Genealogy on the Internet: a workshop

African Heritage Project - "Our mission is to rediscover precious records that document the names and lives of former slaves, freedpersons and their descendants, and share those records on this free Internet site."

Cemetery Junction - Directory of cemeteries by state, also links to online obituaries, family cemeteries, and Australian cemeteries.

Cemetery Records Online - Records from cemeteries all over the world.

The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution -

Connecticut State Library History & Genealogy

Cyndi's List - More then 120,000 genealogy links most of which are categorized & cross-referenced, in over 120 categories.

Ellis Island Records - Search and access ship passenger manifest records for everyone entering the United States through the Port of New York from 1892 - 1924.

Family Search - Internet Genealogy Service by the Church of Jesus Christ  Latter-day Saints.

Family Tree Magazine - An online and print resource for genealogist.

Family Tree Searcher - Enter your family data once and this site will search multiple family tree web sites at one time.

Fairfield County Genealogy Website - This site is part of the USGenWeb Project which provides data and resources to family historians for free.

Free Public Record Sites - A free gateway to selected searchable local, county, state and federal records Web sites. Included are some important free non-governmental sites.

Find a Grave - Find the grave of both famous and non-famous people. Search by name or by cemetery.

Funeralnet - An online directory of national and international funeral homes, as well as, resources on funerals, obituaries, cremation and cemeteries.

Genealogy Home Page - A comprehensive list of genealogy resources on internet.

GenForum - Genealogy forums searchable by regions or surnames.

HeritageQuest - This database is available through IConn.org and requires the barcode from a Connecticut library card to access.

Hour Newspaper Index - Check births, marriages and obituaries from 1984 to 2003.

INS History, Genealogy & Education - This site lists different types of immigration records, as well as,  where and how to find them.

Making of America - Cornell University
Making of America - University of Michigan
    "These two institutions are developing a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." They have scanned in images of entire books and journals from 1850 to 1900.

National Archives & Records Administration Genealogy Page -Where and how to find genealogical  records.

Obituary Daily Times - A free index of daily published obituaries across the world. This site does not have the actual obituary, however, a search by name will bring up the index listing of the name with the information of where and when the obituary was published.

ProGenealogists:  Find out how common a surname is in different parts to the United States. Search uses the census information from 1850, 1880, 1920 and 1990 to track the distribution of surnames across America.

One-step webpages by Steve Morse - One step links for searching many genealogy websites.

US Census Genealogy Page - 1990 census information including a the 1990 Spanish surnames lists.