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2008-07-22 :
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Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles. Historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Scope: 16,000 articles on 50,000 pages. The entire collection is now available online.
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McKenzie River Reflections (McKenzie Bridge, Lane County, Oregon) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1978.
Records of the Callaghan Mortuary, Alameda County, California 1895-1940
Jefferson County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918
Co H 59th Regt Ga Vol Inf. C.S.A. : Marion Co., Georgia
2008-07-21 :
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U.S. National Cemetery Administration Nationwide Gravesite Locator. Search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker.
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Surnames. Free online edition of this book by Bernard Homer Dixon tracing the etymology and meaning of surnames. Published in 1857.
1910 Floyd County, Virginia Federal Census
1838-1883 Baptismal Record, Forks-Zion Lutheran Church, Forks Church, Gilpin Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Camp County, Texas 1880 Census : Precinct 3, Enumeration District 22
Migranet. A marriage database of French migrants (French people who were married outside of France, or in France but outside of their province or department of origin). Web site in French.
2008-07-19 :
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Kentucky Cemetery Records Database. This Kentucky Historical Society database contains 179,750 grave records from 3,170 cemeteries.
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Eastern District Court of New York Naturalization Project. This database contains an index to the naturalization records that were issued between 1865 and 1956 by the Eastern District Courts, which includes Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Northwood Anchor (Northwood, Worth County, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1895.
Elbert County, Colorado 8th Grade Promotions 1918 - 1930
Index to Hamilton County, Tennessee Wills Volume Three 1893 - 1910
Germany Genealogy Search at GeneaNet
2008-07-17 :
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Virginia Surname Register. A place to find email addresses and/or webpage addresses for researchers of Virginia Surnames.
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Miller County, Arkansas 1830 Census
Preston Citizen (Preston, Franklin County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2001.
Wisconsin Marriage Project. This project endeavors to provide actual transcriptions of Marriage Applications and other Marriage Records.
Tuscola County, Michigan, Civil War Volunteers
Mogimont, Belgium Civil Registers : Births 1796-1823, marriages 1798-1822 (in French).
2008-07-15 :
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Before the Needles : Executions in America before lethal injection 1608-1977. A detailed State by State listing of 14,490 executions that occurred under civil authority in the United States or within territory that later became the United States.
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Lafayette-Nicollet Ledger (Lafayette, Nicollet County, Minnesota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1973.
Calhoun County, Texas 1860 Census Surname Index
Lumpkin County, Georgia 1834 State Census Index
Wake County, North Carolina Register of Deeds : Records Search
Shipping in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia : Passenger Lists & Diaries
2008-07-14 :
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1850 United States Census : Search Population Schedules - Browse Population Schedules - Search Mortality Schedules - Browse Mortality Schedules - Search Slave Schedules - Browse Slave Schedules
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Massachusetts Executions 1630-1947
Russell County, Virginia 1860 Census
San Francisco, California Relief business directory, May, 1906. Giving names, business and address of San Francisco firms and business men who were compelled to change their location by the disaster of April 18 : and who have since located in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and Emeryville.
Matrikkelutkastet av 1950 : Norway's draft land registry from 1950 containing all real estates outside the cities with the name of the owner in 1950 (in Norwegian).
2008-07-13 :
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DAR Library GRC Online Index. An every-name index of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Genealogical Records Committee (GRC) Reports. These reports (17,000 volumes) represent one of the most important and unique segments of the collection of the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. This is an on-going project.
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Providence County, Rhode Island Biographical Sketches from the 1891 book History of Providence County
Coconino County, Arizona Cemeteries
Lake & Valley Clarion (Geneseo, Livingston County, New York) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2003.
Campbell County, Tennessee 1850 Slave Schedule
Marlo Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
2008-07-11 :
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Colorado State Archives Historical Records Index Search. This searchable database provides an index that is searchable by name, record type or by time span. It is especially valuable to researchers and family historians.
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Clermont County, Ohio Revolutionary War Veterans
Bibb County, Alabama Marriage Record H 1881 – 1891
Ogden Reporter (Ogden, Boone County, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1970.
Prisionero y Deportados Cubanos en la Guerra de Independencia. Cuban prisoners and deportees 1895-1898 during the Cuban War of Independence (in Spanish.)
