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2009-07-03 :

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Pennsylvania Provincial Officers and Soldiers : 1744-1757, 1757-1764

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Leflore County, Mississippi birth information from civilian registration cards completed in 1917-1918

Adams County, Colorado Teacher Certificates Issued (1913-1935)

Independence County, Arkansas Cemeteries

1870 Federal Census Kimble County, Texas

Some Civil War Soldiers In Etowah County, Alabama

Moody County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Norway Genealogy Search at GeneaNet


2009-07-02 :

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Delaware Roster of Union Soldiers

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Washington State Family Group Sheets

Tulare County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Georgia Executions 1735-1964

Anderson County, Texas Divorces 1968-2001

Shelby County, Alabama : Index to Miscellaneous Probate Records, D Drawers

Saline County, Arkansas Tax Records

Washington County, Maryland Taxes, 1803-1804. The 1803-1804 Tax records for Washington County, Maryland list the names, land holdings and possessions of those owing taxes. People were taxed on land, silver, stills, farm animals, furniture, carriages and slaves.

Convict Crew, 1823-1828, out of Hobart, Tasmania


2009-06-30 :

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Henley Marriage and Obituary Index. A fully-searchable personal name index to more than 45,000 marriage and obituary notices published primarily in Richmond, Virginia area newspapers between 1780 and 1876. The index was compiled by Bernard J. Henley (1909-1989), former librarian at the Richmond Public Library. The index contains references to newspapers available on microfilm.

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Atascosa County, Texas Confederate Pension Applications

Cemeteries in the Albany County, New York Area

University of Northern Iowa Biographical Sketches : Biographical sketches of people who have been associated with University of Northern Iowa in a variety of capacities since its founding in 1876.

1886 Washington County, Alabama Poll Tax List

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Obituary Index 1952-1959 and 1980-1991

Searcy County, Arkansas 1850 Federal Census

George County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918

Ernonheid, Province of Liège, Belgium Vital Records 1798-1908 (In French)


2009-06-29 :

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Obituaries 101. Links to recent newspaper obituaries broken out by state.

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Civil War - Roster 53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers, Company H (Pike and Coffee County)

Augusta County, Virginia Road Orders 1745-1769 (280 page pdf document). Includes the names of all the able-bodied men (the "Labouring Male Tithables") living on or near the roads. Name index near the end of the document.

York County, South Carolina, Census Index -- Interactive Search. This is an interface to the census index of York County, South Carolina, covering heads of household from 1790 to 1850.

Big Horn County, Montana 1870 Census

White County, Arkansas Loose Probate Papers 1835 through 1920

Marion County, Texas 1860 Census

List of New Orleans, Louisiana fire victims and their losses, 1844

South Australian Cemeteries. Searchable database of death and burial information extracted from burial registers and/or memorial inscriptions on grave headstones/plaques.


2009-06-28 :

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American Prisoners of the Revolution. Free online edition of this book by Danske Dandridge published about 1910. Includes the names of 8000 men.

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Hall County, Nebraska Marriages 1860-1870

Van Zandt County, Texas 1870 Census Images Online

Pope County, Arkansas 1850 Census

1870 Census for Clark County, Ohio

Saint Clair County, Alabama Cemeteries

St. Louis, Missouri Marriage Contracts, 1764–1854

Index to St. Louis News Columns in Le Patriote Newspaper. Le Patriote (The Patriot) was a French-language newspaper published in the 1870s and 1880s for the French-language population of “The West” and later for the immigrant Alsace-Lorraine community in St. Louis, Missouri. This is an index to the St. Louis news columns for the surviving issues from 1878, 1884, 1886, and 1887.

ETANOT : ETAt des NOTaires de Paris. Notaries Public in Paris, France from the XVth century to the present.


2009-06-26 :

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Unclaimed Civil War Medals. In 1866, the state of West Virginia authorized the minting of over 26,000 medals to honor its Union Civil War soldiers. Today, over 4,000 medals remain unclaimed. In order to claim an ancestor's medal, a claimant must submit his or her line of descent from the veteran along with documentation to support this line of descent.

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Bastrop County, Texas Land Records. Abstracts on file at county courthouse and at the Texas General land Office in Austin.

Spokane County, Washington World War I Soldiers. This collection of forms, photos and letters documents more than 275 soldiers from Spokane and neighboring towns who fought in the Great War.

Sumter County, Alabama 1840 Census

Fargo Forum Obituary Index (North Dakota)

Biographical Sketches from 'History of Cass County, Illinois', 1915

Pope County, Arkansas Chancery Book B Index -- 9/15/1856 through 9/18/1876

North Carolina Executions 1726-1961

Famine Orphan Girl Ships to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1848-1850

Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence : État civil : Browse parish and civil registers of birth, marriage, and death held by the Archives of the French Department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. We site in French.


