Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
Find more than 180,000 resources for researching your ancestors. Categories are indexed alphabetically.
Family Tree Maker helps you get started with genealogy research by entering what you know.
Genealogy and Family History for Children
The Genwriters organization has compiled resources with activities and ideas especially for helping children learn about their ancestry.
Genealogy for Kids
Here are some ideas and activities on how to involve children in genealogy. Also included are many linked resources for doing genealogical research.
Helping Your Child Learn Geography
The U.S. Department of Education offers activities for parents to do with their children to support the development of key ideas. Other resources provided are suggested reading lists, glossary, computer software, internet resources and free materials.
Helping Your Child Learn History
The U.S. Department of Education offers activities that parents can do with their children to help learn history. It also provides resources such as suggested reading lists, and links to local and national resources.
History Education Begins at Home
Parents can make a difference in encouraging the love of history and the joy of learning. This U.S. government publication offers pages of suggestions to help parents involve children in the history that surrounds them.
Learning Partners: Let's Do History!
The U.S. Department of Educationt suggests activities that parents can do at home with their children to help them understand the past and how we got here.
Map Machine
Map resources from National Geographic.
Outline Maps
Houghton Mifflin provides outline maps for use in the classroom or at home.
The Office of Educational Technology from the U.S. Department of Education offers this excellent resource for parents to give them guidelines in supporting home and school technology use and development.
Questions to Ask your Child About a Story
Encourage parents to turn off the TV and read with their children. Here are some discussion starters to share what has been read.
Tombstone Rubbings
Learn how to make tombstone rubbings and read examples of interesting information that can be found on tombstones.