Volunteer Projects

 RAOGK

http://raogk.wikia.com 

(Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)

Restore the Ancestors Project
http://www.restoretheancestors.com

Unclaimed Persons
http://www.unclaimedpersons.org

(Every life is worth remembering)

Vital Records

 Avail of Vital Records by State

http://www.byub.org/ancestors/records/vital/extra2.html

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CDC Vital Records Directory
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm

State-by-State Listing of Vital Records

https://www.thoughtco.com/vital-records-online-by-state-1422785

United States Vital Records

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Vital_Records

Vital Records National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/research/vital-records

Search Engines

 Bing

http://www.bing.com

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com

Highbeam
http://www.highbeam.com

iSeek
http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page

Online Journal Search Engine
http://www.ojose.com

Scirus
http://www.scirus.com

Soople
http://www.soople.com

Vadlo
http://vadlo.com

Virtual Learning Res Center
http://www.virtuallrc.com

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com

Photos

 Dead Fred

http://www.deadfred.com

LOC Flickr Photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

NARA Photos
http://www.archives.gov/research/start/by-format.html#photos

Tineye
http://www.tineye.com

Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Newspapers

 Chronicling America

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

Civil War Newspapers
http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm

Genealogy Bank
http://www.genealogybank.com

NEH Historic Newspapers
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

NY Times Article Archive
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html

Newspaper Archive
http://www.newspaperarchive.com

Northern Cal Newspapers
http://www.rainydayresearch.com/index.html

Northern NY Hist Newspapers
http://news.nnyln.net

Old Fulton Postcards
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

Online Historical News
http://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home

US News Archives on the Web
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html

Maps

 David Rumsey Map Collection

http://www.davidrumsey.com

Historic Map Works
http://www.historicmapworks.com/

Living People

 123people

http://www.123people.com

Alumni.net
http://www.alumni.net

AnyWho
http://www.anywho.com

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com

Peoplefinders
http://www.peoplefinders.com

PeopleSmart
http://www.peoplesmart.com

Pipl
http://www.pipl.com

US Search
http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp

Veromi
http://www.veromi.net/processor.asp

White Pages
http://www.whitepages.com

yasni.com
http://www.yasni.com

Zaba Search
http://www.zabasearch.com

Land Records

 Bureau of Land Management

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

Genealogical Societies

    Austin Family Assoc

http://www.afaoa.org

CGSL
http://californiaancestors.org

Crandall Family Assoc
http://www.cfa.net/cfa/contents.html

FGS
http://www.fgs.org

German Genealogy Group
http://www.germangenealogygroup.com

GSG
http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org

Huguenot Hist Society
http://www.huguenotstreet.org

ISGS
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilsgs/

NEHGS
http://www.newenglandancestors.org

NGS
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org

SCGS
http://www.scgsgenealogy.com

Schenectady Hist Society
http://www.schist.org

Society Hill
http://www.daddezio.com/society/

State Historical Societies
http://www.stenseth.org/us/statehs.html

City Directories

 City Directories of the US

http://www.uscitydirectories.com/

Eve & Don City Directories
http://www.donslist.net/PGHLookups/DirM.htm 

Online Historical Directories
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home

Census

 Census Finder

http://www.censusfinder.com/index.htm

Cemeteries and Death Records

    Ancestors at Rest

http://ancestorsatrest.com/

Find A Grave
http://www.findagrave.com

Internment
http://www.interment.net

Obit Daily Times
http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi

Obits Links
http://www.obitlinkspage.com

Online Searchable Death Index
http://www.deathindexes.com

SSDI
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693

Tributes
http://www.tributes.com

US Military Grave Locator
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1

Calculators and Tools

 Atlas Hist County Boundaries

http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/

Birth Date Calculators
http://www.cyndislist.com/births.htm#Birthdate

Calendar Converters
http://www.cyndislist.com/calendar.htm#Converters

Cousin & Relationships
http://www.cyndislist.com/cousins.htm#Charts

Geographical Names
http://geonames.usgs.gov/

Inflation Calculator
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

US Dollar Historical Value
http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/

Weather History
http://www.weatherbase.com

Wolfram|Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com 

Books and Libraries

    250 Killer Archives

http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives

Allen County Public Library
http://www.genealogycenter.org

Ancestry Card Catalog
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx

Family Search Books
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php

Google Books
http://books.google.com

Hathi Trust
http://www.hathitrust.org

Internet Archive Texts
http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Newberry Library
http://www.newberry.org

Open Library
http://openlibrary.org

PERSI
http://search.findmypast.com/search/periodical-source-index 

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html

WorldCat 
http://www.worldcat.org

Other Research Tooboxes

Cyndi’s List

http://www.cyndislist.com 

Diigo Gen Res Resources
http://groups.diigo.com/group/gensource 

English Family History & Gen
http://www.pricegen.com/english_genealogy.html 

Ireland Genealogy Links
http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/ 

Steve Morse One Step
http://www.stevenmorse.org 

General Research

 General Research

Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com 

FamilySearch
http://www.familysearch.org

FindMyPast
http://www.findmypast.com 

Fold3
http://www.fold3.com

Google
http://www.google.com

Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com

Google Groups
http://groups.google.com

Google Newspapers
http://news.google.com/newspapers

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org

Mocavo
http://www.mocavo.com

MyHeritage
http://www.myheritage.com

NARA
http://www.archives.gov

Roots Web Search Thingy
http://sitesearch.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search

US Gen Web
http://www.usgenweb.org

US Gen Web Archives
http://usgwarchives.org/index.htm

World Gen Web
http://www.worldgenweb.org