Family Tree Writer: Sherry’s Research Toolbox

Sherry’s Research Toolbox

Thanks to Thomas MacEntee (www.Geneabloggers.com and Geneablogger’s Blog Talk Radio) and his Webinar “Building a Research Toolbox,” (not an affiliate link) I’m building my own research toolbox.

Why it never occurred to me before to put these on-line, I don’t know, but it looks like a great plan! It will be slow going for awhile, as I re-find and add my favorite places to research, but hopefully, I’ll never wonder where I lost that link I was going to go back to!

Thanks, Thomas!

Ancestry.com

http://www.ancestry.com/
Census, books, soldiers records, death records, and much, much more!

African-American Research Resources

Cyndi’s List – African American Resources
http://www.cyndislist.com/african.htm

About Our Freedom
http://www.aboutourfreedom.com/

GenJourney
http://genjourney.wordpress.com/

Mississippi to Africa – Melvin J. Collier
http://www.mississippitoafrica.com/

Education

Legacy Family Tree Webinars
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/webinars.asp
Nearly every week, Legacy Family Tree offers FREE webinars with the latest and greatest how-to info! Set your cell phone to remind you, and make it a don’t miss opportunity!

GeneaWebinars.com
http://blog.geneawebinars.com/
Woo Hoo! A place to go and find out all the great learning opportunities that are coming up on Webinars! I Love it!

Family Tree Software

There are several great software packages that can help you keep track of your growing family tree, document your resources, and determine the

Family Tree Maker
http://www.familytreemaker.com/
Very popular and easy to use software. On-line tutorials to get you up and running.

Legacy Family Tree
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/
Reasonable, easy-to-use and powerful software! Free download lets you check it out. On-line training makes it easy to get started and learn how to do all the stuff you always wish you knew how to do.

Roots Magic
http://www.rootsmagic.com/
Roots Magic has a free family tree software download that lets you decide whether or not you like the program, and the full version is very reasonable, too. On-line tutorials to get you up and running.

FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS/WEBSITES

The Corson/Colson Family History Association
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ccfha/index.html

GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES

Illinois State Gen Soc
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilsgs/

Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/kcgs/

Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society
http://www.ksschgs.com

GOOGLE

Google that Old Occupation is a “Genealogy Tip of the Day” blog post written by Michael John Neill at www.GenealogyTipoftheDay.blogspot.com. It’s great advice, so I’m adding it into my Research Toolbox.

Here is Michael’s “Genealogy Tip of the Day” – Google that Old Occupation post.

Can’t find anything on an occupation? Consider typing it into Google Books-http://books.google.com. You may discover more than you realized. Also consider typing it into Google Images http://images.google.com

CONNECTICUT
My Ninth great-grandfather and grandmother, George and Anna Stocking, traveled with Thomas Hooker’s Puritan group to Connecticut and were some of the town of Hartford, CT founders. Someday, I hope to travel there, and so am posting this link hoping to get to see some of the country someday, and meet my distant cousins who still live in the area!

Connecticut Farm Map
A Guide to Connecticut’s Agricultural Destinations
http://www.ctfarms.uconn.edu/

ILLINOIS

My family lived in Illinois, and in some of the same areas as Thomas MacEntee’s family, so many (all for right now) of the links below I copied from Thomas’ website, Destination Austin Family‘s Toolbox.

ALPL
http://www.alplm.org/library/library.html
The Abraham Lincoln Public Library & Museum

Diigo Illinois Genealogy
http://groups.diigo.com/group/illinois-genealogy

Illinois State Archives
http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/archives.html

Illinois State Gen Soc
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilsgs/

Illinois State Historical Society
http://www.historyillinois.org/

Illinois State Library
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/

Historic Maps in Sangamon County, Illinois
http://www.davidrumsey.com/search?term=Sangamon+County%2C+Illinois
IRAD
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/iradhome.html

Newberry Library
http://www.newberry.org