2009-06-25 :

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Ohio Deaths 1908-1953. Name index and images of Ohio statewide death certificates.

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Toombs County, Georgia 1920 Census : Enumeration districts 120, 121.

Limestone County, Alabama 1870 Census

St. John Lutheran Church, Buck Creek, Dayton Township, Bremer County, Iowa Baptisms Index 1874-1900

Tulare County, California Marriage Index 1893-1909 : Brides - Grooms

Protestant Congregation of Industry, Cummins Creek, and Cat Spring, Colorado County, Texas : Baptism, Marriage, Death, and Other Records, 1841-1844

Prairie County, Arkansas Federal Land Records

Miner County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Hooglede, West Flanders, Belgium registers of births, marriages, and deaths 1777-1793. Digital images of the original registers. Free registration may be required.


2009-06-24 :

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Tennesseans of the Revolutionary War. Records and Histories of Soldiers who Lived or Fought in Tennessee.

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Pike County, Arkansas Marriage Books : A, B, C (1895-1910) - D, E, F (1910-1925) - G, H, I, J (1925-1947)

Early Allen County, Kentucky Marriage Records 1815-1889

Russell County, Alabama Cemeteries

Terry County, Texas 1930 Census Images Online

Warren County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918

1820 census Macomb County, Michigan

Records of the 24th Independent Battery, N.Y. Light Artillery, U.S.V. (1870)

Notre Dame d'Amboilé Parish Registers, Ormesson-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne Department, France : Baptisms, marriages, and deaths 1710-1757.

Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Ministers, Deaconesses & Missionaries 1840 to 2006


2009-06-22 :

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Kansas Pioneers List. A compilation of settlers sent directly from networkers doing genealogical and historical research.

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Antietam National Cemetery. Lists the name, company and regiment, grave number and place of death of those Union soldiers buried in Antietam National Cemetery at the time of its dedication in 1867. The text also includes the ceremonies and speeches at the dedication.

Clay County, Texas Cemeteries & Funeral Home Records

Albemarle County, Virginia Road Orders 1783-1816 (A 335 page pdf document). Includes the names of all the able-bodied men (the "Labouring Male Tithables") living on or near the roads. Name index near the end of the document.

Biographies of Notable Women. An ever-expanding list of biographies of notable women, both those who are famous and those who should be more well known.

Shelby County, Alabama Marriages 1859-1867 : Brides - Grooms

1850 Mortality Schedule, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Saline County, Arkansas 1880 Census

Labège, Haute-Garonne, France Marriages 1802-1892


2009-06-20 :

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Documents, Chiefly Unpublished relating to the Hugenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin Town. Published by the Virginia Historical Society in 1886. Several lists of names.

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Bastrop County, Texas Deaths 1964-1999

Deed List for Properties in Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Maryland

Perry County, Arkansas 1850 Census

1876 State Census Index, St. Charles County, Missouri

Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the King's Chapel Burying Ground (Boston, Mass.). Free online edition of this book published by the Boston Cemetery Dept in 1903.

Randolph County, Alabama 1840 Census (US GenWeb Archives)

Duval County, Florida WWII Army Enlistments

Fajardo, Puerto Rico Urban Militias, 1823

Uncollected Tickets of Leave 1837 Tasmania, Australia


2009-06-18 :

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Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates. Search birth certificates from 1855 to 1933 and death certificates from 1844 to 1958.

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Misc. Cove, Chambers County, Texas pre-1900 Marriages

Troup County, Georgia 1830 Census

Monterey County, California WW2 Army Enlistees

Metis Graveyard, Pembina, North Dakota : 1849-1892.

Pike County, Alabama Cemeteries

Pulaski County, Arkansas Cemeteries

An Alphabetical Index of Deaths in Metro New Orleans La. As Published in the Times-Picayune 1994-2003 (Louisiana)

Généalogie Vendéenne (France). A GEDCOM database of over 18000 individuals with links to the Department of Vendée (85), France. Web site in French.

Persons Lost and Found 1838-80 (South Australia). A database of deserters from wives, families, ships, military and other service, the deserted, those failing to support their families, missing persons, escaped prisoners, absconders from asylums and industrial schools, convict expirees arriving from other colonies, and bigamists compiled from South Australian Police Gazettes and early SA Government Gazettes.


2009-06-16 :

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Alcatraz Inmate Roster 1934 - 1963. 1576 names.

