Top Sites

Cyndi’s List - http://www.cyndislist.com/ This is really the only link you need. This is a huge site with links to over a quarter million (!) web pages. There are links for beginning to advanced genealogists, and everyone in between. How-to pages, history articles, and family recipes. Preservation tips, humor columns, and printable genealogical forms. Links to over 9000 personal web pages. Pages arranged by every conceivable region, religion, and occupation. Newsletters, message boards, and family reunion notices. By the time you visit every page, people will be searching here for your obituary.

Rootsweb.com - http://www.rootsweb.com/ Another large portal to numerous sources of information.

Search for Information

Social Security Death Index - http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records - http://www.ellisisland.org/

National Archives Genealogy Page - http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/start-research/

Passenger Lists - http://www.immigrantships.net/

Immigrant Genealogical Society - http://www.feefhs.org/igs/frg-igs.html If you need information from a hard-to find volume,

this library will look it up for a small fee. Specializing in German records, but many others available.

Bureau of Land Management - http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Search for land records of homesteaders and others.

German Genealogy Links - http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/index.html Contains links to all kinds of genealogy resources.

FamilySearch.org - http://www.familysearch.org/

Search for Cemetery Information

Transcriptions of Gravestones - http://www.interment.net/Default.htm

Coalition To Protect Maryland Burial Sites - http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdcpmbs/coalition01.htm

Gravesite Locator for Military Veterans - http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/

Rootsweb Tombstone Transcription Project - http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/

Message Boards

Search by both location and surname to find information

and make contacts with fellow researchers

Rootsweb/Ancestry.com - http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/script/main/rw

Genealogy.com - http://genforum.genealogy.com/

Maryland Information

Maryland Genealogy - http://www.mdgenweb.org/ Links to all sorts of Maryland-related web sites.

Kent County, USGenWeb - http://www.geocities.com/jaccschmidt/places.html

Howard County Historical Society - http://www.hchsmd.org/

Howard County Genealogical Society - http://users.aol.com/castlewrks/hcgs/

Montgomery County Historical Society - http://www.montgomeryhistory.org/library.html

Other Sites

AncientFaces - http://www.ancientfaces.com/

DeadFred - http://www.deadfred.com/

Supplies

Gaylord - http://www.gaylord.com/archival_supplies.htm

Your Family Legacy - http://www.webyfl.com/index.asp