Links of Interest

Today I’m recommending you bookmark the Links of Interest page at Ken MacKinlay’s Family Tree Knots webpage. He just verified all the links and updated with additional categories

The main body covers:

• Research and family tree sites — Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast, MyHeritage, Genes Reunited, WikiTree, and others.
• Canada — Library and Archives Canada (including censuses, military history, Home Children, parish records, and the Federal Divorce Index), the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (Canadiana and Héritage), provincial archives from Newfoundland to Yukon, vital statistics agencies, genealogical societies for every province, Canadian law resources (CanLII, Osgoode Digital Commons, BC Historical Statutes), and miscellaneous collections including denominational archives for Baptist, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Quaker, and United Church records.
• British Isles — national archives and general resources for England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Ireland, including FreeBMD, FreeReg, ScotlandsPeople, IrishGenealogy.ie, the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, and the Ulster Historical Foundation.
• DNA — testing services (AncestryDNA, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage DNA, Living DNA) and analysis tools (DNA Painter, GEDmatch, Shared cM Project, ISOGG).
• Education and certification — Legacy Family Tree Webinars, the Board for Certification of Genealogists, the Association of Professional Genealogists, and university-based genealogy programs.
• Maps — historical county maps for Canada and the U.S., Ontario-specific mapping tools, the David Rumsey Map Collection, and the National Library of Scotland map images.
• Newspapers — archives covering Canada (including Ontario county-level collections), the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S., plus the Newspaper Finder directory.
• Obituaries and cemeteries — Find a Grave, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Canadian Headstones, the National RCMP Grave Discovery Database, and the Ryerson Index for Australia.
• Passenger and ship lists — Bremen Passenger Lists, the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Lloyd’s Register of Ships, and Library and Archives Canada immigration resources.
• Books — Google Books, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, WorldCat, and Evidence Explained.
• International resources — covering Belgium, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.
• Genealogy blogs — including Ken’s own Family Tree Knots, my Anglo-Celtic Connections, Scottish GENES, Genealogy à la carte, and Past Presence.

There’s more of the solid information and advice Ken is known for at his website;