The following are categories that currently don't contain more than a very few links.

Census

• Ancestry.com's U.S. Census Images ($$) - NOTE: All but a very few of the available images are are indexed by "every name". For my family, I have found most of the images exist, even if I have to click through all the images to find them - kinda like "turning" pages in a book, or taking the next frame in a microfilm projector - and those I haven't found, yet, I am currently assuming I am looking in the wrong places. I generally use these one name and one census year at a time, and can use information from other sites or my own knowledge/research to narrow down the searches to specific locations and (sometimes) pages.
• CensusDiggins - FREE Census Online, Marriage and Civil War Databases
• Census Finder - "Census Finder is a tool designed to help you find sites which offer free census records online." This site has information not found elsewhere, and much more than census information, too.
• Census Information - Slightly dated, but has information about What it is, What's in it, Indexing information, etc.
  • What Do I Do with Census Information
  • Cautions and hints for making census research more productive

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Discussion/Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Boards (now part of Ancestry's Message Boards)
• GenForum - Home - Genealogy.com's discussion forums. Originally, I thought entries may also appear in Ancestry.com's message boards (and, at some point, they may), but it appears these are different. (08/29/2006) It never hurts to check. Forums/boards for surname, location, or various topics.

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Land Records

• Bureau of Land Management (BLM) General Land Office (GLO) Records - The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site - Searchable databases and images of "Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States." The site currently (10/03/2003) has "image access to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Images of Serial patents (land titles issued between 1908 and the mid-1960's) are currently being added to this web site. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States."
• Finding Public Land Sales in Illinois - How to read a land record and find the location on a map. While this is specifically Illinois and the databases may be different for other states, if you can extrapolate the codes to the "land description" (or if your state's database does it for you), you can use the same techniques. PLEASE NOTE: SOME STATE'S LAND RECORDS ARE NOT IN THIS FORMAT. THE MEASUREMENTS ARE DIFFERENT.
• Graphical Display of the Federal Township and Range System - Another description of (and a little less deep than) the above Illinois version of finding the described land.
• Land Record Reference - Land Record Reference - Subheadings include "Getting Land", 'State by State History" (only Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia as of 10/24/2003), "Buying and Selling Land", "Land Transaction Records. How they work, and where they are", "Two Types of Property Descriptions Used in Deeds", and "Terms You'll Come Across".
  • Land Record Sites - Land Records on the Internet - "A variety of land record information is available on the Internet. (Don't forget to check our book section for web sites for book sellers. The info you're looking for may be available in print.)"

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Names

• Names, Names & More Names - Genealogy Research
• First Names and What They Mean
• FREE Surname Search to Find Ancestors and Surnames
• The Surname Springboard Main Page
• SANDERS - Name Meaning Origin for the Surname Sanders
• Surname Center Top 100 Surnames SANDERS
• Top Surname Search Sites
• SURNAMELINKS.COM - Ancestory, Genealogy, Ancestors,
• Suname Web - Many links. A way to search by surname (last name) only. Appears to be a front-end to a number of sites. Some of the pages are copyright "Dennis N Partridge" and others by "AccessGenealogy.com."
  • SurnameWeb's HomePage Construction Kit - Various Genealogy Presentation Forms - Produced by Mark A Knight, shows how various programs create websites from a single GEDCOM, allowing visual comparison.

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Newspapers

• TheOldenTimes.com - Historic Newspapers Online - Always FREE! "... Old obituaries, birth & marriage announcements, old news stories, old advertising, recipes, cartoons and humor, and more. All are scanned from my personal collection of original issues of 18th, 19th and early 20th century newspapers from the U. S., England, Scotland, Australia & Ireland. Most of the newspapers date between 1788 and 1920."
• Indiana Newspapers - Current listing of Newspapers in Indiana
• Past Times collection - from the Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library - Zionsville - "... the digitized collection of local writer Joan Lyons' newspaper articles on the rich oral history of the Zionsville community. The original articles were written as the 'Past Times' column and appeared in the Zionsville Times Sentinel from 1986 to present." - Many items are VERY large (slow downloads)

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Online Encyclopedias and References

• RefDesk - Links to online dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.
• InfoPlease - "All the knowledge you need" - Current news, Almanacs, Atlas, Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus, White Pages and more.

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Prison & Criminal Records

• Genealogical Prison Records - from AncestorHunt.com - Some of the links go to sites with inmate records online and others tell you who to contact to get them
• Joliet, IL Prison Convict Register

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Programs

• GEDCOM to HTML Converters
  • Dynamic Family Tree Compiler - "... converts a single Gedcom file to the set of files required to implement a Dynamic Family Tree."
  • GedPage - "... the premiere gedcom to html webpage builder, has been used to create thousands of web sites, and millions of pages from all corners of the globe. The output is formatted as Family Group Sheets which are very easy to read, and familiar to genealogists. Gedpage has many options to give your pages a custom look."

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Religion Information Sites

• The Quaker Corner - Lots of information about Quakers, especially where to find records.
• JFR's Genealogy Topics
  • The Quaker Corner
• Quaker Meetings in IN

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