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* [http://hathitrust.org/ Hathi Trust Digital Library] is a very large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
* [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiSource] is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by a community. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:IndexPages Collaborative transcriptions] are welcome.
* [http://www.familytreeforum.com Family Tree Forum] is a free genealogy forum; also contains extensive Reference Library with research guides & external links, as well as Surname Database, Timeline, online magazine, Costume Gallery, plus much more!
==US ressourcesresources==* The [http://www.archives.gov/ National US Archives] and [http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ Archival databases].
* [http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives Online libraries and archives] that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.
* The [http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html Global Gateway] - part of the [http://www.loc.gov/ Library of US Congress] - is a multimedia digital library, built with partners from around the world.
* [http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ The Library of US Congress] has one of the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications. The Library's genealogy collection began as early as 1815 with the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library.See also the [http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/index.html National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)]
* [http://www.castlegarden.org/index.php CastleGarden] is a free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year [http://www.ellisisland.org/ Ellis Island] opened.
* [http://www.ellisisland.org/ Ellis Island]: more than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. See also this [http://stevenmorse.com/ellis2/ellis.html form] and the [http://stevenmorse.com/ellis2/ellisgold.html advanced one].
* [http://www.mocavo.com/ Mocavo] aims to index the above resources and provides a search form.
* [http://stevenmorse.com/ Steve Stephen Morse] provides an index of goof links to accesible ressources.
==Australian sources==
====Association/Societies====
* '''A'''ssociation des '''R'''eleveurs '''B'''énévoles pour la '''R'''echerche et l''''E'''ntraide (A.R.B.R.E):
[http://www.marne-archive.com/ Marne County (51)] and related [http://www.meuse-archive.com/ Meuse (55)], [http://hautemarne-archive.com/ Haute-Marne (52)], [http://iledelareunion-archive.com/ Réunion (974)], [http://aisne-archive.com/ Aisne (02)], [http://ardennes-archive.com/ Ardennes (08)], [http://meurthemoselle-archive.com/ Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)], [http://jurarchive.com/ Jura (39)].
* [http://baseaveyron.free.fr/ Aveyron County (12)]
* [http://www.cousain.fr/recherche-ligne.php CousAin] is an index for Ain's Archives (01).
* '''L'''ecture et '''I'''nformatisation des '''S'''ources '''A'''rchivistiques: [http://www.lisa90.org/ Lisa (90)].
* [http://registres18.free.fr/ Registres18] with records on Cher (18).
* [http://nomsdevendee.fr/ Noms de Vendée] provides a surnames index for Vendée (85).
===General repositories===
* Some [http://www.france-genealogie.fr/sections/rechercherbases/base%20de%20donnees locales and nationales bases].
* [http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/france/index.html France Genealogy Links] lists sites that have online genealogy resources, many of them free.
* Portal from the [http://www.culture.fr/eneng/sections/collections/genealogie Genealogie French Ministry of Culture and Communication] with some informations and 9 databases.
* [http://www.genealogie.org/ Genealogie.org] provides some ressources for french related searches in America.
* [http://www.geneawiki.com/index.php/Accueil Geneawiki] is a wiki related to genealogy.
===History===
* [http://elsasserwurtzle.wordpress.com/boite-a-outils-du-genealogiste/telechargement/ Alsace/USA] with [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/emigrants-du-68-aux-usa-entre-1837-1870.pdf list of emigration from Alsace to USA] or [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/demandes-de-passeport-1793-1818.pdf passports from 1793 to 1818]. See also the [http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP44 US National Archives] and [http://loutreforet-agawe.pagesperso-orange.fr/Emigration%20Alsace%20USA.html Emigration from North of Alsace to USA].
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/dossiers/html/dossiers/FranceAmerique/en/D1/Fr1.htm America/France] is a bilingual digital library made available by the ''Bibliothèque nationale de France'' in partnership with the Library of Congress ''the great library of Washington''. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century.
* [http://www.ancestramil.fr/ Ancestramil] provides useful informations about ancestors who were soldiers during their lifetime.
* [http://www.archivesportaleurope.eu Archives Portal Europe] provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent. Related to [http://www.apenet.eu APEnet (Archives Portal Europe)]
* [http://www.archivescanadafrance.org/english/accueil_en.html Canada/France] is a collaboration between Canada and France Archives.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europeana Europeana] is more what could be an european library using [[OCR]] and open source engine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene Lucene]. Hungary, Portugal and France were active. Curently, seems to be a real European project. See also [https://github.com/europeana europeana's open projects].* [http://frda.stanford.edu/en/ap French Revolution Digital Archive] is a chronologically-ordered edited collection of sources on the French Revolution.
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Gallica] is the French numerical librarie with open specifications. Sounds, pictures, text are free of charges. Like [http://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana], Gallica use [[OCR]] (optical character recognition) for search.
* [http://www.louisiane.culture.fr/en/som.html Louisiana/France].
* [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/ Mémoire des hommes] gives the public access to databases created from the digitalization and indexation of biographical records preserved in the services of the ministry of defence. It also aims to honour the memory of those who took part in contemporary wars and sometimes gave their lives for their country.
* For Russian and Armenian migrations, you can contact the [http://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/ <b>O</b>ffice <b>F</b>rançais de <b>P</b>rotection des <b>R</b>éfugiés et <b>A</b>patrides].
* [http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/leprdh.htm PRDH ('''P'''rogramme de '''R'''echerche en '''D'''émographie '''H'''istorique : The Research Program in Historical Demography)] at the Université de Montréal undertook the exhaustive reconstruction of the population of Quebec from the beginnings of French colonization in the seventeenth century.
* [http://www.stehelene.org/php/accueil.php?lang=en Medals of Saint-Hélèna] aims to create a database that will be of interest both to genealogists and historians. This work is especially important as the archives held by the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour was destroyed in Paris in 1871. The Saint Helena medal, created in 1857 by Napoleon III, was awarded to the 405,000 soldiers still living in 1857, who had fought with Napoleon I during the 1792-1815 wars.
* [http://www.genealogienetz.de/ Genealogienetz.de] is a portal for genealogy in Germany. There you can find German genealogy-wiki, local online heritage books, online databases, address books and many more.
* [http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche.html Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge] is registering the German war dead abroad and to ensuring that it is updated and monitored.
* Die [http://beta.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/ Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek] (beta) offers everyone unrestricted access to Germany’s cultural and scientific heritage, that is, access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany.
===Online search===
