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2006-11-30 :

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Misc. Ayrshire, Scotland Data from Census, OPRs & Kirk Sessions. Over 40 downloadable files of genealogy related data for a name/s or for a town/parish.

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Dale County, Alabama Cemeteries

School Census, Stegall Community, Jackson County, Arkansas 1922-1940

St. Michael's Catholic Church, Chicago, Illinois Baptisms/Christenings 1870-1871 : A German-speaking parish.

Isle of Man Registered Marriages, 1849-1923

1881 Census: Residents of Fareham Union Workhouse, London Road, Fareham, Hampshire, England

Carnamah, Western Australia Newspaper Transcriptions


2006-11-29 :

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Revolutionary War Virginia State Pensions. Index to and scanned images of the surviving records that veterans and their widows presented to the county courts to certify their eligibility for pension.

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Oglethorpe County, Georgia 1860 Census

Clay County, Missouri 1900 Census

Southern Necropolis, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Interment Index

1870 Polk County, Tennessee Census

Saskatchewan Surnames. Submitted surnames to get in touch with others working on the same genealogy.

Civil Parish of St. Just In Penwith, Cornwall, England 1841 Census: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3


2006-11-27 :

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Surname Resources at RootsWeb. Select a surname and access the following resources from one page : WorldConnect, SSDI, USGenWeb, Personal Web Sites, Obituary Daily Times, RootsWeb Surname List (RSL), Transcription Projects, Primary Records, Mailing Lists, General Links and Search Engines. Thousands of surnames listed.

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Hawke's Bay, East Coast & Wairarapa, New Zealand Electoral Rolls

Spencer County, Kentucky Cemeteries

Jackson County, Michigan : Hanover Township 1850 Census - Partial

Giles County, Virginia Military records

Marriages at Heath, 1682 - 1812, Derbyshire, England

Flint, Wales : Constables of the Shire to 1874 - Burgesses 1541-1880 - Knights of the Shire 1541-1880 - Rectors 1603-1880 - Churchwardens 1603-1880 - Overseers of the Poor 1749-1883 - Sheriffs 1301-1883 - Guardians 1837-1883


2006-11-26 :

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Missouri Pioneers. A compilation of settlers that settled in the state of Missouri by 1890 submitted by people doing historical research and family histories. Email contact information is provided.

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1790 York County, Maine Census

Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette 1775-1783

1883 Texas Pensioners

Great Britain : Foreign Office Officials 1782-1870

County Tipperary, Ireland Marriages (user contributed)

Zimbabwe Surnames. Surnames that occur in Zimbabwe and that people are researching - Ndebele, Shona, English, or other.


2006-11-25 :

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The Family Group Sheet Project (USA). Charts that have been submitted by visitors.

New Links :

Arlington Street Burying Ground, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Collinton, Midlothian, Scotland in 1842/43 Edinburgh & Leith County Directory

Monumental Inscriptions, St. Laurence Church, Foxton, Cambridgeshire, England (pdf document)

Athens County, Ohio 1820 Federal Census

Herkimer and Montgomery County, New York Biographies and Photo Sketches

Burials for Upper Minto (Drew) Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada 1911-1925


2006-11-23 :

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Early California Population Project. The Early California Population Project provides public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers.

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Bayfield County, Wisconsin WW1 Soldiers : A - K, L - Z

Aston Blank (Cold Aston), Gloucestershire, England : 1851 Census - 1861 Census - 1871 Census

Independence County, Arkansas Miscellaneous Marriages. Taken from marriage record books in county courthouse in Batesville, Arkansas.

New South Wales 1823 Cops & Cons News Index (Australia)

Bond County, Illinois Original Land Owners (pdf document)

County Laois (Leix, Queens), Ireland Ancestry Message Board


2006-11-22 :

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Maryland Marriage Project. This project endeavors to provide actual transcriptions of Marriage Applications and other Marriage Records.

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1860 Talledega County Alabama Census Images : Slave Schedule

Newton County, Georgia 1850 Census

3rd Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment Union Rosters

Bocabec Presbyterian Cemetery, Saint Patrick Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada

Bedford St. Paul Church of England, Bedfordshire World War I Memorial

Buittle, Kirkudbrightshire, Scotland Old Parish Records


2006-11-20 :

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U.S. Church Records at RootsWeb. Recently updated, this database now contains 32042 records (7019 distinct surnames.) Selected counties, as contributed by visitors.

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Brooke County, West Virginia Surnames. Contact email address provided for each entry.

