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The AmericanHeritage.com Guide to the Best of the Web
This is a critical guide to the World Wide Web's very best sites about history and about topics of
historical interest, from the editors of AmericanHeritage.com and compiled by Jillian Sim. We want it
to be comprehensive and definitive, so please send any comments, corrections, or recommended additions
to comments@americanheritage.com.
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http://members.tripod.com/~GaryFelix/index1.htm
Genealogy of Mexico is an informative and extensive resource for data, which focuses on Spanish lineage via the Conquistadors, who took control of Mexico in the 16th century. Approximately 19,000,000 native peoples were wiped out following the arrival of the Conquistadors, and because of the paucity of reliable historical records relating to indigenous peoples, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to trace early Mexican ancestral roots.
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http://www.CastleGarden.org
Before there was Ellis Island there was New
York’s Castle Garden, the port of entry and
processing center for immigrants between
1855 and 1890. This site contains a free
database accessing records of more than 10
million immigrants who arrived in New York
between 1830 and 1892. Use the search
engine and try your luck finding your pre–Ellis
Island immigrant relatives.
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http://www.cyndislist.com/hispanic.htm
Considering how few genealogical sites cover non-European-based ancestry, this page, dedicated to researching Hispanic, West Indian and Central and South American ancestry, is truly an invaluable resource. Here,you’ll find dozens of history, culture, and language links to aid research, as well as information on where and how to write for family records.
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http://www.ellisisland.org/
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation,
Inc. Search for your immigrant ancestors
here, for free. My own grandfather’s record of
coming to America, which I’d spent months
trying to find through the snail-mail route,
turned up in a matter of seconds.
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