Links
The internet and the World Wide Web brings incredible resources to the search for our ancestors. It enables near instant contact with other researchers, the ability to view their results, finding long lost relatives, and help in the researching of records in distant places. While many records needed are still not on the internet, such as library records of newspaper articles and obituaries, or county and state records of wills and birth/death certificates, locating where those records are and getting contact information for them is now much easier and faster. This has resulted in an explosion of interest in genealogy and researching family lines. Witness the fact that Ancestry.com is now one of the most visited sites on the internet.This page lists some of the resources on the internet that I have used or visited in researching and developing this site.
Mailing Lists
An incredible resource for finding information on specific topics from others researching the same surnames or locations:
- www.egroups.com/sturdevant , a group devoted to the Sturdevant surname.
- GenConnecticut-L-request@rootsweb.com, a mailing list specific to Litchfield County, Connecticut.
- http://genforum.genealogy.com/sturdevant/, devoted to the Sturdevant surname.
- http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html, has a list of many of these mailing lists worldwide.
- http://lists.rootsweb.com/ has a list of over 20,000 mailing lists devoted to individual surnames.
Resources
Organized in no particular order:
- http://www.headstonehunter.com/index.html Headstone Hunters groups volunteers to search cemeteries for you. I am a volunteer in my area, and have found it be an enjoyable and useful tool.
- http://www.familysearch.org/, The LDS genealogy search site. A good beginning point for any search.
- http://www.genealogytoday.com/review/genealogy/immigration.html, Enables searching of passenger lists on ships arriving in America.
- http://www.heritagequest.com/, Heritage Quest has census records and databases, on CD or microfiche, for sale at reasonable prices.
- http://www.bcgcertification.org/rost_ix.html, Find a Professional genealogist when you hit the brick wall on research.
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html, An incredibly diverse collection of maps, photos, manuscripts, and legislative records, from the Library of Congress now online and searchable.
- http://www.ushistory.org/, To get to know your ancestors, must understand the times they lived in.
- http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/default.htm, New England family comprehensive resource.
- http://www.ourtimelines.com/index.html, create Time Lines for your ancestors.
- http://www.primenet.com/~langford/ships/shiplist.htm#Ship_Index, Another listing of ships and roster of passengers.
- http://www.vanished.com/pages/unusual.html, Not your usual list of genealogical resources. Check back often.
Sturdevant pages
Sites by and for Sturdevants, that I have found on the internet. If you have one, or know of one not listed, please submit them to us, and we will list them. Even if they are different spellings of the name. We are all related somewhere.