Web Links
California Death Records and Indexes
A Genealogy Guide for Finding Obituaries, Cemetery Burials and Death Records.
Cemetery Census
A volunteer effort to provide free listings of complete cemetery surveys along with photographs of grave markers. Cemeteries are from 12 states.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) honours the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, and ensures they will never be forgotten.
Find A Grave
Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world.
Friends of the Jacksonville Cemetery
The Friends of Jacksonville's Historic Cemetery, Inc. was formed in 2008, and is an all volunteer, 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Our goals, then and now, remain the same: education, preservation and restoration efforts for the cemetery.
Interment.Net
This website contains 25+ million cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from tens of thousands of cemeteries across the world, all contributed by genealogists, cemeteries, government agencies, and private organizations.
Jackson County Cemeteries - USGenWeb
A list of cemeteries in Jackson County, with addresses, phone numbers, hours of operation, directions, if necessary, and any other relevant information. Some have an index of burials.
ObitsArchive.com
Search Over 53 Million U.S. Obituaries!
Obituary Daily Times (GEN-OBIT)
The Obituary Daily Times is a daily index of published obituaries. It is distributed FREELY, often twice a day by email, and usually has over 2500 entries a day. You can search the database anytime with the search engine above. WE DO NOT HAVE THE ACTUAL OBITUARIES. GEN-OBIT is an easy way to find a publication date of an obit. You can then refer to the newspaper to get a copy of it (at the library or directly with the newspaper itself).
Online Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries
A directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county.
Social Security Death Index 1935-2014
Ancestry.com
The National Directory of Morticians
The Redbook Funeral Home Directory
The Tombstone Transcription Project
VA - National Cemetery Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - National Cemetery Administration
FamilySearch Digital Library
The Family History Library sponsored by FamilySearch is the largest genealogical library in the world. The Family History Library is actively digitizing its family histories, local histories, and other collections to make them searchable and available online to researchers worldwide.
Google Books
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust members steward the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.
23andMe - $
Ancestry DNA - $
FamilyTreeDNA - $
GEDmatch
GEDmatch provides applications for comparing your DNA test results with other people. There are also applications for estimating your ancestry. Some applications are free. More advanced applications require membership in the GEDmatch Tier1 program at $10 per month.
International Society of Genetic Genealogy - ISOGG
The mission of the International Society of Genetic Genealogy is to advocate for and educate about the use of genetics as a tool for genealogical research while promoting a supportive network for genetic genealogists.
MyHeritageDNA - $
AfriGeneas - African Ancestored Genealogy
A site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas.
Freedmen's Bureau Online
Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Japanese Immigrants to the United States 1887-1924
JewishGen
JewishGen serves as-as the global home for Jewish genealogy. Featuring unparalleled access to 30+ million records, it offers unique search tools, along with opportunities for researchers to connect with others who share similar interests.
NARA Ethnic Heritage Links
A selection of links on the National Archives website to websites that are useful for ethnic genealogical research.
USF Africana Heritage Project
The USF Africana Heritage Project is an all-volunteer research project and website sponsored by the Africana Studies department at the University of South Florida.
Ancestry
Ancestry & Genealogy Discussion Group UK
Ancestry DNA for Dummies
Ancestry Helpers.
Ancestry UK
Ancestry World Archives Project
Ancestry-GEDmatch-FTDNA-23andMe-Genealogy-DNA
AncestryDNA Matching
Autosomal DNA-Gedmatch-FTDNA-23andME-Ancestry.com
Azores Genealogy
British Isles Genealogy Research Community
Canada Genealogy Research Community
Family Tree Magazine
Family Tree Maker
Family Tree Maker-MacKiev Conversion Information
Family Tree Maker® Users
Family Tree Printing by Ancestry Graphics & Printing
FamilyTreeDNA
Find A Grave Genealogy Discussion
Finnish Genealogy
GAA (Genealogy Addicts Anonymous)
GEDmatch GENEALOGY and Ancestry Group
GEDmatch.com User Group
Genealogy
Genealogy - Cite Your Sources
Genealogy - Improving your searches
Genealogy and DNA--23andMe, Ancestry, FTDNA, and Gedmatch
Genealogy on Facebook List
Download the 380-page PDF file containing 14,500+ links to genealogy & history Facebook groups/pages.
Genealogy: Lost and Found
Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques
International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG)
Jackson County Genealogy Library
Jewish Ancestry in Poland
Legacy Family Tree
NATIVE AMERICAN Ancestry Explorer: DNA, Genetics, Genealogy & Anthropology
North Carolina Genealogy
Northern Europe Genealogy Research Community
Oregon Genealogy Network
Our Black Ancestry
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - RAOGK USA
Random Acts of Kindness Photo Restoration Group
RootsMagic Genealogy & Family Tree Software
SAMPUBCO Genealogy
Scandinavian ancestry - Av skandinavisk ætt!!
