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17th Century Hollanders - Sketches of Seventeenth-Century Hollanders

Seventeenth-Century Persons Who Lived in Holland and North America: Genealogical and Historical Notes on Their Lives, Families and Activities. Original research projects by Cor Snabel and Elizabeth A. Johnson. Within these pages you will find articles on many persons from Holland and the neighboring countries near it. Many of these people came to the North American colonies in the 1600's, or had family members who did. Interesting information we would like to share here may include family and genealogical data on persons living on both sides of the Atlantic, and sometimes in Brazil or even in places in Eurpoe before they moved to Holland.

A History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850

A fascinating account of the Irish in America, including details of many of the distinguished men and families who impacted on the history of the country. The book covers such areas as the Irish in Barbadoes, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, etc., etc., as well as touching on military campaigns in Mexico. Also included are chapters on the United Irishmen in America, and the American response to the Irish Famine of the 1840s. The appendices contain

American Ethnic Studies Research Guide

The Yale University Library Research Guide in American Ethnic Studies is intended to help users research many aspects of ethnicity, race and culture in America.

Ancestry.com - Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 $

Original source: Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889.

Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007

Chiefs of Mission, Listed by Country

1778 to 2001. From the U.S. State Dept.

Chinese Immigration Records

A guide from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Federal Bureau of Prisons - Find an inmate

Online searchable database includes all federal inmates from 1982 to the present.

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

Founders Online

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. More than 174,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.

GenealogyMagazine.com - The Dutch Touch Upon America

An article from GenealogyMagazine.com, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG.

Geographical Index to the Tribes of the United States and Canada

Hispanic Origins in the United States

Library of Congress staff have created this augmented bibliography of resources for tracing Hispanic ancestors in the United States, including migration, Crypto-Jews, and places of settlement.

JewishGen - American Jewish Year Book Obituary Index

Names of Over 3,000 Notable Jews Who Died Between 1948 and 1998.

JewishGen USA Database

A multiple database search facility which incorporates databases contributed by individual donors. The combined databases have more than 1.75 million entries.

Native Land

A map of land and locations for native peoples throughout the world. Once you click, a number of links will appear with different nation names. By clicking on those links, you will be taken to a page specifically about that nation, language, or treaty, where you can view some sources, give feedback, and learn a little more.

Online County and Town Histories

This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

Portuguese Origins in the United States

Library of Congress staff have created a bibliography of sources for Portuguese American genealogical research within the Library and beyond.

Principal Officers of the U.S. Department of State

Race and Slavery Petitions Project

Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Race and Slavery Petitions Project is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Project offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.