Adams County, Illinois Almshouse Register Index, 1873–1898
2008-07-10 :
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SouthCarolinaGenWeb Archives : Marriage Records 1641 - 1929. Well over 10,000 marriages currently online.
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Marion 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 Marion Co, AR.
Ohio County Times-News (Hartford, Kentucky) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2002.
Convict Ledger, Penitentiary in Huntsville (Walker County), Texas for the years 1849-1899
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriage Register 1758-1786
WW1 Soldiers Enlisted or Born in Coolgardie, Western Australia
2008-07-08 :
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Castle Garden Passenger Lists Search. CastleGarden.org offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.
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Franklin Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania : Misc. Records
Power County Press (American Falls, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1956.
Union County, Georgia 1834 Census
Livingston County, Michigan Marriages 1836-1933
Noirefontaine, Belgium Vital Records : Births 1796-1907, marriages 1797-1907, deaths 1796-1834. Today part of Bouillon. (In French.)
2008-07-07 :
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Arizona Gravestone Photo Project. Browse over 60,000 gravestone photo records from across Arizona.
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Fourth Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia Minutes, 1880-1958. Fourth Baptist Church was the first black Baptist church in the Church Hill community in Richmond.
Alameda County, California Enlistees, World War II
Deer Park Union (Deer Park, Spokane County, Washington) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues from 1932 to 1956.
Brunswick County, North Carolina Bastardy Bonds 1810-1878
N.S.W 1832 Old News Births,Deaths & Marriages Index. Index of Births, Deaths, Marriages & Inquests, taken from the Sydney Gazette for the year 1832.
2008-07-06 :
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California Bound 1848 - 1873 : Ship Passenger Lists, Wagon Train Lists, Isthmus of Panama Passenger Information.
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1883 Pensions for Fulton County, New York
Brooke News (Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues from 1991 to 1994.
Alabama Southern Claims Commissions 1871-1880 (pdf document)
Bradley County, Tennessee 1909 Delinquent Tax Notices
Bulgarian Jewish Deportees from France (Shoah) (pdf document)
2008-07-04 :
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Abstracts from Tennessee Newspapers. This page consists of articles abstracted from newspapers printed throughout Tennessee. All the articles abstracted are deemed to have Genealogical and History value.
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Harlan Tribune (Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1956.
Burnet County, Texas Obituary Index 1931-1960
Winnebago County, Wisconsin 1840 Federal Census (US Census Project)
St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Roselle, DuPage County, Illinois Confirmation Index 1855-1900
Victoria, Australia : Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Female Prisoners, 1857-1948
2008-07-03 :
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IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project. Browse or search over 368,000 gravestone photo records from across the state of Iowa.
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City Atlas of Covington 1877 (Kenton County, Kentucky). Maps include names of land owners (pdf document)
Orleans Parish, Louisiana Obituaries
Misc. Madison County, Arkansas Marriages
1806 Tax List Hocking Township, Fairfield County, Ohio
Kit Carson County, Colorado Pensions, 1933-1936 Index (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)
Population of Baarle-Nassau (The Netherlands) in 1811 (pdf document, in French and in Dutch)
2008-07-01 :
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German Ancestors Database. Over 200,000 persons includings more than 100,000 names from passenger lists.
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Buena Vista and Hartley Passengers 1849 : 326 passengers who departed from Swansea to Liverpool and then to New Orleans.
News-Examiner (Montpelier, Bear Lake County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1955.
Webster County, Georgia 1860 Census
Temple, Franklin County, Maine Cemeteries
Tenants in the Albany town boundary 1913 - 1914 (Western Australia)
2008-06-30 :
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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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Cleburne County, Alabama Death Register, 1928-1932. Surnames : A to L - M to Z
Alma Signal (Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Browse or search selected issues back to 1896.
Valleytown, Cherokee County, North Carolina 1920 Census
Ottawa County, Michigan List of Pensioners on the Rolls, January 1, 1883
2008-06-29 :
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List of the names found in the book Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854
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Manchester City, Virginia Deaths 1886-1896
Kern County, California Biographies.
Harmon's Creek Methodist Church, Benton County, Tennessee : Misc. Records
Stonewall County Courier (Aspermont, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1985.
