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COMPREHENSIVE:

• American Memory  [Library of Congress]
• David Rumsey Map Collection has beautiful historical maps. You probably do not want to use them on a dial-up connection (too long to load) and the site is a bit difficult to navigate but worth the effort.
• Digital Book Index - free books  online
• Heritage West   (collaboration of archives, historical societies, museums combining digital collections from Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevade, New Mexico, Texas, Utah & Wyoming)
• Making of America Project - a collection of early history digitized and available online - housed at the University of Michigan this site has materials from all over early America -    books on local history, military history,  - even some New York wills!  It is full of treasures if you have the patience to browse the collection.
  
  REGIONAL
   
• Ray Brown's New England Website

ALABAMA

• Alabama State Archives  [Alabama Dept. of Archives & History]
• WPA Index to Alabama Biography [Birmingham Public Library]
• Alabama Marriages [I Dream of Genealogy]
• Alabama GenWeb & Alabama GenWeb Archives
• Alabama Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
  ALASKA
• Alaska's Digital Archives
• Alaska State Library
• Alaska GenWeb & Alaska GenWeb Archives
• Alaska Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
  ARIZONA
• ASLAP: Arizona State Library Archives & Public Records
• Arizona Genealogical & Historical Societies
• Arizona Memory Project
• Vital Records Online from the Arizona Dept. of Health Services they have the certificates online
• Arizona Marriages [I Dream of Genealogy]
• Arizona GenWeb & Arizona GenWeb Archives
• Arizona Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
  ARKANSAS
• Arkansas Genweb Archives
• Arkansas Marriages [I Dream of Genealogy]
• Arkanasas GenWeb & Arkansas GenWeb Archives
• Arkansas Databases at Rootsweb
  for more Arkansas resources see the Arkansas page [updated 3/2007]
  
  
  CALIFORNIA
• California Death Index 1940-1997  [Rootsweb]
• Pre 1905 California Death Index Project
• San Francisco CALL Database - vital records from early newspapers
• California GenWeb & California GenWeb Archives
• California Databases at Rootsweb
  for more California resources see the California page [updated 3/2007]
  
  
  COLORADO
• Colorado Historical Records Index
• Colorado State University Germans from Russia collection
• Colorado Virtual Library
• Colorado's Historic Newspaper Project (digitized early newspapers)
• Colorado GenWeb & Colorado GenWeb Archives
• Colorado Databases at Rootsweb
  for more Colorado resources see the Colorado page [updated 3/2007]
  
  
  CONNECTICUT
• Barbour Collection for Connecticut Towns [marriages]
• Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776
• Connecticut History Online
• Connecticut State Library
• Scanned Map Collection  [University of Connecticut]
• Connecticut GenWeb & Connecticut GenWeb Archives
• Connecticut Databases at Rootsweb
  for more Connecticut resources see the Connecticut page  
  [updated 4/2007]
  
  DELAWARE
• State of Delaware site has some wonderful historical maps as well as the Delaware Probate Index
• Delaware Genealogy & History
• Delaware Counties and Hundreds includes maps that show the divisions
• Delaware GenWeb & Delaware GenWeb Archives
• Delaware Databases at Rootsweb
• Delaware Historic Map Collection (University of Delaware)
• The Hundreds of Delaware
• New Castle County History Pages
  
  
  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
• District of Columbia GenWeb  &  DC GenWeb Archives
• DC Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
  FLORIDA
• Florida State Library  - Memory Project
• Florida GenWeb & Florida GenWeb Archives
• Florida Historical Quarterly
• Florida Databases at Rootsweb
• PALMM: Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials
• University of Southern Florida Digital Collections has a bit of everything, some census images, gravestone images, city directories, maps etc.
  
  
  GEORGIA
• Digital Library of Georgia
• Virtual Vault [Georgia Archives]
• Georgia Historic Newspapers
• Georgia Marriages  [I Dream of Genealogy]
• Georgia GenWeb  & Georgia GenWeb Archives
• Georgia Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
  HAWAII
• Genealogical Indexes (Hawaii State Archives) - includes databases to marriages, divorces, wills, citizenship etc.
  Hawaii GenWeb  & Hawaii GenWeb Archives
  
  IDAHO
• BYU Idaho has databases for Western State Marriage Records, Idaho State Death Index, 1911-1956 and Eastern Idaho Death Records. The Idaho Dept. of Health also has a Death Index online
• Idaho Biographical Index
• Idaho State Historical Society - which includes the 1890 Reconstructed Census of Idaho
• Idaho GenWeb  & Idaho GenWeb Archives
• Idaho Databases at Rootsweb
  for more Idaho resources see the Idaho page [updated 3/2007]
  
  
  ILLINOIS
• Historical Maps Online from the University of Illinois Library has maps from all over but an especially strong collection of Illinois maps.
• Illinois Digital Past
• Illinois State Archives - their online databases include Illinois veterans records, public land sales etc. Don't miss their statewide database of marriages 1763-1900 and death indexes pre 1916 plus 1916-1950
• Illinois GenWeb & Illinois GenWeb Archives
• Illinois Databases at Rootsweb
  for more Illinois resources see the Illinois page [updated 3/2007]
  
