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Huguenot 

• Revocation of the Edict of Nantes  (October 22, 1685)
  J. H. Robinson, ed. Readings in European History 2 vols. (Boston: Ginn, 1906), 2:287-291. Actual text.
    

• Experiences of the French Huguenots in America - The King's Refugees   
  This document was written in about 1908 and contains information on persecutions of the French Huguenots and their flight to America. It contains information on several of the earliest French Huguenot immigrants including Alexander Resseguie and Sarah Bontecou. It also contains a journal of one of their descendants, Timothy Resseguie, a British soldier in the American Revolution.  
    

• The Huguenot Cross
  Not long after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the Huguenot Cross came into general use amongst Huguenots as confirmation of the wearer's faith.
     

• Huguenot History   
  Information about Huguenot history on the Kansas Heritage Server  
    

• Huguenot and Protestant Reformed Chronology
  Shows the timeline from 1440 in Europe to 1790 in North America
    

• The National Huguenot Society
  Has history of the Huguenots and other information including a list of Huguenot ancestors.
    

• Traits and Stories of the Huguenots
  I have always been interested in the conversation of any one who could tell me anything about the Huguenots; and, little by little, I have picked up many fragments of information respecting them.
    

Jewish

• Dutch Jewish Genealogy Homepage    
  Home of the Jewish Genealogy Network, consisting of genealogical researchers in many countries, and standard letters to request a birth, marriage or death certificate in many languages

• JewishGen  
  A source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide offers discussion and a collection of databases including ShtetlSeeker, and the Family Finder.

• Stammbaum 
  Includes surname and place-name indexes of the first five issues and tables of contents for all issues.

• Louis Kessler's Jewish Genealogy Links
  There are thousands of web pages out there of interest to Jewish Genealogists.  My list is made up of the pages that I think are of greatest use to the most people.  I hope you can find something in this list that will help you in your research

Lutheran

• Lutheran Roots Genealogy Exchange 
  sponsored by Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL). A key part of AAL's mission is to "bring Lutherans together." One of the ways we do that is by connecting those interested in tracing their family roots with others who might have information that will be helpful -- especially if they know that their ancestors were Lutheran or had some connection with a Lutheran church.

 Melungeon

• Atlanta Melungeon Project
  The purpose of the Atlanta Melungeon Project is to help descendants acquire a greater knowledge of their ancestors through genealogy studies.  A key to being of Melungeon descent is your surname or the surname of a family member who is directly in your "back" lineage. Your mother, father, grandparents, their parents, etc. are all responsible for your existence.
    

• Melungeon Genealogy 
  The Melungeon Genealogy page was set up to document those families we are proud to call our Melungeon ancestors so that there is a starting point for Melungeon Genealogy on the web
    

• The Melungeon Heritage Association
  Our mission is to document and preserve the heritage and cultural legacy of mixed-ancestry peoples in or associated with the southern Appalachians.
    

Moravian

• Moravian Church Genealogy Links  
  The Moravian Church is an early Protestant Church, begun in Europe in 1457. Today, Moravians are worldwide with American provinces centered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 
   

• The Moravian Church
  The Moravian Church traces its origins to followers of John Hus, the Bohemian martyr who was burned at the stake in 1415, and dates its formal beginning from 1457, when one group of the Hussites took the Latin name of Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of the Brethren
    

Quaker