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Lawrence County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918

Lauderdale County, Alabama 1850 Agricultural Census

Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa. Free online edition of this book published in 1908.

Monroe County, Illinois 1820 Census

Herkimer County, New York Tombstone Inscriptions

Rusk County, Texas 1860 Census Images Online

Randolph County, Arkansas Federal Land Records. This file was compiled from the Bureau of Land Management land records and includes Homestead and Cash Entry Patents before 1908 for what is now Randolph Co, AR.

Czech Republic, Litomerice Regional Archive Church Books 1552-1905. Browsable but not searchable.

Earliest Registers of First Catholic Church in St. Louis, Missouri

Le Quesnel Aubry, Oise Department, France Vital Records 1676 to 1750

New South Wales 1826 Cops & Cons News Index. Index of names for convicts listed in news advertisements, appointments to the police force, government notices etc, from the Sydney Gazette for the year 1826.


2009-06-15 :

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New York City Death Index 1891-1948 : 1891 to 1894 Manhattan only, 1895 to 1897 Manhattan and Brooklyn only, 1898 to 1948 all boroughs.

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Boyle County, Kentucky Marriages

Ouachita County, Arkansas Federal Land Records. This file was compiled from the Bureau of Land Management land records and includes Homestead and Cash Entry Patents before 1908 for what is now Ouachita Co, AR.

Beaver Island, Charlevoix County, Michigan Births 1906 - 1924. Some dates of "birth" here may actually be dates of baptisms

Oconto County, Wisconsin Civil War Service Records

Cherokee County, Texas Census Records: 1850, 1860, and 1910.

Pickens County, Alabama Cemeteries

McCook County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Gwalia 1958 Commonwealth Electoral Roll, Western Australia


2009-06-14 :

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Marriage and Death Notices from The North Carolina ARGUS newspaper 1848-1884

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Edmunds County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Alabama Land Patents Database: Sumter County. These land records represent the transfer of public lands to private ownership. In most cases they represent purchase of the land by individuals from the United States Government.

Full name index to the book Iberville Parish Records, Volume III. Guide to 22 reels of microfilm containing records rescued from the attic of the old parish courthouse in Plaquemine published by Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane.

Clermont County, Ohio First Family Pioneers

Saline County, Arkansas Bible Records

Missouri Executions 1810-1965

Généalogie Mauricienne. Mauritius genealogy database. Over 50,000 individuals.


2009-06-12 :

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South Carolina Department of Archives and History On-Line Index Search : The following databases are online:
- Index to Multiple Record Series ca. 1675 -1929
- Index to Will Transcripts 1782-1855
- Confederate Pension Applications 1919-1938
- Plats for State Land Grants 1784-1868
- Legislative Papers 1776-1877
- Criminal Journals 1769-1776
- School Insurance Photographs
- National Register of Historic Places

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San Joaquin County, California Index to Federal Land Patents

Marriages to 1825, Jefferson County, Alabama

Campbell County, Tennessee Death Certificates

Fratellanza Society Burial Records, St. Louis, Missouri. Italian immigrants started the Unione Fratellanza Italiano Society on 12 November 1866.

Nantucket (Massachusetts) Cemeteries Inscription Project. As tombstones are inventoried, they are being entered into an online searchable database.

Perry County, Alabama 1860 Census

Parker County, Texas 1900 Census Images Online

Scott County, Arkansas Cemeteries

Tishomingo County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918

Queensland, Australia Boer War Indexes


2009-06-11 :

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American Revolutionary War Soldiers & Their Descendants. Names of thousands of soldiers, each associated with the email address of a researcher that can provide background information.

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Monroe County, Georgia 1860 Census

Greene County, Mississippi 1870 Census (partial) (US Census Project)

Mason County, Texas 1860 Census

Newton County, Arkansas 1870 Census

Naturalization Records 1847-1906, Madison County, Alabama

Erie County, New York Cemeteries

FranceGenWeb : Recherche Multibases, Use this form to search 14 FranceGenWeb databases simultaneously.


2009-06-09 :

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Unclaimed Persons.com. The purpose of this web site is to provide information to the public regarding a deceased loved one for whom next of kin has never been located.

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Humphreys County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918

Calhoun County, Texas 1870 Census Surname Index

The 60th Alabama Infantry, Civil War Rosters Companies A - K. Pike, Coosa, Montgomery, Chambers, Henry, Butler, and Lowndes Counties, Alabama; and Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Records of Military Personnel Who Died as a Result of Hostilities During the Korean War. This series contains selected descriptive data about U.S. military personnel who died by hostile means (i.e. battle deaths) as a result of combat duty in the Korean War.

