Websites with material on American Sources

Census Lists, City Directories

and other Lists

www.ancestry.com

www.footnote.com

www.familysearch.org

Vital Records

(Birth, Marriage and Death)

State Archives

(Google “archives” and name of state)

Example: http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/databases.html

New York Italian Genealogy Group

http://www.italiangen.org/VRECLIST.stm

Immigration, Emmigration, and Naturalization

Steven Morse’s web site

http://www.stevemorse.org/

Germans to America & Russians to America

http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP44

Ellis Island

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

Military Lists

World War I Draft registrations are in the National Archives, Southeast Branch in Morrow. They are completely indexed on www.ancestry.com

Newspapers

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/ (click on search at the bottom)

Brooklyn Eagle

http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/

Atlanta Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/ (search AJC Archives near bottom left)

The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project Home

http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/

Others

National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/index.html

Cyndi’s List

http://www.cyndislist.com/jewish.htm

Roots Web

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

American Jewish Yearbooks

http://ajcarchives.org/ajcarchive/DigitalArchive.aspx