Thursday, March 6, 2014

My Favorite Sites


Finding Living Relatives
And Adoption-Related Searches
Using Public Records on the Internet

Priscilla Stone Sharp
Genealogist/Adoption Search Angel

My Favorite Sites for Searching

Google ….  Google    Google  - hands down overall favorite FREE searching site
When searching Google, put names in quotation marks:  "John Q. Public" in various forms "Public, John" and qualify it with the name of a town or other family member, or the word "obituary" or "census" etc.

To find if a website exists for what you’re looking for:

Birth/Marriage/Death Records:
www.ancestry.com  ($$) 
www.myheritage.com ($)
www.findmypast.com ($$)
www.genealogybank.com  ($) (SSDI, searchable by range-of-year, is free)
www.italiangen.org  (Free; NYC area)
www.fold3.com  ($) (Mostly military oriented)
http://ssdmf.info  (SSDI by DOB)
http://sortedbyname.com  (SSDI by name)

Newspapers:
www.nytimes.com  ($$)  (New York-area society and news archives)
www.fultonhistory.com  (Free; over 20 million pages of mostly New York newspapers)
www.news.google.com/newspapers  (Free, but not easily searchable)
www.news.nnyln.net  (Free, uppermost NYS counties)

City Directories:
www.spyralsearchsales.com  (City directories and telephone books available for sale on CDs and DVDs)

Obituaries:
www.legacy.com  ($ if obit is archived)
and newspapers

People Finders:




Yearbooks:

Military Records:

Arrests/Mugshots:
Social Networks