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2007-11-30 :

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World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing - U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Forces Personnel (Images Online)

State Summary of World War II Casualties from U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard Personnel (Images Online)

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Marion County, Arkansas 1840 Census (US GenWeb Archives)

San Bernardino County, California Cemeteries

Marriages in Rankin County, Mississippi 1828-1854

Gonzales Weekly (Gonzales, Ascension Parish, Louisiana) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1920.

Passenger List of the Java, England to New South Wales, 1852-1853


2007-11-28 :

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Massachusetts Marriages 1841-1850. From the microfilmed registration books of marriages for all Massachusetts cities and towns. These registration pages where submitted by municipal clerks to the State on an annual basis. Work in progress.

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Newspaper abstracts from The Effingham Democrat, Effingham County, Illinois 1870

Calvary Cemetery, Benton County, Tennessee

Mount Abram Cemetery, Salem, Franklin County, Maine

Goldendale Sentinel (Goldendale, Klickitat County, Washington) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1918.

1750 Census of Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico


2007-11-26 :

Featured Database :

Who Attended the 1621 First Thanksgiving?

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Jefferson County, Alabama 1900 Census

1880 Adair County, Kentucky Census

1860 Federal Census : Fannin County, Georgia

Villefranche-de-Lauragais Prison, Haute-Garonne Department, France 1834-1855 : French Inmates - Foreign Inmates

Arapahoe County, Colorado Voter Registrations Index 1893-1905 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records).


2007-11-24 :

Featured Database :

Georgia Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960. Applications, supporting documentation, and correspondence for indigent or maimed Confederate veterans or indigent widows of Confederate soldiers.

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Floyd County, Virginia Deaths 1853, 1862

Champaign County, Ohio 1820 Census (pdf document)

Winnebago County, Wisconsin 1920 Federal Census - Enumeration District 141 (US Census Project)

Edgewood Enterprise (Edgewood, Van Zandt County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1976.

Port Fairy District, Victoria, Australia 1872 Births, Deaths and Marriages Index. Index for births, deaths, marriages and inquests as mentioned in the Port Fairy Gazette / Belfast Banner.


2007-11-22 :

Featured Database :

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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Jackson County, Alabama 1850 Census (USGenWeb Project)

Cedar Creek Township, Madison County, Arkansas 1860 Census

The Record of Deceased POWs in Japan During World War II. Mainly Commonwealth, American and Dutch casualties.

1912 Michigan School For the Deaf. Free online edition of this book listing all the students, teachers and alumnus of the school during this year.

Feather River Bulletin (Quincy, Plumas County, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2001.

Poland Genealogy Search at GeneaNet


2007-11-20 :

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Republic of Texas Claims Search. The Republic Claims series of Comptroller's records includes claims for payment, reimbursement, or restitution submitted by citizens to the Republic of Texas government from 1835 through 1846. It also includes records relating to Republic pensions and claims against the Republic submitted as public debt claims after 1846.

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Early Farm Names and the Owners Names, Iroquois County, Illinois

Anderson County, Tennessee Colored Marriages December 1866 - June 1879

Wilkinson County, Mississippi 1860 Census Images Online

Glenville Democrat (Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1975.

Manaro Mercury Extracts of Birth Deaths and Marriages for the Cooma Monaro Districts, New South Wales, Australia 1864 - 1905


2007-11-18 :

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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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1840 Newport City directory, Campbell County, Kentucky. This directory lists each person's place of birth.

Bangs, Brown County, Texas, 1921 Telephone Book

Georgia Land Lottery Grants to Revolutionary Veterans

Genesee News (Genesee, Latah County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues from 1917 to 1954.

Surinam Indentured Labour Database. Search engine for Hindus who came to Surinam between 1873 and 1916 as contract workers.


2007-11-16 :

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

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Highland County, Virginia Soldiers in the War of 1812

Park County, Colorado Will Records 1892 - 1925

Center Hill Cemetery, Weld, Franklin County, Maine

Freeman Courier (Freeman, Hutchinson County, South Dakota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1901.

Broad Arrow Cemetery, Western Australia


2007-11-14 :

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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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Queens County, New York Life Members of the Long Island Bible Society in 1885. List includes deceased members. Queens County included present day Nassau County.

Residents of Hereford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Who Fought in the Revolutionary War, c. 1783

S S Bermudian, Saloon Passenger List - December 28, 1912 New York to Bermuda

Misc. Wisconsin Cemetery Listings : Mainly Brown and Outagamie counties, but also Calumet, Monroe, and Winnebago counties.

Franklin County Citizen (Preston, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues from 1913 to 1922.


2007-11-12 :

Featured Database :

Kansas Family Group Sheets

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Obituaries for Some People in the Winslette Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, Houston County, Alabama

Headstone Markings of Paddy's Run Old Welsh Cemetery in Shandon, Butler County, Ohio

Fort Sumner Review (Fort Sumner, De Baca County, New Mexico) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues from 1917 to 1931.

