Blogs & Articles
- FamilyLocket.com – Finding ancestors and keeping them close to the heart – Nicole Dyer and Diana Elder, AG
- HiDefGen.com – High-Definition Genealogy, Family History in Focus by Thomas MacEntee
- Genealogy.com – Genealogy.com is a source for family history buffs to find genealogical research originally posted in GenForum and our most popular genealogy articles.
- The Research Cycle by Karen Clifford, AG
- Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Genealogy – by Mark Orwig
- Best DNA Testing Kits – www.dnatestingguides.com
Calvin’s Stuff
- Ancestors of Calvin Knight and Maureen Barlow – using TNG
- My YouTube Channel – videos of some FamilySearch Indexing tips
- Church News Article – Meeting on the Trail
Census Records
- 1940 U.S. Census – archives.com
- 1940 U.S. Census – Questions Asked – archives.com
- U.S. Census – Find your enumeration district – example search: “1940 census enumeration districts for Vernal Utah” – archives.com
Genealogy Conferences
- Ogden Family History Conference – usually in September or October – Ogden, Utah
- BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy – usually in July – Provo, Utah
- RootsTech – usually in February – Salt Lake City, Utah
- Web-based App for Class Schedules, etc. – https://app.core-apps.com/rootstech2019
- UGA South Davis Family History Fair – usually in April – Woods Cross, Utah
Education and How-To
- FileYourPapers.com – Genealogy Research Associates, Karen Clifford
- RootsMagic TV – videos on a variety of RootsMagic related topics
- RootsMagic Webinars
- Salt Lake Community College – Continuing Education – Genealogy
FamilySearch.org
- FamilySearch.org
- FamilySearch Partner Access (Ancestry, FindMyPast, MyHeritage, American Ancestors)
- FamilySearch Research Wiki
- Training
- Help Center (replacement for forums)
- Youth and Family History
- The Family History Guide (TheFHGuide.com)
- Webinar – Success Tips for Getting Started with Family History by Kathryn Grant
- BYU Family History Library Webinars
- Libraries and FamilySearch Centers
- Family History Library – Salt Lake City
- Ogden FamlySearch Library
- Partners
- Puzzilla.org – great for descendancy research
- KinPoint.com – visually see where you have record hints, problems, or ordinances that need your attention
- TreeSeek.com – create a fan chart from your FamilySearch Family Tree data (formerly CreateFan.com)
- Indexing
- Videos
Genealogical Societies
Libraries
- 250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
- Allen County Public Library – Genealogy Center – Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Ancestry Card Catalog – ancestry.com
- BYU Family History Library
- Family History Books – familysearch.org
- Google Books
- Hathi Trust Digital Library
- Internet Archive – archive.org
- LDS Family History Library – Salt Lake City, Utah
- Library of Congress
- Newberry Library – Chicago’s Independent Research Library
- Online Books Page, The
- Open Library
- PERSI – PERiodical Source Index – findmypast.com
- South Davis Family History Center – Bountiful, Utah
- Uintah County Library – Utah
- WorldCat
Maps
- England and Wales Jurisdictions 1851 – maps.familysearch.org
- United States Board on Geographic Names
- Maps.Huge.Info – Mapping programs to see various boundaries, great for county maps
- Mormon Trail – familysearch.org
- Oregon Trail, California Trail, Mormon Pioneer Trail, Pony Express Trail – nps.gov
Newspapers
- GenealogyBank ($)
- Google Newspapers
- Newspapers.com ($)
- Library of Congress – Chronicling America – Historic American Newspapers (1836-1922)
- Utah Digital Newspapers
- ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.org
Photos
- Library of Congress
- Uintah County Library Photograph Collections – Utah
Reference Materials
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (you can download a file to load into Google Earth and see boundaries over time)
- Blank Charts and Forms
- Blank 1940 Census Form
- Red Book, The – American State, County, and Town Sources – ancestry.com’s wiki (Amazon.com)
- Source, The – A Guidebook to American Genealogy – ancestry.com’s wiki (Amazon.com)
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names
Research
- Ancestry ($)
- BillionGraves
- FindAGrave
- FindMyPast ($) – UK records
- Fold3 ($) – military records
- Genealogy.com – digitized newspapers, obituaries, social security death index
- National Archives – archives.gov
- Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel – 1847-1868 – history.lds.org
- MyHeritage ($)
- NamesInStone
- RootsWeb – ancestry.com
- U.S. GenWeb Project
- U.S. GenWeb Archives
- WorldGenWeb Project
- Military Records – FindMyPast
- www.militaryindexes.com
Online Family Trees
- Family Trees at Ancestry.com (free)
Research Toolboxes (lists of links)
- Cyndi’s List
- Diigo Genealogy Research Resources
- English Family History and Genealogy
- Ireland Genealogy Links
- Steve Morse One Step
- Thomas MacEntee’s Sample Genealogy Research Toolbox
Software Programs
- Ancestral Quest
- Family Tree Maker
- Legacy Family Tree – by Millennia
- RootsMagic
- TNG – The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding – by Darrin Lythgoe
- Genealogy Software Review
Tools and Calculators
- Age Calculator
- Calculate duration between two dates
- Cousin Finder Chart
- Inflation Calculator
- Standard Finder – name variations, standards for entering places, even Geo codes for places (no longer supported)
- Place Research Tool – by FamilySearch
- Weekday Calculator – What Day is this Date?
- WolframAlpha – computational knowledge engine
- Interactive Family Group Sheet (a PDF that can be printed or filled out and saved) – by Misbach Enterprises
Tech Tools
- DropBox – File Storage in The Cloud
- Evernote – Notes in The Cloud
- Weebly – Web Site Creation
- Google Chrome Extensions:
- bitly – a simple URL shortener
- Evernote Web Clipper – capture web pages into Evernote
- WordPress.org – Blogging, self hosted
- WordPress.com – Blogging in The Cloud
- Blogger.com – Blogging in The Cloud
- Google Docs – Documents in The Cloud
- Google Photos
- Snagit by TechSmith – Screen capture or create video tutorials
- Sizer – Set your application window to a specific size
- Paint.NET – simple image editing
- FileZilla – FTP client for transferring files to/from your web site
- MySQL Workbench – work with your MySQL databases