Bill Navey’s Research Links
Looking for links for Southern research? This site has one of the most comprehensive set of links for southeastern research I have seen. Also has good links to civil war research. This is especially oriented to TN and NC.
http://members.tripod.com/~rosters/
Western North Carolina Resource Center
Here is a site dedicated to doing research in western North Carolina, a key location for a lot of our southern ancestors on their way to other places in the South..
http://www.flex.net/u/golden/nc-state/
The Virginia Colonial Records, Library of Virginia
This is a collection of records on file at the Library of Virginia...ship records, legal documents, account books, and other early documents...a good place to look for the mention of early southern residents.
http://eagle.vsla.edu/colonial/
The Virginia Military Institute Archives
These include a variety of materials, including class rosters from the 1840s-1860s. If you had people who might have attended here, do check it out.
http://www.vmi.edu/~archtml/index.html
Southern Religion
This is a set of course notes, texts and a syllabus for a course
in Southern Religion...If you
are trying to figure out why your Dutch Reformed or Anglican or Quaker
ancestors all of a sudden became Methodist or Baptist or other, this might
help you figure out what was going on,
especially the documents in the Text sections.
http://smith2.sewanee.edu/gsmith/Courses/Religion391/home2.html
The My Louisiana Lineage Home Page
This page is a genealogy home page with a good bit of documentation for early settlers in the Point Coupe/Avoyelles areas in Louisiana. This includes some quite early census information. If you have French Louisiana Roots, you might want to check it out.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5571/
Tracking Your Alabama Ancestor
A collection of data links to help people doing research in Alabama..has
links to information like census records, cemetery records, military records
and other useful things...broken down
to state wide and county wide resources.
http://members.aol.com/GenWebLisa/TYRalachart.html#Covington
Texas Historic Sites Atlas
This is a great site for people doing research in Texas...it's a searchable atlas of historical tidbits, including national historical sites for the state, searchable by county, keyword or address. Sometimes, you can hit real pay dirt in genealogical information...definitely worth checking out.
The Latta Plantation
This is an interesting little site set in Mecklenburg County, NC. It is the home page of the James Latta Plantation, active in the early 1800s which is now a living history site.
What makes this an interesting site is that it does more than just show off the plantation house...it has a little history of the area, of various types of people, planters, small farmers, slaves, and helps give you an idea of the look and feel of what life might have seemed like at a time when many of our ancestors were starting on the path from the east coast to various points in the South and beyond.
If you are interested, be sure to check out all the links. It's not heavy history, but the buildings have been restored carefully to look as authentic as possible...and it makes me glad for my nice range and built in oven and microwave...we really need to look at the old kitchens and tools to help us appreciate modern life!
http://www.lattaplantation.org/
Julia's Southern States Genealogy Place
This site is a nice collection of links for doing genealogy in the South,
broken down by state, and includes a number of links for researching African
American and Native American roots as
well as the usual assortment.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5387/
This is a collection of links about the different ways our forefathers travelled...some of the links may be too northern or western for your research, but it has some interesting connections.
http://members.aol.com/ntgen/hrtg/strr.html
The Homepage of American Memory
This is the Library of Congress's American Memory collection homepage. If you haven't checked it out lately, you really should. Don't forget to check out the WPA collection especially. These are documents made during the depression years of people recounting their past experiences, and sometimes theyreally contain some gems of family history.
Census Central
Need a census lookup? Have census records you are willing to share?
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~uslookup/
The Census Online
Looking for online census data? Check this site out...it has links
to census and similar material organized by state, and some international
links, too...Also there is a link for African
American census data, too.
http://www.doitnow.com/~moravia/census.html#Index
Native American/Scots Irish Surname Database
Trying to discover if your family has native american links?
Try this site:
This site has a two search engines: the first you can check by surname,
the second you can check by location. It links surnames for particular
areas with research links that will help you look
further into it. I especially like the county level area links...check
it out.
http://www.IHAonline.com/sctsirsh.htm
Accessible Archives Search and Information Server
Check this site out...it's a collection of databases drawn from several
newspapers...The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper
Perspective November 1860 - April 1865
from the Charleston Mercury * The New York Herald * Richmond Enquirer,
a database of 19th century African American newspapers, The Pennsylvania
Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870.
This is a searchable site. Check it out.
http://204.170.102.11/cgi-bin/accessible/verify.pl
The Political Graveyard
It is a database of historic cemetery information listing the cemeteries where politicians are buried. Most of these politicians are local area politicians, so they help you understand something about the local history of the community there. Check it out.
http://www.potifos.com/tpg/index.html
War of 1812 Database
Looking for War of 1812 ancestors? This site, run by Sierra Online, has a db of war of 1812 soldiers...
http://sierra.com/sierrahome/familytree/records/w1812/list/
NAME INDEX TO THE CHRISTIAN MESSENGER
Here is a name index of Barton Stone's The Christian Messenger, which was an early journal of the religious movement that saw the Disciples of Christ, the Christian Church and the Church of Christ movement, all pretty important in the South. The time period is 1826-1840...and although some of it is oriented to IL, KY and TN are certainly represented...
http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/index.html
History of the American Presbyterian Church
A large number of our ancestors are Scots-Irish in roots, and that means
somewhere in the background, it's quite possible we have presbyterian roots...this
website is a source of
Presbyterian history in the US...a lot of it is centered on PA (which
is where a lot of our SI ancestors started their treks south), but there
are some links more specifically for the south. Check it out.
http://sdsspc1.physics.lsa.umich.edu/amckay/presintr.htm
The History Net Article Index
Check this site out....it's a collection of history articles...including a lot of them about the civil war era, and the west...this link takes you to the article index; another link on this page takes you to a keyword search page (not yet working, but something that will make it more useful in the future). Very good site to explore.