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2007-03-17 :

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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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Halifax County, Virginia Cemeteries

Bourbon County, Kentucky Cemeteries

Del Norte County, California WW2 Enlistees, Names : A to L - M to Z

Roxton, Bedfordshire, England Roll of Honour. World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information.

Angle Parish, Castlemartin Hundred, Pembrokeshire, Wales 1881 Census

Mangawai, Auckland Residents 1898 from the Auckland Directory (New Zealand)


2007-03-16 :

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Illinois Marriage Project. This project endeavors to provide actual transcriptions of Marriage Applications, and other Marriage Records, as found recorded in the county court house and state archives.

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Great Lakes Maritime Personnel Online Database

Briscoe County, Texas 1900 Census Images

Pennsylvania Executions 1693-1962

Local Newspaper Master Index - Wiltshire, EnglandOver 54,400 names from various dates between 1707 to 1870. The majority of articles indexed so far refer to individuals and events in Wiltshire.

Defunciones 1896-1899, San Salvador, El Salvador. RegistroCivil : San Salvador, El Salvador death records 1896-1899 (in Spanish.)


2007-03-15 :

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U.S. School Alumni Lists at Rootsweb. Recently updated, this database now contains 270502 records (63392 distinct surnames.) Selected schools, groups or organizations (as contributed by RootsWeb visitors)

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1910 Census Kings County, New York : Brooklyn Howard Colored Orphan Asylum

Cass County, North Dakota Probate Records Index

Emigration from Banat to Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio From the National Archives Ship Records.

Annuaires Lovell de Montréal et sa banlieue 1842-1999 (Québec) : Images online of Montreal City Directories 1842-1999. While the Web site is in French, the directories themselves are in both French and English.

Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland List Of Inhabitants - 1807

Burnage, Lancashire, England in the 1858 Lancashire Directory (WW1 and WW2)


2007-03-14 :

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Born Cornwall, Died... : Records of people who were born in Cornwall, England but died elsewhere. Data contributed from all over the world.

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St. Clair County, Alabama 1860 Census (US Census Project)

Newburg Township, Izard County, Arkansas 1910 Census

Bardoc, Western Australia Cemetery and Postal Directories 1899, 1921

Bureau County, Illinois Biographies

Northwich, Cheshire, England Freeholders in 1578. What they had, and were required to provide, when called to arms.

Gort, County Galway, Ireland in Pigot's Directory of Ireland, 1824 (Civil parishes of Kiltartan, Kilmacduagh, and Beagh)


2007-03-13 :

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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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Morgan County, Georgia 1920 Census

Lowndes County, Mississippi 1900 Federal Census (partial)

Anderson County, Tennessee Death Records 1908-1912

Guysborough County, Nova Scotia 1817 Census Index

1837 Ayrshire Directory by Pigot & Co. (Scotland)

Pudsey, Calverley Parish, West Riding of Yorkshire in Pigot's Directory of 1829. Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades"


2007-03-12 :

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Florida Pioneer Descendants Certification Program : List of Documented Pioneers

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Oulu Finnish Evangelical Church, Oulu Township, Bayfield County, Wisconsin - Church Register - Name Index

Greensville County, Virginia 1920 Census Images

People killed in Kentucky and Tennessee Cyclone, May 18, 1933 : 19 were killed Russell County (KY), 16 in Monroe County (KY), 2 in Adair County (KY) and 22 in Overton County (TN) and Wilson County (TN).

Name index to the book Pioneers of Echuca Moama District pre 1940, Victoria, Australia

Ashprington, Devon, England - 1841 census transcript


2007-03-11 :

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Native American - Dawes Roll Index : Index to the Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, 1898-1914.

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L'origine dei cognomi. Origin of Italian surnames (Web site in Italian)

Humboldt County, California Biographies. Source: History of Humboldt County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Co., 1915

Annotated Adoption Records, 1862-1933 Abstracted from Brazos County, Texas Deed Records

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 1790 Census

1881 Census: Residents of Union Workhouse, Luton, Bedford

Misc. Rathkeale Church of Ireland Parish Baptisms 1728-1897 (County Limerick, Ireland)


2007-03-10 :

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Utah State Archives Database. 19398 records searchable online : Selected Birth Records and Selected Naturalization Records.

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Coosa County, Alabama Misc. 1870 Census Images

Rensselaer County, New York Biographies and Photo Sketches

List of Persons Who Have Forfeited Their Lands in York County, New Brunswick (1818)

Champaign County, Ohio 1840 Census (pdf document)

1881 Census: Residents of Southampton Workhouse, Holy Rood, Hampshire, England

Birse, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Death Certificates 1855-1873


2007-03-09 :

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Staffordshire, England Vital Records : Birth Indexes - Marriage Indexes - Death Indexes. Although the indexes are not yet complete for all years and districts, the databases will eventually cover Staffordshire births, marriages, and deaths for the years 1837 to 1950 and beyond.

