Attention: This page is a work in progress! I add to it constantly and don’t always have things in a sensible order. Many of these websites offer free access. Please feel free to leave comments/recommendations via the comment box below. If you find a bad link, please let me know. Thank you.
Automobile
Early American Automobiles – lots of great images, starting from the 1890s.
Calculators & Converters
Historical Currency Converter – find out what that cost way back then in today’s currency.
Date Calculator – Want to know what day of the week June 17, 1556, was? Then this is the tool for you!
What Was There website – this was an idea I had myself, but these guys beat me to it. Interesting idea, but I think it will take a while to catch on.
Cousin Calculator, Relationship Chart, and Relationship Terms – handy for figuring out how you are related to distant relatives and even not-so-distant ones!
Measuring Worth.com
American History Timeline
Colonial Currency – interesting site from Notre Dame University. Shows examples of currency by state. Check out Elizabeth, NJ, currency from 1790.
Cemeteries
Find a Grave – Finding a grave marker with exact dates of birth/death, etc. can give your research a huge boost. Find a Grave, which is powered by thousands of volunteers, is an enormously valuable and free resource.
Billion Graves – free site not yet sucked into the jaws of Ancestry.com
Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside NJ – Video drive-through from minute 29:43 – 42:00 – visit this link
The Association of Graveyard Rabbits – lots of folks with blogs devoted “exclusively to articles about cemeteries, grave markers, burial customs, the study of cemeteries, transcriptions of tombstones, or the preservation of cemeteries.”
Free grave marker for veterans. Order form: http://www.va.gov/vaforms/va/pdf/va40-1330.pdf
Gravestone Cleaning information – Headboards of Stone blog
The Art of Burying the Dead: Exploring Connecticut’s Historic Cemeteries
Cemeteries with searchable databases
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Death
Death and Dying in the 18th and 19th Centuries
National Museum of Funeral History
21st century at-home funerals – article
Home Funeral Alliance – brochure
Victorian Era – Death and Mourning
DNA Testing
What percentage of Neanderthal are you?
23andme
Education
1619 Project; Controversy; Backlash
1776 Unites Project
The Woman’s Book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunities, and every-day problems; Volume I of two volumes
Etiquette
Victorian Calling Card Etiquette
The Complete Hostess (1906)
Good Manners for All Occasions by Margaret E. Sangster (1904)
Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decency (pub. 1888) on Google Books
The Woman’s Book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunities, and every-day problems; Volume I of two volumes
Family Crests / Coat of Arms
The Book of Family Crests, London: Henry Washbourne & Co., 1851
Fashion
Godey’s Lady’s Book January 1864
Demorest’s illustrated monthly and Mme Demorest’s mirror of fashions, 1865 April
American Duchess
Victorian History
The Victorian Era
Timeline of Clothing & Textiles Technology
Codex – Godey’s Lady’s Book
Past is Present
Fashion-era
UVM’s Godey’s Lady’s Book
Accessible Archives
Historical Sewing
Victoriana
Victorian Passage into Time
Koshka the Cat – fashion plates
Vintage Victorian
Clothing of the 1830s
Men’s Fashions 1830s – Pinterest
NY in the 1830s – Ephemeral NY
Fashion 1820s – Pinterest
Fashion a Hundred Years Ago – blog
Free Image Archives for historical prints
The Woman’s Book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunities, and every-day problems; Volume I of two volumes
Historical Emporium website – here you can buy all sorts of vintage clothing
Food
The Fun of Cooking; A Story for Boys and Girls
Every Lady’s Book: An Instructor in the Art of Making Every Variety of Plain and Fancy Cakes, Pastry, Confectionery, Blanc Mange, Jellies, Ice Creams, also for the Cooking of Meats, Fish, Vegetables, &c.by Mrs. T.J. Crowen (New York: J. K. Wellman, 1845)
A Handbook of Cookery. A Series of Practical Lessons by Matilda Lees Dods (London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1881)
Mrs. Crowen’s American Lady’s System of Cookery; Comprising Every Variety of Information for Ordinary and Holiday Occasions by Mrs. T. J. Crowen (New York: Thomas J. Crowen, 1860)
Genealogy tools for organizing your tree/data
Family Search – Much of what you can find on Ancestry.com (for a membership fee) is available here for free. Lots of tools and resources for creating and organizing your own tree. Worldwide records are constantly being added.