  INDIANA
• Indiana State Library databases online (where they have all pre-1950 Indiana marriages and many other new databases)  Don't miss the Indiana Biography Index while you are there.
• Indiana GenWeb & Indiana GenWeb Archives
• Indiana Databases at Rootsweb 
   
• Jackson Co. IN History Archive
  for more Indiana resources see the Indiana page [updated 3/2007]]
  
  
  IOWA
• Iowa County Histories Online
• Iowa Genealogical Society
• Iowa Graves Registration Survey (WPA)
• IowaMap Collection (University of Iowa) - includes county plat maps of the late 1800s
• Iowa GenWeb & Iowa GenWeb Archives
• Iowa Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
  KANSAS
• Blue Highways - a search engine to Kansas archives and entries - make sure you pull down the search box to "only genealogy"
• Cutler's History of the State of Kansas Online
• Kansas Book Transcriptions Online
• KanColl: the Kansas Collection
• Kansas City Regional Histories Index
• Kansas Heritage Group
• Kansas State Historical Society which includes the Kansas Biographical Name Index
• Kansas GenWeb & Kansas GenWeb Archives
• Kansas Databases at Rootsweb
  for more Kansas resources see the Kansas page [updated 3/2007]
  
  
  KENTUCKY
• Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer contains detailed county maps
• Kentuckiana Digital Library
• Kentucky County Formation Database
• Kentucky Vital Records Index  (University of Kentucky)
• Kentucky GenWeb & Kentucky GenWeb Archives
• Kentucky Databases at Rootsweb
  for more Kentucky resources see the Kentucky page [this page has not been updated recently - if a link there is dead try searching the title of the link in Google to find its new home until this page gets updated]
  
  LOUISIANA
• Louisiana Biography & Obituary Index  
• LOUISiana Digital Library
• Louisiana GenWeb & Louisiana GenWeb Archives
• Louisiana Databases at Rootsweb
  
  MAINE
• Maine Genealogy has vital records, passenger lists & more
• Maine Memory Network
• Upper St. John River Valley
• Maine GenWeb & Maine GenWeb Archives
  for more Maine resources see the Maine page
• Maine Databases at Rootsweb
  
  MARYLAND
• Abstracts of Maryland Wills 1743-1764 (from the MD State Archives)
• Historical Maps of Maryland (from the University of Alabama)
• Maryland Archives Online  has many court, land and colonial records online and don't miss their new vital records indexes
• Maryland GenWeb & Maryland GenWeb Archives
• Maryland Databases at Rootsweb
• Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage
• Maryland Land Records.net - apply for a password and you have access to the original deed books of most counties
• Western Maryland's Historical Library
  for more Maryland resources see the Maryland page  [updated 3/2007]
  
  MASSACHUSETTS
• Massachusetts Vital Records Search 1841-1910 (Massachusetts State Archives) They also have the Massachusetts Archives Collection Database 1629-1799
• Massachusetts GenWeb & Massachusetts GenWeb Archives
• Massachusetts Databases at Rootsweb
• Plymouth Colony Pages
  for more Massachusetts resources see the Massachusetts page [updated 3/2007]
  
  MICHIGAN
  Michigan County Histories (from Michigan's Council of Library Directors)
• Michigan GenWeb & Michigan GenWeb Archives
• Michigan Death Index 1867-1897
• Michigan Databases at Rootsweb
  
  MINNESOTA
• Minnesota Death Certificates Index 1904- (Minnesota Historical Society)
• Minnesota GenWeb & Minnesota GenWeb Archives
• Minnesota Databases at Rootsweb
• Minnesota Reflections - Minnesota Digital Library
  for more Minnesota resources see the Minnesota page  
  
  MISSISSIPPI
• Mississippi Newspaper Holdings (Mississippi Archive's guide to newspapers published in the state)
• Mississippi GenWeb & Mississippi GenWeb Archives
• Mississippi Databases at Rootsweb
  
  MISSOURI
• Missouri Birth & Death Database (Missouri State Archives) most are scanned and online
• Missouri Land Patents 1831-1869 (Missouri State Archives)
• St. Louis County Library Genealogy Resources which includes St. Louis: the Fourth City, 1764-1909
• University of Missouri's Digital Library - has county histories and all kinds of wonderful resources.  Do your search and if something looks interesting click on the results details link
• Historic Missouri Newspaper Project
• Missouri GenWeb & Missouri GenWeb Archives
• Missouri Databases at Rootsweb
• Missouri Newspaper Search  The State Historical Society will search for obits etc. for a reasonable fee.
• Virtually Missouri  Digitized Missouri Collections
  for more Missouri resources see the Missouri page [updated 3/2007]
  
  MONTANA
• Montana GenWeb & Montana GenWeb Archives
• Montana Databases at Rootsweb
  
  NEBRASKA
• History of the State of Nebraska  published originally in 1882
• Nebraska Genealogy is a good directory to all things Nebraska
• Nebraska GenWeb Project Resource Center: Online Library Books
• Nebraska Memories is a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska historical records
• Nebraska GenWeb & Nebraska GenWeb Archives