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)
Some of these sites have not been updated recently, but you'll find some great primary materials. Some articles were written by students.
- Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692 (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law)
- Salem Village Witchcraft (Danvers Archival Center/Richard Trask)
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (University of Virginia)
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)
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