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Online Resources The African American Experience http://www.aaexperience.org
AfriGeneas www.afrigeneas.com
African-American genealogy site with links and message board
American Battlefield Monuments Commission www.abmc.gov/home.php
American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.htm
Sites created by the Library of Congress
Avalon Project http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp Yale University’s collection of legal and historical documents
Castle Garden http://www.castlegarden.org/
Database of information on 10 million immigrants 1830 – 1892 .
Daughters of the American Revolution Library
Searchable index to genealogical records collected by the Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR).
http://www.dar.org/library/
Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and
culture from The University of North Caroling-Chapel Hill
Ellis Island http://www.ellisisland.org/
Database of passengers entering the U.S. through the Port of New York 1892 –
1924
Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) database on Ancestral File,
Family History
Freedmen’s Bureau Online http://freedmensbureau.com
Information about the creation of the Freedman’s Bureau after the Civil War
GenForum http://genforum.genealogy.com/
Thousands of genealogical forums
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library
http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/speccoll.html Consists of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Georgiana Collection, the University of Georgia Archives and Records Management.
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
Online catalog
Medal of Honor Citations http://www.army.mil/cmh/moh.html
From the U.S. Army Center of Military History
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/
Entry point for Genealogists/Family Historians
National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
Government site providing ability to print selected maps
National Geographic
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/index.html
Map machine
NewsBank http://www.newsbank.com/
Web-based resources satisfy the diverse news and information requirements of public
libraries, colleges and universities, schools, government and military libraries,
genealogists, professionals and researchers.
Political Graveyard http://politicalgraveyard.com/
Most comprehensive source of U.S. political biography and/or tells where the dead
politicians are buried
Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com
TheShipsList http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html Helps find ancestors on ships' passenger list, immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet list and more: as well as hundres of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
Social Security Death Index (SSDI) http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
South Carolina Death Index (SCDI) http://www.dhec.sc.gov/administration/vr/
South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History (SCDAH)
http://scdah.sc.gov/
South Carolina Historical Society http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/
From the fireproof building in Charleston, SC
South Caroliniana Library http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/
Surnames http://genforum.genealogy.com/surnames/
USGenWeb http://www.usgenweb.com/
Vital Records http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w.htm
How to obtain vital records for the U.S. from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human
Services
WorldCat http://worldcat.org
Search 1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
WorldGenWeb http://www.worldgenweb.org/
Volunteer based organization providing records and resources.
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