Genealogy
Websites
General Interest - African Americans - Illinois - Western U.S. - Great Britain - Europe
Books
DATABASES
Ancestry - Library Edition
This genealogy Website gives you access to a wide variety of databases; census records, military records, immigration records, and much more.
Please note: This Website is only accessible from computers located at the Joliet Public Library Main
Library or Black Rd. Branch.
HeritageQuest
This genealogy database gives you access to information about people found in
U.S. Census records and genealogy-related books and articles.
A Joliet Public
Library card is required for
Home Access
WEBSITES
General
Interest
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African Americans
- African American Genealogy on the Web
This Website from the Princeton [NJ] Public Library has links to several Websites with information related to African American Genealogy.
- AfriGeneas
This Web Site is devoted to African-American genealogy.
- Afro-Louisiana History
and Genealogy 1719-1820
This Web site contains information gathered by Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall about
slaves brought to Louisiana including "African slave names, genders,
ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of
origin, prices paid by slave owners, and slaves' testimony and
emancipations."
- Freedmens Bureau Online
This Web site has transcriptions of marriage records and records of labor contracts from southern states in the period immediately following the Civil War. Also included on the site are transcriptions of records related to "murders and outrages" that occurred during the same period.
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Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry
On this Website from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, you will find basic information about insurance policies written to cover the injury or death of slaves. The records are alphabetized by the first name of the slave, and the first name of the slave holder.
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Illinois
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Western U.S.
Great Britain
- Digital Library of Historical Directories
On this Website from the University of Leicester you will find city and county directories published in England and Wales between 1750 and 1920.
- Free BMD
"FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records."
This database "contains index information for the period 1837-1983."
- Common Heraldic Devices
This Website from the BBC explains the parts of a coat of arms.
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Europe
- Digitalarkivet - From the National Archives of Norway
On this Web site you will find links to a wide variety of Norwegian archival databases dating back as far as the 1660's. There is also a section on how to trace your ancestors in Norway.
- Monarchies of Europe
This Website charts the genealogy of several European royal families from the late 18th and 19th centuries to the present day.
- PolishRoots
"PolishRootsŪ was created to harness the power of the Internet to present research materials of interest to those researching their Polish ancestry."
- Slovenian Women's Union of America
The Mission of this organization is "to reach individuals by uniting them through their common interest in Slovenian culture and traditions." The site has links to
Slovenian genealogy Web sites.
BOOKS
For examples of books on genealogy available
at the Joliet Public Library, please click here.
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Links on this page are selected from lists provided by the
Librarians' Index to the Internet,
by Neat New Stuff I Found on the Net This Week, and from suggestions submitted by Joliet Public Library staff and patrons.
Updated 3/30/05 JT
Links checked 3/30/06 JT
Websites examined 7/18/05 JT
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