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Search How to Start a Family History? Where to begin? How to locate records?
Howell Research
- Howell Research Room Howell Websites
Georgia
- The Battle Of Brown's Mill - Sgt. Logan Howell, 5th Iowa Cavalry
Kentucky
- Allen County, Kentucky Great searchable databases of Allen County.
- The Kentucky GenWeb Project Homepages Kentucky Konnections Howell Family History: Allen County
- Kentucky GenWeb / Allen County, KY Family Line Web Sites Howell Family by Tom Howell
- Kentucky GenWeb / Barren County, KY Howell Family History by Tom Howell
Missouri
- Missouri GenWeb / Lincoln County, MO
- Biographies Biography of Samuel Howell (1796-1882)
- Family Web Sites: Howell Family Tom Howell's site from the first Howell settlers of Lincoln County in 1827.
- Land Records: 2,767 Federal Land Patents of Lincoln County. Many thanks to Tom Howell who compiled and submitted information for these Lincoln County Federal Land Patent pages ~ March 2000!
- Letters: Logan Howell, This is the transcription of a letter from Logan Howell, 5th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, to his sister Polly H. Howell of Lincoln County, Missouri dated Sept 27, 1862. Courtesy of Logan Howell’s great granddaughter, Mrs. Frank J. (Grace) Hampel, Moscow Mills, Missouri. Compiled by Tom Howell, Loveland, CO.
- Obituarry: HOWELL, James Madison (1833-1914)Troy Free Press (Troy, Lincoln Co., MO) 8 Jan 1915. Contributors Page
- Obituary: HOWELL, Francis Marion (1832-1906)
- Photos: Photographic Records of Lincoln County Families added to the The USGenWeb / MOGenWeb Project Lincoln County, Missouri: Howell Family Photos
Iowa
- Brief Biographies of Veterans of the Fifth Iowa Cavalry
Sergeant Logan Howell, Company D This information was provided by Tom Howell and Kirby Ross, relatives of this proud veteran of the Fifth Iowa Cavalry.- Battle of Brown's Mill
Kansas
- Old West Kansas Kansas Heritage Center
- Kansas Genealogy Surname Page Howell
- Kansas Pioneer Project HOWELL, Samuel B. b. 1861. Settled in 1884, Springvale Township, Pratt Co. The Kansas Pioneers List (KPL) is a compilation of settlers sent (e-mailed) directly from networkers doing genealogical and historical research that they are willing to disclose. The list currently contains many names and continues to grow as more computer users and historians become aware of its existence.
- Kansas Family Histories This site is again accepting submissions for family histories. If you would like to submit a family history please email the file to: Kansas Families
- Historical Directory of Kansas Towns Nonchalanta, Ness County: Extinct town where Sam & Susie Howell married in 1888.
- Welcome to KSGenWeb's page for Pratt County!
- 1895 Kansas Census, Pratt County A complete collection of the 6,166 individuals residing in Pratt County in 1895 by township-compiled by Tom Howell.
- Pratt County Surname List HOWELL
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Recently named the "best genealogy site on the World Wide Web" by Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. The site is a huge "list of genealogy links" that is maintained by Cyndi Howells, with pointers to all sorts of genealogy information on the Web.- Census On-Line One-stop shopping for places to find a wide variety of census data online.
- Genealogy Links Genealogylinks.net consists of 2,500 pages of more than 23,000 links; most of them to online surname searchable records such as ship's passenger lists, church records, cemetery transcriptions, military records and censuses for USA, UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.
- Genhome This portal is updated relatively regularly and contains some good links to general research and to individual histories.
- USGenNet IS a web-hosting service (ISP) for qualifying historical and historical-genealogical projects. USGenNet itself is NOT a historical or historical-genealogical project. USGenNet is dedicated to providing free-access online websites for educational purposes, for public research and for the study of our national historical heritage.
- Ancestry.com is the premier resource for family history online and ranks among the top paid subscription services on the Internet. The site offers thousands of fully searchable databases containing information on hundreds of millions of individuals. New databases are being added to the site each business day and is estimated to have over 1 billion records searchable on the site. One of the best sources for viewing US Census images on-line.
- Ancestral Findings Birth, Census, Death, Land, Marriage, Military, Passenger, Immigration Lists and State Records Indexes.
- Family History the Web Community designed specifically for free genealogy content hosting and family research collaboration. FamilyHistory.com hosts over 100,000 family history message boards devoted to surnames and other genealogy-related topics. This Ancestry.com spin-off hosts more than 65,000 message boards for surnames and other genealogy-related topics, plus offers a free newsletter and family site hosting.
- FamilySearch The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shares access to its Ancestral File, the International Genealogical Index for nearly 20 regions and Web site links, along with a center for collaborating with others working your names and more than 150 church publications. Facts as of March, 2001: Searchable databases 700,000,000; Number of hits since launch 5,100,000,000; Number of visitors since launch 76,000,000; Average number of hits per day 9,100,000; Average number of visitors per day 155,000; Average number of pages viewed per day 2,100,000; Number of registered users 607,500; Number of collaboration e-mail lists 146,500; Number of family history web pages indexed 87,500.
