Reference sources and tools online: People and Places

Worldwide genealogy materials aggregated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Research tools and tips, and help with the census.

Archival information on some of the 22 million travelers who passed through Ellis Island.

Phone numbers, addresses, demographics...a portal to vast amounts of data.

AT&T sponsored white pages, yellow pages and reverse look up.

Defaults to a business look up, but offers a robust selection of look up tools.

This site strives to map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages across the world in a way that goes beyond colonial ways of thinking in order to better represent how Indigenous people want to see themselves

From A&E networks, rich in multimedia.

Searchable database of the catholic saints.

Search by name, party, position, state or congress.

Search inductees.

This site maintains information on all winners in all ares.

A collaborative effort among the USGS and other Federal, State, and local partners to improve and deliver topographic information for the nation.

From the archives of the US Geological Survey, over 140,000 historical national maps.

Over 250,000 maps online.

This digitized collection of Massachusetts real estate atlases includes 167 volumes with over 6,000 maps and other illustrations. They include statewide, county and municipal atlases from throughout the commonwealth, with the majority published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.