~ Early Web Links ~

The HIGenWeb Team's Hawaii genealogy hub is part of the USGenWeb Project, offering county-level records, databases, and historical background on the Hawaiian Islands for family history researchers. Coordinated by Doreen Harunaga-Ewing and Bob Jenkins, the site organizes resources by county and provides free access to materials for those tracing Hawaiian and Polynesian ancestry.

A dedicated genealogical resource for Red River County, Texas, compiling cemetery records, marriage records, wills, yearbooks, mailing lists, and historical organization information for family researchers. Part of the TXGenWeb network, this site represents years of collaborative effort to preserve and share county-level records with the genealogical community.

CountyHistorian.com hosts the RoyalWeb (CecilWeb) project, a detailed genealogy resource tracing Richard Cecil's connections to the Elizabethan court and beyond, expanding into royal lineages, client research, and biographies of entertainment personalities. The site blends professional genealogy services with self-directed historical research, offering a wiki, sorted article archives, and content originally published on Google Knol.

NYGenWeb is the New York State affiliate of the USGenWeb Project, offering free genealogical and historical records organized by county with dozens of volunteer coordinators contributing data. Visitors can search place names, access census records, explore historical maps, find Civil War and WWI Medal of Honor recipients, and browse tombstone transcriptions covering all of New York State.

Helm's Genealogy Toolbox, created by Matthew L. Helm and first appearing in 1994, claims the title of the oldest comprehensive genealogy and local history index on the web. Visitors can search a full-text index of genealogy resources or browse by U.S. state to find links pointing to research tools and local history materials across the country.

Miriam Robbins runs this genealogy blog dedicated to historical city directories as a research tool for tracing ancestors across the United States and beyond. Posts cover topics like using the Green Book to research African-American roots, finding rural ancestors in small-town directories, and navigating digitized resources by state and province.

Part of the NJGenWeb project, this page focuses on genealogical resources for Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, including cemetery listings, historical newspapers, church records, and local history collections. Volunteer coordinator Leilani Cummings maintains this community hub for researchers tracing family roots in the Plainfield area.

Jolink Genealogy is a dedicated one-name study site tracing the history and emigration of the Jolink family surname and its variants, including Jolinck, Jonink, and related names. This search links page catalogs general and genealogy-specific search engines useful for family history research, with notes on free vs. paid inclusion and Dutch genealogy portals.

WAGenWeb is the Washington State branch of the USGenWeb Project, offering researchers a comprehensive portal for tracing ancestors across all Washington counties since 1996. Coordinated by Mike Sweeney, it links to county-level genealogy pages, vital records, cemetery listings, military records, census lookups, historical maps, and message boards organized by county.

Rick Crume, a genealogist, writer, and speaker, has assembled an extensive curated directory of genealogy links covering census records, DNA databases, immigration resources, military records, and more. The collection spans dozens of categories with a strong focus on Scandinavian, German, Irish, and Eastern European ancestry research alongside general how-to guides and vital records tools.