Genealogy Resource Directory

The largest free genealogy site: billions of indexed records, a shared family tree, and the Research Wiki.

The largest commercial collection of records and user trees, with exclusive census, military and immigration indexes.

Strong European records and automatic record matching for your tree.

Best-in-class for British and Irish records.

New England Historic Genealogical Society databases; deepest for colonial New England.

A lower-cost subscription built on many of the same U.S. records.

Census, military, immigration, land and naturalization records held by NARA.

Search and browse the most recently released federal census.

Searchable WWII enlistment records, immigrant passenger lists and more.

Research guides and one of the largest genealogy book collections anywhere.

Federal land patents for the 30 public-land states, with images.

Request naturalization certificate files, alien registrations and A-Files.

Every state's vital records office, fees and what years they hold.

Guide to every federal census with links to free indexes.

Power-search forms for census, Ellis Island and vital record indexes, plus enumeration district finders.

Free California and other vital record images and indexes.

Over 200 million volunteer-contributed memorials, often with photos and family links.

GPS-tagged headstone photos with transcriptions.

Burials of veterans in national and many state veterans' cemeteries.

Cemetery transcriptions from around the world.

Library of Congress collection of digitized U.S. newspapers, 1770–1963.

Browse scanned historical newspapers (no keyword search).

Tens of millions of pages, strongest for New York.

The largest commercial newspaper archive.

Newspapers plus a large modern obituary collection.

Small-town U.S. and international newspapers.

One of the largest genealogy libraries in North America, with free databases.

Hundreds of thousands of digitized family and local histories.

Digitized county histories, directories and genealogies.

Millions of digitized library books, many full-text.

Searches photos, manuscripts and records from thousands of U.S. institutions.

Find which library holds a specific book or microfilm.

Newberry Library maps of every U.S. county boundary change.

Overlay historical county lines on Google Maps for any year.

More than 100,000 high-resolution historical maps.

Building-by-building town maps, 1867–1970.

Locate vanished towns, churches and cemeteries.

Digitized military records from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam.

Order service and pension files and request veterans' records.

6.3 million Union and Confederate soldier records.

Revolutionary War patriots and descendant lineages.

Passenger records for the Port of New York, 1820–1957.

Volunteer transcriptions of passenger manifests.

Linked data on people involved in the historical slave trade.

Newspaper ads placed by formerly enslaved people searching for family.

African American genealogy community and resources.

Records of over 36,000 slaving voyages.

Tribal rolls, BIA records and research guides.

Native American tribal histories and roll transcriptions.

Jewish genealogy databases, town finder and burial registry.

Records of Holocaust victims.

Hispanic heritage and genealogy resources.

The largest DNA match database.

Autosomal testing with health options.

Strong European match base. Requires a MyHeritage test; uploads from other companies are no longer accepted.

The leader in Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA testing.

Upload raw DNA from any company to compare across databases.

Chromosome mapping, the Shared cM Project tool and What Are the Odds.

The reference wiki for genetic genealogy concepts.

Free index to civil births, marriages and deaths from 1837.

Research guides and records for England, Wales and the UK government.

Official Scottish parish, civil and census records.

Free Irish civil and church records.

Free 1901 and 1911 Irish census returns.

Canadian census, immigration and military records.

Italian civil records from state archives, free images.

German Protestant church books online.

Locate German Empire towns and their parishes.

Free Norwegian censuses, church books and emigrant lists.

Swedish National Archives with free church record images.

Millions of Dutch and Belgian records in one search.

Free digitized Australian newspapers and records.

Free digitized New Zealand newspapers.

Hundreds of thousands of how-to and locality articles.

The classic categorized directory of genealogy links.

Volunteer-run state and county genealogy sites.

Millions of links sorted by locality and surname.

Standards, the Genealogical Proof Standard and skill-building resources.

Courses, conferences and the NGS Quarterly.

The standard reference for citing genealogical sources.

Free, open-source family tree software.