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{{languages|Resources and related sites}}This page contains resources Resources and internet sites that may be of interest to genealogy enthusiasts.  {{man tip|If you have a site you would like to add, please do so.}}
==Genealogy organizations==
* [httphttps://www.cdfhs-aus.comorg.au/ Campbelltown District Family History Society Inc (NSW, Australia)]. We are a community organisation born out of the need to help others in our area learn how to do their genealogical research. We also raise money to help provide more resources in the local library's Family History Room.
* [http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ Cornwall Online Parish Clerks]. This is an informal group of Genealogists who voluntarily assist others by doing look ups of U.K. records we have collected over the years. They call themselves "online parish clerks" because the major resources they use are the (ecclesiastical) parish records of births, deaths and marriages. The group concentrates on Cornwall.
* The [http://www.worldgenweb.org/ WorldGenWeb] Project is a non-profit, volunteer based organization dedicated to providing genealogical and historical records and resources for world-wide access.
==General information sites==
* [http://www.familysearch.org FamilySearch.org] is one of the main international sites for genealogy. It is operated by a resource of the CJCLDS. ([httphttps://betawww.familysearch.org/ beta formhome/about CJCLDS], a religious organization. (Gramps includes an [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_1#LDS|LDS tab]] for their unique ordinances information.)
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/ GENUKI] presents a large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.
* [http://rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb] is the Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogical community.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia] is a useful resource for sourcing place names and their histories. Text, maps and related images are available under the GNU Free Documentation License or a similar, freely distributable licencelicense.
* [http://www.cyndislist.com/ Cyndi's List] Over a quarter of a million genealogy related links.
* [http://www.rodovid.org Rodovid.org] is a MediaWiki-based genealogy site.
* [http://genealogy.wikia.com Genealogy Wikia or "Familypedia"] is a free wiki-based genealogy site covering individuals, families, places, sources, etc; includes substantial copying of Wikipedia material about genealogy and places and people, then enhancing it.
* [http://www.archive.org/ Internet Archive] purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
* [ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/genealogy/ ftp genealogy] is an old repository with softwares and other files related to genealogy.
* [http://hathitrust.org/ Hathi Trust Digital Library] is a very large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
* [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiSource] is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by a community. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:IndexPages Collaborative transcriptions] are welcome.
* [http://www.familytreeforum.com Family Tree Forum] is a free genealogy forum; also contains extensive Reference Library with research guides & external links, as well as Surname Database, Timeline, online magazine, Costume Gallery, plus much more!
=Resources=US resources==* The [http://www.archives.gov/ National US Archives] and [http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ Archival databases].* [http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives Online libraries and archives] that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.* The [http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html Global Gateway] - part of the [http://www.loc.gov/ Library of US Congress] - is a multimedia digital library, built with partners from around the world.* [http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ The Library of US Congress] has one of the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications. The Library's genealogy collection began as early as 1815 with the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library. See also the [http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/index.html National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)]* [http://www.castlegarden.org/index.php CastleGarden] is a free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year [http://www.ellisisland.org/ Ellis Island] opened.* [http://www.ellisisland.org/ Ellis Island]: more than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. See also this [http://stevenmorse.com/ellis2/ellis.html form] and the [http://stevenmorse.com/ellis2/ellisgold.html advanced one].* [http://www.mocavo.com/ Mocavo] aims to index the above resources and provides a search form.* [http://stevenmorse.com/ Stephen Morse] provides an index of goof links to accesible ressources.
==Australian sources==* [http://proarchivesprov.imagineeringvic.comgov.au/ Public Record Office Victoria]: this site provides a wide range of services to enable researchers to access the public records of Victoria. Links to immigration and emmigration records such as the ''Index to Registers of Assisted British Immigrants 1839-1871'' and ''Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand Ports 1852-1923''
* [http://www.clan-cameron.org.au/ Cameron genealogies]: this website celebrates those who descend from the Clan of the name of Cameron, in Australia.
* [http://memberswww.datafastianmarr.net.au/~marrtronics/CEMINDEX.HTML Cemeteries of S.W. Victoria]: a useful collection of cemetery records. Keep in mind that before 1851, Victoria did not exist and the area was known as New South Wales.
* [http://www.cwgc.org/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission]: the Debt of Honour Register is the Commission's database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars... The register can also be searched for details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War.
* [http://cedirfirstfleet.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/index.html First Fleet] is a searchable database from the University of Wollongong. A text listing of the first three fleets is also [http://www.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/ available].
* [http://members.pcug.org.au/~pblair/auscem/ Australian Cemetery Geolocations] A list of more than 3000 Australian cemeteries, with co-ordinates and a map to help locate each one.
==French resources==
===Online search===
* [http://www.bigenet.org/index_us.php Bigenet] lists available certificates provided by some genealogical societies/associations.
* Some [http://www.france-genealogie.fr/sections/rechercherbases/base%20de%20donnees locales and nationales bases].
* [http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/france/index.html France Genealogy Links] lists sites that have online genealogy resources, many of them free.
* Portal from the [http://www.culture.fr/eng/Genealogie French Ministry of Culture and Communication] with some informations information and 9 databases.* [http://www.genealogie.org/ Genealogie.org] provides some ressources resources for french related searches in America.