Queens County, New York Naturalization Project. Naturalization Records held by the Queens County Clerk’s Office. These naturalization records are for the period of 1906 to 1957. The database contains over 60,000 records.

Union County, Illinois Census of 1818

Union Valley Cemetery, Coy, Lonoke County, Arkansas

Records of interments in the Protestant [Girod Street] Cemetery, July -- December, 1841, New Orleans, Louisiana

Portland Bay and Port Fairy, Victoria Passenger List 1847 : to and from Launceston, Tasmania - to and from George Town, Tasmania


2009-06-08 :

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Early American Pioneers Held Captive or Killed by Indians

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Alabama Land Patents Database: Jackson County. These land records represent the transfer of public lands to private ownership. In most cases they represent purchase of the land by individuals from the United States Government.

Lincoln County, West Virginia 1880 Census Images Online

Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883 : Appanoose County, Iowa

Boyd County, Kentucky Family Group Sheets

Panola County, Texas 1870 Census Images Online

Revolutionary Patriots Buried In and Around Ontario County, New York

United States Colored Troops - 11th Infantry : Organized in Ft. Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, 1863 : Enlisted men and officers of the regiment.

International Genealogy Community pages : South Africa. Click on 'South Africa Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 100 websites related to doing genealogy in South Africa.


2009-06-07 :

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Roots of the Sixty Colonists. F.L. Weis collected a set of lines from sixty colonists, who came from New England between 1623 and 1650. These lines are entries into the world of higher nobility of Europe.

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1909 Goochland County, Virginia Confederate Pension List

Clay County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Arkansas Executions 1820-1964

Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Obituaries 1904, and Sep. - Dec. 1990

Genealogical & Historical Records of Preble County, Ohio. Not only an index to but also the actual scanned images of genealogical and historical records.

Morgan County, Alabama 1840 Census

Rockland County, New York Naturalization Records Index. This index was compiled by the Rockland County Clerk's Office.

Western Australian Aboriginal Genealogy Sources


2009-06-05 :

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FuneralNet. Online obituaries. Archives searchable by first and/or last name, by city, state, and/or country, or by month and year of death.

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Strong, Franklin County, Maine 1810 Heads of Households (then Somerset County)

Burnet County, Texas 1870 Census

Maricopa County, Arizona Cemeteries

Saint Clair County, Alabama 1850 Census

Saline County, Arkansas Court Records

Fulton County, New York Cemeteries

Venango County, Pennsylvania Misc. Census Records 1830-1880

Archives départementales de la Mayenne (France) : Recherche en ligne. The Archives of the French Department of Mayenne has made available online the following genealogical resources : birth, marriage, and death parish and civil registers to 1866; birth, marriage, and death decennial tables from 1802 to 1902; a database of 19th century marriages; military records; census records from 1836 to 1906; Roë Abbey cartulary; parish register marginal notes; and more. Most documents are browsable but not searchable. Web site in French only.


2009-06-04 :

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Texas Migrations. A database for sharing ancestral migratory information.

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Arapahoe County, Colorado (Includes City of Denver) Marriages 1861 - 1868

Monroe County, Alabama 1830 Census

Trinity County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Upson County, Georgia 1860 Slave Owners

Cemeteries of Sebastian County, Arkansas

Vital Records of Tompkins County, New York

Victims of the sinking of the S.S. Penguin, Friday 12 February 1909 - Cook Strait, New Zealand


2009-06-02 :

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TNG Network : Search for Names. Search 1,233 genealogy databases and 7,744,025 names from a central location.

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Hancock County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918

Allegany County, New York : Friendship Chronicle Notes & Index 1880-1881. The Friendship Chronicle was a weekly Democratic newspaper published in in the town of Friendship, Allegany Co., New York.

Membership of St. Edward's Church, Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas Membership and Pew Renters, 1911

Gonzales County, Texas 1860 Census

Monroe County, Alabama Cemeteries

Allegany County, Maryland Directory 1895-96. City of Cumberland and Allegany County Directory, 1895-96 published by Bell Publishers of Baltimore lists the names, occupations and residences of heads of households in Allegany County, Maryland in 1895.

Able Bodied Male Citizens Age 18-45 in 1862-1863 Crete and Washington Townships, Will County, Illinois (U.S. Civil War Manpower Census)

Portugal Genealogy Search at GeneaNet

Portland Bay & Port Fairy Passenger List 1848. An index to references for passengers to and from Portland and Port Fairy in Victoria, for the year 1848, as listed in a colonial newspaper of the time.


