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Getting Started

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
  (http://www.CyndisList.com/)
  Great place to start. Includes a Delaware page.

• Delaware Genealogy (Access Genealogy.com)
  (http://www.accessgenealogy.com/delaware/)

• RootsWeb.com
  (http://www.rootsweb.com/)
  The oldest and largest free online community for genealogists. The site contains extensive interactive guides and numerous research tools for tracing family histories.

• USGenWeb Project
  (http://www.usgenweb.org/)
  Organizes web resources by state and county. Includes a Delaware page.

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General Resources

• Ancestry.com
  (http://www.ancestry.com/)
  One of the leading resources for family history online. Offers both free and premium subscription services. Note: the Library has a subscription to Ancestry Library Edition.

• FamilySearch
  (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp)
  Impressive website from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), providing access to over 300 million names in two indexes—the IGI (International Genealogical Index) and Ancestral File—searchable by ancestor name.

• Genealogy.com
  (http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html)
  Good source of Family history online, indexes, and research tips. Offers both free and premium services.

• HeritageQuest
  (http://www.heritagequest.com/)
  Offers both free and premium services.

• Vital Records Information: United States
  (http://www.vitalrec.com/)
  Contains information about where to obtain vital records from each state, territory and county.

• Yahoo! - Genealogy
  (http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Genealogy/)
  Includes links to beginners' guides; chats and forums; companies; GEDCOM; lineages and surnames; shopping and services (includes publishers); reference; regional and ethnic resources; and links to genealogical organizations and societies.

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Biographical Resources

• Castle Garden
  Castle Garden was America's first immigration center. The online records cover 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.

• Ellis Island/Port of New York Records
  Information on 22 million immigrants and ship's crews who arrived at Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. Searchable by name, including alternate spelling, results provide date of arrival, age, marital status, ethnicity, residence, gender, ship, and port of departure. Contains information on each ship and ship manifests. “Immigrant Experience” includes The Peopling of America, which covers pre-1790 to 2000 with a “timeline showing forces behind immigration and their impact on the immigrant experience.” Free registration. Note: some of the same records are in Ancestry Library Edition.

• In the First Person

• Obituary Daily Times
  Partial index of published obituaries.

• Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

Census Schedules

• The University of Delaware Library has the schedules for Delaware on microfilm.
  Location: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfilm S 550)

• The University of Delaware Library has a subscription to Ancestry Library Edition. [restricted to UD]

• Steps to finding people in the 1930 Census: Delaware

• 1930 Federal Population Census (National Archives)
  Use for states other than Delaware.

• National Archives microfilm series M1931 is a street address index; use to determine the ED number when cross streets are known. Contains information for the forty-five largest cities. Philadelphia, PA, is included.

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Libraries, Archives & Museums

• Delaware & Regional Resources for History and Genealogy
  (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/genealogy/resguide/colls.htm)
  Listing of nearby collections and societies.

• Delaware Library Catalog
  This catalog includes the holdings of the public libraries in Kent & Sussex and the Delaware Public Archives.

• TIPCat
  The catalog for the public libraries in New Castle county (except Wilmington Library)

• Delaware Libraries
  Provides links and address information for Delaware libraries.

• Allen County Public Library Historical Genealogy Department
  (http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/)
  The Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, has a superb genealogical collection of national prominence.

• DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)
  (http://www.dar.org)
  The D.A.R. Library in Washington, D.C., is a comprehensive facility for historical and genealogical research. The collection includes local history in America, embracing state, county, town and church materials, genealogies, biographies and vital records.

• Family History Library (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
  (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp)
  The Family History Library in Salt Lake City holds over 2 million rolls of microfilmed records, 400,000 microfiche, and 300,000 books. It also houses an extensive collection of written manuscripts including family histories, local histories, indexes, periodicals, and aids to help in genealogical research. This immense collection of genealogical material covers most of the world, allowing researchers to search original records from countries as far as the Netherlands, Hungary, Chile, and China, although the emphasis is on Great Britain, Canada, Europe, and America. The Library's United States holdings include records from thousands of county courthouses and state and regional archives, plus all of the U.S. Census records from 1790-1930. Materials on microfilm and microfiche may be ordered from Salt Lake City for use in local Family History Centers nationwide.

• Library of Congress -- Local History and Genealogy Reading Room
  (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/)
  The Library of Congress has one of the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications. The Library's genealogy collection began as early as 1815 when Thomas Jefferson's library was purchased.

• Libdex: The Library Index

• WorldCat [restricted to UD]

• WorldCat (free Internet resource)
  (http://worldcat.org)

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National Archives and Records Administration

• National Archives home page (archives.gov)
  A great website with many wonderful pages of information and links to other sites. For example:

• Genealogists/Family Historians
  Guides to the NARA collections useful for genealogical research.

• Research Topics of Genealogical Interest

• Microfilm Catalogs
  Online access to the print catalogs describing the more than 3,000 Federal records series published on microfilm by National Archives. Includes a comprehensive catalog and seven subject catalogs.

• Research Tools provides access to the National Archives catalogs

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Publishers

• Everton Publishers Home Page
  (http://www.everton.com/)
  Everton is a major publisher of genealogical materials. Website also has a section: "Free Genealogy Center."

• Genealogical.com
  (http://www.genealogical.com)
  Website of the Genealogical Publishing Company & Clearfield Company, the "world's largest publishers of genealogical reference books."

• Heritage Quest
  (http://www.heritagequest.com/)
  Magazines, books, CD-ROMs, software, and microforms.

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Toolbox

• Birth Date Calculator

• How to Cite Electronic Sources (Library of Congress)
  Includes citations to online photographs and other unusual materials.

• Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States
  General Information Leaflet Number 17.

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

• Printable Census Forms

• Surname to Soundex Code

• Tom Nunamaker's Census Age Calculator

• Virtual Perpetual Calendars

• Yet Another Soundex Converter (YASC)

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