Genealogy

Free digitized collection of historical California newspapers contains over 50,000 issues from over a dozen different newspapers, available for both searching and browsing. The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside.

Lists resources at the National Archives to explore your family's ancestry. Contains thousands of genealogy-related holdings -- many of which are available online. Provides full access to the 1940 U.S. Census.

Family Search Wiki for using U.S. Census databases. Provides specific links to genealogy databases and information. The Family Search wiki is a free, online genealogy and family history guide that lists websites, provides research strategies, and suggests records and resources to help you find ancestors from all over the world.

Links provided by the Centers for Disease Control for direct access to state and territory information.

Internet sources for digitized or transcribed passenger records and indexes. Comprehensive list of links to passenger lists for several states and ports of entries. Includes passenger lists for the Titanic.

Free search service provides free online charts and forms. Provides access to more than 22 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members who came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York from 1892 to 1924 through detailed passenger lists or "ship manifests" maintained by ship companies. “Search by Ship” features search by ship name, arrival year, arrival date and Port of Departure.

Created by the Calif. Dept. of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section in Sacramento. Includes name, birth date, sex, mother's surname, and county of birth.

Vital records in California have been kept by the state registrar of vital statistics since 01 July 1905. This database is an index to the death records in California from 1940 through 1997. See list of links on right for database for searches from 1905 - 1939.

Online California Death Records & Indexes
A Genealogy Guide for Finding Obituaries, Cemetery Burials and Death Records. Extensive links to Family Search, Ancestry, and some county lists of records.

Contains 115 million grave records. At Find A Grave you’ll find details about cemeteries and individual memorials for many people buried in those cemeteries. Memorials generally include birth, death and burial information and may include pictures, biographies, family information and more

A free online library of cemetery records from thousands of cemeteries across the world, for historical and genealogy research.
Each transcription we publish comes from a single-source, be it the cemetery office, government office, church office, archived document, a tombstone transcriber.

An informative website designed to offer resources for obituaries, funerals and genealogy search. Offers many links for newspapers, states, a clickable map to search by state, and blog postings on genealogy research topics.

Free search - from FamilySearch.org) with over 91 million entries - updated regularly. Created from the Social Security Administration's Death Master File. It lists people whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration starting about 1962 (there are a few deaths listed prior to 1962).

Free search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker.

Free, downloadable and printable charts include: Family Tree Chart, Research Calendar, Research Extract, Free Census Forms, Correspondence Record, Family Group Chart, Source Summary

Family Tree Magazine has created forms that can help you access and organize your family history information. They're available in two formats: text and portable document format (PDF). The text versions give you the basic form structure in files you can open in your word-processing software. You can print, edit or even type your information right in the file. The PDF versions are read-only files with snazzier designs—they're suitable for displaying or sharing your research with others.

A chart that allows you to calculate official terms for family relationships.