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Spend some time researching the location and era your ancestors lived in.
Learn about the political, economic, religious and cultural events occurring
during their time, and you will be able to think of them in terms of what
their daily lives were really like.
Newspaper Research:
How to Find Them, How to Use Them
City Directories:
Who Lived Where and When?
Local & County
Histories: Every Town Has a Story
Using Maps in your Genealogy
Journey
Obituaries: Treasure Troves of Information
Online Diaries
Reading diaries from the place and time of your ancestors will help you
to glean details about what daily life was like.
Migration Patterns and Trails
A variety of sites chronicling how our ancestors got from one place to
another, and why.
Timelines and Chronologies
Use historical timelines to help you create a chronology of your ancestors'
lives that will put them into context with the world in which they lived.
Wars and the Military
Research resources for the various military conflicts in American history.
Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts
Plimoth Plantation, Massachusetts
Batsto Village, New Jersey
Old Salem, North Carolina
Colonial Williamsburg,
Virginia
Virtual Jamestown, Virginia
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Library of Congress Homepage
Your gateway to the vast holdings of this repository.
Archiving Early America
Primary source material from 18th century America
US Census Data Browser
Data about the people and economy for every census year from 1790 through
1960.
Census Research for Genealogists
Helping family historians unlock the secrets in census records.
American Memory
Historical collections from the National Digital Library. American Memory
is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history
and culture of the United States.
Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum through Reconstruction.
First-Hand History
A digital library of written accounts from the 1700s and 1800s. The Archive
Library contains complete works for original research. The Topical Archives
are the product of other people's research.
History Buff
A non-profit organization devoted to providing free primary source material.
This site focuses on how news of major, and not-so-major, events in American
history were reported in newspapers of the time.
National Park Service History &
Culture
Learn more about history and how the National Park Service works to preserve
it.
Picture History
A digital library of high-quality images illustrating more than 200 years
in American history.
American
History Timeline
Presented by the Smithsonian Institution, this timeline covers U.S. history
from the colonial period to the present day. The timeline provides links
to articles with more details about each period.
American Centuries - A View
from New England
Learn about daily life in 1700, 1800, and 1900 by searching the more than
a thousand artifacts and documents from the museum's collection.
Year by Year: 1900-2008
World, U.S., economic, sports, entertainment, and science milestones from
each year from 1900-2008.
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Hammond
Atlas of United States History
The
Timetables of American History
by Laurence Urgand (editor) and Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (Author)
Great
Maps of the Civil War: Pivotal Battles and Campaigns Featuring 32 Removable
Maps
by William J. Miller
Eyewitness
to the Civil War
by Steve Hyslop
Historical
Atlas of the United States
by Derek Hayes
Frontiers:
A Short History of the American West
by Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher
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