The 100 most common surnames in Denmark
2008-06-27 :
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Utah Census Search 1850-1880
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New Orleans 1721 Alphabetical Census Extract
Almond, Allegany County, New York 1850 Census
Clark County, Ohio Military Records
Arapahoe County, Colorado Old Age Pension Records, 1933-1936. This record identifies the people who applied to the county for old age pension assistance during the Great Depression era.
Tasmania Index to Census Records. Some census returns have survived for some districts for census taken in the following years: 1842, 1843, 1848, 1851, and 1857.
2008-06-26 :
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Case Files for Early Immigrants to San Francisco and Hawaii : Record Search 1882-1955. This website can help you find out what cases are available at the NARA archives.
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Misc. Lonoke County, Arkansas Obituaries. Mainly 1998 obituaries from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Boone County, Kentucky Surname Interests
Sun (Mount Vernon, Linn County, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1978.
List of Those Who Recieved Coats of Arms for the Conquest of Mexico
Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Wrightstown, Brown County, Wisconsin
2008-06-24 :
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Tennesseans of the Revolutionary War. Records and Histories of Soldiers who Lived or Fought in Tennessee.
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Company F, 46th Alabama Infantry Roster : Macon County and Tallapoosa County.
San Manuel Miner (San Manuel, Pinal County, Arizona) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2005.
Winston County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918
Taylor County, Georgia 1870 Census
Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia WWI Volunteers
2008-06-23 :
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St. Louis, Missouri Naturalization Index Cards 1816-1906
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Historical Society of Berks County (Pennsylvania) : Historical Review Index. A comprehensive searchable subject index has been compiled for all issues since the first in 1935 through 2004.
Adams County Record (Council, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Browse or search issues back to 1977.
Old Belknap Town Cemetery, Young County, Texas
Union County, North Carolina Marriages 1843-1864
Rachecourt, Province of Luxembourg, Belgium Registers. Database includes both parish and civil registers. (In French.)
2008-06-22 :
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Western States Marriage Records Index. Virtually all of the pre-1900 marriages are included in the index for Arizona, Idaho and Nevada. Many Idaho and Utah counties have been extracted into the 1930’s and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from selected counties in California, western Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Utah, eastern Washington, and Wyoming are also included. Very early marriages (1700’s) in New Mexico are currently being added. This file currently contains about 600,000 marriage records.
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Goochland County, Virginia Road Orders, 1728-1744 (A 93 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.
Muskegon County, Michigan Pensioners On the Roll 1883
Campbell County, Tennessee Tax Records
San Miguel Basin Forum (Nucla, Montrose County, Colorado) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1956.
Extracts from the Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Newspaper 1859-1870, Victoria, Australia
2008-06-20 :
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Search the Ellis Island Site at MyTrees
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Lawrence 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 Lawrence Co, AR.
Civil War Military list - 10 Sep 1862, Geneva County, New York
Catalina Islander (Avalon, Los Angeles County, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Record) : Search of browse issues back to 1940.
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Woodworth, Iroquois County, Illinois Parish Register 1880 - 1890
International Genealogy Community pages : Tonga. Click on 'Tonga Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 60 websites related to doing genealogy in Tonga.
2008-06-19 :
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Virginia Cemeteries. Misc. cemetery transcriptions listed by county or city. Part of the USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project.
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1840 Census for Adair County, Kentucky
Genealogical Gleanings From Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1820-1826
Spring Hills Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Champaign County, Ohio
Crew on ships out of the port of Launceston, Tasmania 1836
2008-06-17 :
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Obtaining New York Naturalization Records in One Step. Search 9 different databases from this one page.
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Misc. Vineyard (Duke County) Massachusetts Military Lists
Ysearch. Much has happened since Y-DNA testing first became available commercially through Family Tree DNA in February of 2000. Many thousands of people have tested to find family connections as well as family origins. Since then, other labs have entered this market, and the number of tested individuals is growing as the use of DNA is becoming more and more accepted as an important tool for family research, enhancing traditional genealogy research methods. In order to allow people that have tested with the different companies to make their results available for comparison, Family Tree DNA is offering Ysearch as a free public service.
Jasper County, Georgia 1850 Census (partial)
Wood County, Wisconsin Pensioners on the Roll in 1883
Malakoff News (Malakoff, Henderson County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1930.
