More Databases on the Internet

Another genealogical database with a variety of resources for Midwestern research is www.lovitt-genealogy.com/~lovitt/database.htm

This searchable system of links is set up by categories, such as Subject, Locality, State, Community, Online books and maps, and Country and Local Histories. Three of the links that I would highlight as examples are the Digital Library at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Ohio Statewide Death Certificate Index 1913-1944, and the Illnois page. The Ohio link includes extensive county listings for the state. Illinois also has extensive listings for county histories, city directories, obituaries, the 1844 Chicago city directory, and genealogical societies.

While many of these links also appear on Cyndis List, remember that no one site is totally comphrehensive and a researcher must continue to look for research assistance, in book and website forms. Our ideal website would have a search engine of the scanned documents as well as the genealogical databases. Many answers may already be online but not indexed, so the researcher wouldn't know without reading the entire document.