Puzilla.org – free and premium services – ‘Descendant and ancestor pedigree visualization system’
Ancestry.com
Crestleaf.com – ‘We believe that you have a right to discover your relatives for free…. We promise to never charge you to access your family tree or the information that you add to it. …the family tree you create and the information you add are all completely private… We believe in the preservation of memories and stories. We want our future generations to know where they came from.’
Gift Ideas
Family Tree Chart / Poster
I Chart You
The Great Outdoors
All Outing magazines via Internet Archive Search
Outing magazine, Vol. XVIII, 1891
The Country, Volumes 1-2, published 1877
Camp Cookery by Horace Kephart, 1910
Camp and Outing Activities by F. H. Cheley, 1915
Sharp Eyes by William Hamilton Gibson
Immigration
Immigration Map – animation
The World’s Need: 100 Other Momentous Questions in History, Forget-me-not Publishing Company, 1920
Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. Grose, 1906
Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives or GG Archives: “Your Trusted Resource for Immigration and Steamship Voyages 1880-1954. The GG Archives Collections Features Historical Ephemera from the 1880s through 1954”
Journalists / Columnists
Nellie Bly – Pioneering woman journalist
Language – Understanding Late Modern English
Lexigolos Website
Edward Phillip’s The New World of English Words (1720)
Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811)
An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) – Volume I and An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
Webster’s Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1886)
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia; A Work of Universal Reference in All Departments of Knowledge with a New Atlas of the World (1901)
The Century Cyclopedia of Names: A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archaeology, Fiction, etc., etc., etc (1903)
A Modern Dictionary of the English Language (1911)
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (1919)
A Guide to 18th-Century English Vocabulary by Jack Lynch (14 Apr 2006)
Colonial Saying Still in Use Today
Maps
David Rumsey Map Collections – Fabulous site! If you love maps, you’ll be in heaven here.
Articles on Historic Maps of Pennsylvania – PA in old Road Atlases
Medicine
The Druggists circular formula book : in which may be found recipes for hundreds of unofficial preparations in daily demand in the drug store, the laboratory, the boudoir, the household, the work shop, on the farm, and wherever there are men, women and children, domestic animals, poultry, furred and feathered pets, trees and plants; together with a compilation of process outlines, notes, hints and other valuable information and suggestions for retail druggists and dispensing pharmacists (1920)
Newspaper & Directories Archives
Google News newspapers – search tons of digitized old newspapers from all over the world- FREE
Online Historical Newspapers Website – one-stop-shop to paid and unpaid newspaper resources (US, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Australia)
Online Historical Directories website (Canada, Ireland, Thailand, US, and UK)
Library of Congress – Chronicling America – Historic American Newspapers- FREE
Old Fulton New York Postcards – “Search Over 25,084,000 Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pages” – fabulous FREE site. Newspapers from other states are being added, e.g. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Newspaperarchive.com – don’t be fooled as I was by the invitation to register for what appears to be free access. Once you submit your name and email, they ask you to select a membership category. Frankly, I find such tactics deceptive. If anyone has any praise for Newspaperarchive, let me know. They claim to be the world’s largest online newspaper collection.
Digital Library of Georgia– FREE
CDNC – California Digital Newspaper Collection – – FREE — “A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present” – California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, <http://cdnc.ucr.edu>. All newspapers published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain and therefore have no restrictions on use. They just ask that you credit the collection.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections– FREE
Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper archives- FREE
State of New Jersey, State Library, Digitized Newspapers – a guide to FREE and PAID archives – go to
The British Newspaper Archive – paid site, but worth it. Good finds here.
