Genealogy & Family History Resources

What You Will Find On This Page

This is not meant to be a comprehensive listing of online genealogy and family history resources. There are many comprehensive listings already, such as Cyndi’s List. Rather, this is a listing of the websites that I have found helpful in researching my own family history.

My research interests include New England (spanning back to the very earliest European settlers), French Canadian and Acadian genealogy and history, and English, Irish, and Scottish genealogy and history.

Geographic areas of interest to me include Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont in the U.S.; Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec in Canada; plus all the places in Europe from which our ancestors originated–primarily France, England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.

I am also very interested in periods of history such as the Mayflower crossing and Great Migration (and all 17th-century colonial settlement in general), the French and Indian War and other Colonial Wars, the American Revolutionary War, the Acadian Expulsion, the immigration to New France of the Filles à Marier (marriageable girls) and Filles du Roi (Daughters’ of the King), both World Wars, the Industrial Revolution, and much more. Every now and then I find myself tracing our “gateway ancestors” and royal lineage through them which takes me in fascinating directions.

In short, I love history and I love finding and researching my connections to history through my ancestors and these are among the resources I use in my research. This is a growing and ever-evolving list, so check back regularly to see the changes.

General Genealogy Research

Ancestry
American Ancestors (by the New England Genealogical Historical Society)
Family Search
Find My Past
Archive Grid (find primary source archival materials offline)

Historical Newspapers

Genealogy Bank
Newspapers.com by Ancestry
19th Century U.S. Newspapers (must be a member of NEHGS)
Irish Newspaper Archive (must be a NEHGS member)
PEI Newspapers Online
Nova Scotia Newspapers
Scotland Newspapers
British Newspaper Archives

Military & War Research

Fold 3
Daughters of the American Revolution Research Resources
Wikipedia listing of American Colonial Wars
World War I & II resources from NEHGS (must be signed in as a member or guest)

New England Research

17th Century New England Genealogy resources from NEHGS (must be signed in as a member or guest)
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
The Great Migration Project
Catholic records in New England from NEHGS (must be signed in as a member or guest)

European Research

England

English Genealogy resources from NEHGS (must be signed in as a member or guest)
Family Search English genealogy research wiki
Family History Federation
National Archives at London – records for the U.K.

Ireland

Irish Genealogy resources from NEHGS (must be signed in as a member or guest)
Family Search Irish research wiki

Scotland

Scottish Genealogy resources from NEHGS (must be signed in as a member or guest)
Family Search Scotland research wiki
Official government source for Scottish resources and records – www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
National Library of Scotland – documents, maps, directories, etc.