Genealogy

Automated Genealogy - search for people in the 1901, 1906, and the 1911 census

Bill Martin's Early Ontario Genealogy - search the Ontario Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Registrar; various church registers; Loyalists and early militia records; pioneer records and biographies; and some Finnish immigrant information.

Canada Genweb - based on the USGenWeb Project, part of a global library for genealogy research on the Web.

Canadian Directories: who was where - search Canadian national, provincial/territorial, county and city directories, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in paper, microform and electronic formats.

Canadian Genealogy Center - view the genealogical services of Library and Archives Canada: including genealogical content, services, advice, research tools and opportunities to work on joint projects, all in both official languages.

Online Historical Maps Digitization Project - useful for land grant & Canadian census searches. A comprehensive colectio of historical Canadian maps.

Geographical Names of Canada - a data base of names of places and geographical features. Search by name, coordinates, or code.

Glenbow Museum of Calgary - features several tools of value to the genealogist:

InGeneas - search Canadian passenger, Canadian immigration, Canadian census, Canadian vital statistic (birth, marriage and death), Canadian land, Canadian military and miscellaneous records from the 18th- 20th centuries.

LDS Family Search - search the 1881 censuses of Canada and England, and the 1880 census of the United States. Also available are The Pedigree Resource File; The International Genealogical Index ; The U.S. Social Security Index, the Vital Records Index for Scandinavia and Mexico.

Library and Archives Canada - features several tools of value to the genealogist:

Our Future Our Past - contains both The Early Alberta Newspaper collection (all Alberta newspapers) and The Local and Alberta Histories collection (books and books on microfiche)

Our Roots: Canada's local histories online - search over 5500 digital texts with 1.3 million pages about histories.

Passenger Lists: search passenger records & indexes.

Peel's Prairie Provinces: an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies and a fully searchable collection of the full texts of many of these items.

Prince Edward Island Newspaper Transcripts: search P.E.I newspapers from 1791 - 1910.

Prince Edward Island Online Census: search the censuses of 1841, 1881, 1891, and 1901.

The Recents Obituary list - Alberta and British Columbia, (B.C.) Canada: search births, engagements, obituraries, and letters of thanks.

Vital Statistics Search - British Columbia; Saskatchewan; Manitoba; Quebec; New Brunswick; PEI; Nova Scotia

RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: search family trees, or create your own.

CanGenealogy: a directory of genealogy links

Interlink Bookshop: purchase genealogical resources and tools.

American Library of Congress:searh the holdings of thelargest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.

BYU Family History Archive: search published genealogy and family history books, including histories of families, county and local histories, how-to books on genealogy, genealogy magazines and periodicals (including some international), medieval books (including histories and pedigrees), and gazetteers.

Ellis Island:search the records of more than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews that entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York from 1892-1924.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): idenifty tools to help you find:

U.S. Genweb:a state by state directory of genealogy links.

U.S. Ports of Arrival & Passenger Lists: search lists of nearly every port in the United States that has published immigration records (passenger arrival lists) 1820-1957, organized by state. Also included are Canadian and Mexican border crossing records.

1901 Census of England and Wales: Search over 400 million people living in England and Wales between 1841-1901

The British Isles GenWeb: search regional and country websites that make up the British Isles GenWeb Project.

The National Archives: You can search for and download:

Wills from 1384 - 1858
Census records
Records about migration