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American History & Genealogy
The resources shown below do not pertain to a particular State, but to America and Americans in general. Choose a region above to see more, or click here to choose a State. Tip: Within each State's page, you can find County and Town resources, too!
1790-1840 Census Helper |
A godchild of Washington a picture of the past |
Abraham Lincoln (a paper) and Stephen A. Douglas (an eulogy) |
Abraham Lincoln, lawyer |
Abstract of graves of revolutionary patriots Vol 1 (A-D) |
African-American Collections |
African-American History |
American Ancestors |
American Ancestors Jewish Heritage Center |
American Association for State and Local History |
American Baptist Historical Society |
American Catholic Historical Society |
American Folklife |
American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) |
American Historical Association |
American Jewish Historical Society |
American Library Association (ALA) |
American Military Records |
American Monthly Magazine |
American Prisoners of the Revolution |
American Revolutionary Diaries |
American Studies Electronic Crossroads |
American genealogy, early settlers of North America |
Ancestral records and portraits, Colonial Dames of America Vol I |
Ancient History of the Six Nations |
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography |
Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States |
Archive.org |
Battles of the Civil War |
Biographical Review |
Brunswick Public Library Heritage Room |
Bureau of Land Management |
Cemetery Conservators for United Standards |
Cemetery Records |
Census Records 1790-1940 |
Centennial bibliography |
Centennial of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, (formerly Ref. Prot. Dutch Church) 1784-1884 |
Center for Civic Education |
Center for History & New Media |
Children's Book of Patriotic Stories - The Spirit of '76 |
Chinese Heritage (National Archives) |
Chronicling America |
Civil War Cemeteries managed by the NPS |
Civil War Corporal's Pay |
Civil War Monuments |
Civil War Music |
Civil War Preservation Trust |
Civil War Prisons |
Civil War Recipients of The Medal of Honor |
Civil War Soldiers Index 1861-1865 |
Civil War graphics and illustrations |
Coastal Georgia Genealogical Society |
Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century |
Colonial families of the United States of America, Vol. VI |
Comparing Newspaper Resources |
Cornell Making of America Digital Library |
County Search Tool |
Cumberland County Affidavits and Estate Inventories of Revolutionary War Pension Applicants |
Curt Teich Postcard Archives Digital Collection |
D.A.R. Lineage Books |
Das Neue Baltimore mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutsch Amerikaner im Geschaeftsleben, 1905 (German Americans in Baltimore) |
Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 1-63 and supplements |
Digital History |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
Early American Churches |
Early Western Travels (32 Volumes) |
Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774-1775 copied from a loose bundle of Treasury papers in the Public Record Office, London, England |
Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy Vol 1 North Carolina |
Encyclopedia of the Old West |
Everton's Genealogical Helper (63 Volumes) |
Faces of the Civil War |
Facts about the Civil War |
FamilyLink.com |
Famous Mayflower Descendants |
Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory |
Findagrave.com |
Fold3 |
Free Census Records Online |
Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1871 |
Freemasonry in Washington, D.C. |
FultonHistory online newspapers and postcards |
Gedmatch explanation and tips for comparing results |
Genealogical & local history books in print |
Genealogy Gems from Allen County Public Library |
Genealogy How-To Books |
Genealogy, A Journal of American Ancestry |
Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 |
Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790. Records of the state enumerations, 1782 to 1785 |
Heraldry Meanings and Symbols |
HeritageQuest |
HeritageQuest Census Records |
HeritageQuest Revolutionary War Records |
Historic Aerials |
Historic Map Works |
Historical Books on DVD |
Historical Records Collection |
History Channel |
History of Pike County, Illinois |
History of Science Society |
History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania |
History of the Puritans in England and the Pilgrim Fathers |
History, Genealogy, and Archives: Databases and E-Resources |
Index to the probate records of the county of Worcester, Massachusetts, from July 12, 1731 to January 1, 1920 |
Indiana Digital Archives |
Internet Archive of Texts and Documents: The United States |
Internet Library of Early Journals |
Internet Public Library: History |
Jews in America |
Latin American Network Information Center |
Librarians' Internet Index: History |
Library of Congress |
Library of Congress American Memory |
Library of Congress Map Collection |
Linkpendium's State by State Search Engine |
Lost amid the fogs sketches of life in Newfoundland, England's ancient colony |
Map changes in the United States |
Map of the United States in 1800 |
Mayflower ancestries |
Mayflower interactive database |
Midwest Genealogy Center suggested links |
Missouri State Archives |
Mourt's Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth |
MyHeritage |
NARA Archival Research Catalog |
National Archives Military Records |
National Archives and Records Administration |
National Endowment for the Humanities |
National Genealogical Society |
National Park Service |
National Trust for Historic Preservation |
National Women's History Project |
Native American Genealogy Books for Sale |
Naval Historical Foundation |
New England Historical Genealogical Register |
Newspaper Abstracts |
Newspaper Archive |
Official Army Register for 1863 |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture |
On the Trail of the Immigrant |
Organization of American Historians |
Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds |
Passengers and immigrants to America |
Peerage, Baronetage, Knights and Heraldry |
Places associated with the Civil War |
Plymouth, Massachusetts marriages 1734-1745 |
Portraits of Named Civil War Enlisted Men |
Portraits of Native American Indians |
Project Gutenberg |
Ray's Place - New England Genealogy and much more |
Recollections of the Civil War |
Registers of the Huguenot Society of America |
Sailors of the Civil War |
Signers of the Mayflower compact, and their descendants |
Small Town Papers |
Social Security Death Index (SSDI) |
Society of American Archivists |
Soldiers in King Philip's war |
Soldiers of the Civil War |
Soundex Converter |
Source Finder - Where to find facts |
Southern Historical Association |
Souvenir of the centennial anniversary of Washington's inauguration, April 30, 1789, as first president of the United States the birth of the American republic with the program of ceremonies |
Swedish American Genealogist |
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy |
The American Civil War Museum |
The American Folklife Center (Library of Congress) |
The American Genealogist Magazine Vol 1-85 |
The American Monthly Magazine |
The American Revolution |
The Bill of Rights |
The England and Holland of the Pilgrims |
The George C. Marshall Foundation Research Library |
The Great Migration - Colonial America |
The Holland Society |
The Italians in America |
The Mayflower Pilgrims |
The Moving Image Collection |
The Spirit of 76 Magazine |
The Value of Slaves |
The narrative of Colonel David Fanning (A Tory in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain), giving an account of his adventures in North Carolina from 1775 to 1783 |
The salt-box house eighteenth century life in a New England hill town |
Time Calculator (Find the difference between two dates) |
Time Deductor (Calculate a date x years, months and days ago) |
Timeline of Events and Inventions |
Top 1,000 Most Common Surnames |
Twenty Years among our hostile Indians |
U.S. Census Bureau |
U.S. GenWeb - Census records (text only) |
U.S. Merchant Marines |
U.S. Navy Personnel Research Guide |
U.S. Register of Army Enlistments (1798-1914) |
US Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Understanding Civil War pension records |
United States Online Historical Newspapers |
Using maps in Genealogy |
Veterans History Project |
War of 1812 Discharge Certificates |
War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815 |
War of 1812 Pension Files |
War of 1812 Soldiers Indexes |
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