The British Library – Newspaper collections
HRVH Historical Newspapers – Hudson River Valley publications- FREE
Photography
The American Amateur Photographer, Vol. XI, Jan-Dec 1899
The American Amateur Photographer, Vol. XV, 1903
Library of Amateur Photography, American School of Art and Photography, 1911
A Dictionary of Photography for the Amateur and Professional Photographer, 1889
The Professional and Amateur Photographer, Vol. XIII, 1908
Shorpy
Civil War, Part I, Part II, and Part III – The Atlantic Magazine on the 150th anniversary of the start of the war.
Silhouettes
Carrick, A. Van Leer 1875-. (1928). Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company
Weather
We’re not the only ones talking about climate change; the topic has been around for a long time: One hundred twenty years of climate scares. American Thinker, August 4, 2014
On behalf of environmentalists, I apologize for the climate scare
![By Original by Thomas Jefferson et al.; Engraving & fascimile by William J. Stone (1798-1865). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://chipsofftheoldblock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/us_declaration_of_independence.jpg)
United States
Declaration of Independence
Colonial naming patterns
US Constitution
American Battle Monuments Commission
Frederick Douglas Speech – 5 July 1852
The HathiTrust Digital Library – “HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world” says their website homepage.
American Heritage Magazine – archives
Digital Public Library of America – explore 8.5 million items from libraries, museums, and archives
US National Archives
GOOGLE! – It’s amazing what you can find with a simple Google search, and don’t forget to search Images.
Geneabloggers – contains a blogroll of 3,000 family history blogs; you can perform searches to see whether anyone else out there is researching the same names you are.
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites on the Web – a master list of hundreds of resources (some free, some not)
The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives: Social and Cultural History – ship passenger lists for 1800s to 1950s
One-step Ellis Island Search Database
Caleb Johnson’s MayflowerHistory.com
FamilySearch – Fabulous FREE website operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A wealth of data is available here; FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Use numerous filters to narrow your search as much as you would like. Be flexible with your name spellings. Remember William can be Wm, Thomas can be Thos, etc. I have even seen Samuel spelled SamL! Access many federal and state census records here; birth, marriage, and death records; etc. (original records for some census years are not available for viewing–you must go through Ancestry.com or other paid sites).
The Ships List – great resource for those researching immigration to the US via passenger ships.
The Political Graveyard – ‘The Internet’s Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography‘ – Loads of great info. FREE.
Access Genealogy – all kinds of record are available on this site; some links may take you to ancestry.com but plenty do not. Worth exploring.
US Census Bureau: Offers wealth of FREE information on the history of census taking, explanations of how to read and understand census records, overviews of pop culture for census years, etc.
US GenWeb Archives
Live Roots Genealogy Search – FREE site; one of Family Tree magazine’s best sites for 2010; may help you get a grip on what’s out there and what info you may have to pay for. Search by Keywords/Surnames and Locations.
Revolutionary War genealogy links
We Are All Related website: Find out if you are related to a US President!
Genealogy Bank – ‘Search for Your Ancestors in Newspapers 1690–Today!’ – paid site but can be well worth the investment. Check out the FREE ‘Old Fulton NY Postcards’ (link below) first, however!
New England Historic Genealogical Society – ‘Discover your family’
DAR Genealogical Research System
Historical Marker Database
Colonial Families of the United States
Social Security Death Index – Master file
18th and 19th century American nicknames
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database – National Park Service site
World Vital Records – I have not tried this yet. They offer free trials.