Shelby County, Kentucky 1810 Census

Virginia : Mutual Assurance Society Policies Index 1796-1865

Victoria, Australia : Nominal Register of Patients, Royal Park Hospital for the Insane, 1907-1913

Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, Wales Lists of Electors 1760-1896


2006-11-19 :

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Ancestry Member Directory. Search for members of the Ancestry community who have common family history interests. You could find someone who knows about your ancestors.

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1901 Caddo Indian Census

Participants in the Battle for San Antonio December 5-10, 1835 (Bexar County, Texas)

Index to Reprint of the Barnstaple Records (Devon, England) : Volume 1 - Volume 2

Dangandonovan Cemetery, County Cork, Ireland

Florence Catasto of 1427 (Italy). This is a World Wide Web searchable version of tax assessment data for the city of Florence in 1427-29.

Slovenian Marriages As Reported In The Forest City News Forest City, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania 1908-1986


2006-11-18 :

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Indian Pioneer Papers Index. Interviews that deal with people of all nationalities with first-hand experience of Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, not just the Indian population. The Indian Pioneer Papers are the result of more than 11,000 interviews conducted in 1936.

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Civil War Era Burials - Alexandria National Cemetery (Virginia). Index to 3600 Federal burials.

Scottish Ministers. Minister included in Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae : Volume I -Synods of Lothian and Tweeddale. Volume II - Synods of Merse and Teviotdale, Dumfries & Galloway.

Misc. Haverhill Independant Church Baptisms 1872-1901 (Suffolk, England)

Allen County, Ohio Cemetery Page

Searching the Brooklyn, New York 1925 Census in One Step. New York State took its own census in 1925. This form searches all the Kings County (Brooklyn) records. This is a work in progress.

Annapolis Muster List 1784 (Nova Scotia, Canada). Return of Negroes and their families mustered in Annapolis County between the 28th day of May and the 30th day of June 1784.


2006-11-16 :

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USGenWeb Archives Digital Library : The USGenWeb Archives are a "virtual library" of historical documents that have been transcribed and donated by folks like you. you may find items such as wills, obituaries, letters, biographical sketches, county and township histories, census, cemeteries, etc. This will vary by state and county, dependant upon what has been submitted : Nationwide Search - Search by State

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Name Index to the book Wyoming, A Guide to Its History, Highways, and People. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wyoming, Sponsored by Dr. Lester C. Hunt, Secretary of State, Oxford University Press, New York, 1941.

Names Indexed from the book St Barnabas Church and Early Auckland (New Zealand)

Howard 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 Howard Co, AR.

St Vincents Home, 337 Harrow Road, Paddington, London, England 1901 Census

Cairo High School 1938 Class Roll, Alexander County, Illinois

2nd Glendermott Presbyterian Church Financial Statement For Year Ending November 27, 1866, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Names of seatholders with the amount of seat rent and voluntary contributions.


2006-11-15 :

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British, German, and Loyalist Officers in the American Revolution. The names of over 2,500 men who served the British cause during the American Revolution.

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Wisconsin Biography Index and Biography Exchange. An index of biographies in selected Wisconsin historical publications.

Muscogee County, Georgia 1880 Census, Enumeration District 49

Tombstones Of Tulliallan Kirkyard, Kincardine on Forth, Fife, Scotland

Monroe County, Tennessee 1930 Census Index

City of Brantford, Brant County, Ontario Biographical Sketches from Warner and Beers History of Brant County 1883. Surnames : A to L - M to Z


2006-11-13 :

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Persons Naturalized in Pennsylvania : 1740-1759, 1760-1763, 1764-1773

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Traveler's Rest Cemetery, Samson, Geneva County, Alabama

Cave Run Cemetery Relocation, Rowan County, Kentucky

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County, Virginia Census Records : 1810, 1860, 1870

Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, England 1851 Census

Mimosa Passengers, Wales to Argentina, 1865

Australia Genealogy Search at GeneaNet


2006-11-12 :

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Obituary Lookup Volunteers. An all-volunteer web site and mailing list dedicated to providing obituary lookups all over the world. Volunteers from many locations are listed on the web site. If there is no volunteer for an area, requests can be sent to the mailing list.

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Parish of Buckhorn Weston, Dorset, England Poor Rate Payers 1679 & 1719

Braxton County, West Virginia Civil War Soldiers

Bell County, Texas Cemetery Central

Misc. Kutschurgan Documents. The Kutschurgan is a river northwest of Odessa in the country that is now called Ukraine. In the early 1800s villages were established there for immigrants from Alsace, Pfalz and Baden. Documents from the villages of Baden, Kandel, Elsass, Mannheim, Selz, and Strassburg are currently online.