2008-06-16 :
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Indiana Family Group Sheets
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Johnson 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 Johnson Co, AR.
Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory, Virginia, 1851
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1850 Manor Township Census Images
Passengers and crews of Jacques Cartier's Second Voyage to Canada, Spring 1535
Tennessee State Penitentiary 1831-1850 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This index contains the following information: inmate's first and last name, age, county, and crime.
2008-06-15 :
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Marriage and Death Notices from The North Carolina ARGUS newspaper 1848-1884
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Brooklyn Dressmakers in 1895 (Kings County, New York)
Alabama Land Patents Database: Winston 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.
St. Patrick's Parramatta Roman Catholic Burials, New South Wales, Australia
Cass County, Illinois Biographical Sketches. From 'History of Cass County, Illinois' published by O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882.
Macomb County, Michigan Naturalization Records Index (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)
2008-06-14 :
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Kentucky Bible Archives
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Darrtown, Butler County, Ohio Cemetery
Members Of San Joaquin Pioneer Association 1890 (California)
Sebree Banner (Sebree, Webster County, Kentucky) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1962.
Silverton Cemetery, Silverton, Briscoe County, Texas
Surnames of Konavle, Croatia. This list shows over 98% of the surnames of Konavle since around 1800.
2008-06-10 :
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Names of the 189 Men Who Fought & Died at The Seige of the Alamo: 189 men who were born in twenty different United States and seven different countries.
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Nez Perce GEDCOM. Over 2000 members of the Nez Perce tribe. One big family tree connecting tribal family members back to the early 1800's.
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Denver, Maxfield Township, Bremer County, Iowa Baptisms Index 1861-1900
Co K, 12th Regt Ga Volunteer Infantry Army of Northern Virginia : Marion County, Georgia
Saguache Crescent (Saguache County, Colorado) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1900.
Brown Hill Postal Directory 1921, Western Australia
2008-06-09 :
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Soldiers of King Philip's War (1675-1677)
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Jefferson County, Arkansas 1850 Census Index
Bingham Cemetery, Salt Lake County, Utah Photo Survey of Headstones
Greenlake County, Wisconsin 1910 Census
Haywood County, North Carolina 1830 Census
Passengers to Cuba Data Base
2008-06-08 :
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Dead Fred - Genealogy Photo Archives. The Archive contains over 14000 surnames and 75000 records.
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Amelia County, Virginia Marriages in 1889
Wilcox County, Alabama 1850 Census
Latah Observer (Troy, Latah County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues from 1982 to 1984.
Bradley County, Tennessee Petitions to the State Legislature 1837-1866
Victoria, Australia : Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1856. This database is a searchable list of passengers travelling on ships leaving Victoria.
2008-06-06 :
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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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Online Cemetery listings, Broome County, New York
Veterans of Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Evangelical St. Peters Church of Champaign County, Illinois Index to Marriages 1866-1908
Clarendon Press (Clarendon, Donley County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues from 1973 and 1983.
Rawboots Dutch Genealogy : GEDCOM database, over 140000 entries.
2008-06-05 :
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Early American Pioneers Held Captive or Killed by Indians
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Belmont County, Ohio, 1807 Tax List
Free Colored People in the 1840 Mercer County, Kentucky Census
Beverly Hills Weekly (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 1999.
Livingston County, Michigan Death Index 1867-1948
Victims of the Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Earthquake, 3 February 1931 : 258 names.
2008-06-03 :
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American Historical Society of Germans from Russia - Ancestors List. This genealogy database has been developed from the family history data submitted by members of AHSGR.
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Burials in Woodlawn National Cemetery From the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp
1860 Federal Census Arizona Territory (partial)
La Genealogía de Puerto Rico Surname Index. This surname index page was generated for the La Genealogía de Puerto Rico Web pages by Surname Helper. The La Genealogía de Puerto Rico pages are managed by Puerto Rican Hispanic Genealogical Society.
McIntosh County, Georgia 1830 Census Images Online
Original Irregular (Kingfield, Franklin County, Maine) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.
2008-06-02 :
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Maine Marriages 1892-1966 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This index, made available by the Maine Department of Human Services, contains the bride and groom names, date of marriage, marriage certificate number, and the places of residence.
