Last week we introduced our Great Databases series of articles, highlighting cool and useful family history databases you can access online for free. Here’s the second article, highlighting several more databases, arranged by geographical area. Enjoy!

Global

• Geneanet—This site hosts 1.5 million family trees with over 1.6 billion individuals. Its focus in mainly continental Europe, but it does have a global reach. The site is a large collaboration venture for genealogists.

Germany

• Kartenmeister—This database contains over 108,000 places in Germany and its predecessors. It has handy search suggestions, language tips, information on border changes in provinces, etc.

Ireland

• Irish Records Extraction Database (Ancestry.com)—”This 100,000-name database of Irish vital records is unique for two reasons. First, it represents one of the first major databases of records from outside the continental United States. Second, rather than just raw data, this database is accompanied by a significant amount of contextual and historical information.”

Japan

• Japanese Immigrants to the United States—You can search by name for Japanese ancestors who immigrated to the United States from 1887 to 1924. (Immigration from Japan to the U.S. was effectively closed from 1924 to 1952.)

United States

• Steven Morse One-Step Collection—”This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.”