Links
The internet sites listed below are maintained by organizations outside the California State Library. These sites can be convenient sources of information that supplement the main collections of the State Library and further its mission to serve the information needs of all California citizens. In determining whether a website should be included as a link, we consider the following factors: availability of free and current content, accuracy, authority, currency, unique information offerings, clarity, unbiased writing, and representation of many / multiple areas of interest. The California State Library bears no responsibility for the accuracy or the content of external sites. Please contact the external site's administrator for any questions regarding these sites.By Culture
- Africa Map (Harvard University)
- African American Cemeteries
- African American Griots Project (Rootsweb)
- African Americans in Ohio (Ohio Historical Society)
- AfriGeneas
- Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Amistad Research Center
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
- Avery Research Center (College of Charleston)
- BlackPast – Online Reference Guide
- California Slavery Era Insurance Registry
- Caribbean Surname Index (CarSurDex)
- Digital Library on American Slavery (UNC Greensboro)
- Free African Americans
- Free People of Color in Louisiana (Louisiana State University)
- Freedom Suits Case Files – St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project
- Freedmen's Bureau Online
- Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau
- Discover Freedmen (FamilySearch)
- Freedom's Journal – First African American owned newspaper
- Advertisement Database – Geography of Slavery
- Gilder Lehrman Center
- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
- Illinois Servitude and Emancipation
- Illinois Slavery Insurance Database
- Lowcountry Africana (SC, FL, GA)
- National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Network to Freedom – Underground Rail Road (National Park Service)
- Patriots of Color – Revolutionary War Veterans
- Pinterest – African American Genealogy
- Pratt Library – African American Collection (Baltimore)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Slave Records Bibliography (State Library of North Carolina)
- South Carolina – African American Resources
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Texas – African American Cemeteries Database
- U.S. Colored Troops in Civil War
- Unknown No Longer – Virginia Slave Names
- Virginia Runaways
- Virginia – African American History Sites
- Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
- Anglo-Burmese Library
- Asian American Studies Collection (UC Berkeley)
- Bangladesh Directorate of Archives and Libraries
- British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia
- Burmese Collection (National Library of Australia)
- Cambodian Collection (National Library of Australia)
- Center for Indigenous Family History Studies (Australia)
- Chinese Centre Library – Oxford University
- Chinese Family History Group
- Chinese Historical Society
- Chinese Research Helps
- CrossAsia
- Digital Himalaya Maps – Nepal
- East Asian Digital Library (Princeton)
- East Asian Library (UC Berkeley)
- East India Register & Directory (Sutro Catalog)
- Families in British India Society
- Filipinas Heritage Museum (Ayala Museum)
- Filipino American National Historical Society
- Filipinos WWI Military Service
- Finding Your Aboriginal History (Government of South Australia)
- Global Gazetteer (Find a town)
- Hirasaki National Resource Center
- India Civil Registration (French National Archives)
- India Office Family History Search
- Indian Cemeteries
- Japanese American Archival Collection
- Japanese American Case Files
- Japanese American National Museum
- Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
- Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
- Anglo-Burmese Library
- Asian American Studies Collection (UC Berkeley)
- Bangladesh Directorate of Archives and Libraries
- British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia
- Burmese Collection (National Library of Australia)
- Cambodian Collection (National Library of Australia)
- Center for Indigenous Family History Studies (Australia)
- Chinese Centre Library – Oxford University
- Chinese Family History Group
- Chinese Historical Society
- Chinese Research Helps
- CrossAsia
- Digital Himalaya Maps – Nepal
- East Asian Digital Library (Princeton)
- East Asian Library (UC Berkeley)
- East India Register & Directory (Sutro Catalog)
- Families in British India Society
- Filipinas Heritage Museum (Ayala Museum)
- Filipino American National Historical Society
- Filipinos WWI Military Service
- Finding Your Aboriginal History (Government of South Australia)
