Busse Center Library --- Mount Mercy College

Contents

Search Engines
Gateways
Adoption
Advice & Articles
Archives
Directories
Fee & Free Sites
General Resources
History
Immigration
International
Iowa Resources
Iowa History
Libraries
Museums
Newspapers
Obituaries/Biographies
Other States
Reference Materials
Soliciting Information
Specialist Sites
US Civil War

Busse Library
MMC Homepage

Cyber-Genealogy
A Cruise Control Workshop

This webpage was prepared for the Cyber-Genealogy Workshop, one the Cruise Control series sponsored by the Mount Mercy Institute and Busse Library. These workshops introduce discipline, subject or topic specific collections found on the World Wide Web along with the evaluation and use of what is found on them.

This list is a sample of the kinds of links found on the WWW which often lead to many more links. Many will link to common sources. The WWW is a web on many files linking to many more files. Webpage producers do so for many reasons. As with print resources, quality and accuracy varies. Enjoy the journey.

Search Engines

Gateways

Adoption

Advice, Articles, Education

  • Ancestry.com
  • The Assistant Stork

    Archives/Special Collections

    Directories -- Telephone, Postal and E-mail

    Fee & Free Sites
    Some resources at these sites are subscription or fee based.

    General Resources

    History

    Immigration

    International

    Iowa History

    Iowa Resources

    Libraries on the WWW

    Museums

    Newspapers
    These links are to gateways to media outlets including newspapers. Some libraries also have subscriptions to electronic indexes of newspapers.

    Obituaries/Biographies

    Other States

    Recreation & Living History

    Reference Materials

    Soliciting Information Using the WWW

    Specialist Sites - Examples

    US Civil War

    • Mount Mercy College -- 1330 Elmhurst Drive NE -- Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402

    URL -- http://www.mtmercy.edu/lib/geneal.htm
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