I am including links to other sites with Lanham material or that would be useful to Lanham researchers. I am not necessarily endorsing the research of others and recognize that other researcher draw their own conclusions. I urge any research to independently validate any material you borrow from my site or that of anyone else.
Ancestry.com is a private, subscription genealogy service that claims to have 7 billion data records available for use by its subscribers. It is easy to use but it is pricey. I believe for a serious genealogist is the worth the money. Using their resources you can save a lot of time, gas and aggravation. True they are not perfect. For example, they ask you to get a more expensive premium membership to access their version of the NARA World War II enlistment database, which anyone can can use at NARA's own site free of charge. Something about that gets under my skin. I do not know about you. Also, they do not provide subscribers an avenue to easily make suggestions or give feedback, which always makes me wonder if they really care to get feedback. Yes, I can be critical but you will not see me cancelling my subscription anytime soon. There is also a lot of good things I can say about them as well but I only have so much space to comment.
For years the LDS Church has collected genealogical material and supports one of the largest genealogical libraries in the country. Some of their material is available on this website and it contains material regarding both LDS and non-LDS persons.
Find a grave is a national resource for locating cemetery records. As an experiment I decided to search my own rather uncommon name. There were 14 people in the database with my first and last name.
The USGenWeb Project is a group of volunteers providing free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone. The results are what you might expect from a voluntary organization. Some of their county pages are exceptional and packed with information and others mostly a waste of time to visit.
These are particularly valuable for a beginner to see that kind of resources are available for research.
This is a straight forward simple list that you can run down.
Pam Middleton Lee rates the usefulness of the sites. Her number one pick is the "Genealogy Home Page", which is another subscription genealogy service called Archives.
Cyndi's list is particularly well-organized, extensive, easy to use and navigate.
What can I say, this is an example of a great idea executed terribly. Like many databases developed by governmental entities it is the very antithesis of "user friendly." To start with I need to figure out out to disable my pop up blocker and how to accept "cookies." Anyone out there with a computer degree? Then try doing a search. You can image it's difficult and time consuming, however promising the end result. Also what was my password? Let me see, at the latest count I have about 70 different passwords and pin numbers and can remember only ten. Why even password protect a public record site anyhow? I would love to do a case study of the dynamics of the group that stipulated the requirements of this site and then designed it. I have to imagine they were as dysfunctional as is their end product. Boy, I am starting to sound like Rush Limbaugh. Heaven help me.
This organization publishes a bulletin and conducts seminars of research but does not have any on-line resources.
This organization publishes a bulletin and has a good research library but does not have any on-line resources.
They are the agency that holds all the original records in Maryland and there are still many that we genealogists have never reviewed. They have begun to develop on-line capabilities and some of them are very user friendly but others are more difficult to use. An example of the latter is the on-line index to Maryland death records, which forces the user to begin at the beginning of a group of index card images and laboriously plow through them a few at a time, even though you know the one you want is toward the end of the group. That database was obviously designed by someone with no plans ever to use it!
|
They do not have any family data but do list their publications.
This has queries regarding Prince George's Co. families, etc.
They have some data and queries.
They have publications that may be of interest.
They have Lanham queries by researchers all over the country. You might find someone with similar research interests.
This contains various information regarding the John Lanham family and cites original sources for the material. Moller appears unaware at the time of posting this that Oran Stroud Lanham's birth date for John Lanham came from the English church records and also appears to acknowledge that Edward Lanham of Prince George's may be the son of Josias Lanham and Barbara Ringgold of Kent Co., MD, which I feel is very likely to be false.
This site contains a lot of data about southern Maryland Lanhams and abstracts certain records. It has a particular focus on George Horatio Lanham 1774-1844 and his family, but also a lot on prior generations.
A well-done summary with sources of descendants of Lewis Lanham (my ancestor also).