- Global Gazetteer (Find a town)
- Hirasaki National Resource Center
- India Civil Registration (French National Archives)
- India Office Family History Search
- Indian Cemeteries
- Japanese American Archival Collection
- Japanese American Case Files
- Japanese American National Museum
- Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
- Archivo Nacional de la Nacion – Uruguay
- Biblioteca Jose Marti – Cuba
- Brazilian Wills and Probates (Museu Republicano de Itu)
- British Guiana Colonists
- British Presence in Southern Patagonia
- Chilean Genealogy Compilation (A to Z)
- CubaGenWeb
- Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
- EcuadorGen
- El Salvador National Library
- Familias Argentinas
- FamilySearch (Search by state or country name)
- GenArgentina
- Genealogia Dominicana
- Genealogies (Brazil)
- Genealogy Association of Haiti
- Genealogical Society of Hispanic America
- Germans to Brazil
- Archivo Nacional de la Nacion – Uruguay
- Biblioteca Jose Marti – Cuba
- Brazilian Wills and Probates (Museu Republicano de Itu)
- British Guiana Colonists
- British Presence in Southern Patagonia
- Chilean Genealogy Compilation (A to Z)
- CubaGenWeb
- Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
- EcuadorGen
- El Salvador National Library
- Familias Argentinas
- FamilySearch (Search by state or country name)
- GenArgentina
- Genealogia Dominicana
- Genealogies (Brazil)
- Genealogy Association of Haiti
- Genealogical Society of Hispanic America
- Germans to Brazil
- American Jewish Archives
- American Jewish Historical Society
- Avotaynu Online
- Early New York Synagogue Archives
- Gesher Galicia Database
- Hohenems Genealogy
- Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
- Irish Jewish Roots
- Jewish Gen
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
- Jewish Los Angeles (UCLA Library)
- Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia
- Jewish Records Indexing (Poland)
- Leo Baeck Institute
- Lithuanian-Jewish Special Interest Group
- Montefiore Censuses
- Routes to Roots Foundation
- Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
- Sephardic Ancestry
- Southern Jewish Historical Society
- Synagogue Scribes
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Upper Midwest Jewish Archives (University of Minnesota)
- Washington State Jewish Archives
- Yad Vasham Archives
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group (Poland)
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- American Indian Genealogy (Family Search)
- American Indian Records in the National Archives
- Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (Marquette University)
- California Indian Culture and Heritage (State Parks)
- California Indians Pre-contact Tribal Territories map
- Calisphere
- Cherokee Heritage Documentation Center
- Cherokee Nation (Language Resources)
- Doris Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History (University of Oklahoma)
- Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (Tribal Map)
- Guide to Tracing Native American Heritage (NARA)
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation
- Indians of California (Family Search)
- Makali'I - Finding Your Roots
- National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) - Tracing Native Ancestry
- Native Hawaiian Genealogy Site
- Native American Cemeteries
- Native American Medal of Honor Recipients (U.S. Army)
- Native American Studies Collection (UC Berkeley)
- Native Hawaiian Information Sources
- Native Languages of the Americas
- National Archives – Fort Worth, TX
- New Mexico Commission of Public Records
- Oklahoma Historical Society
- Seminole Nation
- Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
- Southeastern Native American Documents (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Tracing Native American Family Roots (National Indian Law Library)
- Treaties by Tribe Name (Oklahoma State University)
- Treaties by Tribe Name - Search feature
- Treaties between the United States and Native Americans (Yale University)
- Wyandot Tribal Roll (1867)
By Subject
- African Burial Ground National Monument
- American Battle Monuments Commission
- American-French Genealogical Society
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Billion Graves
- British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid
- Cemetery Scribes
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The Digital Cemetery
- Find-a-Grave
- Forgotten Ashes
- German War Casualties Abroad
- Indian Cemeteries (India)
- Interment.net
- Jewish Gen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
- Names in Stone
- National Cemetery Administration
- National Park Service Cemeteries
- National Veteran's Gravesite Locator
- Prisoner of War Cemeteries within the U.S.
