Links to Off-Site Resources
There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.
General DC History Links
- District of Columbia Public Library
- Washingtoniana Collection, Martin Luther King Library (DC Public Libraries)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
- "The Political Graveyard" -- Politicians and famous people buried in DC Cemeteries
- HonorStates Military Gold Stars, those who died while in service during WWI, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam
- Federal Pensioners of 1835,
District of Columbia
(Mr. Bill Navey provides this valuable asset---welcome information to everyone researching ancestors
who gave service to this great nation) - Building of the Capitol (Temple of Liberty)
- Navy Yard (Washington) and surrounding area:
- History of the Navy Yard
- Anacostia (one of Washington's oldest neighborhoods)
- C&O Canal Chronology
- Lafayette Square
- History of Christ Church, Alexandria (est. 1767)
- Lloyd House, Alexandria Public Libraries' Historic Records Collection
- Alexandria GenWeb
- National Register of Historical Places
- Historical Marker Database
- Guide to the Wormley Family Papers 1773-1991
Related History Links & Addresses
- Fort McHenry (it's role in American independence)
- AAHPF African American History Preservation Foundation
- National Archives Homepage
- National Archives Genealogy resources
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- BackgroundChecks.org genealogy resource guide
- DAC (Daughters of the American Colonists)
headquarters: 2205 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008-2813
phone: 202-667-3076 - Colonial Dames XVII Century
headquarters: 1300 New Hampshire Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036-1595
phone: 202-293-1700 - DAR Library Homepage
(Daughters of the American Revolution) - Fairfax Co., VA Genealogical Society
- Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington
- Washington DC Family History Center
- LDS Genealogy - Washington DC Marriage Records
- Chronicling America
- The Washington Bee
- GenealogyBank Newspaper Archives
- Association of the Oldest Inhabitants
- Western High School Alumni Association
- African American Heritage Preservation Foundation
- Maryland State Archives
- Library of Virginia
Digital Libraries
- Hathi Trust
- 1859 Catalogue of Officers and Students of Georgetown University 1850-51 thru 1859-1860
- 1864 Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown College
- 1870 Special Report of the Commissioner of Education ...
- 1891 Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown University
- 1893 Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbian University
- 1895 Personal Reminiscence ... Medical Society ... with many biographies
- 1896 Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown University
- 1899 District of Columbia Society of Mayflower Descendants
- 1908 Cherry Tree - George Washington University yearbook
- 1916 Cherry Tree - George Washington University yearbook
- 1918 Sketch of the Natural History of the District of Columbia with indexed 1917 map
- 1930 Washington Past and Present, Volume III, biographies with portraits
- 1932 Washington Past and Present, Volume V, biographies and portraits
- Internet Archive
- DC Public Library
- Charles Sumner School Archives
+ Central High School Yearbook 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
+ Western High School Yearbook 1895 1917 1919
+ Armstrong Manual Training High School Yearbook 1905 1920
+ Business High School Yearbook 1907 1908 1917
+ McKinley Manual Training High School Yearbook 1914 1915
+ Manual of the Public Schools 1920-21 - 1846 A Memoir of the Life of Edward Stabler, Late of Alexanderia in the District of Columbia; with a Collection of his Letters
- 1850 Wasthington Directory, and Congressional and Executive Register
- 1865 Official Army Register for 1861-1865
- 1877 Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia
- 1878 Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia
- 1879 Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and District of Columbia
- 1881 Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia
- 1883 List of Pensioners
- 1883 Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
+ III-IV The Negro in the District of Columbia
+ XVI Anglo-American Relations and Southern History - 1895 Medical, Pharmaceutical and Dental Register-Directory ...
- 1904 Register of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia
- 1908 Old Georgetown (District of Columbia)
- 1908 Military Order of the Loyal Legion ... John McAllister Schofield
- 1911 History of the Grand Lodge and of Freemasonry in the District of Columbia: with biographical appendix
- 1922 Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia
- 1923 Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia
- 1924 Army List and Directory
- 1931 The American ancestry of Frederic Louis Huidekoper and Reginald Shippen Huidekoper
- 1936 Work: A Journal of Progress by the WPA of DC
- 1945 Ergood Family and Allied Lines
- 1959 Railroad Magazine, Aug issue
- 1967 Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia
- 1972 Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790-1846
- Library of Congress
- African American Perspectives Collection
- Capital and the Bay: Narratives, 1600-1925 Collection
- Horydczak Collection
- Margaret Bayard Smith Papers Collection
- Panoramic Photographs Collection
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860, Collection
- Telephone Directory Collection
- National Archives
- African American History
- African American Genealogical Research
- Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
- Deed of Manumission for Robert Hemings 24 Dec 1794
- Project Gutenberg
- 1836 The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. charged with publishing and circulating seditious and incendiary papers in the District of Columbia, with the intent of exciting servile insurrection
- 1855 Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner
- 1903 Military Order of the Loyal Legion ... Cammandery of the District of Columbia
- 1905 A Belle of the Fifties Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853–66
- ACPL
Genealogy Center
- 1929 Washington: Baltimore & Ohio by B&O Railroad Company
Maps
Other Genealogy-Focused Sites
- Family Search
- Birth Returns 1874-1897
- Births and Christenings 1830-1955
- United States Slave Birth Records 1780-1846
- Court and Emancipation records 1820-1863
- Deaths and Burials 1840-1964
- Deaths 1874-1961
- Marriages 1811-1950
- Marriages 1830-1921
- Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records 1863-1872
- Glenwood Cemetery Records
- World War II Draft Registration Cards 1940-1945
- FindAGrave
- Our Family Tree - Search Obituaries
- The Ancestor Hunt
- Linkpendium
- Trails to the Past
- Genealogy Trails
- Cyndi's List
- Christine's African American Genealogy Website
Message Boards
Museums
- Anacostia Museum
- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Freer and Sackler Galleries
- Hillwood Museum and Gardens
- Hirshorn Gallery and Sculputers
- Holocaust Museum
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, VA
- National Arboretum
- National Museum of American History
- National Postal Museum
- The Textile Museum
- Washingtonian Magazine's Guide to Museums in DC