Family Research in the USA & Canada

Your local public library will often have free access to newspaper archives and membership based genealogical websites!

Cyndi's List: Cyndi's List has nearly 300,000 links in 180 categories.

Ellis Island Passenger Lists, 1892-1924  

FamilySearch: The online home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' vast genealogy holdings is packed with data.

FamilySearch List of Passenger Lists: Swiss immigrant passenger and arrival lists.

Genealogy: Beginner's Resource: Great links and information about genealogy in general.   

Green County, WI Genealogy:  Cemetery lists, names and much more to help you find your Swiss roots in Green County, Wisconsin. 

Immigrants to Canada Before 1865:  While not just about the Swiss, this page includes Canadian emigration information of the Nineteenth Century. 

Immigrants to Canada After 1865 & Census Records Records kept by the government of Canada.

 
Library of Congress: American Memory:  Access the library's wealth of digitized historical documents and photos. More than 9 million items in all.  

Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies: Text of book by Albert Bernhardt Faust. Contains information of  those who left Zurich and settled in the Carolinas and Pennsylvania  between 1734-1744.  
 
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MyTrees:  My Trees lets you search 1 billion names with a single click. The Ancestry Archive totals 328 million names. It is a subscription service. You can earn free access by submitting your own family tree.

National Archives: Find tips and advice on researching your family's ancestry, as well as access to census records, military service records, immigration records, naturalization records, and more. 

RootsWeb: Rootsweb is no longer active, but old records are still available to view.  

  
WorldCat: You can explore the treasures of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide with this one-click search of more than 1 billion holdings.

WorldGenWeb: The WorldGenWeb Project is a  non-profit, volunteer based organization dedicated to providing  genealogical and historical records and resources for world-wide access.