Michigan County Histories Online

From their website:

The Michigan County Histories and Atlases Digitization Project is comprised of 428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923.

Give it a try here http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/

Papers of the United States Founding Fathers

If there is any chance your relative interacted with one of the United States' earliest presidents, check out the website  http://founders.archives.gov/ which contains papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 119,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative, federally funded Founding Fathers Papers projects.

Master Title Plat Abbreviations--Helps with GLO Tract Books

For those who use the GLO Tract books, here is a link to a webpage with quite a few abbreviations used in those books.

Organizing Genealogical Information-Summer 2013 Course

There is information on our Summer 2013 "Organizing Genealogical Information" on our sister website. Check it out.

Indexes to Virginia Court Records

If you have ancestors from Virginia, you might want to take a look at this page regarding Chancery records from Virginia--currently 220,000 cases are indexed http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/

US Patent Office Patents at Google

Did your ancestor obtain a patent for an invention? Google's patent search may help you to locate the document at http://patents.google.com

Does FamilySearch Have It All?

In a word, the answer is no. There may still be more information elsewhere even in databases at FamilySearch that have images. One quick example is the Kentucky County Marriages 1797-1954. The description indicates that these entries are extracted from marriage registers, bonds, etc. Even in a county that appears to be "done," there may be more records. Mercer County's marriage register is included in the index-which is helpful. However there are also marriage bonds for that county which do not appear in Kentucky County Marriages, 1797-1954. Those marriage bonds are something you need to see. Only looking at the image of the register is not enough.