GenealogyTrails.com is a handy website that focuses on United States research, particularly for U.S. states and counties. It’s a collaboration effort run by a series of expert volunteers, with lots of great resources that are hard to find on other sites. Their forte is transcribing many thousands of records, such as military, obituary, biographies, voter registrations, and more.

In The Family History Guide, each U.S. state page concludes with a Counties section that has several links to county resources from FamilySearch, Ancestry, Linkpendium, GenealogyInc, and USGenWeb. We recently added Genealogy Trails links to each county for each state in the U.S. so now there are six separate resources for finding county information. We’ve also linked to a number of resources from Genealogy Trails in some of our new Class Outlines.

Here’s an example of the California Counties section in The Family History Guide, with the new Genealogy Trails marked with the letter “T” …

We hope you enjoy exploring the information in Genealogy Trails, and we are grateful for the many hours that have gone into adding free and valuable genealogy content to this site.