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Welcome to LINKPENDIUM!

Find Your Genealogy and Family History

Linkpendium's Free Family Discoverer Search Engine

So What is Linkpendium, Anyway?

Linkpendium is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties. We cover both free and subscription sites, with a strong emphasis upon free resources provided by libraries, other government agencies, genealogical and historical societies, and individuals.

We are particularly proud of our unique indexes to online biographies.

How do I use Linkpendium?

• The Family Discoverer search engine at the top of this page covers 2,800,000 of the pages we index, and is the fastest way to explore genealogical and family history on the Internet.
• The city or county or family surname navigation tools in the right column let you jump directly to a Linkpendium page of resources. This is a faster way to reach the same pages you can find by following the links below.
• The Locality Directory below lets you follow links to resources for the U.S. states and counties that interest you.
• The Surname Directory below lets you follow links to resources for families worldwide that interest you. By following the links, you will see many possible variations on your family name.
• _IMPORTANT: The locality and family surname pages include many resources that could not be included in the search engine._When you are trying to break down a genealogical brick wall, always use the locality and family surname pages in addition to the Family Discoverer. ;)

Genealogy Links (10,332,817)

• Localities: USA (1,102,324)
  Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii and the Pacific, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
• Surnames: Worldwide(9,230,493)
  A names, B names, C names, D names, E names, F names, G names, H names, I names, J names, K names, L names, M names, N names, O names, P names, Q names, R names, S names, T names, U names, V names, W names, X names, Y names, Z names,
  Æ names, Â names, Ä names, Ã names, Å names, Á names, É names, È names, Ó names, Ø names, Ö names, Þ names, Ü names, Ý names

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• Hiking trails by locality: USA (15,476)
  Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii and the Pacific, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

What's Happening at Linkpendium

April 17, 2025:

• We grew by about 15 links even as Karen handled a number of domains which had gone bad.
• And I am caught up with Karen! Yay me! :D

April 17, 2025:

• We grew by about 108 links with as I try to catch up with Karen.

April 03, 2025:

• We grew by about 65 links with as I try to catch up with Karen.

April 03, 2025:

• We grew by about 54 links with as Wolf sorta gets over The Cold From Hell and tries to catch up with Karen.

February 27, 2025:

• We grew by about 456 links with as Wolf finishes the second update of the day and catches up with Karen.

February 27, 2025:

• We grew by about 523 links with Karen's most recent release.

February 19, 2025:

• We grew by about 4,531 links as Wolf catches up with Karen again.

February 11, 2025:

• We shrank by about 146 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.

January 29, 2025:

• We grew by about 91,117 links as Karen added some new sites and cleaned out more link rot.
• And Karen's lazy spousal unit is caught up with her again.

January 29, 2025:

• We shrank by about 279 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.

January 09, 2025:

• We shrank by about 782 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.

January 04, 2025:

• We grew by about 659 links as Wolf finally catches up with Karen.

January 02, 2025:

• We grew by about 4,862 links as Wolf tries to catch up with Karen.

November 29, 2024:

• We shrank by about 242 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.

October 30, 2024:

• We shrank by about 1,061 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.

October 14, 2024:

• We grew by about 190 links and Karen cleaned out link rot.

September 14, 2024:

• We shrank by about 37 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.
• And I've caught up with installing her releases. :)

September 12, 2024:

• We grew by about 3,135 links

August 13, 2024:

• We shrank by about 13 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.

July 23, 2024:

• We shrank by about 3,325 links as Karen cleaned out link rot.

July 19, 2024:

• We grew by about 12,576 links -- Karen's been busy. :)

July 07, 2024:

• We grew by about 1,160 links.

June 17, 2024:

• We grew by about 766 links.

June 09, 2024:

• We grew by about 2,033 links as Karen added new sites.

May 23, 2024:

• We grew by 378 links with today's second release of Karen's directory.
• We shrank by 50 links with this release of Karen's link collection.

April 23, 2024:

• We grew by about 166,267 links as Karen added new sites.

April 11, 2024:

• We shrank by 200,052 links after a large-ish site vanished from the Internet. :(

March 15, 2024:

• We grew by 33 whole links and lots of fixes done with this release of Karen's directory

March 02, 2024:

• We grew by 3,260 links with this release of Karen's directory
• And we found and fixed a clump of almost 500,000 bad links. YAY!

February 16, 2024:

• We grew by 2,524 links with this release of Karen's directory
• And I fixed a software glitch I'd made that was mangling 420 or so links.

February 03, 2024:

• We grew by 12 whole links! Whoopee! (Seriously, this was a clean-up and catch-up release.)

January 19, 2024:

• And I did a second batch today, which makes me caught up with Karen. :)
• We shrank by 16 links with this release of Karen's link collection.

January 19, 2024:

• We grew by 365 links with this release of Karen's link collection.

January 11, 2024:

• We shrank by 278 links, as Karen found and removed some bad links.
• And Happy New Year from all of us!

December 09, 2023:

• We grew by 6,307 links. While various links were fixed or added, a major addition is links to the 1950 U.S. census.

November 04, 2023:

• We shrank by 487 links, as Karen cleaned up a number of domains that had gone bad.

October 14, 2023:

• We grew by 682 links, many of them user-submitted. THANKS!
• We also removed affiliate tracking codes from all sites except MyHeritage, our primary sponsor. This should make pages load slightly faster.

September 19, 2023:

• We grew by 501 links with lots of problems fixed, as Karen settles back into things after her GenFed / family across-the-country trip.

August 02, 2023:

• We grew by 2 whole links, but Karen updated a whole slew of changed ORGenWeb URLs.

July 28, 2023:

• We shrank by about 97 links as Karen continued her never-ending battle with link rot.

July 27, 2023:

• We updated our Family Discoverer textbase. It grew from 17 to 30 million searchable web pages. We think most of the Internet's free genealogy is now included.

July 11, 2023:

• We grew by about 822 links, and all sorts of stuff was fixed, as Karen cleaned up more link rot.

June 24, 2023:

• We shrank by about 1,163 links as Karen continued her never-ending battle with link rot.

June 17, 2023:

• We grew by about 888 links, and all sorts of stuff was fixed, as Karen cleaned up more link rot.

May 22, 2023:

• We shrank by about 96 links as Karen continued her never-ending battle with link rot.

April 29, 2023:

• We shrank by about 9,628 links as Karen did a major clean-up of link rot.

April 04, 2023:

• We grew by about 19,586 links as Karen added back some deep links to Ancestry.com content.

March 21, 2023:

• We shrank by about 69 links as Karen continued her never-ending battle with link rot.

March 03, 2023:

• We grew by about 429 links and fixed a lot of stuff as Karen continued maintenance on the site.

February 04, 2023:

• We shrank by about 54 links and fixed a lot of stuff as Karen continued maintenance on the site.
• The new search engine has now found and indexed 5,753,185 web pages of genealogically-relevant information. We think there may be as many as 25,000,000 genealogically-relevant pages out there -- pretty amazing, eh?

January 28, 2023:

• We shrank by about 481 links and fixed a lot of stuff as Karen continued maintenance on the site.
• This version of Karen's link collection is the basis for the new search engine under construction now.

January 05, 2023:

• We shrank by about 334 links and fixed a lot of stuff as Karen continued maintenance on the site.
• I updated the year to 2023 on about 1,800,000 pages.

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