- GENDEX Gene Stark's server indexes thousands of World Wide Web databases containing genealogical data for over twenty million individuals, and gives you the ability to locate and view data of interest to you on any of these databases, without having to go and visit each of the databases separately.
- Genforum Includes forums for 16,000 surnames, with more than 2.5 million messages archived. You can set up your own list of surname forums to follow. You can post to the forum, or get the e-mail address of the person whose post interests you. Part of the Genealogy.com site.
- Helm's Genealogy Toolbox premiered on the World Wide Web in February 1995 with a mere 134 links. Now, it includes not only the largest categorized list of genealogical links, it has genealogical software profiles, search engines, digitized images, how-to articles, queries, and genealogical news stories.
- Heritage Quest products include what it says is the largest private collection of family-history data on microfilm, more than 250,000 titles.
- Linked pedigree databases This site seeks to help you sort just how big each database is, how much use costs and how fast the number of names present is growing.
- RootsWeb The Internet's oldest and largest genealogy community. The site is home to the RootsWeb surname list of close to one million entries and offers two e-newsletters and online genealogical courses.
- USGenWeb Project This site serves as the entrance to the massive US GenWeb project, wherein volunteers across the US maintain linked websites about their states and counties. This page contains information about the project and links to state-level GenWeb sites. Special projects underway include a Census database for on-line census images and tombstone database by state and county.
Vital Records & Special Interest
- Vital Records Where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death and marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each US state, territory and county. A great source of information, including the charge for records, the years they are available and the address to write. There also are links to non-US vital records sites.
- Calculating Birth Year Based on Census Information
- Cemetery Transcription Library Interment.net is a publisher of cemetery records and materials relating to cemeteries. Visitors use our resources to help them locate burials of their family and friends, trace their family history, and learn something about cemeteries in general. We also provide links to other websites that publish similar information.
- Kentucky Vital Records Project
- Kentucky Vital Records Index Kentucky Vital Records are available for searching including KENTUCKY DEATH INDEX FOR 1911-1986
- Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Searchable by name, place or date.
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Created by a group of volunteers dedicated to making the search for our ancestors easier which grew out of a need to find ships’ passenger lists on-line.
- The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site. They provide live database access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. Image access is provided to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Images of Serial patents, issued between 1908 and the mid-1960's are currently being added to this web site. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this web site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the listed states.
- The Library of Virginia The Library of Virginia's Electronic Card Indexes is an online database of images that replicates catalog card indexes to selected library and archival collections. The database contains a separate image for each catalog card (approximately 1.4 million images in all). In many cases the card files were the only finding aids available for the respective collections, and the cards themselves were often discolored, brittle, or handwritten. The Archival & Library Collections include electronic card indexes of biographical, business, genealogical, land records, maps/geographical, military records and personal papers.
- Map Collections Library of Congress Collection
- US Digital Map Library The United States Digital Map Library is a new project currently being developed by USGenWeb Archives. Our goal is to make available to genealogists, useful, readable, high quality maps. Here you will find both archival maps and newly made maps based on scholarly research.
- 1895 U.S. Atlas Main Title Page
- Microsoft Teraaserver
- Tiger Map Service
- TopoZone
- US Geological Survey: Geographic Names Information System
- Earth Viewer
- Historical Maps of Georgia
- Kentucky Digital Map Library USGenWeb Archives
- Missouri Historical Maps
- A Collection of Digitized Kansas Maps Wichita State University Libraries' Department of Special Collections is pleased to present over 325 digitized Kansas maps, dating from 1556 to 1900, for interactive viewing.
- 100 Milestone Documents The following is a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
- American Colonist's Library Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History. The following is a massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not available online anywhere.
- American History From About
- American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP), an unincorporated not-for-profit network of independent sites devoted to History & Genealogy, and covering North American Countries and Territories.
- American History and American Studies Yale University
- American Immigration Home Page It's probably the best single site around to explain the US migration experience. Broken down into periods from 1607 to the present, it presents an exhaustive amount of information about why immigrants came to this country, what they had to do to enter, where they went and how they were treated by other Americans.
- American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Library of Congress
- Archiving Early America Discover primary source documents from early American history.
- Chronology of US Historical Documents University of Oklahoma, College of Law
- Digital History
- Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web
- Digitized Primary American History Sources University of Iowa. Extensive list of history links.
- Ellis Island More than 40 percent of Americans can trace their roots to an ancestor who came through Ellis Island. All told, 12 million immigrants entered the US here between 1892 and 1954, the largest migration in modern history.
- Historical Text Archive
- History Buff's Home Page
- History Channel provides a great search engine for any topic in history. Listen to great speeches.
- History Net where history lives on the web.
- History of the USA The following ten chapters from the original book by Henry William Elson were transcribed by Kathy Leigh. Thanks to her efforts they are offered here in e-text form for your enjoyment.
