Welcome!
Welcome to the Genealogy Research Guide!
Your starting point for locating genealogical resources.
General Genealogy Sites
- FamilySearchSearch records — including birth, marriage, death, probate, land, military, and more. Sign in to keep track of your family tree. Provided by the Mormon church.
- Cyndi's List
A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online. - National ArchivesBrowse thousands of genealogy-related materials. Find military service records, immigration records, passport applications, naturalization records, and much more. Official 1940 census website found here.
Resources by State
- Access Genealogy
A large comprehensive directory of free genealogy resources by state. Free access to records. - Public RecordsRead the how-to "State Guides" designed to show you how to obtain public records from state offices.
- The USGenWeb Project
A non-profit organization dedicated to providing free resources for genealogical research in every state of the US.
Search by Culture & Ethnicity
On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
How to Do Everything Genealogy by Call Number: CS16 .M69 2009
Family trees : a history of genealogy in America by Call Number: CS9 .W45 2013
Kinship by Call Number: GN480 .A75 2012
Who Do You Think You Are? by Call Number: CS16 .S646 2010
Online From CCBC Libraries
Family Trees by
Americans' long and restless search for identity through family trees illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as preoccupation with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way to an embrace of diversity in one's forebears, pursued through Ancestry.com and advances in DNA testing.
Call Number: eBook CS9 .W45 2013
Useful tips
Useful Tips
1. Complete an ancestral chart with the information that you have.Use binders to organize your data.
2. Understand the numbering system of an ancestral chart.
3. Interview the oldest members of your family and ask them about their parents, grandparents, and siblings; use a family group sheet to record the information. Don't believe something in another family tree without verifying the information yourself.
4. Search your home for birth and death records, obituary cards, wedding invitations, graduation invitations, etc, and make photocopies and/or scan them.
5. Consider logging into a geneaology web site to keep track of your information.