<p> Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 2012</p><p>HELPING THE GENEALOGY PATRON ONLINE RESOURCES HANDOUT</p><p>Webinar sponsored by The Pennsylvania Department of Education and The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 13 December 2012</p><p>Free = Free site, $ = Fee based site</p><p>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) ***</p><p>1 | P a g e Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 2012</p><p>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/ </p><p>2 | P a g e</p>