FAVORITE SITES
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- How To and Support Sites
- Area Blogs and Societys
- Local Monterey Area Sites
- Dayna’s Toolkit
- MoCoGenSo Favorites
How To and Support Sites
- Diagram Software – Build tree charts, free
- Lucid Charts – Build charts, limited free
- Scapple – Free form charts, 1 month free
- Family Echo – Build charts, cloud based, free
Area Blogs and Societys
- Chula Vista Genealogical Society – Meetings via Zoom, DNA sessions
- Genea-Musings – Randy Seaver’s Site
- Genealogy Society of Santa Cruz County – In the Library – Great group
Local Monterey Area Sites
- California State Archives
- Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
- DAR Commodore Sloat Chapter
- Family Search
- Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) Calendar of Events
- Monterey County Gen Web
- Monterey County Historical Society
- Monterey FamilySearch Center
- Roots Web
- Santa Cruz County Gen Web
- SAR Monterey Bay Chapter
Dayna’s Genealogy Toolkit
from Dayna Jacobs, AG® www.ongrannystrail.com
- Abbreviations & Acronyms for Genealogy – What do they mean?
- Animated Atlas – U.S. History Timeline
- Archive Grid – Identify archives and archival materials
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries – Identify county boundaries for any year
- BLM-GLO Records – Find U.S. federal land patents and locate parcels on a map
- Cheat Sheet – Boolean Genealogy Searches – Online searches made easy from OGT
- Cheat Sheets – Family Tree Magazine – A variety of helps
- Cheat Sheet – Table of Wars and Ages of Servicemen – Determine which war
- Citation Creator – EasyBib – Help for source citations
- David Rumsey Digital Map Collection – Excellent map resource
- Earth Point township and range tools – Locate land in the public domain
- Encyclopedia of Genealogy – by Dick Eastman
- Evernote – Organize your research
- Free Forms and Charts – Family Tree Magazine
- Free Forms and Charts – Rootsweb
- Genealogy Gophers – Searches in genealogy books digitized by FamilySearch
- Geographic Names Info System (GNIS) – Supercharged online gazetteer
- Historical Map Archive – A look back in time
- Internet Archive – For digitized county and family histories
- Learning Center – Free online courses at FamilySearch
- Linkpendium – Links to genealogy resources organized by locality
- MAPofUS – Interactive maps of the U.S. and county boundaries by year
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) – Order land entry and pension files
- Newspapers – Library of Congress: Chronicling America
- Research Report Template – Download this editable template from OGT
- Research Wiki – FamilySearch – Huge knowledge base for researchers
- The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy – Online version of a classic
- Timeline Template – Download this editable template from OGT
- Town and County Database (Rootsweb) – Enter the name of a town to find the county
- United States Digital Map Library – A great map resource
- USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer – Click on the timeline to find a map
- Vital Records – Where to write
- WorldCat – Find libraries and items for interlibrary loan
MoCoGenSo Favorites
- About.com:Genealogy
- Ancestor Search
- Ancestry.com – the largest genealogy site in the world!
- www.ancestry.com/cs/charts-and-forms – free Family Tree Templates and Pedigree Charts at Ancestry.com
- Azores Gov’t Site
- Azores/Portugal/Madeira Searching
- CA Tombstone Transcription Project
- Cal State Library – Genealogy
- Cal State Library – Sutro
- Cook County Illinois genealogy
- Ellis Island
- Family Link
- Find A Grave
- Footnote
- Genealogy Explained
- Genealogy Gophers
- Genealogy Trails
- Genealogybank
- GenealogyPlace
- Genes Reunited
- geni
- Godfrey Memorial Library
- Heritage Quest
- Huntington Mission Indexes
- Illinois State Archives
- Irish Ancestors
- Lost Cousins
- Missouri State Archives Death Certifs
- MudCreek Software
- New England Ancestors
- Newspaper Archive
- Norway Archives
- Oakland Family Regional Family History Center
- OH Death Index
- OH Obituary Index
- Omaha Genealogical Society
- Online Searchable Death Indexs
- OurTimeLines
- Pennsylvania Genealogy
- Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness
- Sacramento German Genealogical Society
- Santa Clara City library
- Sons of the American Revolution
- Sons of the American Revolution Library
- South Carolina Dept of Archives and History
- SSDI Search At Rootsweb
- The Genealogist
- US Citizen and Immigration
- USGenWeb
- Vital Search California
- VitalSearch
- Washington State Archives
- Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
- World Connect
- World Vital Records
- Google Custom Search – Ancestor Search
- Railroad Employee Records
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