- The History Place Informative website focussing on American history from the Colonial period to present-day.
- History: United States (General)
- History: United States (Regional), and the Americas
- History: United States provides an extensive index of history subjects. This index is maintained at the University of Kansas
- From Revolution to Reconstruction A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times
Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands- Library of Congress The Library of Congress site has a wonderful American Memory page, with links to more than 60 collections, searchable by keyword or time period in a variety of media
- Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Good search engine.
- Making of America Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
- Migrations They came for a season, they left and went where? Why did they go and who went with them? So many questions about the migrations of our ancestors.
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) doesn't have a lot of actual records online, but does provide great explanations of what you'll find at regional offices, how to get data, what you're likely to find (including the burned 1890 census), and how to order microfilm of military records.
- National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution
- Native American History
- Outline of American History A hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times.
- Outline of American History U.S. Information Agency. Provides chapters on all significant periods of U.S. history.
- UShistory.org created and hosted by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia. Our mission is to bring American history to life for visitors worldwide on the Internet.
- US Historic Documents Documents for the study of American history from the University of Kansas
- Women in American History Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
- Georgia Census USGenWeb Archives Census Project
- Georgia Digital Map Library USGenWeb Archives
- Georgia Department of Archives and History Secretary of State
- Georgia History
- Georgia History Secretary of State
- Georgia History Network
- North Georgia's History Site
- Georgia and the American Revolution
- Revolutionary War Veterans' Land Lottery Records Secretary of State
- Georgia GenWeb: Part of the US GenWeb Project
- Georgia Genealogical Society
- Kentucky Census USGenWeb Archives Census Project
- The Kentucky GenWeb Project
- Kentucky Historical Society
- Kentucky History Books
- Kentucky Information: History
- Frontier Families of Missouri From the Upper Louisiana Territory 1790-1820
- Gone But Not Forgotten - Missouri Pioneer
- A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri - By Wm. S. Bryan & Robert Rose - 1876
- The Howell Family of Missouri
- Missouri Census USGenWeb Archives Census Project
- Missouri Historical Society
- Missouri GenWeb Project
- Missouri GenWeb-Lincoln County
- State Historical Society of Missouri
- Blue Skyways a service of the Kansas State Library
- Cyndi's List - Kansas
- Cutler's History of the State of Kansas Full-text of William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. From the Kansas Collection at CARRIE, Kansas Heritage Information Server.
- Kansas Census USGenWeb Archives Census Project
- Kansas Collection The voices of the past are heard again in KanColl, through nearly-lost books, letters, diaries, photographs, and other materials.
- Kansas Digital Map Library USGenWeb Archives
- Kansas Genealogical Society, Inc.
- Kansas GenWeb Project
- Kansas History Links
- Kansas History Websites
- KSGenWeb's page for Pratt County
- Kansas Pioneers Project "A compilation of settlers sent (e-mailed) directly from networkers doing genealogical and historical research."
- Kansas State Historical Society Award-winning site created in 1994, was the first state or local history society anywhere to be on-line.
- The Establishment of Counties in Kansas Maps and text transcribed from: Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1903-1904; edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. Vol. VIII. Topeka: Geo. A. Clark, state printer, 1904.
Military Records
- eVetRecs Request Copies of Military Personnel Records: If you are a veteran or next-of-kin of a deceased veteran, use eVetRecs to obtain military service records for World War I or subsequent service.
- Military Service and Pension Records Access to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- NARA Order On-line. Through Order Online! you can
- Request reproductions of Federal Military Pension Application Files
- Obtain initial reference services, useful for beginner genealogists.- Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System Online access to a selection of nearly 50 million historic electronic records created by more than 20 federal agencies on a wide range of topics;
Civil War
- Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 5.4 million soldier records in the National Archives. The facts about the soldiers are being entered from records that are indexed to many millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration.
- Civil War Maps ~ 1861-1865 American Memory Collections
- Civil War Battles by State 1861-1865
- Dyer's Compendium Union Regimental Histories Source: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion - Frederick H. Dyer, 1908
- AmericanCivilWar.com Search this site by keyword, battle or date for specific information.
- The Civil War Home Page contains thousands of pages of American Civil War material including information on Photos, Battles, Letters & Diaries.
- The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Search records; gif images.
- The War Of The Rebellion: A Compilation Of The Official Records Of The Union And Confederate Armies eHistory Search - Official Records
- Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1894 - 1922)
- The Civil War Project
- US Army Center of Military History site is a good source of information about getting your own or an ancestor's military records, unit records and more.
- Naval Historical Center provides interesting information about various facets of current and historical naval life, including help for writing your own naval memoir.
- US Civil War Center Index of Civil War Information available on the Internet has more than 4,500 records to units, battlefields, lifestyles, cemeteries, historic parks and more.
Ninth Kentucky Infantry History of the unit.
Walt Cross' 9th Kentucky Infantry Website Our Howell family is in Company C.
9th Kentucky Infantry So far, we have 44 Regiments online, with a total of 35,497 men listed and indexed.
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