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Search Engines:

http://www.google.com/
Google

Libraries, Archives, Collections:

http://www.tulsalibrary.org
Tulsa’s City-County Library

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
Family History Library Catalog

http://www.loc.gov
Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc
NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections)

http://www.okhistory.org
Oklahoma Historical Society

http://libraries.ou.edu/depts/westhistory/
University of Oklahoma’s Western History Collection

http://www.ark-ives.com/
Arkansas Historical Commission

http://www.kshs.org/library/illpoli.htm
Kansas State Historical Society's list of materials available through interlibrary loan

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/
Library of Virginia web site

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/library_book_loan_collection
National Genealogical Society Interlibrary Loan; materials at the St. Louis County Library

http://www.dar.org/library/onlinlib.cfm
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

http://www.libraryspot.com/
LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online ..

http://www.libraryspot.com/genealogy.htm
Genealogy-LibrarySpot.com

http://www.libdex.com
Index to 18,000 Libraries

Societies, Organizations:

Instruction:

http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/index.html
Skillbuilding from OnBoard, the journal of the Board For Certification of Genealogists

http://rwguide.rootsweb.com
RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees

http://www.genealogy.com/genehelp.html
Genealogy Learning Center

http://www.tulsalibrary.org/genealogy/rolls-text.php
Using the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes

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Articles:

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/main.htm
Ancestry's Library

http://www.jcrogers.com/reunions/planning.htm
"Family Reunions The Living Legacy," by Jeannie Rogers

http://www.genealogy.com/88_donna.html
"They Changed Our Name at Ellis Island," by Donna Przecha

http://blog.eogn.com/
A blog of articles on genealogy by Dick Eastman

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Mailing List Sign-ups:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html
Genealogy Resources on the Internet, to find mailing lists

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter.asp
Family Tree Magazine's free online newsletter

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Major Sites and Forums

Ancestry, Inc.

RootsWeb

Genealogy.com

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
Family Tree Magazine’s search engines, downloadable forms, and articles

http://www.familysearch.org/
FamilySearch (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Includes the Social Security Death Index, Research Guidance, Research Helps, Family History Library Catalog, as well as searchable databases

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Resources, Tools:

http://www.topozone.com/
Topographic maps

http://www.mapquest.com/
MapQuest

http://jrshelby.com/hcl/
County boundary changes

http://www.eogen.com/
Encyclopedia of Genealogy

http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Translator

http://www.adobe.com/downloads
To get Adobe Reader

http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi
RootsWeb Town Search 1.0

http://www.footnote.com/
Footnote.com, a subscription site with digital copies of important documents; some documents free

http://www.vitalrec.com
Vital Records

http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/
Atlas des Deutschen Reichs (Atlas of the German Empire)

http://www.anywho.com
Anywho.com (search for telephone listings)

http://www.switchboard.com
Switchboard.com (search for telephone listings)

http://www.people.yahoo.com
Yahoo!'s People Finder

http://www.askjeeves.com
Ask Jeeves

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html
Illinois State-wide Marriage Index 1763-1900 and indexes to other databases

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/ 
Kansas State Library - Search Blue Skyways

Government Sites:

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
Bureau of Land Management - Search Land Patents at this Government Land Office site

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form
USGS Mapping Information:  Geographic Names Information System

http://tiger.census.gov
U.S. Census Bureau Mapping and Cartographic Service

http://www.archives.gov
National Archives Home Page

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html
Search Archival Research Catalog

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/index.html
Genealogy Research

http://www.archives.gov/facilities/tx/fort_worth.html
NARA’s Southwest Region [Fort Worth]

http://1930census.archives.gov/beginSearch.asp
NARA 1930 Census Microfilm Locator

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm
Where to Write for Vital Records, National Center for Health Statistics

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Additional sites of interest:

http://www.ellisisland.org/
Ellis Island

http://www.kbyu.byu.edu/ancestors.html
Ancestors (PBS series)(find free genealogy forms)

http://www.finalthoughts.com/
final thoughts

http://www.nativepress.com/FreeInfo/US%20Tribal%20Groups.htm
Modern US Tribes

http://geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hamrick.com%2Fnames%2Findex.html
Distribution of Names in 1850, 1880, 1920 or 1990

http://www.uscitydirectories.com/co/denver.htm
City Directories - Denver, Colorado

http://www.cherokee.org/
Official Site of the Cherokee Nation based in Oklahoma

http://www.CyndisList.com/myths.htm
Cyndi's List - Myths, Hoaxes & Scams

http://www.surnameweb.org
One-Name Study Pages

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
United States Historical Census Data

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Volunteer Projects:

http://www.usgenweb.org/
The USGenWeb Project - Home Page

http://www.usgenweb.com/thestates.html
The USGenWeb Project - Links to States

http://www.worldgenweb.org/
World GenWeb

http://www.genuki.org.uk/
GENUKI (UK & Ireland Genealogy)

http://raogk.rootsweb.com/
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

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Databases:

http://www.onegreatfamily.com/
One Great Family

http://www.geneanet.com/
GENEANET

http://www.gencircles.com/
GenCircles

http://www.mytrees.com
MyTrees.com (Kindred Konnection)

http://www.classmates.com/
High school contacts

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About genealogy software:

http://www.mumford.ca/reportcard/index.htm
Genealogical Software Report Card

http://www.familytreemaker.com/
Family Tree Maker

http://www.leisterpro.com/
Leister Productions (Reunion for Macintosh)

http://www.whollygenes.com/
Wholly Genes Software (The Master Genealogist)

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Portals (Lots of Links) :

http://www.cyndislist.com/
Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthi.htm
International Genealogy Sleuth

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Bibliography

Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer. Long-Distance Genealogy. Researching Your Family History From Home (Cincinnati, OH: Betterway Books, 2000)

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