Favorites

Favorite (free!) Research Web Sites

• FamilySearch web site databases and images

• RootsWeb  databases, family trees, and host of many free projects

• USGenWeb state and county sites

• Find A Grave: user-contributed graves and Internet memorials

• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse: the shortcuts you need to use Ellis Island, Castle Garden, census, BMD records, and more on the web

• Surname Navigator: search multiple search engines at once

• Google Book Search: search and read full-text books for free

• Google web search (after your search terms, add ~genealogy to narrow your focus)

Favorite Witch-Related Sites

Some of these sites have not been updated recently, but you'll find some great primary materials. Some articles were written by students.

• Cornell University Witchcraft Collection

• Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692 (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law)

• A Guide to the Online Primary Sources of the Salem Witch Trials (Margo Burns)

• Salem Village Witchcraft (Danvers Archival Center/Richard Trask)

• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (University of Virginia)

My Memberships

• New England Historic Genealogical Society

• National Genealogical Society

• Association of Professional Genealogists

• Massachusetts Genealogical Council

• Genealogical Society of New Jersey

Blogs I Follow

There are so many to choose from, but here's a good cross-section.

• The Accidental Genealogist (Lisa Alzo)

• Ancestry Blog (Ancestry.com)

• Ancestry Insider (unofficial Ancestry.com and FamilySearch blog)

• Clue Wagon (Kerry Scott)

• Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter (Dick Eastman)

• FamilySearch Blog (FamilySearch.org)

• Findmypast Blog (Findmypast.com)

• Genea-Musings (Randy Seaver)

• The Genetic Genealogist (Blaine Bettinger)

• Jersey Roots Genealogy (Michelle Chubenko)

• The Legal Genealogist (Judy G. Russell)

• Nutfield Genealogy (Heather Wilkinson Rojo)

• Vita-Brevis (New England Historic Genealogical Society)