Basic Genealogical Websites
FamilySearch
Family History Center Portal - provides access to FamilySearch, classes, the FamilySearch Wiki, Forums, and microfilm ordering.
United States of America
AFRICAN AMERICAN: Family History Resources and Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874, available through the Family History Library; Cyndislist (links to African American sites); Afrigeneas (supports research of African American ancestors); AAGSNC Genealogical Resource Directory (links to African American history and genealogy divided into catagories
OBITUARIES: Legacy (National newspaper search by name and time period); Obituaries101 (select State, then newspaper and name)
PASSENGER LISTS: Castle Garden and Ellis Island
PEOPLE LOCATORS: Peoplefinders (gives names, cities where they live/lived, and relationships to other family members); and ZabaSearch (gives specific addresses where they live or lived, and at times month and/or year of birth, and often including a phone number (published or unpublished) - always check phone directories for current address and phone number
PHONE DIRECTORIES: Switchboard, and Whitepages (often gives name of spouse)
SSDI: Go to http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/
Surname Distribution in the USA: Map
United States GenWeb: USGenWebProject
Unknown No Longer - Virginia Historical Society: http://unknownnolonger.vahistorical.org/search/advanced
Indexed and/or Digital Records of Minnesota This file includes Indexes of Birth, Marriages, Divorces, Deaths, Wills, State Census Records, and many other records
Marriage Index - Names, dates, and filing location (not necessarily the marriage county)
USGenWeb Project for Wright County - (See United States for link to all states)
Other Countries
Denmark Civil Marriages, 1851-1961
Church Registers - Digitized - Hent Herred = Download District; Hent Sogn = Download Parish
Church Registers - Typed Transcription (Not complete for all localities)
French Republican Calendar - Conversion from Napoleon's dates to Gregorian Calendar Dates
Combined districts of Bitburg Cochem and Daun.pdf - Stephen Barthel
Eifel Region Name Index - Tom Pick's Site
Germany Gazetteers - (Online Parish and Civil Records Locator)
Maps:
1910 Map of Middle Europe - German map covering most of Poland and much of central Europe.
Zumi.pl - Modern online map - Type in "parafia" in first field to bring up parish indicators, if you wish to see where the nearby churches are located. In the second field type in the name of the town.
Surname Distribution Map of Poland - Type surname to find area of concentration.
Gazetteers:
Geographical dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic areas prior to WWI. Includes Galicia, Belorussia, and many localities from the eastern provinces of Prussia; the western part of Imperial Russia; Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Bukovina, Hungary. Entries include powiat, parish information, population, and other data. Text in Polish.
East and West Prussia Gazetteer - Lists German towns and shows the location of Catholic/Protestant parish and civil records localities. This is based on the 1905 time period.
Kartenmeister.com - Enter German locality spelling and find Polish spelling, or enter Polish spelling to find German spelling - This listing is not all inclusive.
Galicia - Names of some localities may be in German. Check the appendix for the locality of the church or synagogue.
Deutsch fremdsprachiges (fremdsprachig-deutsches) Ortznamenverzeichnis - Place name-change dictionary showing German place-names assigned following World War I to the following countries: France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslovakia, Italy, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia, Luxembourg, and Romania.
Gazetteer of the Republic of Poland between World Wars I and II
Societies:
Polish Genealogical Societies - Includes databases from areas of Poland.
Poznan - (databases)
Word Lists and Translator:
Poland Genealogical Word List - Polish-to-English
Latin Genealogical Word List - Latin-to-English
German Genealogical Word List - German-to-English
Russia Handwriting - See link for greater detail
Translator - Translate obituaries, documents, letters from Polish-to-English, or write letters from English-to-Polish. (Translations may not be 100% accurate.)
SWEDEN (Riksarkivet) - Digital records in process) - See also Library Catalog in www.familysearch.org for microfilmed records, which you can order through your family history center.
Register of Swiss Surnames (To find where ancestors may have lived)
Switzerland Online White Pages (Type in surname for correct spelling, then check Register of Swiss Surnames)