familytreemagazine.com 27*Arizona Memory Project
<azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital>
Dig deep into the Grand Canyon State’s past
with oral histories, photos, historical newspa-
pers, maps and more.
*Arkansas State Archives
Record indexes, maps, newspapers, manuscripts
and digitized Civil War diaries make this a go-to
site for Arkansas kin.
BYU Idaho
<abish.byui.edu/specialcollections/western-
states/search.cfm>
When your American ancestors weren’t fi ght-
ing, they were probably getting married. And if
they tied the knot out West, you can fi nd them
in these hundreds-of-thousands of marriage
records from 12 Western states.
Calisphere
Discover more than 1.25 million images, texts
and recordings in this gateway to digital col-
lections from California’s libraries, archives
and museums.
*Digital Library of Georgia
From the civil rights movement to the Civil War,
newspapers to notes from mayors’ offi ces, this
collaboration covers more than a half-million
digitized glimpses into Georgia’s past.
Florida Memory
Confederate pension applications, WWI service
cards, early auto registrations and Spanish land
grants—plus streaming old-time radio—high-
light this Florida history tour.
Illinois State Archives
<www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/
archives/databases/home.html>
Not as fancy as some other state sites, this col-
lection stands out for its dedication to databases,
including marriage and death indexes and mili-
tary records. If you can’t fi nd answers here, the
Illinois Regional Archives Depositories search
will tell you where to look offl ine.
Minnesota Historical Society
<www.mnhs.org>
Digital newspapers dating back to 1849; a one-
click People Records Search for vital records,
state censuses and military records; a place-
name fi nder; maps and old photos make a splash
at this Land of 10,000 Lakes site.Missouri Digital Heritage
<www.sos.mo.gov/mdh>
Search 9 million records at once or drill down
to individual databases of vital records, mili-
tary service, naturalizations and even prisoner
photographs.*Ohio Memory
<www.ohiomemory.org>
Don’t be fooled by the simple home page. Inside
you’ll fi nd items from 360 institutions statewide:
yearbooks, county atlases, digitized newspaper
pages, old photos and more.Seeking Michigan
<www.seekingmichigan.org>
Home to a treasure trove of records, photo-
graphs, and maps, this site includes death
records, newspaper indexes, Civil War
resources, state censuses, and a growing natu-
ralization collection.Virginia Memory
<www.virginiamemory.com>
Yearbooks, slavery records and old travel bro-
chures are among recent additions to this col-
lection that includes military records, wills,
land records and more.Wisconsin Historical Society
<www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy>
More than 3 million records are at your virtual
fi ngertips here, including newspaper clippings,
images, vital records indexes and land records.
Browse the collections, or use the all-in-one
search box. David A. Fryxell founded Family Tree Magazine and
edited the fi rst 101 Best Websites list, which appeared in
our second issue.