2009-06-01 :

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Ybase : Genealogy by Numbers. Ybase is an open, global resource for genealogists. Find your genetic cousins worldwide - independently of which testing service you have used. The database is searchable on 49 Y-chromosome markers. Anyone can add to it. Anyone can search it. Search by haplotype or by surname. Ybase currently contains 14000+ haplotypes and 10000+ unique surnames.

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Vermont Family Group Sheets

Burleson County, Texas mortality schedules 1850, 1860, 1870, 1890

Bourbon County, Kentucky Vital Records : Births 1853-1856, 1911. Deaths 1852-1854.

Mongomery County, Alabama 1830 Census : Images online, pdf document.

Pope County, Arkansas Tax Lists 1843-1891

Denver County, Colorado 1930 Census

Vital records of Scituate, (Plymouth County) Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Alphabetical indexes to the manuscript records of the town, supplemented by information from church registers, cemetery inscriptions and other sources. Online edition of this book published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1909 : Volume 1 - Volume 2

Australian Immigration Wall of Honour : The Australian Immigration Wall of Honour is a series of brass plaques with the names of immigrants to Australia submitted by various people to Janet Reakes, who was a well known genealogist from the Hervey Bay area of Queensland.


2009-05-31 :

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Virginia Revolutionary War Land Office Military Certificates. A fully-searchable index to military certificates issued by the Virginia Land Office to soldiers and sailors who were entitled to receive bounty land as a result of their Revolutionary War service. The military certificates are available on microfilm.

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WWI, Company M 354 Infantry. Company M was organized in September 1917 at Camp Funston, Kansas, with members from Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Muster Roll of Captain Cornelius Robinson's Company, 1836, Lowndes County, Alabama

German Passengers on the Ship Colonist, Liverpool to New York, 3 May 1852

Gregg County, Texas 1900 Census Images Online

Shelby County, Ohio 1880 Census Index

Houghton County, Michigan Native American Death Index 1867-1875

Saline County, Arkansas Federal Land Records. This file was compiled from the Bureau of Land Management land records and includes Homestead and Cash Entry Patents before 1908 for what is now Saline Co, AR.


2009-05-29 :

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Italian Emigrants to the United States, Argentina and Brazil. Free registration required.
- The United States data bank contains the files on about 200,000 Italian emigrants recorded in the Ship Passenger Lists who arrived in New York between 1880 and 1891.
- The Argentinian data bank is made up of 1,020,000 files on Italians who arrived in Buenos Aires between 1882 and 1920. The information is taken from the disembarkment lists.
- The Brazilian data bank is mainly based on information taken from the embarkment registers of ships leaving Italy, to which have been added checks and additions through other archive sources. The information covers about 27,000 Italian emigrants who arrived in Vitoria between 1858 and 1899.

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Grayson County, Virginia Wills 1793- 1849

Boyd County, Kentucky Cemeteries

Records from El Paso, Texas, Newspapers, 1886–1890

St. Charles County, Missouri Guardian Bonds 1853-1889

Orleans Parish (Louisiana) Coroner's Office Reports of deaths, 1862-1863

Death Index, 1908 - 1920, Winston County, Alabama

Tomahawk, Searcy County, Arkansas 1920 Federal Census

Maryland Executions 1638-1961

Queensland, Australia Will Indexes 1857-1910


2009-05-28 :

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Southern District Court of New York Naturalization Project. This database contains the naturalization records that were issued between 1907 and 1959 by the Southern District Court, which includes Manhattan and the Bronx. It contains 709,215 records.

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Chambers County, Texas Civil War Records

Telfair County, Georgia 1830 Census

Shelby County, Alabama Marriages 1849-1859 : Brides - Grooms

Newton County, Arkansas Federal Land Records. This file was compiled from the Bureau of Land Management land records and includes Homestead and Cash Entry Patents before 1908 for what is now Newton Co, AR.

Early Records of the First Presbyterian Church of Livermore, Alameda County, California

Grant County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Genalogical Records of West Flanders, Belgium. Search or browse several databases including vital records from parish and civil registers, census records, and deeds.


2009-05-26 :

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Indianola Immigrant Database. Begun in 1994 as a project of the Victoria County Historical Commission, the Indianola Immigrant Database seeks to record the individuals and families that reached Texas through that ill-fated port on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, Texas.

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Alabama Land Patents Database: Lawrence County. These land records represent the transfer of public lands to private ownership. In most cases they represent purchase of the land by individuals from the United States Government.

American families in Brazil. List of family names of those who entered Brazilian territory between 1865 and 1885.

Cherokee County, Iowa Biographical History - 1889

Clinton County, New York WWII Army Enlistees

Petition filed on April 7, 1890, to divide Tomlinson Township, Scott County, Arkansas

Sunflower County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918

Deux-Sèvres Department, France Parish and Civil Registers to 1887. The registers of births, marriages, and deaths are browsable by localities but not searchable.


