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* [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://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://caom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/sdx/pl/ Archives d'outre-mer] is a repository with most documents related to olds colonies. Every country where French government was present (all continent) are listed. You may find some maps, images, data for your genealogical search.
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* [http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/fr/index.html Archives d'outre-mer] is a repository with most documents related to olds colonies. Every country where French government was present (all continent) are listed. You may find some maps, images, data for your genealogical search.
 
* [http://www.archivescanadafrance.org/english/accueil_en.html Canada/France] is a collaboration between Canada and France Archives.
 
* [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 was active. Curently, seems to be a real European project.
 
* [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 was active. Curently, seems to be a real European project.

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This page contains resources and internet sites that may be of interest to genealogy enthusiasts. If you have a site you would like to add, please do so.

Genealogy organizations

  • Campbelltown District Family History Society Inc (NSW, Australia). We are a community organisation born out of the need to help others in our area learn how to do their genealogical research. We also raise money to help provide more resources in the local library's Family History Room.
  • Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. This is an informal group of Genealogists who voluntarily assist others by doing look ups of U.K. records we have collected over the years. They call themselves "online parish clerks" because the major resources they use are the (ecclesiastical) parish records of births, deaths and marriages. The group concentrates on Cornwall.

Family information sites

  • Ann Forbes (First Fleet Convict) and Descendants. This site is for Ann Forbes' descendants. Ann was a First Fleet Convict who arrived in Australia on the 'Prince of Wales' in 1788. There are now many thousands of descendants and quite a lot of us are very interested in her life, times and family.
  • Braiding/Rhodes. This website covers the Braiding Family that came from the Isle of Wight in England to Australia in the 1800's and the Rhodes Family that came from Kent in England to Australia around the early 1880's.

General information sites

  • FamilySearch.org is one of the main international sites for genealogy. It is operated by the CJCLDS. (beta form)
  • GENUKI presents a large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.
  • RootsWeb is the Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogical community.
  • Wikipedia is a useful resource for sourcing place names and their histories. Text, maps and related images are available under the GNU Free Documentation License or a similar, freely distributable licence.
  • Cyndi's List Over a quarter of a million genealogy related links.
  • Rodovid.org is a MediaWiki-based genealogy site.
  • WeRelate.org is a free wiki-based genealogy site covering people, families, places, sources, etc.
  • Genealogy Wikia or "Familypedia" is a free wiki-based genealogy site covering individuals, families, places, sources, etc; includes substantial copying of Wikipedia material about genealogy and places and people, then enhancing it.
  • Internet Archive purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
  • ftp genealogy is an old repository with software and other files related to genealogy.

US ressources

  • 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 Global Gateway - part of the Library of US Congress - is a multimedia digital library, built with partners from around the world.
  • 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.
  • CastleGarden is a free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.
  • 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.

Australian sources

  • Public Record Office Victoria: this site provides a wide range of services to enable researchers to access the public records of Victoria. Links to immigration and emmigration records such as the Index to Registers of Assisted British Immigrants 1839-1871 and Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand Ports 1852-1923
  • Cameron genealogies: this website celebrates those who descend from the Clan of the name of Cameron, in Australia.
  • Cemeteries of S.W. Victoria: a useful collection of cemetery records. Keep in mind that before 1851, Victoria did not exist and the area was known as New South Wales.
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission: the Debt of Honour Register is the Commission's database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars... The register can also be searched for details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War.
  • First Fleet is a searchable database from the University of Wollongong. A text listing of the first three fleets is also available.
  • Australian Cemetery Geolocations A list of more than 3000 Australian cemeteries, with co-ordinates and a map to help locate each one.

French resources

Online search

  • Bigenet lists available certificates provided by some genealogical societies/associations.
  • GeneaBank is a data sharing system between genealogical societies: in addition to a secured access to data records, GeneaBank offers an exchange system of points that allows any member of any participating society to browse anyone of the records that are provided by any society. This exchange system is only dedicated to manage possible discreapancies between consummating societies and providing societies.
  • Public Online archives and ressources. Also access by type of search and Provinces/Counties or cities.
  • Nationales Archives.

Others databases

Collaborative

  • Didier OTT database with more than 200 000 individuals on East France.
  • Favrejhas is a genealogical database with more than 500 000 individuals.
  • Roglo is a database with around 3 500 000 individuals.

Association/Societies

General repositories

History

  • 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.
  • Archives d'outre-mer is a repository with most documents related to olds colonies. Every country where French government was present (all continent) are listed. You may find some maps, images, data for your genealogical search.
  • Canada/France is a collaboration between Canada and France Archives.
  • Europeana is more what could be an european library using OCR and open source engine Lucene. Hungary, Portugal and France was active. Curently, seems to be a real European project.
  • Gallica is the French numerical librarie with open specifications. Sounds, pictures, text are free of charges. Like Europeana, Gallica use OCR (optical character recognition) for search.
  • Louisiana/France.
  • 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.
  • 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.

German information sites

  • Genealogienetz.de is a portal for genealogy in Germany. Here you can find German genealogy-wiki, lokal online heritage books, online databases, adress books and many more.