Links to the National Archives Web site

Here are links to some of the sections of the National Archives Web site that I use often:


List of NARA records digitized by Ancestry.com and Footnote.com

Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
Each chapter in this guide covers a record group at the National Archives.

Search NARA Microfilm Catalog

NARA Online Publications

New Microfilm Publications Issued

Citing Records at the National Archives

ProGenealogists Online Links

Click on the links below for a list of Web sites thatProGenealogists use daily when conducting genealogy research. These are all searchable online databases or informative tools.

United States Genealogy Sleuth

International Genealogy Sleuth

Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic Books Online

Readers worldwide have free access to nearly 60,000 books from the LOC collection.

These and the other digitized books can be accessed through the Library’s catalog Web site and the Internet Archive (IA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free online digital library.

Click here to see an article about the digitized collection.

Counties Putting Records Online

Some counties are working to digitize and preserve their records and then make them available to researchers online.

Hamilton County, Ohio is one example with birth, delayed birth, corrected birth, death, marriage, estate, naturalization, guardianships and other records.

Go online to www.probatect.org, and click on Records Search, then Archive Search. The indexes are in pdf format. Search the index to get the volume and page number, and then go into the record type to find the images.

Let's hope that more counties preserve and make their records accessible in this manner!

West Virginia Put Birth, Marriage & Death Record Online

The West Virginia Archives and History Web site has posted selected West Virginia county birth, death and marriage records, and selected statewide death records in a searchable and downloadable format
at http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/

Records can be searched by name, date or county and have digital images attached to the index.

• Births records for 1853 through 1908 are available.
• State death certificates from 1917 through 1958 are available.
• County marriage and death records are included up to the last record microfilmed for that county by GSU.

An article detailing the new databases can be found at:
http://www.wvculture.org/history/vitalrecordsarticle.pdf

Additional Miliary Records Online

1840 Census of Pensioners, Revolutionary or Military Service
www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840

World War II Army Enlistment Records
aad.archives.gov/aad/title-list.jsp: Select All Series, then scroll down and click the database name.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

www.itd.nps.gov/cwss

Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
www.heritagequestonline.com: Available free through subscribing libraries.

Military Research Room: 1820 Pension List
www.lineages.com/infocenter/databases/1820pension.cfm

Valley Forge Muster Roll Project
valleyforgemusterroll.org

Research Guidance for Military Records

Research in Military Records
www.archives.gov/veterans/research/genealogy.html

US Military Records Research Outline
www.familysearch.org/eng/search/rg/frameset_rhelps.asp: Click on Sorted by Subject, then on M. Scroll down to Military Records, item number 34118.

Printable Maps

NationalAtlas.gov
This is a very useful collection of printable maps. You can view the maps and print pdf copies.

U.S. Census Bureau Maps
Printable maps of each state with county boundaries, and also maps for each county.

Reference and Outline Maps are available for the United States and each individual state. You can choose maps showing boundaries, geology, transportation or water. For each state there are four types of maps: reference, county, county with selected cities and towns, and rivers and lakes. These simple maps can be used to mark locations where your ancestors lived and track migration.

This site also contains maps for:
Congressional Districts
Federal Lands and Indian Reservations
Precipitation
Presidential Elections 1789 to 2000
Satellite View
Territorial Acquisitions of the United States
Time Zones