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Jackson County, Arkansas 1850 Census
Washington County, Alabama 1850 Census (USGenWeb Archives)
Sioux County Index-Reporter (Hull, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2002.
Cherokee County, North Carolina 1860 Federal Census
1830 Apprehended Convict Absconders Index, New South Wales : Part 1 - Part 2
2008-05-31 :
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American Prisoners of the Revolution: Names of 8000 Men
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Orleans Parish, Louisiana War and Military Records
Index to Pre-1914 court papers located in the Circuit Court for the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia
Catalog of Grave Markers, St. Josephs Cemetery, Champion, Brown County, Wisconsin
Bowie County, Texas 1900 Census Images
Tennessee Confederate Physicians (Index) (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This work is an attempt to index six different sources from which there is evidence of Tennessee physicians who participated in the support of the Confederacy.
Archives of Norway Military Database (1655-1890)
2008-05-29 :
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Virginia Confederate Disability Applications. A fully-searchable index to disability applications submitted to the Board of Commissioners on Artificial Limbs by maimed and injured Virginia Confederate soldiers. There are more than 6,000 entries in the database, linked to more than 24,000 application images digitized from microfilm.
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Natick, Massachusetts Indian Marriages to 1850
Town of Mansfield, Cattaraugus County, New York Biographies
List of 1883 Pensioners, Union County, Illinois
North Weld Herald (Eaton, Weld County, Colorado) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1899.
Passenger List : the Pyrenees, England to Western Australia, 1853 : 94 passengers and 293 convicts.
2008-05-28 :
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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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Roster of Students at Ashland College, Ashland County, Ohio
Sutter County, California Biographies
Letcher County Community News Press (Cromona, Kentucky) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1994.
Mercer Soldiers Orphans School Records, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Acadians Settled in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Brittany, France in 1765
2008-05-27 :
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Norway Heritage. The transcriptions are done by a group of volunteers and is dedicated to get all (most) of the pre 1875 Norwegian emigrants listed in the database. There are currently 57878 passengers from 409 journeys in this database.
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Alabama Land Patents Database: Walker 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.
Preston Booster (Preston, Franklin County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues from January 1912 to January 1913.
Gilmer County, Georgia 1850 Slave Schedule
Deaths in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan 1 June 1883 to 15 May 1884
Geraldine County, South Canterbury, New Zealand Sheepowner Returns 1879 - 1880 - 1881
2008-05-26 :
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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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Independence County, Arkansas 1850 Census
Sundance Times (Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1920.
Oeders Eftr. 1771. Oeders Eftr. of married couples, widowers and widows from Sjælland, Amager, Møn and Bornholm, Denmark (In Danish).
Jasper County, Mississippi birth information from civilian draft registrations in 1917-1918
1927 Clifton Highschool Yearbook, Bosque County, Texas
2008-05-25 :
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Index to Military Rolls of the Republic of Texas 1835-1845. And Name Index to Military Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas.
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Misc. Floyd County, Virginia Marriages
Passenger List of the Parland, England to New South Wales, 1849. Mainly German immigrants.
Macon County, North Carolina 1850 Slave Schedule
Benton County, Tennessee : Early Settlers and Biographies
Boulder County, Colorado Pensions, 1933-1935 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This index was compiled from the official record of the Old Age Pension applications granted by the Boulder County Commissioners during the Depression years.
2008-05-23 :
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial (FREE Database Online - Footnote) : Every-name searchable image of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the "Wall," in Washington, DC.
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Multnomah County, Oregon Marriage Records Index 1855-1907
Superior Sun (Superior, Pinal County, Arizona) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2005.
Name Index to the book Burlington, Wisconsin The First 150+ Years 1835-1990 (Racine County)
Sensenruth, Belgium Parish Registers : Birth index 1631-1796; Marriage index 1637-1796; Death index 1651-1796 (In French.)
2008-05-22 :
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South Carolina Department of Archives and History On-Line Index Search. The following databases are online:
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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Portrait And Biographical Album Of Washington County, Iowa. Free online edition of this book published in 1887.
Coalton, Boyd County, Kentucky 1870 Census Index : Heads of Household.
