101 Best Web Sites of 2005
9/27/2009
These 25 family history sites topped the charts in our poll for your favorite digital destinations. Find out what makes them simply the best.

Since 2000, we've pointed you to the Net's mightiest roots resources through our annual 101 Best Web Sites list. For this special fifth-annivesrary issue, we turned the tables and asked you, our readers, to vote for the genealogy Web sites you can't live without. You spoke and we listened: So here they are, the cream of the crop—your picks for the 25 absolute best family history Web sites.

AfriGeneas
afrigeneas.com

Ancestry.com
www.ancestry.com

AncientFaces
www.ancientfaces.com

Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records
www.glorecords.blm.gov

Census Online
www.census-online.com

Civil War Rosters
www.geocities.com/area51/lair/3680/cw/cw.html

Cyndi's List
www.cyndislist.com

DeadFred
www.deadfred.com

Ellis Island
www.ellisisland.org

FamilySearch
www.familysearch.org

Find a Grave
www.findagrave.com

GenCircles
www.gencircles.com

Genealogy.com
www.genealogy.com

GENUKI
www.genuki.org.uk

HeritageQuest Online
www.heritagequestonline.com

Illinois State Archives
www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/archives.html

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
www.immigrantships.net

JewishGen
www.jewishgen.org

Library of Congress
loc.gov

Missouri State Archives
www.sos.mo.gov/archives

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
www.archives.gov

NewEnglandAncestors.org
www.newenglandancestors.org

RootsWeb
www.rootsweb.com

Texas State Library and Archives Commission
www.tsl.state.tx.us

USGenWeb
www.usgenweb.org

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