Scottish Ancestry
Scottish Ancestry - Chat & Research!
U.S. Midwest Genealogy Research Community
U.S. South Genealogy Research Community
U.S. West Genealogy Research Community
Using DNA for Genealogy - Australia & NZ
Virginia/West Virginia Ancestry
West Virginia Ancestry
Family History Books
Family History Books is a collection of more than 325,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world.
Family Tree Searcher
Search family trees at eleven online family tree databases by entering your ancestor information just once.
Family Trees at RootsWeb WorldConnect
Upload and search gedcom family tree files.
Geneanet
Geneanet is a community of more than 3 million members who share their genealogical information for free: more than 6 billion individuals in the family trees, some digitized archival records, some family pictures, some indexes, all available through a powerful search engine, and a blog. The Premium subscription offers additional options, including an advanced search engine, and to access hundreds of million of indexes provided by our partners.
MyTrees - $
Our mission is to provide a platform where genealogists from around the world can share their research with each other.
One Great Family - $
An online genealogical service which allows everyone to combine their knowledge and data to build one huge, shared database. OneGreatFamily is more than a simple collection of different family trees. Using breakthrough technology, OneGreatFamily is actually linking all of the family trees together into one great family.
TribalPages
We are a Genealogy service dedicated to helping you build, maintain and share your Family Tree online. Our goal is to make this as easy as possible while protecting the privacy of your data. TribalPages was founded in July 2000 and has since evolved with the participation of our active community. It is now home for over 300,000 members with family tree websites containing over 250 million names and 4 million photos.
We Relate
The World's Largest Genealogy Wiki. You can create wiki pages for your ancestors, upload GEDCOM files, upload and annotate scanned documents and photos, include family stories and biographies, view maps of your ancestors' life events, view multi-generation pedigree and descendancy charts on the left side of the screen while displaying detailed person or family information on the right, and research over 400,000 place wiki pages. One of our goals is to make it easy to collaborate with others online even if your primary database is on your desktop.
Canadian Marriages Search
This page focuses on Canadian marriage records from various districts and counties.
Finland's Family History Association
The goal of our association is to provide an online source of archived materials such as communion books, census records etc. for everyone interested in genealogy.
Foundation for East European Family History Studies
FEEFHS was organized in 1992 as The Federation of East European Family History Societies, an international organization to promote genealogical research in Eastern and Central Europe without any ethnic, religious, or social distinctions. Originally set as an umbrella organization for societies with similar interests, the organization changed their name in 2014 to The Foundation for East European Family History Studies with a new focus.
FreeBMD
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.
FreeREG
The aim of FreeREG is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been extracted from parish registers, non-conformist records and other relevant sources in the UK.
FreeUKGenealogy
Free UK Genealogy provides free, online access to family history records.
Genealogical Society of Finland - HisKi project
HisKi project includes lists of christenings, marriages, burials and moves.
GENUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy
GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland.
Library and Archives Canada - Genealogy and Family History
Norway Heritage - Hands Across the Sea
Passenger lists and emigrant ships from Norway Heritage
ScotlandsPeople
The ScotlandsPeople website is the official Scottish Government site for searching government records and archives.
The National Archives - UK
The official archive and publisher for the UK government and guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents.
The National Archives of Ireland
University of Leicester - Historical Directories of England & Wales
Trade and local directories for England and Wales from the 1760s to the 1910s.
A Genealogy Gude
Searching genealogy has become very common, with many people investing in different methods. People have different reasons for wanting to find out who their ancestors are; sometimes it’s just curiosity while other times there is a medical necessity. Whatever your reason may be, you need to be sure you know how to approach the process.
Access Genealogy
AccessGenealogy.com contains the largest collection of free genealogy for your United States research. Find hundreds of thousands of free websites with billions of names you can use to further your family genealogy!
Ancestry Free Research Guides
Everyone can use a little guidance from time to time, especially when your family history leads you to unfamiliar records, and to research in new places and eras. We’re creating a series of research guides to help you through these new experiences and alert you to collections on Ancestry® that can help.
Association of Professional Genealogists
Do you have a research problem that requires a particular skill to solve? Perhaps your needed evidence is located in a distant repository? If so, consider hiring a professional genealogist. The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) members offer a broad range of specialties and are located around the globe. Locating a genealogist with the required skills is as easy as 1-2-3 when you use their searchable directory.
