~ Early Web Links ~

SDGENWEB is a genealogy resource hub dedicated to South Dakota county records, offering county-by-county navigation, historical chronologies of the Dakota Territory, and searchable archives including census records, naturalization indexes, and Civil War veterans lists. Researchers tracing ancestors in South Dakota will find links to birth records, Grand Army of the Republic pension lists, and county maps spanning both historical and present-day boundaries.

The USGenWeb Project offers free, volunteer-maintained genealogy resources organized by U.S. state and county, helping researchers trace their family history using historical records. This particular page provides free mobile-ready website templates for county coordinators looking to redesign their USGenWeb chapter pages.

Donna DeHoyos shares her personal world on this late-1990s Tripod homepage, introducing her four adult children, granddaughter Sophia, and her passion for online bingo. The site includes a family photo album, a links collection covering Avon and earning-money sites, and a heartfelt mention of her battle with emphysema and support for the EFFORTS community.

The TNGenWeb Project bills itself as the single best free online resource for Tennessee genealogy and history research, active since 1996 as part of the broader USGenWeb Project. Visitors can browse county-by-county records, search a cemetery database, submit genealogy queries, and find volunteer opportunities to help expand the project.

GenealogyLinks.net is a massive curated directory of over 50,000 links organized by region, covering genealogy resources for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Researchers can browse birth records, marriage records, census data, and more by country or state, making it an invaluable starting point for tracing family history worldwide.

A comprehensive place index for the Victoria County History, an ongoing century-long project to publish detailed histories of every English county. Researchers into medieval English genealogy, family history, and local history will find this an invaluable reference for navigating over 200 published volumes organized by county and parish.

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.

Johnson County KSGenWeb is a free genealogy and history resource for Johnson County, Kansas, offering hundreds of pages of county records including births, deaths, marriages, court records, census data, biographies, and cemetery gravestone photos. Part of the USGenWeb Project and maintained by volunteers since 1995, this site is an invaluable archive for anyone tracing family roots in the Olathe, Kansas area.

Census Online has been the web's largest directory of links to online census records since 1996, covering federal, state, territorial, and international records across the U.S., Canada, and U.K. Visitors also find handy research tools like birth year calculators, a soundex converter, and links to blank census forms and CD-ROM vendors for serious genealogical research.

The Oklahoma Genealogical Society's First Families of the Twin Territories project honors descendants of pioneer and Native American families who settled in Oklahoma or Indian Territory before statehood on November 16, 1907. Visitors can find membership eligibility requirements, downloadable application forms, and a searchable index to the FFTT Lineage Book celebrating these early territorial families.