Helping the Genealogy Patron

Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 2012

HELPING THE GENEALOGY PATRON ONLINE RESOURCES HANDOUT

Webinar sponsored by The Pennsylvania Department of Education and The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 13 December 2012

Free = Free site, $ = Fee based site

Heritage Quest - http://www.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/index ($) Ancestry.com – http://www.ancestry.com ($) Fold 3 – http://www.fold3.com (Free and $) (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration [NARA] - http://www.archives.gov/ (Free) FamilySearch - https://familysearch.org/ (Free with registration) Pennsylvania Department of Health, Vital Statistics - http://www.portal.health.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/genealogy_requests/14125 (Free with costs for copies of certificates) Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania - http://genpa.org/ (Free and $) *** Find a Grave - http://www.findagrave.com/ (Free) Interment.net - http://www.interment.net/ (Free) *** Ellis Island Records - http://www.ellisisland.org/ (Free with registration) Castle Garden - http://www.castlegarden.org/ (Free) *** GenealogyBank - http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ ($) NewsBank – Parent company of GenealogyBank available at many libraries - http://www.newsbanklibraries.com/libraries/ ($ for library subscription) Pennsylvania Newspaper Project (Penn State) - https://secureapps.libraries.psu.edu/content/PaNP/PaNP/ (Free) working within larger newspaper project for Library of Congress called “Chronicling America” - http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ (Free) ***

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Google Earth - http://www.google.com/earth/index.html (Free download) Free Library of Philadelphia - http://libwww.freelibrary.org/maps/mapSearchFrm.cfm (Free) Greater Philadelphia Geo-History Network - http://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/ (Free) Atlas of Historical County Boundaries of Pennsylvania (Newberry Library, Chicago) – http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/pages/Pennsylvania.html (Free) University of Texas at Austin, Library Map Collection of Pennsylvania - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/pennsylvania.html (Free) *** Social Security Death Index can be searched on: FamilySearch - https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://familysearch.org/searchapi/search/coll ection/1202535 (Free) GenealogyBank - http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/ ($) Ancestry.com - http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693 ($) *** FREE ANCESTOR CHARTS & RESEARCH FORMS: Best online site to find various charts and forms is FamilySearch – https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Research_Forms *** FREE WEBSITES Cyndi’s List - http://www.cyndislist.com/ Rootsweb - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ (Oldest free genealogy website online, now owned by Ancestry, but information previously posted and added still free.) Pennsylvania State Archives - http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/state_archives/2887 Pennsylvania State Library - Genealogy & Local History - http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/genealogy_and_local_history/8730 List of Pennsylvania Genealogical & Historical Societies by Stephanie Hoover - http://www.pennsylvaniaresearch.com/directory.html Google Books - http://books.google.com/ StoryCorps – Great Questions List - http://storycorps.org/record-your-story/question- generator/list/

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