Genealogy: Recommended Websites

The Genealogical Research System, or GRS for short, is DAR’s online genealogical portal. Here you will find collections of databases DAR has made available online. These include our Ancestor Database, Member Database, Descendants Database, DAR Library Catalog, DAR Genealogical Records Committee database, The Revolutionary War Digital Library and corresponding index, and a couple of others.

Search passenger arrival records, ship names (and their passengers), and browse historical photos.
The site also has a very good genealogy section that includes printable charts once you register.
(Registration is free.)

Offers interesting variety of resources including an online database of their book collection and research forums and services. The NGS is a nonprofit that was founded in 1903

Free genealogy site sponsored by Ancestry.com designed to connect people so they can share genealogical research. This is a read-only site. Find links to the Social Security Death Index, regional and surname mailing lists, download free blank charts, forms, and more.

Consists of a group of volunteers working to provide Internet websites for genealogical research throughout the United States. It is a great portal to accessing state and county-level genealogical societies.

Tips for beginners and links to nearly 300,000 genealogical websites.

Created in 1995, world’s largest gravesite collection. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for people from around the world.

A free genealogy search site that hosts free online obituary collections, free marriage record archives, etc.

The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases created by scholars.