Who are your ancestors?
As an African American, your pedigree may be one of diverse heritage made up of African, European, Native American or “Other”.
Genealogy the study of family lineage answers the question of who your ancestors were.
Free Genealogy Sites
- FamilySearch: largest collection of free genealogical records in the world
- WikiTree: enormous collaborative family tree
- Fulton History: historical newspapers from the US and Canada
- Find a Grave: locate your ancestors in cemeteries across the globe
- Google News Archive: millions of archived newspaper pages
- US National Archives: official US National Archives site, many free genealogy databases, and resources
- Automated Genealogy: indexes of the Canadian census
- FreeBMD: civil registration index of births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales
- USGenWeb Project: massive free genealogy resource directory by US state and county
- WorldGenWeb Project: genealogy resources by country and region, not to miss
- Cyndi’s List: highly respected directory of free genealogy resources and databases online
- Ellis Island: immigration records, free indexes and original records, fee to download copies
- FreeReg: baptism, marriage, and burial records from parish registers of the UK
- RootsWeb: world’s largest genealogy community, huge amount of free information
- Castle Garden: immigration records, pre-Ellis Island
- Chronicling America: giant database of archived US newspapers from the Library of Congress
- Dead Fred: genealogy photo archive
- African Heritage Project: records on former slaves, freedpersons, and their descendants
- Immigrant Ancestors Project: emigration registers for locating birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries
- Daughters of the American Revolution: military service records and more
- JewishGen: Jewish ancestry research
- FreeCEN: transcribed census records from the UK
- Access Genealogy: vast family history directories and more, good Native American resources
- British Library, India Office: records on British and European people in India pre-1950
- Guild of One-Name Studies: extensive surname research site
- Geneabloggers: massive directory of genealogy-related blogs with a huge amount of free information
- NativeWeb Genealogy: list of Native American genealogy resources and searchable databases
- Viximus: member submitted biographical information
- WieWasWie: for researching ancestors from the Netherlands (in Dutch)
- The National Archives of Ireland: official National Archives of Ireland
- GENUKI: reference library of genealogical resources for the UK and Ireland
- German Genealogy Server: German ancestry research (many sections in German)
- National Genealogical Society: NGS
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: Civil War records from the National Park Service
- LitvakSIG: Lithuanian-Jewish genealogy databases and resources
- Italian Genealogical Group: Italian American genealogy resources and databases
- Internet Archive: a large amount of information useful to genealogists, but you’ll need to do some digging
- Open Library: good place to find family history books, search for surnames or locations
- Patriot and Grave Index: revolutionary war graves registry and patriot index from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection: vast number of archived US newspapers
- Seventh-day Adventist Obituary Database: hundreds of thousands of obituary entries
- Släktdata: genealogy records for Sweden (in Swedish)
- Free Genealogy Search Engine: search hundreds of free genealogy resources at one time on Family History Daily
- SOVA:Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives: Access 25102 descriptions of personal papers and other records
- Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board: AZGAB
- https://youtu.be/7BOGsXMD_YM: Cousins are Stunned to Learn Their Ancestors Owned Land Pre-Emancipation – From Ancestry®