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Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet - Colonial & Southern Genealogies

Interpreting Colonial Records: Legal and Other Helpful Hints (For Genealogists Researching Virginia and the Southern Colonies).

Colonial Currency

Colonial Diseases & Cures

Colonial Naming Patterns

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Family Tree Magazine - Expert Q&A: Tracing Your Colonial and Early American Ancestors

Findmypast Blog - 8 Tips for Tracing Your Early American Ancestors

Founders Online

Through this website, you can read and search through thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic.

GenealogyBlog - Tracing Your Colonial American Ancestors

Top Tools for Tracing Colonial Ancestors

From the Stateline Genealogy Club blog.

U.S. Colonial Laws - LibGuides at Bowling Green State University

A guide that lists sources of laws for the original thirteen colonies.