history centers and national archives, but more convenient at home.
Give it a try here or even better, try a 14-Day Free Trial

WorldConnect Free search of family trees

	First Name	Last Name

Western States Marriage Record Index Virtually all of the pre-1900 marriages are included in the index for Arizona, Idaho and Nevada. Many Idaho, Nevada and Utah counties have been extracted into the 1930's and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from Wyoming, eastern Washington, Oregon, western Colorado and selected counties in California are also included.

Utah Cemetery Burials Database The searchable databases are a product of the Utah Cemetery Inventory Project that includes names and other recorded information about people who are buried in the Utah cemeteries.

Cyndi's List definitely the most complete list of websites to check for just about everything related to genealogy research

Ancestry.com Family fun Facts surname distribution, occupations, civil war

Ellis Island Database

Immigration Resources
http://www.cyndislist.com/immigrat.htm

Help with Danish Research

Places to look for ship registries
http://www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm#Lists

Ports of Entry
http://www.cyndislist.com/portsentry.htm

Guide to Immigration Records and Passenger Lists
http://home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.html

Kinships (for ship info once you find the name of the ship)
http://www.kinshipsprints.com/

Calculator for day of week in history

Software, forms and other products that may help
PAF Insight $20 downloadable software that searches the IGI, compares your PAF file with a family member's file to keep you both up to date.

Family History Consultants working on "A Gift of Family History" might find our Research Guide helpful. After your research is done, assemble the book.

www.genealogy.com (part free, part fee-based, some duplication of ancestry.com)

www.google.com (great search engine)

www.searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html (tools for genealogists)

www.surnameweb.org (free search on surnames, post your names)

www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellisshort.html (NY immigrants 1892-1924)

www.usgenweb.net (good for US research, search country, state and county levels)

www.worldgenweb.org (covers entire world but not as developed as usgenweb)

www.debmurray.tripod.com/usbios/usbiog.html (US biographies)

www.genuki.org.uk (United Kingdom and Ireland genealogy)

www.vitalrec.com (find where to send for copies of vital records)

roots.cs.byu.edu/digroots/ (find out how you are related to kings, queens, apostles and prophets, as well as anyone else you enter.)

roots.cs.byu.edu/pedigree/ (you can order a large one page pedigree chart for your wall)

Search Tips

1. Try variations on the spelling of names.
2. Try other members of the family: wife, child, etc.
3. Just because it is on the internet does not make it true.
4. Remember many records are NOT on the internet yet.