Genealogy Websites Recommended by AGS Members
| URL – Link to site | Summary of Highlights | Recommended by |
| www.godfrey.org | Godfrey Memorial Library home site in Connecticut. A $40 annual fee entitles you as a member to full access to all genealogical records, including Census records in the Heritage Quest images, more clear than Ancestry.com images. | Betty Lou Albright |
| www.WhollyGenes.com | Home site for The Master Genealogist (TMG) software package, this site also provides free downloads of useful utilities for TMG, and information on the annual Genealogy Cruise. | Betty Lou Albright |
| animatedatlas.com | Growth of a Nation ten minute movie. Depicts the geographic history of the United States from the beginning of the nation to fifty states. Geographic elements are interactive, as is the timeline. | Pat Eker |
| timeline.html | U.S. History Timeline 1780-2010. Scroll through the years viewing historical highlights layered by politics, territory, president, culture, technology, etc. | Pat Eker |
| triumphnationalism | Timeline: 1800-1860, The Triumph of Nationalism – the Nation dividing: from Nationalism to Sectionalism in the United States, 1815- 1850. National Humanities Center Online Resources. | Pat Eker |
| glorecords.blm.gov | Search original land patents. Karen’s choice for most user friendly website: type in a state and ancestor name to pull up a PDF (photocopy) of his original land grant, and print it out at your desktop. Amazing! – of course, it only works for the Public Land states, not the original colonies. | Karen Jones |
| over-land.com | Overland Trail. Includes maps, emigrant lists, drivers, personalities. Also contains links to other trails, e.g., Santa Fe. | Karen Jones |
| tngenweb.org | Tennessee: County Formation Maps. As part of the Tennessee GenWeb Project, provides the AniMap display of the change of the state’s boundaries and counties from 1777 to present. Our Genealogy Center in the Albuquerque Main Library at 501 Copper, NW, Albuquerque, NM has the entire AniMap set for the states – this gives you the opportunity to try one at your desktop. | Karen Jones |
| familytreedna.com | With HQs in Houston, labs at the University of Arizona extracting results for you, the newly launched National Geographic “Genographic” project, companion ySearch service, family history solutions of the future are with DNA genealogy, today’s cutting edge resource. Try the tutorial. | Rosemary McNerney-Winkler |
| ellisisland.org jewishgen.org stephenmorse.org | These are favorite links to finding your family’s immigration history if you know of clues such as ethnicity, countries of origin, and religious history. Ellis Island immigrants arrived during 1892-1954, and the Stephen Morse site simplifies your search. | Nancy Greenberg |
| USGenNet.org | USGenNet is a web-hosting service (ISP) for qualifying historical-genealogical projects. It lives by donations and provides free web space for genealogist organizations | Charles Barnum |
| homeadviceguide.com | Genealogy Guide providing useful advice regarding family history and ancestry in the United Kingdom. A recommendation from an after-school program for kids. | John Farris |
| homeadvisor.com | House History Research Guide providing lots of information and links for researching the history of a house. A recommendation from a genealogy class for kids. | Michael Wilson |