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Africana Heritage Project Archives of the Mennonite Church Catholiclinks.org Center for Jewish History Huguenot Historical Society Presbyterian Historical Society Researching Your United Methodist Ancestors Shoah Victims' Names UNESCO Archives Portal Find news and reviews on more great Web sites in the August 2005 Family Tree Magazine.
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www.africanaheritage.com
Based at the University of South Florida, this volunteer project aims to preserve and publish online records documenting the names and lives of slaves, freed persons and their descendants. The project taps library holdings, academic archives, plantation journals, public records, Freedman's Bureau files, early church records, oral histories, family Bibles and more.
www.goshen.edu/mcarchives
This multitiered site rewards digging deep for your Mennonite roots, with collection inventories, an index to the Mennonite Historical Bulletin, and obituaries from weekly Mennonite newspapers spanning 1864 to 1998.
www.catholiclinks.org/archivescatholiclinks.htm
It's no secret that church records are some of the most valuable genealogical resources. If you have Catholic kin, this site will point you to church libraries and archives worldwide.
www.cjh.org/family/genealogyrecords.cfm
Search the center's online databases, which include records from the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York, plus WWI soldier questionnaires administered by the American Jewish Committee.
www.hhs-newpaltz.net
Search the library collection or join the Huguenot Street Forum, a genealogy bulletin board for exploring your Huguenot ancestry.
www.history.pcusa.org
Query CALVIN, the society's online catalog of more than 75,000 books, periodicals and processed archival collections. Other online resources include a registry of historic sites and background on Presbyterians in America.
www.gcah.org/Searching.htm
If you have a Methodist minister or missionary in your family tree, use the form here to request information. The online conference directory can help you figure out where to write for lay records.
www.yadvashem.org
This database contains about 3 million names of Holocaust victims gathered from family members' Pages of Testimony identity cards and other victim lists. You can search by name, birth city, place of last known residence, death camp or name of the submitter.
www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Religious_Communities_Archives
This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Archives Web portal links to more than 300 religious archives around the world.
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