"Compare Family Names/Surnames/Last Names Popularity"

Social Security Administration's lists of popular baby names by decade, by state, for twins, and in U.S. territories

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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression."

"Millions of brides indexed from genealogy files on other web sites. This site may be useful in "brick wall" situations to learn where an ancestor's sister went. Also be sure to check http://GedcomIndex.com, also by this webmaster, for a town-by-town listing of GEDCOM entries and a further explanation of GEDCOM files."

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"Whether you're planning a trip to the State Historical Society, the Family History Library, the National Archives or the local courthouse, it pays to be prepared. Avoid frustration and increase your research time by asking these 10 question in advance of your visit. "

"The village by village contact site for anybody researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland. Every UK county, town and village has a page for family history, local history, surname and genealogy enquiries. Use the search box to find your village or town." CuriousFox was created in August 2002. The aim was to provide a resource for finding and identifying the myriad of UK villages, and allow genealogists, family history and local history researchers to make contact and share knowledge at a village level.

The DAR Genealogical Research System is a combination of several databases created in recent years to organize the large quantity of information that the DAR has collected since its inception in 1890.

This page provides free access to more than 80 standard histories of Wisconsin counties. Most of these volumes are several hundred pages long and include detailed accounts of individual cities, townships and villages, as well as biographical sketches of prominent residents. Most were published between 1850 and 1920. Every word on their 56,000 pages is searchable, so you can find specific descriptions of people, places, and events. Every volume can be downloaded to your own computer for free as a PDF file (to acquire the PDF when viewing a volume, open the drop-down at the upper left labeled "document description"). Because many of these books are very large, be patient when opening or downloading them. If you need help, use the link at the bottom of every page.

A computer program for the genealogy community which is intended to assist you in determining a full surname from only a part of the surname. This software is intended for use when you have a partial surname from a document that is hard to read or a partial surname from reading a tombstone. It would also be good for determining surnames from old paintings. When you put in the characters you can figure out and click Search, the program will create a list of matching surnames. This software also helps you to search the web for information on the surnames it suggests.

Surname Suggestion List and Surname Findit were developed by Matt Combs.

A computer program for the genealogy community which is intended to assist you in searching the web for information on your surnames and their variants. After you enter in your surname, you click on the Search button, and it will create 3 lists of similar sounding surnames. The lists are based on how good a sound match the other surnames are to the one you entered. The lists are titled Excellent, Close, and Longshot.

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Document images from Halsted Mortuary, San Francisco

"Have you ever wished you could find links to all the online historical newspapers in one place? A place where they were listed by county and city so you could find the newspapers your ancestors read? This is the purpose of the Online Historical Newspapers Website. It is meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other researchers."

The Midwest Genealogy Center is one of the nation's preeminent resources for family history. The MGC features 52,000 square feet of space to house all the resources and technology genealogists need to research. Amongst its many features, the MGC houses a uniquely expansive circulating collection and almost completely open stacks. New technology is also a major attribute of the building. Microfilm reader-printers, two self-digitization stations, and significant database access allow researchers to use today's technology to assist their investigation.

The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC, area; Regional Archives; and Presidential Libraries. ARC is a work in progress; currently over 63% of our records are described in ARC at the series level. ARC contains many descriptions of records of interest to genealogists and family historians, including: * applications for enrollment in Native American tribes * court records * fugitive slave cases * land records * military personnel records * naturalization records

The UK National Archives' collection is one of the largest in the world, with 11 million records, from Domesday Book to modern government papers. Our collection includes paper and parchment records, electronic records and websites, photographs, posters and drawings. We also have an estimated six million maps covering not only the British Isles but also many countries and regions of the world.

Martin F. Schmidt Research Library Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. EST Free and open to the public The Martin F. Schmidt Research Library of the Kentucky Historical Society houses over 90,000 published works, dealing primarily with history and genealogy, as well as more than 16,000 reels of microfilm and over 30,000 vertical files of collected and contributed research.