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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.