2009-05-25 :

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1895 Kansas State Census. An ongoing transcription project. Several counties are available in an online index.

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Historic Cemeteries of Oyster Bay (Nassau County, New York). A Guide to Their Locations and Sources of Transcription Information (pdf document). The Cemetery Index contains several thousand alphabetical listings including the surname, given name, year of death and cemetery where the person is buried.

Emigration to North Dakota from Batscka and the Banat in the National Archives Ship Records

First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies, 1654-1988. Researchers now have access to the complete text of Rabbi Stern's monumental volume that was published in 1991.

Burleson County, Texas Declaration of Intentions 1887-1922

Fayette County, Alabama 1830 Census

Saline County, Arkansas Marriages 1836-1893

Portuguese Immigrants from the Azores to Hawaii 1879-1883: Passport Index

Index to Emigrant Volumes by Dr. Heinz Marxkors. From 1985 to 2006, Dr. Marxkors has been busy with research on emigration and emigrants from the counties of Büren and Paderborn in Westphalia to the USA, and on immigrants to St. Libory, St. Clair County, Illinois from many different counties of Northern Germany.

New South Wales, Australia Aboriginal Genealogy Sources


2009-05-24 :

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ODESSA ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library. Browse or search over 300 Mbytes of data.

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Florida World War I service cards 1919 for those born in Alabama

Collingsworth County, Texas 1910 Census Images Online

1820 Census Crawford County, Michigan

St. Mary's Church Cemetery and Baptismal Records 1842-1873, Minerton, Vinton County, Ohio

Declarations of Intent, Cochise County, Arizona 1881-1897

Scott County, Arkansas WW1 Soldiers Discharges

Passenger List for Emigrants from Luxembourg and Surrounding Areas. Compiled out of the Luxemburger Gazette (pdf document).


2009-05-22 :

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Daniel de Rauglaude's Database. Nearly 3 million individuals: genealogies of European royal families from the 6th century to the present, French and US Presidents, Nobel price winners, and other celebrities.

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Lower Gloucester County, Virginia Cemeteries

Lauderdale County, Alabama 1900 Census Name Index

Trimble County, Kentucky 1890 Tax List

Arkansas Lynchings 1882-1927

Anderson County, Texas 1900 Census Images Online

Members of the Civil War 16th Independant Battery New York Light Artillery (Broome County)

Lyon, Rhône Department, France Municipal Archives Online. Browse digital images of the actual parish and civil registers of births, marriages, and deaths from 1532 to 1892. In French.


2009-05-21 :

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Utah Digital Newspapers. The digitized newspapers in this website may be browsed by issue or searched by keywords, article titles, weddings, deaths, and births. There are currentlty over 40 titles online for a total of over 600,000 pages.

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Muscogee County, Georgia 1830 Census (Town of Columbus)

Tehama County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Family histories found in the book: St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial, Nashville (Kingman County), Kansas 1893-1993

Orleans Parish, Louisiana 1820 Census

Galveston County, Texas 1900 Census

Mobile County, Alabama 1850 Census (partial)

St Joe, Searcy County, Arkansas 1920 Federal Census

Misc. Allegany County, New York Church Records

Victoria, Australia : Teacher Examination Papers, 1863-1872. Search this database to identify records of teachers examined by the Board of Teachers prior to initial appointment and for promotion to a higher classification between 1863 and 1872.


2009-05-19 :

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New York City Prison The Tombs : 1850 and 1860 US Federal Census Transcriptions. Provides name, age, gender, occupation, birthplace, and reason for incarceration.

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Carson County, Texas Birth Records 1926-1960

Early Land Entries Orange County, Indiana (prior to 1820)

Walker County, Georgia 1850 Census

Name index to the Pitzman 1878 Atlas or St. Louis, Missouri

Misc. Madison County, Alabama Records. Marriages 1809-1973, probate records, naturalizations, and more. From the Madison County Records Center, an extention of the Probate Judge's office.

San Diego County, California Index To Wills 1849-1899

Bradley County, Arkansas African American Obituaries

Liste des baptêmes catholiques en Tunisie de 1830 à 2005 : Tunisia Catholic Baptisms Index 1830-2005 (work in progress) (Web site in French)

Germany, Brandenburg and Posen, Civil Transcripts of Parish Registers, 1800-1874. Images of some registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. Most of the Posen villages are now in Poland.


2009-05-18 :

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1840 US Federal Pensioners Census. Search or browse.