NY Public Library Digital Collections
Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, Vol. II
NJ Churchscape – Elizabeth, NJ, churches
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
Son of the South website – Civil War – Many old issues of Harper’s Weekly — fascinating stuff
Hall of North & South Americans – “Over 30,000 personalities with thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional life stories”
The Library Company of Philadelphia – search digital collections
Civil War Rx – The Source Guide to Civil War Medicine
Project Gutenberg – Free eBooks
WWI – War of the Nations Portfolio – 1919 – astounding images
Florida
Florida Memory website
New York
The Holland Society of New York -Dutch-American Stories: John Romeyn Brodhead’s Hunt for History
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York – free
The Citizen’s Guide to Brooklyn and Long Island, R. Wayne Wilson and Co., 1893
Forgotten New York
Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY – baptism and marriage records, 1660-1809
Virtual Dime Museum: Adventures in Old New York – interesting blog
Whitman’s Brooklyn: A Virtual Visit Circa 1850
Brooklyn Collectibles at Brooklynpix.com – lots of photographic views of Brooklyn and NYC of eras past
1884 eBook available on Internet Archives: History of Kings County including Brooklyn, N.Y. (The civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the county of Kings and the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1683 to 1884)
Italian Genealogical Group – includes databases of vital records for NYC area.
German Genealogy Group – includes databases of vital records for NYC area
New York Vital Records & Genealogy Indexes on the Internet
A Legacy of Historical Gleanings (2 volumes; Albany: J. Munsell, 1875), by Catharina V. R. Bonney (Volume I and Volume II)
Collections on the History of Albany (Albany NY: J. Munsell, 1867), Vol II
The history of the city of Albany, New York, from the discovery of the great river in 1524, by Verrazzano to the present time. Weise, Arthur James, 1838-1910 or 11.
NYC – Old Streets
Museum of the City of New York (MCNY Collections)
Manhattan Unlocked
Short Documentary ‘Forgotten New York’
Ephemeral New York
YouTube – Collect Pond in Lower Manhattan
Hart Island – NY Times article on the graves of forgotten New Yorkers
The Hart Island Project
A Tour around New York, and My Summer Acre; Being the Recreations of Mr. Felix Oldboy (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1893)
The New York History Blog
Ephemeral New York blog
American ancestry: giving the name and descent, in the male line of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence A.D. 1776, Volume I, The City of Albany, State of New York (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1887)
New York in the Revolution as colony and state; these records were discovered, arranged, and classified in 1895, 1897, and 1898, by James A. Roberts, Comptroller (Albany, NY: Brandow Printing, 1898)
Metropolitan Postcard Club of NYC
NYT Magazine, Walking New York
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
New Jersey
New Jersey Department of State, Online Searchable Databases for births, marriages, deaths, and more; website also has forms for mailing in record requests: click here. See also New Jersey Vital Statistics website.
New Jersey Historical Society – special info for genealogists
Westfield NJ Memorial Library – searchable databases – they carry a number of old newspapers
Early Germans of New Jersey
Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in the Burying Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St. Johns Church at Elizabeth, NJ
History of the First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge, NJ, on its 300th Anniversary, pub. 1975 – online eBook
History of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Vol. 2
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men
Union County NJ website
Union County New Jersey USGenWeb site
Rev. Hatfield’s History of Elizabeth, NJ (1868)
FOUNDERS OF NEW JERSEY Brief Biographies by Descendants compiled by Marian L. Smith, Barbara Carver-Smith, Harriet Stryker-Rodda, Michael Maiden; revised by Evelyn Hunt Ogden, Ed.D. published by The Descendants of Founders of NJ, 2nd Edition, 2011.
Restoration of cemetery at historic First Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, NJ
Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Campaign of the 14th Regiment NJ Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill (New Brunswick, NJ: Daily Home News Press, 1884) – Civil War
The New World – Eyewitness Accounts of Ancient America
New Jersey Prints Old and Rare
Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc. in the office of the Secretary of State Prior to 1901: Volume I: Atlantic-Essex; Volume II: Gloucester-Monmouth; Volume III: Morris-Warren
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol VIII, 1791-1795, Wills and Administrations, etc.
