Someone reminded me of another favorite website, so I am posting it, along with a few others I left off my previous list. http://www.segenealogy.com/ (Lots of genealogy maps, and a good list of genealogy terms, and illnesses, a must for beginners, or just someone needing a refresher course) http://www.goldenbranches.com/nc-state/cherokee/data.html (Lots of free data, including Census and Marriage records for Cherokee County, North Carolina) http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/ (1895 U.S. Atlas, for every state and county in the U.S.) The following are a bunch of websites featuring historical maps for all eras, and all areas of the U.S. and World. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/maps/maps.cfm#18c http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/countyfm.htm (North Carolina County formation maps, clickable from 1700-1912) http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/maps.html#historic (maps of all kind) http://www.davidrumsey.com/ (more maps) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ http://www.us-counties.com/index.html (want to find out what is available and who to contact for any State or County office in the U.S.? It's at this website) The following is a link to a website run by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that has transcribed thousands of slavery petitions for 15 states. Transcriptions are fully searchable and lists names of slaves, masters, and locations where petitions were filed. http://library.uncg.edu/slavery_petitions/about.asp Links to websites featuring lists of nicknames used in historical and present times, which can be very useful when trying to locate your ancestors. I'll bet a lot of people never knew that a name like "Mary" and "Polly" were interchangeable, or that "Mary" and "Molly", "Jane" and "Gincy", "Daisy" and "Margaret", "Madge" and "Margaret", and hundreds of others, were variations on the same names. That can make the difference when you can't find your Great Aunt Jane, but all you see is someone named "Jincy", or "Gincy". http://genealogy.about.com/library/bl_nicknames.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohfulton/FemaleNicknames.html http://www.genealogytoday.com/genealogy/enoch/nicknames.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacumber/nick.htm Looking for an Obituary of a fairly recent death, or in some cases, for a death occurring in the last 50 years or so? Or is there an article you heard about that appeared in a newspaper somewhere in the country? You can find it yourself in many cases by simply checking newspapers for the area of the country where the individual died. The following is the link to Newspapers.com, with links to newspapers throughout the world. Just key in the name of the location you want to find a newspaper, and you'll get a Results listing all of the local newspapers for the area. Click onto the newspaper site, and you can read the paper online, and most of them feature archived articles and obituaries which can be searched for free for a certain amount of years back. There are a few which charge a fee for older articles, but then again, there are those that don't. Try it. http://www.newspapers.com/ Find something on almost anyone who ever had anything to do with politics at the Political Graveyard. http://politicalgraveyard.com/ Genealogy resource page - Your guide to free genealogy search tips, articles, and family tree http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/ Want to find out more about the "Lost Colony of Roanoke"? http://www.ecu.edu/rcro/links/history.html Want to learn more about the original colonists at Jamestown? Plenty of searchable material here. http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html The following are websites that sell various genealogy books. Many times, these are the only way that some of us can find those wills, deeds, estate records, etc., and these websites sell books at fairly decent prices and are very reliable. The webpages are fully Searchable. http://www.willowbend.net/advsearch.asp http://www.bigtreebooks.com/index.asp http://www.ancestorstuff.com http://www.genealogical.com/ Regards, Deloris Williams