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San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records 1788-1861 (California). Notarized interviews with couples requesting marriage in the Roman Catholic Church. The purpose of marriage investigations was to prove that the parties were free to marry. They establish many facts concerning the individuals married at the Mission and provide much genealogical detail for descendants.

Sanford County, Alabama 1870 Census (today Lamar County)

Olmsted County, Minnesota Search Index. Search several Olmsted County Historical Society databases.

St. John Lutheran Church, Buck Creek, Dayton Township, Bremer County, Iowa Confirmations Index 1876-1900

Gillespie County, Texas 1850 Census

Pike County, Arkansas Penetentiary Records 1918-1920

Twiggs County, Georgia 1830 Census

Ryglice and Uniszowa, Poland Selected Vital Records 1774-1896 : Baptisms - Marriages - Deaths

Cass County, Illinois Cemeteries


2009-05-17 :

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Michigan Death Records 1897-1920. This Library of Michigan collection of Michigan death certificates features nearly 1 million records.

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Buncombe County, North Carolina 1800 Census

Marion County, Arkansas Newspaper Abstracts 1886-1891

Cass County, North Dakota Marriage License Index

Marshall County, Alabama Cemeteries

San Mateo County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Tattnall County, Georgia 1880 Census. Enumeration districts 87, 88, 89, 90, 91.

Edjudina 1904 Electoral Roll, Western Australia


2009-05-15 :

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CARSURDEX : Caribbean Surname Index. Surname interests of researchers with email address.

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Trade Goods : Biographies, histories and genealogies of traders, merchants, chiefs, officers, voyageurs of the mid-North American fur trade prior to the 1840's.

Calhoun County, Texas 1860 Slave Schedule

Bell County, Kentucky Coal Miners 1913-1914

Marriages to 1825, Morgan County, Alabama

Oconto County, Wisconsin Military Service Records

Shasta County, California Cemeteries

Misc. Virginia Records

Saline County, Arkansas Census Records

Ellis Island records for Bereza and Antopol, Belarus


2009-05-13 :

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Arkansas Land Records -- Interactive Search. This is an interface to the Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents from the Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office (GLO) Automated Records Project.

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Jackson County, Alabama Civil War Rosters

Houston County, Georgia 1850 Census

Index of Deaths 1871 - 1893 Manitou County, Michigan

Hardin County, Texas 1870 Census

Louisiana Executions 1722-1961

Department of Cher (18), France Parish and Civil Register Abstracts. Well over one million birth, marriage, and death records extracted so far thanks to the work of volunteers.


2009-05-12 :

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U.S. Surname Distribution. Enter a surname (last name) into the form and you'll get a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the United States in 1850, 1880, 1920 or 1990.

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Brooklyn, Kings County, New York Butchers in 1889

Business directory and history of Wabaunsee County, Kansas c.1907

Yavapai County, Arizona 1870, 1880, 1900 and 1920 Census Index Search

Full name index to the book St. Martin Parish Cemeteries (Louisiana). Published by Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane.

Marion County, Alabama Cemeteries

San Bernardino County, California Obituaries

Denton County, Texas 1850 Census

Lee County, Arkansas 1910 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

Tisbury Tax Valuation List of 1771, Dukes County, Massachusetts

Tables de registres paroissiaux : Pommerit le Vicomte, La Chapelle Janson, Achères, France : Parish registers of Pommerit le Vicomte, Côtes-d'Armor department (22) : marriages 1781-1788 and 1793-1802; La Chapelle Janson, Ille-et-Vilaine department (35) : baptisms, marriages and deaths 1726-1787; Achères, Yvelines department (78) : marriages 1630-1792, baptisms and burials 1650-1792. Web site in French.

New South Wales (Australia) 1821 Births, Deaths & Marriages Index Taken from Sydney Papers


2009-05-11 :

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Names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued by the secretary of the province of New York, previous to 1784

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Caldwell County, Texas Probate Index Book A (1849-1907)

Cleveland County, Arkansas 1930 Census

Records on Korean War Dead and Wounded Army Casualties. The series contains information about U.S. Army officers and soldiers who were casualties in the Korean War. According to the variable "casualty type," 27,727 records are for Army personnel who died, including personnel who died while a prisoner of war or missing in action. The remaining 82,248 records are for nonfatal Army casualties.

Jackson County, Missouri Marriage Records starting from 1831 : Applications and licenses.

Marriages to 1825, Madison County, Alabama

Faulk County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Village of Beresina Family Group Records, 1834 (Bessarabia, Ukraine)

Hawkesbury Region of New South Wales, Australia Memorials, Monuments & Plaques Register


2009-05-09 :

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Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1958. A searchable index that links to a digitized image of the original death certificate. This is an ongoing project.