Cyndi's List
A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
FamilySearch Research Wiki
A free, online genealogy and family history guide that lists websites, provides research strategies, and suggests records and resources to help you find ancestors from all over the world.
Genealogy Research Strategies
The Internet has made genealogy research easier, especially with sites such as Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com, but they don’t always provide everything necessary to locate a person’s ancestors. Consider the following sources of information as you begin working on your genealogy.
Genealogy Today
Over 6,690 transcriptions -- including Masonic lodge rosters, funeral notices, school catalogues, telephone directories, insurance claims, directories, church member lists, prison records, etc. -- from original documents.
GenealogyLinks.net
Over 50,000 Genealogy Links - Browse by Region
GenealogySpot
GenealogySpot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best online genealogy resources for beginners and experts alike. Sites featured on GenealogySpot.com are hand-selected by our editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility. From the site, quickly and easily find the best resources to perform ancestor searches by state, country, ethnicity and religion, browse historical records, access reference tools, locate lost family members, join genealogy communities and much more.
Linkpendium
Linkpendium is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties.
NCHS - Where to Write for Vital Records
Old Medical Terms and Diseases - Access Genealogy
A list of medical terms and diseases that will appear on historic documents.
stevemorse.org
This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.
The American History and Genealogy Project
AHGP is a group of independent webmasters who link together to share Historical and Genealogical data with researchers.
The Family History Guide
"The Family History Guide is a free website that represents a best-in-class learning environment for family history. Its scope is broad, but its focus is narrow enough to help you achieve your goals, step by step. Whether you're brand new to family history or a seasoned researcher—or somewhere in between—The Family History Guide can be your difference maker."
ThoughtCo. Family History and Genealogy
Tracing your ancestors' story can help you understand your own. Start building your family tree with expert-written genealogy tutorials, database recommendations, surname meanings, search strategies, and ancestry charts.
USGenWeb Project
The USGenWeb Project is a group of volunteers working together to provide free online genealogy help and information for every U.S. state and county. The national site provides links to state sites, which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties.
WorldGenWeb
The WorldGenWeb Project is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to providing genealogical and historical records and resources for world-wide access!
American Family Immigration History Center - Ellis Island
Castle Garden
This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Manifest Markings - A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations
These web pages are intended to provide a comprehensive reference guide to interpreting the markings, or annotations, found on immigration passenger lists. It is written for researchers with a U.S. passenger list in hand.
Olive Tree Genealogy
Olive Tree Genealogy has more than 1,500 free ships passenger lists.
The Ships List
TheShipsList will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists.We also have immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
Accessible Archives - $
Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a large team of conversion specialists to provide easy to use access to vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy form or as images.
American Ancestors - $ - Available for free, with membership, at JCGL
Hundreds of unique online databases, offering more than 1.4 billion searchable records, focusing on New England and more.
Ancestry.com - $ - Library version available for free, with membership, at JCGL
The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world.
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
The DAR Genealogical Research System (GRS) includes free online databases containing information on Revolutionary patriot ancestors, descendants of those patriots, as well as the vast array of genealogical resources from the DAR Library.
FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a genealogy organization operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS Church). It is the largest genealogy organization in the world.
FindMyPast - $ - Available for free, with membership, at JCGL
Findmypast is a UK-based online genealogy service owned, since 2007, by British company DC Thomson. The website hosts over 4 billion searchable records of census, directory and historical record information.
Free ancestry resources on Findmypast
At Findmypast our records are always free to search but did you know we also have almost 1 billion records that are free to view! Explore Census records, Parish records and Military records from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Genealogy.com
Genealogy.com is a source for family history buffs to find genealogical research originally posted in GenForum and our most popular genealogy articles.
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online provides genealogical and historical sources for more than 60 countries, with coverage dating back as early as the 1700s. Requires a free account with use of a Jackson County Library car.
I Dream of Genealogy
Here you will find free online genealogy databases, compiled family histories, vital record resources, famous and celebrity family trees, lost and found family heirlooms, genealogy search, and you can submit your own family records to the free databases. You can also search over 60,000 free genealogy databases - marriage records, cemeteries, vital records from the United States, Canada, Ireland, Europe, Australia, just to name a few.
RootsWeb
RootsWeb, acquired by Ancestry in June 2000, is a free genealogy community that uses online forums, mailing lists, and other resources to help people research their family history. Users can upload GEDCOM files of their information for others to search at the WorldConnect portion of the site. Trees uploaded to WorldConnect are searchable at both the RootsWeb and Ancestry websites.
