Pursuits of a Desperate Genie

Cemeteries 

• Find A Grave
  Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc.
• Friends of Greenwood Cemetery
  Knights of Pythias (Greenwood) Cemetery. A charitable organization entirely staffed by volunteers. My Great-Great grandparents are buried here and it's imperative that we come together to document and preserve our ancestors' burial sites.
• Internment.net
  Search and browse cemetery burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
• New York State Association of Cemeteries
• Old Bergen Church Cemetery
• Speer Burial Ground
• St. Michael's Cemetery Queens, NY
• The Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, NY
  Large searchable database!

Historical and Genealogical Societies 

• Biddeford Historical Society - Maine
• Bordentown Historical Society - New Jersey
• Bronx Historical Society - New York
• Brooklyn Historical Society - New York
• Burlington County Historical Society - New Jersey
• Camden County Historical Society - New Jersey
• Daguerreian Society
• Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• Hudson County Genealogical Society - New Jersey
• Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy - New Jersey
• Lithuanian Global Genealogical Society
• Luzerne County Historical Society
• National Collaborative for Women's History Sites
• New England Historic Genealogical Society
• New York Historical Society
• Organization of American Historians
• Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations
• Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
• Weissman Preservation Center (Photography)

Photo Archives 

• Brooklyn Historical Society Photography Collection
• Directory to Photographs at Harvard
• History Pin
• Museum of the City of New York Photography Portal
• New York Public Library Photo Archives
• PhillyHistory.org Photo Archives
• What Was There

Searching for Records

• Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository
• blank census records from ancestry.com
• Castle Garden Immigration Records
• ellis island passenger records from Ellisisland.org
• FamilySearch Wiki: New Jersey Census
• Fold3
• Historical Maps of Pennsylvania
• Ireland Passenger Lists
• library of congress - newspaper index
• Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy- NYPL
• National Archives
• New Jersey State Archives
• New Jersey State Library
• The New York Times Archives
• Pennsylvania State Archives Index
• Pennsylvania State Archives ONLINE searches
• USGenWeb Project
• US Gov Census History Overview

Newspapers

• Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress
• The Brooklyn Eagle Online 1841-1902
• The New York Times Article Archive 1851-present
• The Syracuse Post Standard
• Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent Collection

Technology