SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
WEB SITES WE LIKE
Williamson County, TN
- Genealogical Fact Sheets Williamson County Tennessee State Library and Archives.
- Tennessee Genealogy 101: Williamson County Your Guide to Tennessee Genealogical Research.
- Williamson County Archives
- Williamson County Historical Society
Cemeteries / Obituaries
- Cemetery Junction A directory of cemeteries within the United States, arranged by state (over 20,000); family cemeteries (over 16,000); and those of Australia (over 300). Search by cemetery or family name. There are related articles; links to obituaries; genealogical societies in the U.S., Canada, and Australia; and more.
- Cemetery Records Online
- Madison County, IL cemetery database
- National Obituary Archive This site contains obits from all over the US for 2001. You can search by name or surname.
Census
- 1910 Census -- Search by name This is an All-Name index, meaning that every person who has a readable census entry is included. Spouses, children, boarders, other relatives AND heads of households are all listed. States are scheduled to be added one a month.
- Census Online
- USGenWeb Census Project
General
- AfriGeneas African Ancestor Genealogy
- Ancestor Archive Archived vintage photos, books, and yearbooks for your genealogy research
- ancestry.com
- A Barrel of Genealogy Links
- Cyndi's list of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
- Genealogy Lending Libraries & Archives
- FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- Family Tree Maker Online
- Genealogy 101
- Genealogy.com
- Genealogy Helplist Volunteers who are willing to help others by looking up specific items at institutions near them, or help supply other information easily accessible to them.
- Genealogy Home page
- Genealogy Libraries on the WWW
- Genealogy Pages
- GenealogyPortal.com
- GENDEX WWW Genealogical Index - indexes thousands of World Wide Web databases containing genealogical data for over twenty million individuals
- Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
- Heritage Microfilm Search 143,128 historical newspaper pages INSTANTLY!!!
- Heritage Quest – Genealogy 101
- Heritage Quest – Search the database
- Librarians Serving Genealogists
- National Archives and Records Administration Genealogy Page
- The National Adoption Information Clearinghouse Assists genealogists looking for modern vital records, and provides information on current state laws and procedures.
- 10,000 Year Calendar A resource for calculating any date via a perpetual calendar
- Online Genealogical Database Index
- Online Genealogical Research Service Online service from the Wisconsin Historical Society (formerly the State Historical Society of WI), allows researchers to request (for a fee) a search of Wisconsin Pre-1907 birth, marriage and death records.
- The Poorhouse Story A clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses
- Rootsweb.com
- Royal and Noble Genealogical data on the Web (also includes genealogy of the U.S. Presidents)
- Social Security Death Index
- SurnameWeb
- Treasure Maps Includes a tutorial on deciphering old handwriting and on how to do tombstone rubbings.
- WorldGenWeb
- bradandkathy.com Soundex Converter
Societies
- Federation of Genealogical Societies
- National Genealogical Society
- New England Historic Genealogical Society
States
- Mid-Continent Public Library: Genealogy and Local History Missouri genealogy
- The Virginia Historical Inventory
- East Tennessee Historical Society
- Genealogy Resources on the Web – Tennessee
- A Guide to Tennessee Genealogy Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society
- Sources of Genealogical Information in Tennessee
- The Tennessee Civil War Home Page
- Tennessee colored pension applications for CSA service
- Tennessee Genealogy
- Tennessee Genealogy 101 Your Guide to Tennessee Genealogical Research.
- The Tennessee Genealogy & History Web Ring
- Tennessee Genealogy Project (TNGenWeb)
- Tennessee Links
- Tennessee State Library and Archives: Tennessee History and Genealogy
- Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources : WILLIAMSON COUNTY
- Williamson County genealogical sources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives
United States
- Directory of Genealogy Libraries in the U.S.
- GenealogyStateSearch.com
- U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau Of Land Management - The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site Image access is provided to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.
- The USGenWeb Project
- U. S. Presidential Libraries and White House History site includes genealogical material
Note: The Williamson County Public Library Special Collections Department does not maintain the sites listed above. Please email the library if a link is broken.
Special Collections Department • Williamson County Public Library • 1314 Columbia Avenue • Franklin TN 37064 • (615) 595-1246 ext. 1 • http://wcpltn.org