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center - Fort Wayne Indiana
McMillan Memorial Library - Wood County, Wisconsin Genealogy
National Archives - Resources for Genealogists
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Library of Congress
The Library of Congress
WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.
Ancestry Message Boards
GenForum
GenForum of Genealogy.com has over 14,000 online forums devoted to genealogy, including surnames, U.S. states, countries, and general topics.
RootsWeb Genealogy Mailing Lists
Find archived posts to RootsWeb's 30,000 genealogical mailing lists or find and subscribe to a list.
Alabama Historical Map Archive
A digitized collection of selected map holdings from sources including the University of Alabama Map Library, the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, the Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection of the Birmingham Public Library, the Geological Survey of Alabama, Samford University Special Collections Library, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Ask About Ireland - Griffith's Valuation
The Primary Valuation was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864. It is one of the most important surviving 19th century genealogical sources.
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
The Atlas presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. It also includes non-county areas, unsuccessful authorizations for new counties, changes in county names and organization, and the temporary attachments of non-county areas and unorganized counties to fully functioning counties.
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data—remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with the functionality of the twenty-first century.
David Rumsey Map Collection
The David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present.
Google Maps
Use Google Maps to locate addresses of ancestors. "Street View" may even show the building if it is still standing!
Historical Atlases and Maps of U.S. and States
Ireland's History in Maps
With a Special Focus on Ancient and Medieval Irish Tribes and Septs.
Map of US
Each State page contains rotating animated maps showing all of the county boundary changes & all of the county boundaries for each census year for each year. Past and present maps of US are overlaid so that you can see the changes in county boundaries, downloadable County D.O.T. Maps, and state atlas maps.
Old Maps Online
OldMapsOnline.org indexes over 400.000 maps.
Pennsylvania Early County Map List
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - University of Texas
RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States & Canada
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
The Sanborn Map Company was a publisher of detailed maps of U.S. cities and towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. The maps were originally created to allow fire insurance companies to assess their total liability in urbanized areas of the United States.
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
The United States Board on Geographic Names
USGS Topographic Maps by the National Map - Data Delivery
The National Map Data Download and Visualization Services This site provides applications and web map services for "Topographic Information for the Nation". This information includes topographic maps and geographic information system (GIS) data for elevation, hydrography, watersheds, geographic names, orthoimagery, governmental units/boundaries, transportation, and land cover.
What Was There
WhatWasThere ties historical photos to Google Maps, allowing you to tour familiar streets to see how they appeared in the past.
American Civil War Research Database - $
Fold3 - $ - Available for free, with membership, at JCGL
Discover your family's military past.
Missouri Soldier's Records: War of 1812 - World War I
New York Civil War Units - NY State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
Patriot Research System - Sons of the American Revolution
The PRS is a combination of the previous NSSAR Patriot and Graves Registry (Online), NSSAR Revolutionary War Graves Registry (Book and CD), information from the NSSAR Patriot Index CD (2002), and additional information and updates from various State Grave Registry Databases.
Soldiers & Sailors Database - National Park Service
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) is a database containing information about the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.
Access Genealogy - Native American
Native American History and Genealogy is a guide to beginning Native American research, available records types, Bureau of Indian Affairs agencies and reservations, census, church, military records, schools, annuity, allotment, treaties, removal records, archives and libraries, cultural groups, and forts.
Association on American Indian Affairs
Indigenous History of Oregon
The history of Oregon's indigenous peoples goes back to time immemorial. This guide is an introduction to their history, with links to more readings and sources.
Native American Genealogy: Reconnecting With Your American Indian Heritage
Overview of Native American Research - RootsWeb
Brooklyn Newsstand - Brooklyn Public Library
BYU Family History Library - Newspapers
Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
FamilySearch Wiki - Digital United States Newspapers
FamilySearch Research Wiki article about digitized historical newspapers.
GenealogyBank - $
Google News Archive
Historic Oregon Newspapers
The University of Oregon has digitized thousands of newspapers from all over Oregon ranging from 1846 to 2018.
Newspaper Abstracts
NewspaperArchive.com - $
Newspapers.com - $
Old Fulton New York Post Cards
Search over 47,059,000 old newspaper pages from US and Canada.
Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers
This online collection of digitized newspapers combines the content of the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) and the Wyoming Newspapers collection for simple one-stop searching.
SmallTownPapers
Choose from over 250 small town newspapers you can read free every week! Browse and search the scanned newspaper archive from 1846 up to the current edition! SmallTownPapers gives you free access to the people, places and events recorded in real time over the decades or even centuries!
The Ancestor Hunt
1000s of free historical newspaper links.
