Genealogy Links
Web resources for every genealogist
How To Use U.S. Census Records For Genealogy Research
Census records can help you reconstruct entire family groups and identify previously unknown relatives. Sometimes you can even discover interesting details and stories that help you better understand their lives.
Latitude-Longitude Degree Converter
This tool permits the user to convert latitude and longitude between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, and seconds to meet Find-A-Grave's requirements. For convenience, a link is included to the National Geodetic Survey's NADCON program, which allows conversions between the NAD83 / WGS84 coordinate system and the older NAD27 coordinate system.
Liberty-Ellis Island Arrival Records
Whether your family came through Ellis Island or another point of entry, finding your family’s records is a powerful experience. We invite you to explore our Arrival Records Collection and start uncovering your family’s story.
National Genealogical Society: Free Resources
The Free Genealogy Resources section includes helpful tips, articles, and recommended resources for every level of family researcher whether you are Getting Started, Going to the Next Level or working at Building Advanced Skills. And for those who are not NGS members, there is a sampling of beneficial articles from NGS Magazine, NGS Quarterly, and NGS Monthly. Resources include genealogy charts, templates, and tutorials.
One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
Tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than using the search tools provided on the original sites.
Overview of Land Records
Posted on Rootsweb, this article originally appeared in "Land Records" by Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, FUGA, in "The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy."
Placer County Record Indexes, compiled by the Placer County Genealogical Society.
Includes indexes of Placer County newspaper, vital records, voter registrations, cemetery records, biographies, oral histories, military records.
Sacramento Old City Cemetery
Old City Cemetery is wonderful place to visit. It is a 30.44 acre outdoor park/museum containing historical gravesites and statues, beautiful landscaping, roads, and walking paths. Resources include a burial list, and an interactive map to search for people buried at the cemetery.
Sacramento Public Library: Genealogy Collection
This link is a filter that selects for all the books in the Genealogy Collection at Sacramento Public Library. Many genealogy books may be borrowed with a Sacramento Public Library card, but others may only be used in person at the owning branch.
Sacramento Regional Genealogical Council
The SRG Council is a group of Northern California genealogical and historical organizations and libraries that assist people searching for family history information. Their website provides information, a directory of genealogy organizations, and a combined event calendar.