Genealogy & Family History
140 sites
https://beckysgraceandglory.blogspot.com/
Becky Thompson's genealogy blog traces her family connections through cemetery visits, historical records, and FamilySearch research across Idaho and beyond. Posts feature surname studies, headstone photography, and discoveries like unusual naming patterns in 19th-century families that bring ancestors to vivid life.
https://wvgw.net/
WVGenWeb is West Virginia's branch of the USGenWeb Project, providing a centralized hub for genealogical research across all West Virginia counties. Visitors can explore county coordinator contacts, vital records, coal mine records, military histories, and links to neighboring state GenWeb projects.
http://pasttimesproject.co.uk/
Past Times Project is a British community hub dedicated to reconnecting people with their past, offering tools to find old friends, schoolmates, and former colleagues alongside a library of nostalgic 20th century memories. Visitors can also explore heritage attractions across the UK, trace family history through the Gene Junction feature, and contribute their own life stories to a permanent memoir archive.
http://txgenweb.org/
The TXGenWeb Project is a volunteer-driven genealogical and historical effort covering all counties in Texas, offering free access to online databases, surname queries, vital records, cemetery listings, and local historical background. Part of the larger USGenWeb network, it serves as a gateway to county-level resources that help researchers trace their Texas ancestors and explore regional history.
https://usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/railroads
Part of the NEGenWeb Project, this site documents Nebraska's rich railroad history with sections covering railroad accidents, worker biographies, job descriptions, and the railroads that served each county. Genealogists will find it especially useful for tracing ancestors who worked on or traveled the Iron Road across Nebraska, including records from the Railway Express Agency spanning 1850 to 1975.
http://usgwarchives.net/
The USGenWeb Archives is a massive volunteer-driven repository of genealogical records organized by U.S. state, offering access to census data, wills, deeds, tombstone transcriptions, and other historical documents. Each state has its own table of contents and FTP directory maintained by dedicated volunteer coordinators, making it a vital research hub for anyone tracing American ancestry.
https://okgenweb.net/
OKGenWeb is the Oklahoma chapter of the USGenWeb Project, providing free online genealogy resources organized by all 77 Oklahoma counties and Indian Territory tribal nations. Researchers can explore records covering cemeteries, marriages, military service, slave narratives, land openings, and Native American heritage spanning dozens of tribes.
https://power.idgenweb.org/americanfalls1925.html
Part of the USGenWeb project, this page preserves rare historical photographs of American Falls, Idaho as it appeared in 1925 before three-quarters of the town was relocated to higher ground due to dam construction. The collection includes over 30 labeled images of churches, hotels, schools, bridges, and business blocks, offering a vivid visual record of a community lost to relocation.
https://ohgenweb.org/
The OHGenWeb Project is a volunteer-driven, entirely free genealogical resource covering all 88 counties in Ohio, offering transcribed census records, tombstone inscriptions, deed records, vital records, and ancestor photos. Part of the larger USGenWeb network, it connects researchers with county coordinators and hosts special projects like the Ohio Tombstone Transcription Project and the Penny Postcards from Ohio Archives.
https://militaryindexes.com/index.html
Created by Joe Beine, this curated directory compiles links to online military records, rosters, draft card databases, and casualty listings organized by major American conflicts from the Revolutionary War through Vietnam. Genealogy researchers will find it an invaluable starting point for tracing ancestors who served in the U.S. military across nearly 250 years of history.