U.S. News Archives on the Web
Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Alsi Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc
The Alsi Historical and Genealogical Society was formed in November of 1980. Alsi, the original name of the native American Indians who lived along the Alsea Bay, was the inspiration for the name of the Society. "Alsi" means peaceful. Located in Waldport, Oregon, a part of the Waldport Heritage Museum.
Bend Genealogical Society
Located in Bend, Oregon.
Clackamas County Family History Society
Located in Oregon City, Oregon.
Clatsop County Genealogical Society
Located in Warrenton, Oregon.
Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society
Located in The Dalles, Oregon.
Cottage Grove Genealogical Society
The Cottage Grove Genealogical Society was organized February 10, 1975 to promote and stimulate interest in genealogy and to collect and preserve genealogical and historical information, especially that pertaining to Cottage Grove and the surrounding areas. The Cottage Grove Genealogical Society is an all-volunteer group.
Genealogical Forum of Oregon
As the largest genealogical library in the Pacific Northwest, they offer access to 52,000 holdings with records from around the globe, and many popular subscription-only genealogy websites. Their website offers a host of resources including library catalog, and the GFO calendar for upcoming free classes and workshops. Located in Portland, Oregon.
Genealogical Society of Douglas County
Located in Roseburg, Oregon.
Genealogical Society of Washington County
Located in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Grants Pass Genealogical Society
Located in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon (JGSO) is devoted to developing, preserving, and distributing Jewish genealogical knowledge and materials to others who may be searching their Jewish roots. Located in Portland, Oregon.
Klamath Basin Genealogical Society
Located in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Lincoln County Genealogical Society
Located in Toledo, Oregon.
Linn Genealogical Society
The Linn Genealogical Society is based in Albany, Linn County, Oregon with over 100 members. Our Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to “studying, sharing, collecting, and preserving genealogical and historical information” concerning Linn County’s culture and heritage. For over 40 years, the Society has encouraged interest in family and regional history through its many projects.
Oregon Genealogical Society and Research Library
The Oregon Genealogical Society was organized in Eugene on September 22, 1962. They have one of the largest genealogical research libraries in Oregon, housing over 10,000 reference materials for Oregon, the United States, and around the world. Located in Eugene, Oregon.
Willamette Valley Genealogical Society
The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society (WVGS) was organized in December, 1968, to create and foster the study of family history, aid in the publication of local history, and aid in the establishment of materials in local genealogical library collections. It is an Oregon Non-Profit corporation for public benefit, and was determined to be a 501 (c) (3) organization located in Salem, Oregon.
Yamhill County Genealogical Society
Located in McMinnville, Oregon.
Early Oregonian Search
This sesquicentennial project documents individuals who lived in Oregon prior to statehood through 1860.
Genealogical Forum of Oregon
Discover your family history at the Genealogical Forum of Oregon! Whether you are from Oregon, Virginia, Canada, or Ireland, their research library offers over 42,000 holdings with records from around the globe.
Oregon State Archives
Oregon State Library
The Oregon Historical Society
The Oregon Historical Society is dedicated to making Oregon's long, rich history visible and accessible to all. For more than a century, the Oregon Historical Society has served as the state's collective memory, preserving a vast collection of artifacts, photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, films, and oral histories.
Jackson County Government
Homepage for Jackson County, Oregon.
Jackson County Library Services
Homepage for the Jackson County Library system in Jackson County, Oregon
Jackson County Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Jackson County Property Data
Current property data for property in Jackson County, Oregon.
Lake Creek Historical Society
Established in 1990, the Lake Creek Historical Society was formed to help preserve the rich and varied heritage found within the Lake Creek area of the Rogue River Vall
SODA - Southern Oregon Digital Archives
In 2009, Hannon Library was awarded a grant through the Oregon State Library. The grant funded a collaborative project between Southern Oregon University, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Southern Oregon Historical Society to digitize images documenting the history, culture, and growth of Southern Oregon. Hannon Library has since worked with multiple external and internal organizations to build on these image collections, creating a broader perspective of life in Southern Oregon.
Southern Oregon Historical Society
The Southern Oregon Historical Society has collected, preserved and shared photographs and documents that reflect the lives of Rogue Valley residents. The Archives include many pioneer stories, but also those of later settlers, and of people born and raised in the Valley.
Southern Oregon History, Revised
A website with tremendous local resources created and managed by Ben Truwe, a Medford, Oregon historian.
Talent Historical Society
The Talent Historical Society researches and preserves the history of the Talent area in Southern Oregon. They offer a collection of historical archives to help local residents and visitors become better acquainted with the area's rich history.