Our Favorite Genealogy Links

BLM Land Patents
Database of images of more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.

Census Project
A collection of United States census records transcribed by volunteers.

Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive
A free research web site devoted to orphan photos.

Family Search
Extensive databases of the LDS church. Search for individuals or view the holdings of the Family History Library Catalog.

How Common is this Surname?
U.S. Census Bureau's name search. Includes frequency in percent, cumulative frequency in percent, and rank.

How Much is that Worth Today?
A program that calculates what an amount of money from sometime in the past is worth in today's dollars.

Library of Virginia
Contains numerous records useful in family history research including Virginia bible, church, land, tax, and military records.

Making of America
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through reconstruction.

New River Notes
An invaluable site for anyone researching families in the upper New River area. It contains numerous transcripts of census, birth, marriage, military, and death records from Grayson County, Virginia and Ashe County, North Carolina.

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
Volunteers listed on this site provide genealogical information available in their area to those who live far away.

RootsWeb
Oldest and largest free genealogy site on the Internet

Somebody's Links
Message forum for found treasures seeking family connections.

USGenWeb
A collection of genealogy sites for every county in the United States.

USGS Query Form
National mapping information.

Way Back Machine
An archive of the Internet dating back to 1996. Useful for looking up pages of web sites that are no longer active.

Will Indexes
Sampubco's national index of wills with links to wills that have been posted to Rootsweb.

WorldCat
The world's largest library index.

McCarter Family Links

Surname Resources

McCarter
Williams
Senter
Pugh
Tharp
Carmean
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May
Dodson

County Resources

Lolley Family Links

Surname Resources

Lolley
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Hartson
Lenhart
Lumburger
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Picklesimer
Horn
Elder
Wyer
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County Resources