Beginners - Starting Points:

Roots Web's Guide to Tracing Family Trees - Great links for beginners

NEW - RootsTelevision - "Where History Meets Heritage" - videos of television shows, interviews, lectures and more.

NEW - Blogs: (blog is short for web log) is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order.)

24/7 Family Circle (a blog hosted by Ancestry.com) - "Your address for family history on the web"

Footnote

Genealogy Blog Finder

Genealogy Lines

Cemeteries:

Macomb County Cemetery Master Index - A searchable database and "guide to the cemetery transcription work which has been done by Macomb County's genealogy organizations."

Census, U.S. : As of October 1, 2008, all four Warren libraries have access to Ancestry Library edition (in library use only), from the Magazines and Online Databases listings. Ancestry has the Federal Census from 1790-1930.

Abstract forms for census records - blank forms for each census year

Heritage Quest - search census records in the library and from home using this database

Surname to Soundex Code Converter - Enter your surname and convert it to Soundex coding

Directories: several "best of the best" or comprehensive sites

NEW - Footnote - Genealogy in Historical Documents - Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more.

RootsWeb - One of the genealogical pioneers of the Internet, with extensive holdings and links.

Treasure Maps - the "How-To Genealogy WWW Site"

US GenWeb Project - A web page for each county in every state provided by volunteer genealogists - a great place to start

Family History Centers: (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

Family History Centers - use this to find a Family History Center near you

Family Search - a searchable database of the International Genealogical Index, Ancestral File and more!

Forms:

Family Tree Magazine - download free charts and forms to keep your genealogical research organized.

Genealogy charts and forms - (from Ancestry.com)

Immigration:

Castle Garden - Passenger lists of 10 million immigrants who passed through Castle Garden from 1830 through 1913. Castle Garden is known today as Castle Clinton National Monument, a major landmark within Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan..

Ellis Island - American Family Immigration History Center

Primer of Emigration, Immigration, etc - created by the Polish Genealogical Society

Local Genealogical Societies

Detroit Genealogical Society

Macomb County Genealogy Group - see: Mount Clemens Public Library genealogy page

Geography:

City Search - Find the county a city is located in by either browsing through all the cities for a selected state or type the name of the city in the space provided.

How Far is It? - Distance between locations in miles (as the crow flies) Service provided by Bali Online

United Kingdom and Ireland Parish Finder

International Resources: (a sampling)

CANADA

• NEW Automated Genealogy - Indices to Canadian Censuses
• Canada GenWeb
• Ontario GenWeb
• National Archives of Canada/Canadian Genealogy Centre - includes a link to the 1881 Census of Ontario, a searchable database

FINLAND

• The Genealogical Society of Finland - promotes genealogical and biographical research
• Institute of Migration - promotes the collection, storage and documentation of research material relating to international and internal migration

GERMANY

• Germany GenWeb This site is designed as a resource for genealogists researching their German ancestors within the present political border of the Federal Republic of Germany, with links to sites of former German areas.

GREAT BRITAIN
(England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)

• The UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service (GENUKI)
• FamilyRecords.gov.uk (your official source for family records)

ITALY

• Italian Genealogy

POLAND

• Detroit Area Polonia and the City of Hamtramck Genealogical Website
• Genealogy and Poland
• Poland GenWeb
• Polishroots.com - the Polish Genealogy Source

UKRAINE

• Ukrainian Genealogy from InfoUkes

WORLD

• World GenWeb - Global starting point for genealogical research, narrowing down by regions, countries, states, provinces, districts and counties.

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Libraries online:

Allen County Public Library - Click on Genealogy or check their library catalog. This renowned collection contains more than 220,000 printed volumes and 251,000 items of microfilm and microfiche

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library - Click on "Online Library Catalog" to search their library for specific titles

Detroit Public Library - The Burton Historical Collection is one of the most important genealogical and local history collections in the country - and just minutes away.

"Genealogical materials include: federal census population schedules, family histories, cemetery inscriptions, church records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths, military records, hereditary society indexes, heraldry books, immigration records, probate indexes and records, vital records, obituaries, land records."

Check the Detroit Public Library Catalog.

The Library of Congress - Search their catalogs and collections, this page also includes information on how to use their gateway to catalogs of over 220 libraries in the United States.

Library of Michigan - Abrams Foundation Historical Collection: Genealogy and Local History. You can also look at their library catalog to see what materials they own.

Mount Clemens Public Library - Includes a page devoted to their Genealogy Collection and Services

Roseville Public Library - Soundex collection "Through an LSCA Title I Grant, the Roseville Public Library has acquired 876 reels of Soundex microfilm. This collection contains the Soundex microfilms for ALL the Federal Population schedules for Michigan, for which a Soundex was created. These include the 1880 (73 reels), 1900 (259 reels), 1910 (253 reels), and 1920 (291 reels) Censuses. If your ancestors were in Michigan for any of these Census years, the Soundex will help you locate them on the Census microfilm."

Macomb County:

Macomb County GenWeb - This valuable site is extremely well-organized, and information is added frequently

Macomb County Surname List - Check this out if your family is from Macomb County

Macomb County Cemetery Master Index

Macomb County Obituary Index

Magazines/Newsletters:

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Family Tree Magazine

Michigan:

Michigan GenWeb Project - search for the county your family lived in for local records and information

Biographical index (Macomb County) - Index of Macomb County entries found in Michigan Biographies

Michigan Family History Network - Using the Databases pull-down menu, look under Military for information on Michigan soldiers in the Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War II. Researcher-submitted resources include family group sheets and birth, marriage and death records.

NEW Seeking Michigan - The Library of Michigan and Archives of Michigan began work on this site in 2008. Among many valuable resources, there is an online Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 with the digitized image of the death certificate.

Military:

Macomb County (MI) Draft Index for WWI

Record of Macomb County Soldiers and Sailors in Service in the Great War (WWI)

National Archives (U.S.):

Obituaries:

Oral History:

Suggested topics and questions for oral histories

Organizations:

NSDAR - Michigan State Society

Alexander Macomb, NSDAR - Mt. Clemens, MI - Local chapter of the DAR

Software:

Surnames:

Vital Records: (Birth, Marriage, Divorce, and Death Records)