Tithe Valuation for Brosna Parish, County Kerry, Ireland c. 1820 (partial)

History of Washington County, Pennsylvania : Boroughs and Townships. Searchable. Includes several lists of names.


2006-11-10 :

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Cheyenne and Arapahoe Schedule of Land Allotments - 1891

Northam, Devon, England Tithe Apportionments (1838)

Troqueer Kirk Session Database 1698 to 1771 (then in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland)

1880 Federal Mortality Schedule, Adams County, Ohio

John M. McGregor Notary Records : Index 1851-1879. Images online of the original index, surnames A to J only. John M. McGregor practices in Montreal, Quebec from 1851 to 1854 and in Stanbridge, Quebec from 1854 to 1880.

Pulteney Street Cemetery, Geneva, Ontario County, New York. Surnames : A to L, M to Z


2006-11-09 :

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Virginia Military Dead. The database currently contains data on nearly 30,000 Virginia men and women.

New Links :

Adams County, Illinois : Deaths From Quincy Newspapers - 1890's

Colorado 1900 Census Indian Industrial Schools Index

Jews in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (Identified & Supposed) in the 1891 census

Hot Spring County, Arkansas Cemeteries

Bethania Cemetery, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia


2006-11-07 :

Featured Database :

The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers. Recently updated, this database now contains 1,241,645 entries from 121 newspapers.

New Links :

Wayne County, Mississippi transcription of the civilian draft registration cards in 1917-1918

Murray County, Georgia 1850 Census

1819 Settlers on Indian Lands, Jackson County, Alabama & Marion County, Tennessee

Dumfries, Scotland Kirk Session Database. The period covered by this database is 1687 to 1695 for Presbytery records, and 1689 to 1838 for Kirk Session records.

(Uny) Lelant, Cornwall, England Deaths & Burials

1891 Census of Clanwilliam, Manitoba, Canada


2006-11-06 :

Featured Database :

Freedmen's Bureau Records Relating to Freedmen's Labor 1865 - 1869. The freedmen's labor contracts, which the bureau assisted in drawing up, consist of agreements between freedmen laborers and planters stating terms of employment. Area covered : Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

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Virginia Deaths in World War II : Franklin County, Frederick County, Fredericksburg City, Giles County, Gloucester County, Goochland County, Greene County, Greensville County.

Robertson County, Kentucky 1890 Veterans Schedule

Maine Family Group Sheet Project

New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion Roll of Honour : France & Flanders 1916-1918

Records from Calvary Chapel, Brynmawr, Breconshire, Wales

West Alvington, Devon, England - Index to burials 1813-1831


2006-11-04 :

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Archives of Maryland Online. The Archives of Maryland is currently providing access to over 471,000 historical documents.

New Links :

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.

Covington County, Alabama Civil War Rosters

Bastrop County, Texas 1870 Census Index

County Antrim (Northern Ireland) Gravestone Inscriptions Database. The Database contains Inscriptions for 149 Graveyards in County Antrim.

Database of South Africa Cricket Players Past and present.

Parish of Colemore, Hampshire, England Records: Baptisms 1563-1975, marriages 1563-1967, burials 1563-1975, census 1841-1901.


2006-11-03 :

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Passenger List of the Pennsylvania German Pioneers. Passenger lists from 1683-1726, 1809-1819 do not exist and are being reconstructed on this site.

New Links :

Evergreen Cemetery, Washington County, New York

Partial List of Re-interments to Woodland Cemetery, Montgomery County, Ohio from Other Grave Sites

Fordham Parish, Cambridgeshire, England Directory for 1851

1861 Census Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland

British Columbia's Voters List 1898 (Canada)

Churchill County, Nevada Social Security Death Index Search Results


2006-11-01 :

Featured Database :

Pigot's Directory for Kent, 1840

New Links :

Marriages from the Registers of South Shields St Aiden (1888-1910), County Durham, England.

Index to tickets of leave, certificates of emancipation and pardons, 1810-19, NSW, Australia

Biographies of West Virginia Confederate Soldiers

Hemstead County, Arkansas 1840 Census Surname Index

Dublin, Ireland Prerogative Protestant Marriage Licenses 1632-1794 : County Waterford Names

Newspaper abstracts from The Effingham Democrat, Effingham County, Illinois 1877



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