- Rohwer Relocation Center Cemetery
- Tombstone Transcription Project
- A Very Grave Matter
- CSL Chart Creator
(Create your own Pedigree Chart and Family Group Sheets) - Age Calculator (Cornell University)
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (Newberry Library)
- Ancestor Search Birthday Calculator
- Evernote (Cross-platform note taking)
- Foreign Alphabets (Steve Morse One-Step)
- Foreign Languages: Translations and Translators
- Genealogy Research Forms (FamilySearch)
- How to Get Started Guide (NARA)
- Interactive Map of U.S. State Formation History
- Local History and Genealogy Reference Service (Library of Congress)
- Map Warper (NY Public Library)
- Name Thesaurus (Image Partners Limited – UK)
- Paleography: Reading old handwriting
(UK National Archives) - Perpetual Calendar (One-Step by Stephen Morse)
- Research Wiki (FamilySearch)
- Soundex Calculator (One-Step by Stephen Morse)
- U.S. Newspaper Directory (Library of Congress)
- WorldCat
Please consult with your community's librarian for local access to online commercial newspaper databases (Proquest, Gale-Cengage, Readex, etc.) as well as newspapers available on microfilm.
- American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
- Australia Passenger Indexes
- Bremen, Germany Passenger Lists
- California - Panama Passenger Lists
- Castle Garden
- CubaGen
- Ellis Island
- Entrada de Pasajeros / Argentina Passenger Lists
- Le Havre, France Passenger Lists
- Gjenvick Archives
- Hawaii Passenger Lists
- Immigrant Ancestors Project (BYU)
- Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild
- Immigration to the U.S. (Harvard)
- Indianola, Texas Immigrant Database
- International Ship Passenger Lists
- Italian Immigrants
- Maine Passenger Lists
- Maritime Heritage Project
- Nanaimo Family History Society (Canada)
- National Archives (NARA) Immigration Databases
- New Orleans Immigration
- Olive Tree Genealogy
- Orleans, Louisiana Parish Passenger Lists
- Steve Morse
- The Ships List
- Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
- U.S. Ports of Arrival & Passenger Lists
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
- Bureau of Land Management/GLO
- California Patents (Vredenburgh.org)
- California State Genealogical Alliance - Land records
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Geographic Name Search
- Glen McLaughlin Collection (Stanford University)
- Global Gazetteer
- Historic MapWorks
- History Geo
- Allen County Public Library
- Ancient Faces
- Archive Grid
- Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley)
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Books We Own
- Cincinnati Public Library – Digital Collections
- Digital Public Library
- Digital Scriptorium (UC Berkeley)
- E-History (Ohio State University)
- Family Search (Search>Books)
- Godfrey Memorial Library
- Google Books
- Harvard University – Open Collections
- Hathitrust Digital Library
- Huntington Library
- International Centre for Archival Research (ICARUS)
- Internet Archive
- JStor
- Library of Congress
- Library of Virginia
- Mid-Continent Public Library
- Mountain West Digital Library
- National Archives (NARA)
- NARA – How to Get Started Guide
- NARA – Items Digitized by Partners
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
- New England Historical & Genealogical Society
- New York Public Library
- Newberry Library
- Online Archive of California
- Project Muse
- Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library
- Smithsonian Archives and Libraries
- Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
- Stanford University – Image Gallery
- U.S. Presidential Libraries
- UC History Digital Archives
- WorldCat
- U.S. Military Records Overview (Family Search)
- 18th Century
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19th Century
War of 1812
Mexican American War
Civil War
Spanish-American War
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20th Century
WWI
Spanish Civil War
WWII
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Korean
Vietnam
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MidEast
Please consult with your community's public librarian for local access to online commercial newspaper databases (Proquest, Gale-Cengage, Readex, etc.) as well as microfilmed newspapers.