Animap Free
Rotating county formation maps. Scroll down, under
'State Maps' choose state.
Build
your own maps! Use BLM's Geocommunicator
to choose ownership, change scale, add street
layer, digital orthos, satellite or other. Great
site! If you click on Identify button, then on
the map...the Principle Meridian, Township, Range,
State, and County will show; zoom in to show
Section number (for any of the 30 PLSS states).
Earth
Point - Fly to a legal description Uses free
Google Earth and a legal description or Lat/Longitude
to virtually plot and show you what it looks
like. Great site!
USGS
site: #1 Search for Geographic Sites or Features,
Good, Choose ACME Mapper Service to display map
with county boundaries. Then choose Topo.Find
cemeteries, rivers, creeks, ghost towns, populated
places, mountains, trails, etc. Find latitude
and longitude of any place. View in many map
formats such as Satellite or Quad or street maps
and more.
BLM
National - Government Land Office Records View
original settlers and land descriptions for counties
of the 30 Public Domain states. Very early patents
are still being added. When completed, it will
have Larnd Warrant and Land Records info from
1788 to early 1900s.
Google
Books Search historical books for a Person
or Place. Many town histories are searchable.
Google
Language Translator Translates
58 languages to and from English. Can't read
a web page? Type in its address. Translates entire
web pages.
Immigration 1820-1957
Ports/Passengers Lists - includes Canadian and
Mexican Border Crossings -some $. Searchable by
state.
Immigration2 1492-1964
Ships, Ports and Passengers Lists. Hint: in search
box try last name or ship name or year
Online
OCR Change an image (or PDF) to a MS Word
or txt document. Do not login, just browse to
your image, Upload, type in number that appears,
click Recognize.
Roots
Magic Has Free version called Essentials
that downloads generations from nFS - tutorials
Search by County or State
Research Links
by States
All
States Archives Digital Records For Archive
site, click on link under desired state. Usually,
great information for each state collected from
counties.
Genealogy Inc History
of States and Counties. Scroll down, select a state, then scroll down to a list of counties for that state.
Animap
free Scroll down, click state under State Maps
Utah
Digital Collections. Death certificates,
land records, mining claims, etc. Hint: Click
on advance search, i.e. in 'The exact phrase
box' type George W. Briggs, click search, if
more than one...click next hit OR Scroll down
and choose the collection to search i.e. Death
Certificates
BLM
Government - Utah Master Title Plat, HIstorical
Index Records Enter Township, Range, Meridian,
Land Rec Type= Historical Index. Click Find.
Search Historical Indexes for items matching
your land description and time your ancestor
lived there. Use Serial Filing No. when sending
to NARA for more information.
Virginia
County and Land Records Tip: Click "Best
Sources for Virginia Research by Time Period";
at the top click the time period, click the source
link
Digital
Collections e.g. Click on Collections by
Topic, Military Service, Rev War Pensions, Alpha
List: Smith, John, Click on Smith, John, Click
on URL to see images
Matricula
- Free Chruch Registers A monumental effort to digitize 1000s of church registry books in Germany and Austria (other countries to come)
and make them available - free and online.
LDS
Indexing records Help in a World-wide effort
to make records available to all.
Jeopardy
Game For Parties, Meetings, Youth groups...
Learn while having fun. Set your Categories,
Q&As. Easy, just download the zip file, extract
it and read the ReadMeFirst file which is included.
(Uses JeopardySuperTeacherTools). No Internet
or Power Point needed.
