Search Tools

 

 

 

Search Engines
do keyword searches on selected web sites
and work best if you're looking for a specific term.

Search Directories
locate Internet sites and then group them into categories. These sites may be more relevant to your search.

The Hidden Web
This listing locates free databases and internet sites  often skipped over by spider search engines.

Genealogy Searching web sites for genealogy searching

 

All the Web very comprehensive with relevant results

Internet Public Library run by students at Univ. of Michigan School of Information

Find Articles accesses some scholarly magazines that do not charge

Family Search  The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world.

Alta Vista includes translation feature

Librarians' Index to the Web maintained by librarians

Find Law  comprehensive legal guide

GenCircles genealogy searching tool             Roots Web  The oldest and largest free genealogy site supported by Ancestory.com

Ask Jeeves search by asking a question (English or Spanish)

Yahoo largest directory on the web

The Invisible Web contains information not visible to general search engines

Lineages  Provides tips, charts, records, forms, etc. useful for genealogy research

Google
XtraGoogle  
Google Uncle Sam
The WWW Virtual Library          subject maintained by different person/institution-very academic
MagPortal.com  accesses articles from magazines that do not charge 
Interment.net  cemeteries of the U.S.
Family Tree Magazine Provides free downloadable forms for genealogy research.
Teoma searches smaller index with very relevant results National Science Digital Library
comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering & mathematics 

Heritage Quest Search census, books, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and Freedman's Bank.

Paid subscription furnished by NLC.  See librarian for password.

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