Genealogical Records Websites

Ancestry.com (pay site)

https://familysearch.org/ (free)

My Heritage (pay site)

Find My Past  (pay site)

Rootsweb.com (free)

Social Security Death Master File

Genealogy Indexes 

http://www.cyndislist.com/

http://usgenweb.org/

German

http://www.germanroots.com/germandata.html

http://www.berufsgenealogie.net/english/start.html

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hauptseite this site is in German – copy and paste the url into the google website translator http://itools.com/tool/google-translate-web-page-translator and it will translate the entire web page into English or whatever language you choose.

Genteam.eu (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic. Slovakia)

Immigration

Harvard.edu/immigration

Scottish immigration database

Brigham Young immigrant ancestors project

Convicts to Australia

Immigrants to Canada

Immigrant ships transcribers guild

http://www.stevemorse.org/ (passenger lists)

Irish & U.K.

https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

Catholic Parish Registers

FreeBMD

Scottish Archive Network

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Mexico

Fondo Colonial Collection Archival Records, 1611-1821

Military (and other service) Records

http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/  - request military service records after 1953 (pre- 1953 records are kept at the http://www.archives.gov/veterans/)

http://www.fold3.com/ - This is a pay site for U.S. Military Records.  You can search for free, but the details of the results are part the paid membership.

Individual Deceased Personnel File (IDPF) Request
Civilian Conservation  Corp

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives (interactive map linked to 90,000 photos)

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Occupations

International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (contact to request records - askbac@bacweb.org)

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Photo Searching/Identifying

Dead Fred

The Photo Detective

The Costume Detective-How to date a photo using costume history

PhotoTree

USCIS Library

Podcasts

Genealogy Gems

The Genealogy guys

Scandinavia

Arkivdigital (pay site) - Sweden

Societies and Organizations

British Isles Family History Society (Facebook)

Irish Ancestral Research Association

PEI Genealogical Society (Prince Edward Island)

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Vital Records

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/

Youtube

DearMYRTLE

GenealogyBank

FamilySearch

Ancestry

Family Tree DNA