Internet Archive
A non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Includes the WayBack Machine, where you can find archived pages from extinct websites.
How to Interview Elderly Relatives for Genealogy Research
CourtRecord.net
A useful directory of contact information for any local court, police department, or government office.
Arolsen Archives
This online archive hosts over 30 million documents and a database related to concentration camp victims, displaced and deported persons, forced laborers, and others persecuted by the Nazis. Formerly managed by the Red Cross as the International Tracing Service, the...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Genealogy Program
Offers access to historical immigration and naturalization records of deceased immigrants, including naturalization files after 1906 (C-files), alien registration forms Visa files, Registry files, and alien files.
U.S. Naturalization & Citizenship Online Genealogy Records
This chart includes links to major collections of naturalization records, organized by state. Some of the collections are hosted on free sites, e.g. FamilySearch, while others are at subscription-based sites like Ancestry or Fold3.
One-Step Webpages by Steve Morse
This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than...
Researching Your Family from Ship’s Passenger Lists
A collection of search tips, family genealogy resources, and additional research links.
Polish Family Information
James J. Czuchra’s databases offer indexed birth, marriage and death records from selected Polish parishes in New York State, including parishes in Albion, Auburn, Dunkirk, Elmira, Rochester, and Salamanca, as well as other resources.
National Archives (U.S.)
A wealth of information for genealogists, including informative articles on a variety of topics. You can search the Catalog, using these tips.