1. www.hertiage.com (Free at home with library card)
2. www.ancestory.com (Free at the library/paid at home)
3. http://thelibrary.org  Join us at our local library on south Campbell to search our beautiful genealogy library. It has a large collection of local genealogy such as
   1. FRISCO railroad
   2. O’Reilly Hospital
   3. SANBORN fire maps all USA
   4. PERSI index
   5. some local area NEWSPAPERS
   6. GUIDE TO INDIAN HERITAGE and BLACK HERTIAGE.

   Tells you how to get started also the experienced genealogist.  This site has lots of local Information. 
   What’s available:
   Access the library website at www.library.org. Go to  > local history (along top of site in brown), next go to > (on left sidebar under research guides) > Online Resources. This brings you to the 1) local history, 2) helpful hints, 3) PERSI, 4) SANBORN,  5) FRISCO (click on magazines lots Springfield history) etc.

4. www.ancestry.com This site allows you to share your genealogy, if you wish. Search and store the records that are available. Bring up digital record & save the record.
   Cost: Free site with library card while at the Springfield-Greene County Library. Paid site from your personal computer.
   
   What’s available: State by state search of  1) census, 2) SS etc. very easy. 3) Social Security Index 4) 1790-1930 US Federal Census,  5) Canadian Census, 6) UK Census  etc. 8) World Trees and Family trees people have entered. 9) New York and US passenger lists, US Civil War Soldiers and Veterans gravesites 10) Some city directories, 11) Some newspapers and periodicals, 12) African-American collection, 12) WW I draft cards. 13) Message boards where you can seek information. Lots of other items.

5. www.usgenweb.com (FREE site) Search by state search. Each state has a website for you to discover what they have to offer.
6. www.footnote.com  (Paid site)
   (Not available from the Springfield Library website)
   1) POLK city directories 2) NARA - Naturalization NY, 2) Allen County Library link,  3) 1860 Federal census (Free) 4) Revolutionary war service records, 5) Pennsylvania archives (Free), 6) MO crew reports WWII, 7) Pension index CIVIL WAR TO 1900, 8) WWII Air Force photos (Free)
7. www.familysearch.com (FREE site)
   This is the Church of Latter Day Saints website. It is very searchable for surnames, city, and some foreign places. A good website. They have microfilmed many churches etc since the early 1950.
8. www.rootsweb.com (FREE site)
   Rootsweb is one of the oldest genealogy websites on the web.  Great website. It has information for you to start your search with roots web.
   1. Submit records you have transcribed for inclusion in our user-contributed databases.
   2. Upload your family tree to the WorldConnect Project, a database of family trees submitted by thousands of RootsWeb.com researchers. A wonderful FREE place to put your genealogy research.
   3. Post your family surnames on the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL).
   4. Post on a mailing list, others who are searching your surname
   5. Post on message boards, others who are searching your surname
9. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives  (Free site) This is a Missouri government site.
10. http://www.news-leader.com/legacy/genealogy/ (Free site) Ask your questions and she will ask it Online News-Leader.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Nationwide Archives Available

• http://www.archives.gov (FREE site)
  Most people who come to the National Archives to conduct research are genealogists or family historians. They are trying to find information about their ancestors in order to fill in their family tree/write a family history.
  1) They use census records to learn people's names, ages, and who lived where, when. 2) They check passenger arrival lists from boats that originated in Europe to prove when an immigrant landed in the United States. 3) Genealogists also often look at military service records, as well as 4) land, 5) naturalization, and 6) passport records, and more. In addition to conducting this research at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, the Regional Archives also have most of the main genealogical-related records on microfilm as well.

Central Plains Regional office for National Achieves KCMO

• http://www.archives.gov (FREE site)
  One of fourteen Regional Archives, the Central Plains Region holds Federal records from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, along with select material from Minnesota and the Dakotas.  Among its holdings are 1) original records of the U.S. District Courts, 2) U.S. Attorneys, 3) Bureau of Prisons, 4) Steamboat Inspection Service, 5) Bureau of Indians Affairs, Corps of Engineers, 6) U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 7) National Parks Service, and 8) microfilm publications of many of the nation’s most significant records.  Now located on Bannister Rd KCMO. Hopefully March 30-2009 to be relocated at next to Union Station KCMO. (see website for details).