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Culpeper County, Virginia Road Orders 1763-1764 (pdf document). Includes the names of all the able-bodied men (the "Labouring Male Tithables") living on or near the roads. Name index near the end of the document.

Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883 : Tippecanoe County, Indiana

Korean War Memorial For Kentucky Soldiers

Murray County, Minnesota 1870 Census

Madison County, Alabama 1860 Census

Gonzales County, Texas 1880 Census

Abstracts of The Mountain Echo Newspaper, Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas 1886-1921.

Obituaries from History of Placer County, California (1882)

Skullyville Cemetery of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. Skullyville Cemetery is the first burialground of the Choctaw People west of the Mississippi.

Passenger List : the Phoebe Dunbar, England to Western Australia, 1853 : 93 passengers and 286 convicts.


2009-05-07 :

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Index to Oklahoma Territorial Records : 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census and Smith's First Directory of Oklahoma Territory (1890)

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Burnet County, Texas Obituaries from the late 1800s

Santa Cruz County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Bon Homme County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Morgan County, Georgia 1860 slaveholders and Surname Matches for African Americans on 1870 Census

Limestone County, Alabama Cemeteries

Izard County, Arkansas Biographies : From Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeastern Arkansas, published 1891.

Washington County, Maryland Court Records, 1778-1793. Court records for Washington County, Maryland, 1778-1793, include the names of many of the county's inhabitants.

International Genealogy Community pages : Poland. Click on 'Poland Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 120 websites related to doing genealogy in Poland.

Surname index to the Sydney Gazette, New South Wales 1823


2009-05-05 :

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Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (Dawes). Applications were submitted between 1898 and 1914 for enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes.

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Postmasters of Texas

Town of Salamanca, Cattaraugus County, New York Biographies

Walker County, Alabama 1900 Census (US Census Project)

Jackson County, Arkansas Divorces 1832-1890

Sugar Grove Township, Dallas County, Iowa 1879 Biographical Directory

Master index of names associated with the history of eastern Alameda County, California : 80455 entries from 79 books and booklets.

Hartford, Connecticut 1799 Business Directory

Auvillers, Oise Department, France Vital Records 1628 to 1825

Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Baptisms 1848 to 1920


2009-05-04 :

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The Farber Gravestone Collection. The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for the largest portion of the collection. This online version is sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society.

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Colorado Vietnam War Casualties - June-December 1966 & January-December 1968

Early Families of Weld, Franklin County, Maine

1880 Census Maricopa County, Arizona

Campbell County, Tennessee Index to Minutes, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Vol. 4 Date 1839-1846

Lauderdale County, Alabama Cemeteries

Ex-Members Of San Francisco Pioneer Association 1890

History and Records of St. John Lutheran Church, Ross Prairie & Ellinger, Fayette County, Texas

Saline County, Arkansas Marriage Records 1836-1927

Early Records from Manchester, St. Louis County, Missouri, Methodist Church

New South Wales 1830 Passenger Arrivals/Departures Index (Australia)


2009-05-03 :

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Index of Claims of the New York Soldiers of the War of 1812

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Utah Family Group Sheets

Yazoo County, Mississippi birth information from civilian registration cards completed in 1917-1918

Burleson County, Texas Divorces 1853-1908

Lamar County, Alabama Cemeteries

Classified Business Directory of Humboldt County, California, 1890

Preble County, Ohio Early Land Purchasers

Pike County, Arkansas Marriage Records 1895-1948

Ontonagon County, Michigan Native American Death Index 1868-1876

Sydney, New South Wales Publicans in 1831

Sweden Genealogy Search at GeneaNet


2009-05-01 :

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Lutheran Roots Genealogy Exchange. Use the "Lutheran Roots" Family Registry to research family names. Scan current names listed to see if you can offer information to another genealogy buff, or list your family name to see if someone can help you.

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Campbell County, Kentucky Cemeteries

Grayson County, Virginia Tax and Property Documents

Evangelical St. Peters Church of Champaign County, Illinois Lists of Members 1865-1883

California Obituaries from Arkansas Newspapers

Jefferson County, Alabama 1850 Census (USGenWeb Project)

United Methodist Church of Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas Marriage and Baptism Records, 1873-1950

1860 Federal Census Index : Oconto County, Wisconsin

Les rôles d'imposition de Feucherolles 1740, 1787 : 1740 and 1787 tax lists of Feucherolles and Lanluets, Yvelines Department (78), France.

Varcoe's New Zealand Marriages Index. Search years 1840 to 1862 and Maori data by name, search by folio number for non-Maori marriages 1863 or later.



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