* [http://www.geneawiki.com/index.php/Accueil Geneawiki] is a wiki related to genealogy.
* [http://genealogyblog.geneanet.org/ Geneasoft] lists most up-to-date genealogical information and programs.
===History===
* [http://elsasserwurtzle.wordpress.com/boite-a-outils-du-genealogiste/telechargement/ Alsace/USA] with [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/emigrants-du-68-aux-usa-entre-1837-1870.pdf list of emigration from Alsace to USA] or [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/demandes-de-passeport-1793-1818.pdf passports from 1793 to 1818].
See also the [http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP44 US National Archives] and [http://loutreforet-agawe.pagesperso-orange.fr/Emigration%20Alsace%20USA.html Emigration from North of Alsace to USA].
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/dossiers/html/dossiers/FranceAmerique/en/D1/Fr1.htm America/France] is a bilingual digital library made available by the ''Bibliothèque nationale de France'' in partnership with the Library of Congress ''the great library of Washington''. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century.
* [http://www.ancestramil.fr/ Ancestramil] provides useful informations about ancestors who were soldiers during their lifetime.
* [http://search.ourontario.ca OurOntario] for search about Ontario province (Canada).
==Italian==* [https://familysearch.org/italy Italian Genealogy] on FamilySearch.org* [http://www.cyndislist.com/italy Italy's Cyndi's List] of genealogy sites on internet. ==Netherlands==* [https://www.openarch.nl OpenArchives]* [https://www.genealogieonline.nl/zoeken/ GenealogyOnline]* [https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/ National Archives]* [https://www.delpher.nl/nl/ Delpher]* [https://www.stamboomforum.nl/wiezoektwie/ Who (re)searches who?]* [https://www.familysearch.org/Netherlands FamilySearch NL] on FamilySearch.org* [https://www.google.com/ Google NL] ==German information sites==
* [http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/index.htm Denkmäler] is to memorialize the names of the dead and to collect, archive and make publicly available, particularly for use by genealogists, inscriptions from war memorials of the German and Austrian armies.
* [http://www.genealogienetzcompgen.de/ Genealogienetzcompgen.de] is a portal for genealogy in Germany. There you can find German genealogy-wiki, local online heritage books, online databases, address books and many more.
* [http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche.html Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge] is registering the German war dead abroad and to ensuring that it is updated and monitored.
* Die [httphttps://betawww.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/ Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek] (beta) offers everyone unrestricted access to Germany’s cultural and scientific heritage, that is, access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany.* [http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe-verlustlisten/search/index online transcription] for the WW1 casualty lists.
===Online search===
* [http://familie-beuss.de/Crawl GlobalGenSearch]- Genealogische Datenbank Familie Beuss ==Russian=====History===* United open access data bank [https://obd-memorial.ru/ "Memorial"] is a bank of personal information about the defenders of the Fatherland, killed in action, dead and reported missing during the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war period.* [https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ People's memory] - Search of Heroes, Combat operations, Military Graves, War units, Documents of units, User's histories* This project [https://www.pobediteli.ru/ Pobediteli (Winners)] is a civic initiative of a number of individuals and businesses.* The [https://ru.openlist.wiki/ Open list] is the most comprehensive database of victims of political repression in the USSR (1917-1991), built on the Wikipedia principle. Site users and professional researchers daily add new names to the list, as well as supplement existing references.* [http://www.ria1914.info/ RIA Officers] - the largest open database and photo archive of officers and formations of the Russian Imperial Army of the early twentieth century===Genealogy sites===* "[https://vgd.ru/ All Russia Family Tree]" is a research project. We research surnames of people, connected with Russia, and their family trees. Now it is a kind of "Who is (and was) who in Russia" site with display of family links. Genealogy is not a hobby, it's a reasonable way to research history.* [https://arc.familyspace.ru/catalog/ FamilySpace]===Social network===* [https://prozhito.org/ Lived] - Personal stories in the electronic diary case* [https://poisk.vid.ru/ Wait for me]* [https://ok.ru/search/profiles/ ok.ru]===Yandex.People===* [https://yandex.ru/people/ Yandex people] ==United States of America==* The [http://www.archives.gov/ National US Archives] and [http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ Archival databases].* [http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives Online libraries and archives] that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.* The [http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html Global Gateway] - part of the [http://www.loc.gov/ Library of US Congress] - is a multimedia digital library, built with partners from around the world.* [http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ The Library of US Congress] has one of the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications. The Library's genealogy collection began as early as 1815 with the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library. See also the [http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/index.html National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)]* [http://www.castlegarden.org/index.php CastleGarden] is a free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year [http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ Ellis Island] opened.* [http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ Ellis Island]: more than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. See also this [http://stevenmorse.com/ellis2/ellis.html form] and the [http://stevenmorse.com/ellis2/ellisgold.html advanced one].* [http://www.mocavo.com/ Mocavo] aims to index the above resources and provides a search form.* [http://stevenmorse.com/ Stephen Morse] provides an index of good links to accessible resources. ==Swedish=={{stub}}
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