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol X, 1767-1776, Administration of Governor William Franklin
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol IX, 1631-1776
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol XXII, Marriage Records 1665-1800
1670-1730, Volume I
1730-1750, Volume II
1751-1760, Volume III
1761-1770 , Volume IV
1771-1780, Volume V
1781-1785, Volume VI
1786-1790, Volume VII
1791-1795, Volume VIII
1796-1800, Volume IX
1801-1805, Volume X
1806-1809, Volume XI
1810-1813, Volume XII
1814-1817, Volume XIII
The Historical Society of Ocean Grove, NJ – Online paper search: Asbury Park Daily Press, Asbury Park Journal, and Ocean Grove Times
City of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Illustrated, 1889
Map of Elizabethtown at the time of the Revolution
Walking Guide to Perth Amboy’s Colonial, Revolutionary War History by Bob Makin, Bridgewater Courier News, published 6/18/2018
Perth Amboy History website – The 1683 Society
Kearny Cottage in Perth Amboy
Pennsylvania
Minisink Valley Genealogy Blogspot – list of resources
Pennsylvania State Archives
McElroy’s Philadelphia City Directory, 1840
Desilver’s Philadelphia Directory and Stranger’s Guide, 1831
Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Resources
Free Library of Philadelphia – Digital collections
Pennsylvania Dept of Health – death indices – 1906-1959
Pennsylvania Dept of Health – birth indices – 1906-1908
Pennsylvania Dept of Health – Genealogy Requests
Carbon County, PA, Archives
Carbon County, Uncovering genealogical resources – great resource – newspapers, etc.
Mauch Chunk Historical Society
Carbon County History and Genealogy
Mauch Chunk Museum
Borough of Mauch Chunk
Photographers of old Mauch Chunk
Historic Bethlehem PA
Historic Hotel Bethlehem
Central Moravian Church, Bethlehem, PA
Bethlehem Digital History Project
History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties by Alfred Mathews (Philadelphia: RT Peck, 1886)
History of Berks County in Pennsylvania by Morton L. Montgomery (Phila: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886)
Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, edited with an introduction by Royden Woodward Vosburgh (New York: The Society, 1913.
History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh (Volume III) – under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of editors (Boston / New York / Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1920)
Minisink Valley Genealogy Blog
A History of Delaware Water Gap & Its Resorts, PDF pp. 164 onwards (Wilson, M.W., 2012, A history of Delaware Water Gap and its resorts, in Harper, J. A., ed., Journey along the Taconic unconformity, northeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and southeastern New York: Guidebook, 77th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Shawnee on Delaware, PA, p. 153-165)
Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania: Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe (Monroe Co., PA: J. H. Beers & Company, 1900)
Brodhead Watershed, Monroe Co. PA: Interesting PDF containing historical and cultural information.
The Unwritten History of Smithfield County (PA), by Luther S. Hoffman, pub. 1826
John W. (John Woolf) Jordan. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (Volume v.1).
John W. Jordan – List of eBooks
A History of the Heiner Family by Daniel Brodhead Heiner (b. 1854); prepared and printed for the private use of the family. (Butler, PA: The Ziegler Printing Co., 1929)
History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania – Vol. II – Brodhead/Heiner families
Sons of the American Revolution, Pennsylvania (1903)
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution edited by William Henry Egle – contains profile of Elizabeth Depui Brodhead
Trees and Forests of the Allegheny River: A Special Report (2011) – Gen. Danl. Brodhead p. 19-21
Genealogy Trails: Armstrong Co. PA Biographies – Profile of Daniel Brodhead and heirs. States only child was Ann Garton. No mention of daughter Phebe Brodhead DeWeese or Daniel Brodhead Jr.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon Counties (Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1894) – Free eBook- J. Davis Brodhead and Hon. Charles Brodhead profiles.
