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Genealogy Resources

Canadian Cemetery Databases:

A database consisting of the surnames, given names, cemetery names and locations of more than two million interments in Ontario. It tells the researcher which county, township, and cemetery contains a given surname.

A database of over 16,000 known cemeteries located in Canada. It provides links to and information about transcripts, indexes & gravestone photographs. The service also offers gravestone lookups.

Search for family ancestors. Billions of free family tree, family history, ancestry, genealogy and census records.

A free online database of: births, marriages, and deaths, censuses, immigration and citizen records, land, and military records.

You can freely post your family tree on this website and search other people’s uploaded family trees.
My page can be found here.

Free access to transcribed Civil Registration indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.

I have used this software from the start. It has been invaluable to finding missing information and organizing the information that I already have.
Highlights:

Smart Matches ™: The technology matches your family tree to hundreds of millions of other family trees and allows you to compare the matches (the paid upgrade allows you to download others information right into your tree).
Research feature: Searches the internet to find individual’s matching information
Reports, Timelines, and Charts: PDF reports, timelines, and charts are easy to make with these features.
Maps: Locations in your tree are placed on a map
Statistics: Family statistics are calculated providing interesting data on: average age of life expectancy, most common names, etc.

A database of 50,000 surname meanings, containing information on the last name origins and the surnames earliest recordings.
Highlights:

Surname regional origins, different spellings, meanings, and famous individuals can all be freely found in this database.

An extensive database of Italian surname meanings, regional origins, alternative spellings, and famous individuals who share the surname.
The website is in Italian

This site provides the origin and etymology of first names, and the distribution of surnames in Italy (through the use of colourful maps).
The website is in Italian

Similar to the Italian Gens site, this website provides information on surname distribution statistics in Great Britain, both current and historic. It allows users to search the databases that we have created, and to trace the geography and history of their family names.