Geographic Research Links - Salt Lake City Genealogy Research Trips by Ann-MarTrips

Family History Library Research Guides
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rhelps.asp

Research outlines, forms, and other information concerning individual states and countries.

Geographic Names Information System Online Data Base (GNIS)
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html

On-line U. S. Gazetteer. Fantastic site for finding places in the U.S.

Rootsweb.com
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com

Free website which has a number of collections.

Be sure to look at the:

45+ Searchable Databases including the Social Security Death Index, several state marriage and death indexes, South Dakota Birth Index, etc.
WorldConnect Project contains GEDCOM files which have been uploaded for your searching which includes 480+ million names. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
Other Tools and Resources include:
- County and State Resources
  http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/USA/
- Soundex Converter
  http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter
- FreeBMD (England and Wales)
  http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
- Obituary Daily Times
  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~obituary/
- U.S. Town/County Database
  http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi

USGenWeb
http://www.usgenweb.org/

Wonderful resource for state and county information. Also contains a number of “projects” taken on by volunteers including a Tombstone Project; Family Group Sheet Project (27,000+ group sheets), African American Griots Project, Lineage Project (researchers looking for descendants of one particular ancestor; must have lived in the US and must have been born before 31 Dec 1850), Obituary Project, and many more.

Linkpendium
http://www.linkpendium.com/

Wonderful resource for links to state and county information.