Middle Smithfield Township, PA
The Kellers of Hamilton Township: A Study in Democracy – includes mentions of various Brodheads living in this part of Pennsylvania.
History of Pike Co., PA, Chapter VIII, Delaware Township– Dingmans, Brodheads, and others
Monroe County PA Historical Association
Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania – Published 1906 – Volume I – Volume II
History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1884)
Wyoming Valley in the 19th Century. Art Edition by SR Smith, Vol I, Wilkes-Barre Leader Print, 1894.
Photos and Things Brodheadsville (PA) – info and images of Charles D. Brodhead and wife Rachel Ditz Keller
History and Legend: Fact, Fancy and Romance of the Old Mine Road, Kingston, N. Y., to the Mine Holes of Pahaquarry (Hine’s Annual, 1908)
Article “Dansbury Mission Spreads Moravian Ideals” by the Monroe Historical Society
Article “Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg Founded in the 1730s” by the Monroe County Historical Association — lots on the Brodheads under East Stroudsburg section
Brodhead-Decker Family Trees / Descendants of Daniel Brodhead & Ann Tye
History of Berks County in Pennsylvania by Morton L. Montgomery (Phila: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886) – Daniel Brodhead bio, p. 216-218.
Blue Book of Schuylkill County: Who Was Who and Why, in Interior Eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, Their Service in Queen Anne’s French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars: History of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and Many Other Representative Families (1916)
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania and York County in the Revolution (1914)
Picturesque Monroe County by Dr. J. Lantz, 1897
Antoine Dutot Museum and Gallery – for history of Delaware Water Gap
Luke W. Brodhead’s The Delaware Water Gap: Its Scenery, Its Legends, and Its Early History (Philadelphia: Sherman & Co. Printers, 1867)
Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Volume 7, by the Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania
The Bells Ringing the Message of Progress in Monroe Co. PA and Tributary Country (pub. 1915)
Families of the Wyoming Valley by Geo. B. Kulp, pub. in Wilkes Barre PA in 1889
History of Centre and Clinton Counties Pennsylvania by John Blair Linn (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883)
Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810. [and,] List of officers of the Colonies on the Delaware and the Province of Pennsylvania, 1614-1776 (Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1895) – Vol. II
Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol. XXI (Published by the Society, 1912)
Massachusetts
Early Vital Records of Massachusetts
Essex County Massachusetts GenWeb – lots of great info; volunteers will do look-ups.
USA – Early Marriage Records
Connecticut, Pre-1800
New Jersey, 1665-1800
Pennsylvania, Pre-1810
England, Scotland, Wales
The Genealogist
UKGDL – UK Genealogical Directories and Lists
UK National Archives – discover their online collections; only 5% of their collections are thus far available online, but they are working hard all the time to add more. In any case, it’s worth a try to do some research here first, especially if you live outside of the UK. It may save you a trip. You must pay a nominal fee to get copies of original documents. I have found last will and testaments here. Very interesting!
Deceased online – free search; pay for records – central database of UK burial and cremation records
Cornishmemory.com – “Cornish life as captured on camera and recorded on reel. Find photos, watch films, and listen to the stories of Cornwall’s rich history from Victorian times to the present day”
The Churches of Britain and Ireland
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
Cornwall Family History Society
Cornwall Genealogy Links
This Is Cornwall – for a look at what’s happening in Cornwall today.
Victorian London – List of Wesleyan Chapels
Plumstead [London] Stories including Woolwich and Districts
Greenwich Heritage Centre – UK
Scotlands Places: Make the Connections
Find My Past – Pay as you go, or subscribe.
The Original Record – ‘Research your ancestry, family history, genealogy and one-name study by direct access to original records and archives indexed by surname.’
Genes Reunited – UK’s No. 1 family history website. You must register. Some basics are free. To view records, pay as you go, or subscribe.
