Cyndi's List
www.cyndislist.com/
This site provides links to over 260,000 genealogy websites and online resources.

Descendants of Roger Williams through Four Generations
www.rogerwilliams.org/4gen-genealogy.htm
This resource consists of listings of descendants of Roger Williams through four generations with birth, death, and marriage dates (when known). Provided by the Roger William Family Association.

Ellis Island.org
www.ellisisland.org
Research immigrants who came through Ellis Island.

Familysearch.org
www.familysearch.org
Free family history, family tree and genealogy records and resources from around the world. A service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Find A Grave
www.findagrave.com/index.html
Search 30 million grave records and also locate famous graves using the famous grave search function.

Finding Your Portuguese Roots
homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/HowTo.html
Useful resource for searching for your Portuguese ancestors.

Free Genealogy Forms
www.familytreemagazine.com/freeforms

JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/
The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) is a database of more than 1 .3 million names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present.

National Archive: Genealogy Resources
archives.gov/genealogy/

National Archive: Genealogy Resources
www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/index.html

New England Historic Genealogical Society
www.americanancestors.org

Obitfinder
www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=ObitFinder
ObitFinder searches obituaries from more than 700 national & international newspapers and the U.S. Social Security Death Index to provide the most accurate and timely obituary information available. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) data used on this site dates back to January 1, 2001, and is updated weekly. Search results display date of birth, date of death, zip code, and town and state of last known residence. Please note that keyword search is not available for the SSDI data. Recently published obituaries can be accessed at no charge, as can Social Security Death Index information. Obituaries from the archive can be accessed for a small fee.

Rhode Island Cemeteries Database
ricemeteries.tripod.com/index.html
The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project was begun by genealogists in 1990 with the goal of entering all known transcriptions of cemeteries in RI into a database. The Rhode Island Cemeteries Master Index is available online.

Rhode Island Genealogical Society
www.rigensoc.org/index.htm

Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries
www.rihc.info/index.php
The mission of this website is to make Rhode Island Historical Cemetery records publicly available on the internet. This site is produced in conjunction with the Rhode Island Advisory Commission on Historical Cemeteries (RIACHC). This site is in beta and is currently incomplete.

Rhode Island Historical Society
www.rihs.org/libraryhome.htm

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission
www.historicalcemeteries.ri.gov/

Rhode Island Office of Vital Records
http://www.health.state.ri.us/records/
Request vital records such as birth, marriage and death certificates for the state of Rhode Island.

Rhode Island State Archives
www.sec.state.ri.us/Archives/statearchives/index.html

Rhode Island USGenWeb Project
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb
Rhode Island genealogical information, facts and articles organized by county. Provided by Rootsweb.

Searching the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) in One Step
stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html

U.S. Census Bureau Age Search Service
www.census.gov/genealogy/www/agesearch.html
The Census Bureau provides an "age search" service to the public: The Bureau will search the confidential records from the Federal population censuses of 1910 to 2000 and issue an official transcript of the results (for a congressionally mandated fee) .Individuals can use these transcripts, which may contain information on a person's age, sex, race, State or country of birth, and relationship to the householder, as evidence to qualify for social security and other retirement benefits, in making passport applications, to prove relationship in settling estates, in genealogy research, etc., or to satisfy other situations where a birth or other certificate may be needed but is not available.

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