Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet http://www.cyndislist.com/
A collection of more than 60,000 links that have been organized and cross-referenced in over 120 categories. This site is one of the richest resources for genealogy studies.
FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service http://familysearch.org/
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' (aka Mormon or LDS) genealogical site has a search engine that looks through records of over 35 million names in its Ancestral File, over 360 million names in the International Genealogical Index (Britain, North America, and Finland), and the Family History Library Catalog with records from more than 2 millions rolls of microfilm, as well as thousands of indexed Web sites.
Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state genealogy websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those pages, as well. Run by volunteers.
Glossary of Last Name Meanings and Origins http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/bl_meaning.htm
From About.com, the glossary includes last name meanings and origins, plus research links, common last name spelling variations, and surname search tips for last names of English, Irish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Jewish origin, including the 100 most popular U.S. surnames. You can even submit your name for them to research if it doesn't appear in the glossary.
Public Records http://statearchives.us/public/index.htm
Organized by state, listing of agencies with access to birth, death and marriage records. Source material for this website was compiled mainly from the information published by the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control . Additional source material comes from Ancestry.com
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