Idea Store – Created and Managed by Tower Hamlets Council – excellent site for exploring local London history
Britain from Above – aerial images of Britain from 1919-1953
Parks and Gardens UK website – Sacred/ritual/funerary sites
Buckinghamshire – Newport Pagnell Historical Society; The Changing Face of Newport Pagnell; Rootschat Forum: A Guide to Burials in Buckinghamshire; Buckinghamshire Family History
Northamptonshire – Northamptonshire Family History Society; Northamptonshire Family History; Blisworth Sites Online Archive
London – The Old Bailey Online – Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, 1674-1913
The British Library
Deceased Online – Central database for UK burials and cremations
Kensal Green Cemetery Online – historic London cemetery
Stony Stratford – General History
Ireland
Leitrim Roots – a website for those investigating their Co. Leitrim, Ireland, roots
Irish Genealogical Research Society – membership provides numerous benefits.
Boles of Leitrim, Ireland
The families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh, and their descendants by Rev. Henry Biddall Swanzy, M.A., 1908
Irish-American Family Histories blog
Leitrim Genealogy Archives – headstone photos
National Library of Ireland
National Archives of Ireland
NAI: Genealogy Websites
Leitrim Genealogy Centre
RootsIreland.ie
Famine Ships
NUI Landed Estates Database
From-Ireland.net: free Irish genealogy
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, New ed., Rev. by A.C. Fox-Davies
and Sir Bernard Burke (Published 1912 by Harrison in London)
Russia
Index of Russian Familial Terms
Family-Specific Sites
Angus Family Links
Fabulous material from the Family Search Library: One Line of Descendants of James Angus
Knowles Family Association – for those researching the Angus-Knowles connection.
Descendants of John Hotchkin – includes Angus family members
NJ Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ, HOLDINGS: No. 615. ANGUS FAMILY Papers, 1838-1969. 75 items. Correspondence, business records, genealogical material. Business records relate to Angus family companies in New Jersey and Mexico, I839-7 1. Of particular interest are the business records, 1849-71, of the Elizabethtown Steam Manufacturing Company, James W. Angus, Superintendent. Gift of Exchange and Gift Division, Library of Congress, 1964.
Brodhead Family Links
Lehigh Valley, PA, history
Winterthur Library – Collection of Brodhead Family Papers (my family line only as far as Richard Brodhead/Magdalene Jansen; from there line goes via Richard’s son, Charles Brodhead I (b. 1674), by a second marriage (to Wyntie Pawling).
The Brodhead Family Association, 6566 Skywae Dr., Columbus, OH 43229 (Facebook: The DePuy / Brodhead Family Association)
Brodhead Watershed, Monroe Co. PA: Interesting PDF containing historical and cultural information.
The Unwritten History of Smithfield County (PA), by Luther S. Hoffman, pub. 1826
John W. (John Woolf) Jordan. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (Volume v.1).
John W. Jordan – List of eBooks
A History of the Heiner Family by Daniel Brodhead Heiner (b. 1854); prepared and printed for the private use of the family. (Butler, PA: The Ziegler Printing Co., 1929)
History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania – Vol. II – Brodhead/Heiner families
Commemoration of the Conquest of New Netherland on Its 200th Anniversary by the NY Historical Society (1864)
Sons of the American Revolution, Pennsylvania (1903)
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution edited by William Henry Egle – contains profile of Elizabeth Depui Brodhead
The Raab Collection – The lives of Daniel Boone and Brig. Gen. Daniel Brodhead intersect
Trees and Forests of the Allegheny River: A Special Report (2011) – Gen. Danl. Brodhead p. 19-21
Genealogy Trails: Armstrong Co. PA Biographies – Profile of Daniel Brodhead and heirs. States only child was Ann Garton. No mention of daughter Phebe Brodhead DeWeese or Daniel Brodhead Jr.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon Counties (Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1894) – Free eBook- J. Davis Brodhead and Hon. Charles Brodhead profiles.