Marriages to 1825, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Chester Progressive (Chester, Plumas County, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Record) : Search of browse selected issues back to 1946.
Ensay Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
2008-05-20 :
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West Virginia Genealogy Surname Exchange. The Surname Exchange is a list of surnames and researchers compiled from the West Virginia State Archives' Genealogy Exchange cards submitted since 1987. More than 2,600 researchers from forty-eight states and ten countries currently participate in the exchange, which is designed to allow genealogists to contact others who are conducting research on identical surnames.
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Westerly, Rhode Island Deeds 1725-1758
South Dakota Family Group Sheet Project
1910 Fannin County, Georgia Census : Skeinah District
Munday Courier (Munday, Knox County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1971.
Civilian Passengers from the Ports of France to Mauritius and Réunion 1717-1810 (In French)
2008-05-19 :
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Tennesseans of the Revolutionary War : Records and Histories of Soldiers who Lived or Fought in Tennessee.
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Hot Spring County, Arkansas Marriages 1825-1853
1806 Tax List Greenfield Township, Fairfield County, Ohio
List of Government Pensions for Isabella County, Michigan 1883
Kiowa County Press (Eads, Colorado) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1942.
International Genealogy Community pages : Portugal. Click on 'Portugal Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 110 websites related to doing genealogy in Portugal.
2008-05-18 :
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Seamen's Protection Certificate Register Database (U.S.). The data (sailor names, ages, birth and residences places) included on these pages is taken from the original "Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates" issued at the Custom Houses of Fall River, Gloucester, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Marblehead. There are entries for 23,436 certificates issued from 1796-1871.
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Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1850 Kittanning Township Census Images
Highland County, Virginia Householders in 1848
Hackneyville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama 1880 Census Every Name Index
Tennessee Colored Confederate Pensions (Index) (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This index contains the following information: (1) applicant’s surname, (2) applicant’s first name, (3) county of residence at the time that he applied, (4) unit in which he served, and (5) pension application number.
Rockhampton Residents 1868 and 1889, Queensland, Australia
2008-05-16 :
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The US Tombstone Transcription Project. Misc. cemetery transcriptions listed by state.
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An Atlas of Bracken & Pendleton Counties 1884 (Kentucky). Maps include names of land owners. The list of patrons at the end of the volume also provides the date of settlement, place of birth and occupation of each individual. (pdf document - large file)
Schenectady County, New York Pensioners on the Roll 1883
Yancey County, North Carolina 1850 Census Index and Images Online
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Will County, Illinois Death Index 1855-1910
Luxembourg Napoleon Soldiers Database
2008-05-15 :
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Search The Maritime Heritage Project Web Site. Search some 30,000 ships, captains and passengers. Focus of the site is on the West Coast of the United States.
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Del Norte County, California WW2 Enlistees, Names : A-L, M-Z
Post Gazette (Boston, Massachusetts) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.
Washington County, Georgia 1870 Census
Archuleta County, Colorado Mortality Schedule 1884-1885
Ebersheim, Alsace, France : Births to 1809, Marriages and Deaths to 1829 (in French)
2008-05-13 :
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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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Phillips County, Arkansas 1860 Slaveholders and Surnames Matches for African Americans on 1870 Census
Shivwits Cemetery, Washington County, Utah : 202 listings from 1847 to 1997.
Tallageda County, Alabama Cemeteries
Lyon County Reporter (Rock Rapids, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1981.
Sydney, New South Wales Publicans in 1822
2008-05-12 :
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Riders of the Pony Express. "Wanted : Young, skinny, wiry fellows, not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Irish welcome to apply."
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Arizona Historical Prison Register : Alphabetical listing of inmates received prior to 1972.
Clark County, Ohio WW1 Draft Registrations 1917-1918
Anderson County, Tennessee 1850 Census
Mackinac County, Michigan Naturalization Records Index (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)
Dutch Jewish Genealogical Data Base. Database of the Center for Research on Dutch Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Part of the database consists of a collection of genealogies submitted by amateur genealogists and edited by a group of volunteers of the Israeli Circle for Dutch Jewish Genealogy.
2008-05-11 :
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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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Bourbon County, Kentucky 1810 Census
Barclay Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania : Misc. Records
Lakelander (Whitney, Hill County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1990.
