How to do Foreign Research on Internet Sites
November 2005
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The Internet provides many different types of tools to help genealogists trace their family trees. Family History research has classically been defined in four phases: the basic survey phase, the research phase, the evaluation phase and the publication phase.

The Goal of the research Phase is to seek out primary and secondary sources. Foreign research is no different. There are many foreign research sites today and they will continue to expand with each passing month. Computers can help genealogists find and even search original source material online.

Family History Library Catalog – search the locality – http://www.familysearch.org

Wonderful Mega Search Engine – http://www.google.com

Mesa Regional Family History Center – http://www.mesarfhc.org

English Sources – http://www.alanmann.com/articles/Inet.htm 

Cyndi’s List – Use Alphabetical Index – http://cyndislist.com/alpha.htm 

United Kingdom and Ireland – GENUKI – http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/ 

National Library of Ireland – Newspapers – http://www.nli.ie/fr_cata.htm 

Parish locator (& radius search tool – http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/parloc/search.html 

International – http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthi.htm 

Irish Sites – http://www.ireland.progenealogists.com/irishsleuth.htm 

Scandinavian Sites - http://www.xmission.com/~jsvare/byu/byu2002.html 

Netherlands Sites - http://geneaknowhow.net/digi/bronnen.html 

Jewish/Netherlands - http://www.nljewgen.org/ 

Italian Sites – http://www.cimorelli.com/pie/default.htm

Eastern Europe GenWeb – http://www.rootsweb.com/~easeurgw 

Eastern Europe Sites – http://feefhs.org/ 

Ethnic Sites – http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/genweb.htm#top 

Jewish Emigration from Brooklyn, NY – http://www.jgsny.org/brooknats.htm

Central Europe GenWeb – http://www.rootsweb.com/~ceneurgw 

World GenWeb – http://www.worldgenweb.org

123 Genealogy Training – www.123genealogy.com

BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy – http://familyhistory.byu.edu

Great Instruction - http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - http://www.immigrantships.net/ 

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: The Compass - http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/pcindex.html

What Passenger Lists are Online? - http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

Immigrant Processing Center for New York http://germanroots.home.att.net/ellisisland/

Finding New York Passenger Arrival Records, 1820 – 1957 - http://home.att.net/~germanroots/ellisisland/nypassengers.html

Swedish Sites - http://www.genline.com 

German Roots - http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/ 

The Key to the Golden Door - http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/june01/ellis_records.html 

 Below is a wonderful educational site by RootsWeb to help you with all nationalities and guides for your instruction.  http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/

Trace your roots in Europe with this search engine dedicated to genealogy in all European countries
- NEDGEN.COM - free genealogy search engine 

Ellis Island Emigrant Index – http://ellisislandrecords.org

Lutheran Church in Germany – www.ekd.de 

Catholic Church in Germany – www.kath.de 

MapQuest (Germany) – www.mapquest.de 

Palatines to America - http://palam.org/welcome.html 

Language Translations - www.google.com  then genealogy translations

Translations - http://babel.altavista.com/   called babel fish

French Canada, Quebec - http://www.rootsweb.com/~canqc/index.htm

New York, Jewish, Emigration – http://www.stephenmorse.org 


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