List of genealogy databases

This is a list of genealogy web portals, sites on the web that are large curated sets of links to genealogy resources. This list should not overlap with, as the items here are not associated with specific databases of genealogy information. Only the largest of the web genealogy portals which transcend national boundaries, family lines, and time periods should appear here, as there are many thousands of minor portals.


 * - portal for online resources, GEDCOM-compatible online family tree utility, open online social network with focus on Genealogy and Biography/Memoir writing.
 * Cyndi's List (external link), containing >250,000 resource links, categorized and cross-referenced in more than 180 categories.
 * Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory (external link), a portal designated as a launching point for professional and academic genealogical research; includes thousands of related sub-sets, with billions of primary or secondary database records.
 * Family History UK Free UK family tree, genealogy and ancestry community portal website
 * Linkpendium (external link), "The Definitive Directory" of genealogy websites, with millions of categorized links, primarily focused on surnames and United States research.
 * Genealogy Today (external link), for professional and amateur researchers, contains searchable databases and resources for help building your family tree.
 * Kindred Trails (external link), Worldwide Genealogy Resources
 * GenealogyBuff (external link), portal for obituaries, a large library of files, surname index of databases, both national and international.
 * eXpertGenealogy (external link), portal for online resources, genealogy web search tools, directories of genealogy professionals.
 * Lookup America
 * Genealogy on the Web
 * Ohile Free family tree, and ancestry community portal website
 * Death specific portals
 * Deathindexes.com (external link), a resource restricted to the United States, but providing link-sets for each state related to secondary death notice repositories
 * Kestenbaum Cemetery History and Preservation portal (external link), significant content related to cemeteries as genealogical resources
 * Obituary Links (external link), a large listing of on-line obituary information resources, restricted to the United States


 * Geographically restricted portals
 * , information covering England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man; Irish County Based Genealogical Centres affiliated to the Irish Family History Foundation *(external link)
 * BMDSearch (external link), a freely accessible database for researching births, marriages, and deaths in the United Kingdom.
 * Rodoslovlje i Heraldika (external link), is run by the Serbian Genealogical Society and provides a pedigree database and more.
 * UK Genealogy Web
 * Lookup United Kingdom


 * Swedish Portals
 * Genline, Swedish Church Records Online - the main sources of genealogical information in Sweden(external link)