Victoria, Australia : Register of Patients, Collingwood Asylum, 1866-1873
2008-05-09 :
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German Emigrants to New York 1709-1710. Most of the Palatines for New York began boarding ships in Dec 1709, but did not leave England until April 1710. About 3,100 emigrants sailed on 11 ships to New York. About 470 Germans perished on the voyage and another 250 after landing. An estimated 2,500 disease-laden emigrants had to be provided for in New York : List 1 - List 2 - List 3 - List 4 - List 5 - List 6 - List 7 - List 8
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Roster of the 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army
Rushford, Allegany County, New York Methodist Episcopal Records : Marriages 1879-1907
Peachtree District, Cherokee County, North Carolina 1920 Census
Huerfano County, Colorado Poor Records Index, 1916-1923 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This Index was compiled from the official record of the Poor Records granted by the Huerfano County Commissioners from 1916 to 1923.
Diccionario Biografico Cienfueguero : Biographical dictionary of the city of Cienfuegos, Cuba (in Spanish.)
2008-05-08 :
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Pennsylvania's Civil War Conscientious Objectors Database. A database of names of Pennsylvania men who refused military service during the American Civil War for reasons of conscience--primarily religious convictions.
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Civil War - Rosters Co. F, 39th Alabama Regiment
Crook County News (Hulett, Wyoming) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues from 1935 to 1941.
Robinsonville Presbyterian Cemetery, Green Bay Township, Brown County, Wisconsin
Sumter County, Georgia 1860 Census
Officers and Men Lost in the Wreck of the HMS Orpheus, 7 February 1863, Auckland, New Zealand : New Zealand's worst maritime disaster. There were 259 officers and men on board of whom 189 lost their lives.
2008-05-06 :
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Texas Migrations. A database for sharing ancestral migratory information.
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Cleveland County, Arkansas 1880 Mortality Schedule
Names of Interred at Pt. Lookout Cemetery. Those perished at Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates from 1863 to 1865 in the state of Maryland.
Lassen County Times (Susanville, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1980.
Berlin, Franklin County, Maine Marriages. Berlin, Maine was a town between 1824 and 1842.
Base de données contenant les mariages des communes de Vendée, France. A database of over 120,000 pre-1802 marriages in the Vendée region of France (in French.)
2008-05-05 :
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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 11000 haplotypes and over 9000 unique surnames.
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Marriages performed from 1851 to 1884 by Elias Smith, Probate Judge of Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Canyon County, Idaho Headstone Photos
The Australians Who Died in Vietnam
Roster of the 12th Texas Cavalry, Confederate States Army
Tennessee WWI Gold Star Records Index (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : Gold Star Records are composed of information on Tennessee soldiers who died of wounds or disease during World War I.
2008-05-04 :
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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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Champaign County, Ohio War of 1812 Veterans
Hart County News (Munfordville, Kentucky) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1929.
Alternate surnames found in the Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe Pedigree database. A list of real name changes, German names converted to a Polish or Russian or English equivalent, sounds-like variations, etc. (pdf document)
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Woodworth, Iroquois County, Illinois Parish Register 1873 - 1879
Livingston County, Michigan WW1 Honor Roll
2008-05-02 :
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Texas Confederate Indigent Families Lists (1863-1865) : Index of Names
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Misc. Orleans Parish, Louisiana Marriage Certificates : Brides - Grooms
Births in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts 1887-1893
Lunenberg County, Virginia Road Orders 1746-1764 (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.
Shelby County, Alabama 1880 Mortality Schedule for Beat 1
San Pedro Valley News-Sun (Benson, Cochise County, Arizona) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2004.
St Thomas' Cemetery, Nth Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008-05-01 :
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Virginia : R. Bolling Batte Papers--Biographical Card Files. Robert Bolling Batte compiled an extensive collection of genealogical and historical research notes and files. Part of the collection consists of more than 30,000 index cards containing biographical information compiled from a variety of original and secondary sources.
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Civil War Military list - 27 Aug 1862, Geneva County, New York
Bulong Cemetery, Western Australia
New Mexico Family Group Sheets
Fayette County, Georgia 1830 Census
Spring Hope Enterprise (Spring Hope, Nash County, North Carolina) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1947.
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