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Routt County, Colorado Inheritance Tax Records 1918-1923

Independence County, Arkansas 1830 Census

Southern Illinois Biographies. Extracted from the book A History of Southern Illinois by George Washington Smith, published in 1912.

Desertcreat Parish, County Tyrone Griffith's Valuation for specific townlands (Northern Ireland)

1891 Census Index for Ingestre Parish, Staffordshire, England

Misc. Passenger Lists to New Zealand


2007-03-08 :

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Social Security Death Index at World Vital Records
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Murray County, Georgia 1840 Census

Abstracts of the State Guard (1847-1848) published in Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama

Bledsoe County, Tennessee 1809 Petition. Petition of citizens of Bledsoe County who settled in the Indian Boundary Line before it was run and who left their improvements asking that some provision be made to restore their property when the Indian title is extinguished.

Canadians in the South Dakota Grand Army of the Republic (Union Civil War Vetereans)

Cemeteries in Rousay, Egilsay, and Wyre, Orkney, Scotland

Fletching, Sussex, England 1841 Census Heads of Household : Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5


2007-03-06 :

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Slavery Petitions Database. Legislative petitions offer immediate testimony on a broad range of subjects by a variety of southerners--black and white, slave and free, slave owner and non-slave owner, women and men--over nearly a century of time. Petitions are from from fifteen states and the District of Columbia.

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Grayson County, Virginia Birth Records 1853 to 1879

Boone County, Kentucky Birth Records for 1911 - 1920

1830 Belmont County, Ohio Head of Household Census Index

1891 Census of Bettws-Gwerfyl-Goch, Merionethshire, Wales

Lowestoft Cemetery Index, Suffolk, England

Tumbarumba Cemetery, NSW, Australia

U.S. Federal Bureau of Prison Inmate Locator. The database includes all Federal inmates from 1982 to present.


2007-03-05 :

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Alberta Local History Book Index of Indexes. This Local History Book Index of indexes contains 222,205 entries from 324 local history books.

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

Brazoria County, Texas Confederate States of America Pension Applicants

Venango County, Pennsylvania Civil War and War of 1812 pensions

Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland in 1824 Pigot's Directory

Baptism Index for Foleshill, St Laurence, Warwickshire, England. List of Baptisms taken from the Parish Records of St Laurence Church in Foleshill from 1733 to 1753 and 1780-1851, and 1890-1913.

Baptêmes à Grandrieu 1743-1830 : Grandrieu, Hainaut Province, Belgium baptisms 1743-1830 (in French.)


2007-03-04 :

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Alabama Civil War Veterans and Out-of-State Veterans Buried in Alabama Soil

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Marriage Notices published in Geneva, Ontario County, New York Newspapers 1807-1931

Amador County, California WW2 Enlistees, Names : A-L, M-Z

1755 Victual List for Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

East Cleveland Township Cemetery, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Declarations of Intention to Marry given at the British Consulate, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1849-75 (Scots only)

Civil Parish of Kenwyn, Cornwall, England 1841 Census (Including Kenwyn in the Borough of Truro): Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4


2007-03-02 :

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Obituary Daily Times Interactive Search. The Obituary Daily Times is a daily index of published obituaries across the world. The archives are fully searchable online. Search the archives to find a publication date of an obit. You can then refer to the newspaper to get a copy of it (at the library or directly with the newspaper itself). Updated recently, there are currently over 12,150,000 database entries.

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Baptisms by the Rev. Francis Beekman Lee, St. Paul's Episcopal Church 1837-1894, Carlowville, Dallas County, Alabama

Hot Spring 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 Hot Spring Co, AR.

Police Officers Stationed at Mullewa, Western Australia 1894 - 1947. Including a list of Officer in Charge until 1989.

Carroll County, Illinois Misc. Obituaries

County Tipperary, Ireland Surname Registry

Bainbridge, Yorkshire, England Census Records : 1841 - 1851 - 1861 - 1871 - 1891 - 1901


2007-03-01 :

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Index to New Jersey Marriage Records, 1848-1867. This database indexes marriage returns filed with the Secretary of State for the period May 1848 through 31 May 1867.

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Habersham County, Georgia 1820 Census

Grainger County, Tennessee : List of Insolvents Living Within the Indian Boundary for the Year 1797

Hastings Militia Return, 1834 (Hastings County, Ontario, Canada)

Liff & Benvie Register of Poor (1854-1865) and Dundee East Poorhouse Register (1856-1878), Angus, Scotland

Medieval Merchants in London. Names indexed from The Merchant Class of Medieval London by Sylvia L Thrupp, 1948.

Missouri Lynchings 1836-1981
Additional Missouri Lynchings 1836-1981



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