Waipawa (Abbotsford), New Zealand 1867 Census


2007-11-11 :

Featured Database :

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

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Lonoke County, Arkansas Federal Land Records

East Bernard Express (East Bernard, Wharton County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.

1910 Monroe County, Tennessee Census Index

Unitarian and Universalist Religious Leaders in Southern Illinois 1850 to date. A list of religious leaders known to have served Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist congregations in Southern Illinois.

Nominal Roll of the Kenya Regiment (from inception to temporary discontinuation of service). The Kenya Regiment was formed in 1937, served in WWII, and existed for barely more than a quarter of a century.


2007-11-09 :

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The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers. Recently updated, this database now contains over 1,500,000 entries.

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Hancock, New Hampshire, Town Record Books, 1749-1872 (FREE Database Online - Footnote) : Documents for Hancock, NH, include church records of baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, financial accounts, and lists of members.

Dibean Michigan Marriage Collection : Oakland County

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

Washington County, Georgia 1840 Census

Florida Flambeau (Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1915.

Victoria, Australia : Nominal Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1907


2007-11-08 :

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USGenWeb Archives Digital Library : Nationwide Search - Search by State. 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.

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Barren County, Kentucky Marriage Register 1865-1869

Sacramento County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Henry County, Virginia Surnames Register Including City of Martinsville. Find others working on your family surnames.

Florala News (Florala, Covington County, Alabama) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1970.

Schwäbische Patrizier : A gedcom database of over 10,000 entries for the district of Swabia, Bavaria, Germany.


2007-11-06 :

Featured Database :

Soldiers in Tennessee Volunteer Units in the Spanish American War

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First Presbyterian Church of Binghamton Early Records, Broome County, New York. The Church was organized in 1817.

A list of all Fleetwood citizens in 1973, Berks County, Pennsylvania (pdf document)

1840 Belmont County, Ohio Head of Household Census Index

Index to Colorado Veterans' Grave Registrations 1862-1949 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : The Colorado Graves Registration was a project to locate and register the graves of all United State veterans buried in Colorado.

Passenger List : the Stag, England to Western Australia, 1855 : 89 passengers and 255 convicts.


2007-11-05 :

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Funeralplan.com Free Online Obituaries. Commemorate your loved one's memory, or visit online obituaries created by others.

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Resthaven Cemetery, Quitaque, Briscoe County, Texas

Index to the Ashtabula County, Ohio 1930 Federal Census (by Township)

Juneau County, Wisconsin Pensioners on the Roll in 1883

Farmer's Advocate (Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1921.

Index to Death notices found in Voce Giuliana from 1989 to 1998. The majority of the notices are from the Istrian peninsula of Croatia.


2007-11-04 :

Featured Database :

St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project. The St. Louis Circuit Court retains millions of records that document the judicial, social, cultural, and economic history of the city, county, state, and nation. This project is a broad partnership of government, university, legal, and business organizations to preserve and make available these unique judicial records to the citizens of Missouri and the nation.

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Logan County, Arkansas Cemeteries

Rutheford County, North Carolina 1790 Census

Vermilion County, Illinois Database. GEDCOM database with over 35000 entries.

Excelsior Springs Standard (Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1997.

Archives départementales de la Vendée (France) : Archives en ligne. The French Department of Vendée has made available online scanned images of an important part of its collection including the 'État civil' : registers of births, marriages and deaths to 1855 (including clandestine Protestant records 1685 to 1787 and clandestine Catholic records at the time of the Revolution); Notarial records; Historical newspapers, and more. These documents are browsable but not searchable. Web site in French.

New South Wales 1831 Cops & Cons News Index (Australia)


2007-11-02 :

Featured Database :

Texas Confederate Pensions Search. This interactive search form provides access to an index of names, counties of residence, and pension numbers of some 54,634 approved, rejected, and home pensions issued by the Texas government between 1899 and 1975.

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Misc. Apache County, Arizona Births gathered from newspapers articles, birth announcements, obits, bios.

1920 Hamilton County, Tennessee Census Index (Partial)

Index of Names in 1860 Census Agricultural Schedule for Marion County, Georgia (pdf document)

Ely Echo (Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1972.


2007-11-01 :

Featured Database :

Hamburg, Germany Passenger List - 1872. This index is compiled from four microfilms of original Hamburg Passenger lists for the year 1872, including both the direct (traveling directly to the destination) and indirect (traveling by way of England or another port) lists.

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Robertson Hospital, Richmond, Virgina Civil War Records : 1331 records. You may either search by the soldier's last name and/or by the regiment that he served in.

Names from A Handbook of the Island of Tobago, published in 1899

Mississippi Lynchings 1882-1930

Kentucky School Photos and Year Books

Eaton, Michigan Naturalization Records Index (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)



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