RebelJoe.com Brodhead’s Command and Campaign 1779-1781
Middle Smithfield Township, PA
Daniel Brodhead Jr. – 1st merchant store in Louisville, KY
Family Tales website – contains letters from Colonel Daniel Brodhead to George Washington, written 1779-1781
The Kellers of Hamilton Township: A Study in Democracy – includes mentions of various Brodheads living in this part of Pennsylvania.
History of Pike Co., PA, Chapter VIII, Delaware Township– Dingmans, Brodheads, and others
Monroe County PA Historical Association
Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania – Published 1906 – Volume I – Volume II
History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1884)
Wyoming Valley in the 19th Century. Art Edition by SR Smith, Vol I, Wilkes-Barre Leader Print, 1894.
Photos and Things Brodheadsville (PA) – info and images of Charles D. Brodhead and wife Rachel Ditz Keller
History and Legend: Fact, Fancy and Romance of the Old Mine Road, Kingston, N. Y., to the Mine Holes of Pahaquarry (Hine’s Annual, 1908)
Article “Dansbury Mission Spreads Moravian Ideals” by the Monroe Historical Society
Brodhead-Decker Family Trees / Descendants of Daniel Brodhead & Ann Tye
History of Berks County in Pennsylvania by Morton L. Montgomery (Phila: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886) – Daniel Brodhead bio, p. 216-218.
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
Daniel Brodhead papers – digitized content – University of Pittsburgh – University Library System – Scroll down to bottom of page for access to three PDFs, one is 188 pages long.
Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania and York County in the Revolution (1914); Brodhead pp. 71-73, 194-195.
Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781, Edited by Louise Phelps Kellogg (Madison, WI: Madison Historical Society, 1914) – much information on Col. Daniel Brodhead
National Archives, Founders Online: 3 May 1799 Letter from Col. Daniel Brodhead to General Washington
Notes of the ancestry of the children of Joseph Smith Harris and Delia Silliman Brodhead, pub. 1898
Coddington Family Links
1907 Publication: The Coddington Family. Records of One Line of the Descendants of John Coddington of Woodbridge, N.J., with Notes on Allied Families. PDF available here.
Jaques Family Links
Jaques Register Report
Family Search – Jaques family pedigree
Martin Family Links
The Martin Family in America: Descendants of John Martin and Esther Roberts (pub. 1983)
Melyn Family Links
http://njgsbc.org/files/BCFamilies/BCFam-Melyn.pdf
Ogden Family Links
John Ogden, The Pilgrim (1609-1682) – A Man of More than Ordinary Mark
The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and Their English Ancestry: John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and His Descendants, 1640-1906
Trowbridge Family Links
http://www.whitsett-wall.com/Documents/Trowbridge%20Family%20History.pdf
http://www.trowbridge.org.uk/family_history.htm
http://www.trowbridgemountain.info/
http://www.archive.org/stream/trowbridgegenealo02trow#page/n11/mode/2up
http://oldstonesundeciphered.blogspot.com/search/label/Trowbridge#ixzz1JLNmJTho
Winans Family Links
Mrs. Egy’s Book – Winans Family Genealogy
Woodruff Family Links
Woodruff Family: Books and Lookups – a listing of resources available for those researching various Woodruff lines.
A Branch of the Woodruff Stock, Compiled by Francis E. Woodruff, B. A. (Yale, 1864) – PDF and other formats available.
The Woodruffs of New Jersey Who Came from Fordwich, Kent, England, by Way of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Southampton, Long Island by Francis Eben Woodruff (NY: Grafton Press, 1909)
The Woodruff House on Conant Street, Elizabeth, NJ – Museum
Woodruff Chronicles, Volumes I and II, (1967 and 1971) – Vol. I: https://saintlukebc.org/book/woodruff-chronicles Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/woodruffchronicl01wood
Map of Elizabethtown at the time of the Revolution
Russum Family Links
Reports of Cases Decided by the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1851 – pp 479-480
Boles Family Links
The Boles of Leitrim
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