Genealogy Research Guide - Longview

Workshop by Nichelle M. Hayes

Article by Nichelle M. Hayes

This site may look rough, but it is packed with great information.

Genealogical website devoted to African American ancestry.

A list of resources for Asian American genealogy

Cyndi's List is the best-known guide to sites for genealogical research on the Internet.

Forms, charts, and web links to find your ancestors.

A database created by Michigan State University links multiple university databases. It allows users to "explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade." As well as "run analyses of enslaved populations and create maps, charts, and graphics."

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), this site contains a large and freely searchable archive. Among the data are: the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), U.S. Federal Census for 1880 or the 1881 census for both the British Isles and Canada, a vital records index containing birth, marriage, and death records from around the world.

World-wide cemetery database which often links to relatives of the decedent.

A collaboration by the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has1.5 million historical documents available online allowing descendants of former African-American slaves to learn more about their family roots. The Freedmen’s Bureau was created near the end of the US Civil War to help newly-freed slaves in postbellum America.

US National Archives information relating to Indigenous Americans from as early as 1774 through the mid 1990s.

Links from within the US National Archives to records relating to different ethnicities within the United States. Includes: African American, Asian, Australia and New Zealand, British Isles, Eastern European, Russian, French Canadian, Hispanic: Central and South America, Mexico, Caribbean, and the West Indies, Jewish, Indigenous American, and Western European.

RootsWeb.com is a collection of free resources, including the Social Security Death Index, from Ancestry, Inc.

"Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves." Focuses on populations in Maranhão, Brazil, colonial Louisiana, and Antebellum Louisiana.

A list of genealogical resources for tracing Indigenous American ancestry.

The USGenWeb Project consists of a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. For broader perspective, you can also look into WorldGenWeb.