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EMIGRATION:
Emigration/Ship
Lists and Resources
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html
Links to more than 100 sites with passenger
lists.
Immigrant
Ship Transcribers Guild
http://istg.rootsweb.com/index1.html
Volunteers have transcribed passenger
lists of well over 1,000 ships so far. The lists can be searched by surname,
captain's name, year of voyage, port of departure, port of arrival, or
ship's name.
National
Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/
Background information about naturalization
and emigration records, Civil War records, and Soundex indexing of the
federal census, as well as how to rent microfilm from the National Archives.

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FORMS:
Ancestors:
Charts and Records
http://www.pbs.org/kbyu/ancestors/charts/
Available, free, in GIF or PDF files for
downloading and printing are these charts from the popular PBS "Ancestors"
series: Pedigree Chart, Family Group Record, Timeline, Research log, Family
and Home Information Sources Checklist, and Child's Pedigree Chart.
Ancestry.com
- Genealogy Forms
http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm
Downloadable ancestral chart, family group
sheets, and additional forms for keeping track of genealogical research.
Family
Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Printable Abstracts for Census Records
http://www.familytreemaker.com/00000061.html
Provides forms for recording data from
the 1790-1920 U.S. censuses.

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GENEALOGY MEGASITES:
Cyndi's
List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
http://www.CyndisList.com/
Cyndi How provides links to over 84,100
genealogical websites, arranged in over 140 categories, ranging from "Handy
Online Starting Points" to the "Scandinavian and Nordic Countries Index".
Genealogy
Resources
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~pmg/genealogy.html
Paula Goblirsh at the University of Minnesota
has put together a list of links to ethnic resources, geographic information,
library catalogs and archives, helps and tips, links to genealogical societies
and associations, and much more.
U.S.
Gen Web Census Project Archives
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenwer/census
Volunteers from all over the nation contribute
to this site by transcribing information from U.S. census records. Select
a state to see which years and counties are available on the web.

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HOW TO'S:
Family
History Research
http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/family/family.html
Tutorial that explains the basics of what
to look for, and where to find information, about Minnesota ancestors.
U.S.
GenWeb Project Links to States
http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinks.html
Click on the map of the U.S. to identify
organizations in each state that can provide help in tracing ancestors.
Vital
Records Information: United States
http://vitalrec.com/index.html
Tells where to write to obtain marriage,
birth, death, and divorce records.

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LAND RECORDS:
Cyndi's
List - Land Records, Deeds, Homesteads, Etc.
http://www.CyndisList.com/land.htm
Scroll down for links to approximately
90 links to web sites concerned with land records, patents, and warrants.
Land
Management Information Center
http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/dnet/maplib/ancestry.htm
Maps of the entire United States and of
specific states showing the areas of highest concentration of people of
different ancestries.
Search
Land Patents
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/search.asp?s=8
Did your ancestors homestead in the Midwest
or South? You can find the Bureau of Land Management's records, issued
between 1820 and 1908, for homesteaders in all but the original 13 Colonies.

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MINNESOTA
GENEALOGY
Family
History Research
http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/family/family.html
Tutorial from the Minnesota Historical
Society that explains the basics of what to look for, and where to find
information, about Minnesota ancestors. The Minnesota Historical Society
also provides a Genealogy Help Desk (651/296-2143) staffed by volunteers
trained in genealogical research.
Legacy.com
http://www.legacy.com/LegacyHome.asp
Click on "ObitFinder" for recently published
obituaries from approximately 60 Minnesota newspapers.
Minnesota
Genealogy - The MNGenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mngenweb/
Terrific site for assistance in locating
information about a Minnesota ancestor! MNGenWeb has a "Location Finder"
to identify the county in which a Minnesota town or township was located,
addresses of volunteers willing to do "Minnesota look-ups", a map of Minnesota
Territory (circa 1849-1851), online databases with Minnesota records (for
example, Kiester cemeteries, Sibley County Civil War records, Irish families
of Goodhue County), links to county and local historical societies, and
much more.
Minnesota
Local History and Genealogy Research Guide
http://home.att.net/~Local_History/Minnesota.htm#Genealogy
Links to useful web sites for folks whose
ancestors lived in Minnesota.
Minnesota
Obituary Links
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7748/obit/mn.htm
Links to newspapers in Minnesota that
list obituaries online.
Park
Genealogical Books Research Notes
http://www.parkbooks.com/Html/research.html
Mary Bakeman of Park Genealogical Books
posts helpful articles of interest to Midwestern genealogists on the Internet
each month. Previous articles have focused on: "Finding Minnesota School
Records", "Oral History Interviews", "Researching Germanic Ancestors",
"Using Interlibrary Loan", "Burial Records and Brick Walls", and "Minnesota's
Naturalization Records".
Sources
of Genealogical Information in Minnesota
http://www.everton.com/reference/usa/mn.php
Highlights useful sources of information
for tracing Minnesota ancestors.
United
States Resources: Minnesota
http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/USA/mn.html
Search for Minnesota surnames or scroll
down for links to "Other Minnesota Genealogical and Historical Resources
on the Net".

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OBITUARIES AND CEMETERIES:
Largest
On-Line Newspaper Obituary Search Listing
http://www.gengateway.com/gateway5.htm
Scroll down to "Newspaper Obituary Search
Listings" for links to obituary listings online.
Legacy.com
http://www.legacy.com/LegacyHome.asp
Can find recent obituaries, online, from
over 1,000 U.S. and Canadian newspapers.
Obituary
Daily Times
http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/
Index to obituaries published in U.S.
and Canadian newspapers. Each entry includes the deceased's full name,
age at death, place of death, and name and date of issue of the newspaper
in which the obituary was published.
Social
Security Death Index
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm
This site at Ancestery.com lists more
than 64.5 million names, social security numbers, and dates of birth and
death for deceased social security card holders, most of whom died after
1962.
USGS
Mapping Information: GNIS United States and Territories Data Base Query
Form
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
Trying to find the location of a cemetery?
Use this form to select "Feature Type:Cemetery" then enter the desired
state and county for a list of locations of cemeteries in that county.

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SEARCH FOR YOUR FAMILY:
Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm
Search for your family's name among those
mentioned in Ancestry World Tree, the Social Security Death Index, current
address and telephone listings, and genealogical message board listings.
Family
Search Internet Genealogy Service
http://www.familysearch.com/
Simply the best! Enter first and last
name in the search form to search the Church of Latter Day Saints Ancestral
File, IGI: North America and IGI: British Isles database of over 300 million
names.
Gendex
- WWWGenealogical Index
http://www.gendex.com/gendex/
Click on "Access the Index" to search
a database of over 15 million names with diagrams showing the descendants
of each individual.
GenForum
- Surnames
http://genforum.genealogy.com/surnames/
Enter a surname to look for messages posted
by other genealogists researching the same family.
Google
http://www.google.com/
Use this search engine - or others - to
find web pages by or about people with your surname.
Roots
Surname List Name Finder
http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi
Search by an ancestor's last name to find
out whether anyone else is researching your family line. If so, you can
contact and share information with them.

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