Genealogy: Online Resources

Federal Census records have been digitized by several of NARA's partners, and will eventually be available as well through the National Archives Catalog. Click on a Census year to start your search.

Among the billions of historical records housed at the National Archives throughout the country, researchers can find information relating to immigrants from the late 1700s through the early 2000s. The National Archives preserves and makes available documents created by Federal agencies in the course of their daily business.

The National Archives holds Federal military service records from the Revolutionary War to 1912 in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Military service records from WWI - present are held in the National Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC), in St. Louis, Missouri. See details of holdings. Post-WWI regimental and unit records are primarily held at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.

Third largest genealogy library in the U.S. with programs supporting genealogical research, genealogy community networking, and community oral history preservation. 

The Local History & Genealogy Department offers open access to unique collections that document and illuminate our shared history. Whether you’re interested in the history of your family, your home, your neighborhood, a local business or organization, or the wider community, we’ve got resources and services to help you!

Largest genealogy library system in the world. Helps researchers discover their family’s history through its website, mobile apps, and in-person services and programs at more than 5,000 local and affiliate family history centers. 

Non-profit lineage society that maintains a library, archives, and museum focused on lineage research, American heritage, social history, and pre-industrial material culture. 

The Genealogical Research Service is an hourly-based search of the various sources available within the SAR Genealogical Research Library. The sources available may include, but are not limited to, SAR applications, documentation records, family Bible records, online services, and other genealogical societies.

The TNGenWeb Project has been dedicated to its mission of providing the single best on-line source for Tennessee family and local history since July, 1996. A network of volunteers work to provide researchers with genealogical and historical content for each of Tennessee's 95 current counties plus defunct counties and special interest topics.

Find loved ones in a cemetery by name or location.

Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world.

A collection of mostly smaller cemeteries with burial indexes; some are outside of the U.S

The "Gravestone Photo Project" (or GPP) began in 2003 as a modest single county gravestone photo archive. It has grown to includes millions of searchable gravstone photos within dozens of states.

This project is about remembering our dead and preserving our history.

Maintains database of 65 million searchable records on the immigrant experience in America. Provides genealogy services, and supports the collection of immigrant stories.

From U.S. passenger lists to Holocaust records, search all Jewish family history records on Ancestry at once.

Now full members of AmericanAncestors.org can search the world's largest online database of authenticated Mayflower passenger genealogies to discover and research their Mayflower ancestry!

From the century of immigration, through to the modern era, Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history. Explore the rise and fall of the New Zealand Company, discover British, European and Asian migration and investigate unique primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers supplemented by carefully compiled teaching and research aids.

Assists visitors in learning the basics of researching African American genealogy through virtual genealogy research sessions. The center also hosts public programs, lectures, and workshops on African American genealogy and family history.

Resource created by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Includes research tips on conducting research, information on the tribal enrollment process, and links to the Tribal Leaders Directory to federally recognized tribes.

A fee-for-service program that provides researchers with access to historical immigration and naturalization records of deceased immigrants.

The Congregational Library & Archives' obituary database indexes obituaries for over 30,000 Congregational Christian ministers and missionaries appearing in a range of Congregational publications. The obituaries are drawn from over four centuries (1600 to the present day), with the majority being from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Search for a fallen law enforcement officer on the ODMP.

The U. S. Fire Administration tracks and collects information on the causes of on-duty firefighter fatalities that occur in the United States.

The Archives maintains an index of obituaries that have appeared in the Methodist Conference newspaper, the Southern Christian Advocate, since its inception in 1837, and in its successor newspaper, the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate. The Advocate covered South Carolina and Georgia until about 1887, and the southern part of North Carolina until about 1870.

Native American Obituary Project organized by the Family History Center of Farmington, New Mexico. The project covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.

The Obituary Database indexes obituaries appearing in the Boston Evening Transcript (BET), Boston Globe (BG), and the Boston Herald/Herald American (BH) from 1932–1941 and 1953–2010.

The New York Times obituaries and death notices

Search for obituaries of Adventist figures

Name index and images of the deceased physician card file from the American Medical Association (AMA), which are physician biographic records of decedent records from 1864 to 1968.