Family Genealogy Resources  

Welcome to the Family Reunion Planner Genealogy Panel.  Use these free resources to begin or enhance your family genealogy research work.

Fimark's Genealogy Presentation Awards

Birth, Death, Marriage
http://vitalchek.com

Census records

Washington, DC Headquarters 
7th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20408202-501-5400
http://www.nara.gov

www.fedstats.gov
www.census.gov
www.lva.lib.va.us
www.archives.gov/genealogy/census
www.secstate.wa.gov
www.pbs.org
www.cpe.uchicago.edu
www.history.rochester.edu
www.censusresearch.com

Civil War Era 
www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/genealogy.html
www.umsystem.edu/shs/nativeam.html

Family History and Genealogy

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/geneal.html
http://www.umsystem.edu/shs/Genealogyguides.html
www.genealogy.edu
www.ngsgenealogy.org
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy
http://bentley.umich.edu/research/genealogy/internet/tools.php#resdirectory

Institutes of Genealogy & Historical Research

http://www4.samford.edu/schools/ighr/
Cyndi's List of Civil War Genealogy Info

Grave and Cemetary Research

Find A Grave

Obituary Research

Individual Newspapers & Periodicals Databases
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=38

Surname Look Ups

http://rsl.rootsweb.com/

Social Security

www.ssa.gov/ssnumber/
http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/genealogy.aspx

Other Resources

MapLibraries.com: Online map library with links to the The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection along with the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names on line:Geographic information on  city or county locations  
Geographic Nameserver:  Information on locations within the US.  Data is circa 1987.

Bureau of Land Management:  Live database and image access to Federal land title records for the Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System:  A computerized database of  servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War offered by the National Parks System.