Global Databases

Large Databases

Alta Vista Translation Aid   can translate text for you: English to French, German, Portugese, Italian, Spanish and French, German, Portugese, Italian, Spanish to English. Great free online service!
Ancestry.com over 5 billion names in this; the largest retail database on the net. A wealth of information at this site, some by paid membership, some for free.
Ancestry World Tree search 300 million names in family trees submitted by users
Barbados - Slave Registers
Bible Genealogy and Ancient History Genealogy of the Bible that includes: individual details, Bible cross reference, Hebrew meanings of names, lineages, dates, maps, timeline, contemporaries and Ancient dynastic history of Mesopotamia and Egypt
CousinConnect.com message board database; read and post queries - search surnames at this well presented site
Cyndi's List Genealogy Megasite
Databases at World Vital Records WVR is a major genealogy website with databases containing over 900 million names
Distant Cousin.com city directories, surname and other mainly US databases
Electoral Roll Search-UK search over 200 million people in 2002-2008 UK Electoral Rolls
FamilySearch.org Genealogy Megasite - a database of over 400 million names by Mormon Church(Latter Day Saints)
FamilyTreeSearcher enter your ancestor information just once to search family trees at multiple online genealogy databases
FreeSurnameSearch.com world wide directory of free genealogy databases and record transcriptions
Genuki largest collection of genealogy information on the net for UK & Ireland
GenWed links to free marriage records online
Guild of One Name Studies database of UK surnames.
Genealogy Websites at Rootsweb RootsWeb houses tens of thousands of genealogy websites
Google don't overlook this search engine to help you find many genealogy sites that can yield family history records
International list of Libraries and Archives
Jewish Gen Jewish Genealogy
Jewish Genealogy Links
Immigration Records at World Vital Records
Kindred Trails worldwide genealogy resources

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Map Machine by National geographic; check out any country in the world
Mennonite Genealogical Resources
Ancestry.com Recently Added Databases Ancestry.com adds hundreds of thousands of names in new databases every week
Newspaper Obituaries On The Web A directory of over 6 million free newspaper obituaries on the internet
Obituaries Daily Times over 9 million obituaries, hosted by Rootsweb
Obituary Central an obituary database and headquarters for finding obituaries
OliveTreeGenealogy many US, Canadian records including ships passenger lists
One World Tree over 100 million names-family trees submitted by users
Roots Dictionary of Genealogy & Archaic Terms
Rootsweb The oldest and largest FREE genealogy site - over 60,000 pages
Rootsearch free genealogy portal of over 7,000 links
Search Obituary Daily Times...names from newspaper obits, mainly USA, Canada, but also international
World Family Tree Database 190,000 family trees referencing 130 million individuals
World Vital Records huge 800 million name database
World GenWeb Genealogy Megasite over 60,000 pages of links
Worldwide Maps
Vitalrec.com everything you need to know about Vital records in the US

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Cemeteries

Click here for links to cemeteries of more than 4,000,000 people from United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Censuses

Click here for links to websites we reviewed totalling over 6,500 censuses for USA, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia.

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Forums, Volunteer and Surname Lists

Rootsweb Message Boards read and post messages to 1000s of online forums
Surnames Message Board enter your surnames and search millions of messages at this message board database

Military

US Civil War Rosters
Commonwealth War Graves Commission searchable database of 1.7 million persons who died in wars from 1914-1948 and later (UK, Canada, Australia & NZ)
Land Forces and Corps of the Britain and the Commonwealth
War Memorials

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Ships Passenger Lists

We reviewed links to websites totalling over 4,200 passenger lists complete with passengers names for UK & Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand from 1700s to 1890s.

Telephone and Email Directories

BigFoot Email Search
European Telephone Directoryover 120 million residents from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom
White & Yellow Pages Europe
World Telephone Directories
Telephone Directories by Country...White Pages, Yellow Pages online for over 100 countries
Who Where Internet Search...search names listed with email address directory