Helpful Genealogy Research Websites

U. S. Records:

RootsWeb: a good place to begin your research of the WorldConnect family tree database

www.rootsweb.ancestry.com

USGenWeb: 50 state umbrella site maintained by volunteers

www.usgenweb.org

U. S. Land Patent Search: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/

1790/1800 Index Virginia Census records: http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/VirginiaTaxListCensuses/

LDS Family Search: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

New River Notes, a web-site for primary sources for the U.S. counties at the border of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina in the 1700/1800s and beyond: http://www.newrivernotes.com/nrv.htm

Gary Morris’ McFarland Genealogy Home Page, a source of family trees and primary sources for American McFarlands: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lopezislandhistory/mcfarland/index.html

Manuscript about the line of Robert McFarland who died in Penn. In 1751: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txfannin/mcfarlandour.html

Access Genealogy: millions of records, American Indian records a strong suit

www.accessgenealogy.com

Canadian Records:

That’s My Family: a search engine maintained by the National Archives of Quebec

http://www.thatsmyfamily.info/

Our Roots: a collection of digitized local histories across Canada

www.ourroots.ca

Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics:

www.novascotiagenealogy.com

Canadian Genealogy Centre:

www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html

Australian Records:

National Library of Australia:

http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html

Australian Genealogy Links

http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/

Birth, Death, Marriage Records for Australia

http://www.coraweb.com.au/bdmau.htm

New Zealand Records:

Clan MacFarlane and associated clans [a world-wide database with plenty of New Zealand entries as that is the home country of the site compiler]

http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info

Denise & Peters HomePage - Passenger Lists http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/OurPassengerLists.htm

NEW ZEALAND BOUND – more shipping lists

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/index.htm

New Zealand Government records for births, deaths and marriages (BDM). https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/

South Africa Records:

National Archives of the Republic of South Africa (NAAIRS)
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/index.htm

on the left hand side click on

"Search National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System"

English Records:

FreeBMD: free vital records for England and Wales

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

Access to Archives: The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.

www.a2a.org.uk

Genealogy in the UK and Ireland

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

Scottish Records:

LDS Family Search [virtually all OPR’s (Old Parish Register’s) included]: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

Scots Origins

www.scotsorigins.com

Clan MacFarlane and associated clans [a world-wide database with predominantly Scottish bias]

http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info

Irish Records:

Official Site maintained by Dept. of Tourism, Culture, Sport

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/