National Archives of South Africa

The holdings of the National Archives and Records Service exceed 140 kilometres of shelving space, comprising records in a variety of media. This includes paper-based textual records, electronic records as well as audio-visual, photographic and cartographic material. As the National Archives and Records Service is a public archives, its records originate in the main from […]

Military indexes for USA

This website is a directory of links to online military indexes and records for USA genealogy research. Included are rosters, databases of soldiers, draft card databases for World War I and II, and listings of military and war casualties.  

Building Your Family Tree Online: A Beginner’s Guide to Genealogy

If you were to attend a beginner’s class on how to build your family tree online, it would almost certainly focus a lot on Ancestry.com. Classes for experienced genealogists would move beyond this to more obscure websites and specialized websites for certain types of genealogy. But, for beginners just getting started with conducting genealogy online, […]

Billion graves

Worldwide headstone recording site with search routines

Genealogy and the law

When you’re knee-dip in genealogy resources, you might start to feel just a little overwhelmed by the abundance of legal terms you don’t understand. Because much of the genealogy hunt involves sifting through court and county records, marriage licenses, certificates of birth and death and other official documentation, it’s important you’re familiar with some of […]

Traveling to Find Your Roots: A Guide to Genealogy Research in Europe

If you’re just getting started with genealogy, it might surprise you how truly global your history is. That’s the case with most people, especially when living in modern countries to which immigrants have historically traveled. While learning more about your local family history is fun, sometimes you just want to really dig down to your […]

Australia & New Zealand military records

Australia and New Zealand Collection The Australian and New Zealand military collection covers World War I, World War II, the Boer war and the New Zealand Maori campaigns. Some of the useful records include Australian Contingents to South Africa, Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire (World War I), New Zealanders and the Boer War, the […]

Top 100 genealogy sites for 2016

Since we began this list five years, it has become the gold standard for genealogy lists. Part of the reason is the care and attention we put into the process to create an independent, objective list. We start by compiling an extensive list of genealogy websites from around the world. We then used the services […]

Top 100 genealogy sites of 2015

This article presents the top 100 genealogy websites from around the world. Since we began this survey four years ago, this list has now become the gold standard for the genealogy industry. It profiles and ranks the best ancestral websites based on their internet traffic (as measured by Alexa, the internet traffic people). For 2015, […]