Census Bureau: Home Page - “the Official Statistics, Your Source for Social, Demographic, and Economic Information Genealogy - “The Census Bureau is not able to locate missing persons, or provide recent information on individuals.” Name Files “from the 1990 Census. These files contain only the frequency of a given name, no specific indivdual information.” TIGER Mapping Service - “The ‘Coast to Coast’ Digital Map Database”
Copyright The Library of Congress - Copyright Office
Department of Defense Air Force Army Coast Guard (in time of war) DefenseLINK - “the World-Wide Web Information Service from the Department of Defense.” Joint Chiefs of Staff Marines National Guard Navy
Library of Congress Copyright Office Home page Experimental Search System Gateway - “Page for gateway access to Library of Congress catalog and those at many other institutions.” Thomas - “Legislative Information Full text access to current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate”
National Archives and Records Administration Home page Genealogy Gopher Microfilm Rental Program NARA Archival Information Locator (Nail)- “A Pilot Database of Selected Holdings - NAIL is a searchable database that contains information about a wide variety of NARA's holdings across the country. You can use NAIL to search descriptions for key words or topics, and then to retrieve digital copies of selected textual documents, photographs, maps, and sound recordings.” (NARA = National Archives and Records Administration)
Supreme Court FindLaw's Findlaw's is a searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text. This is a free service that will remain free.
