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2008-02-29 :

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Virginia Land Office Patents & Grants/Northern Neck Grants & Surveys. A fully-searchable index to: land patents issued prior to 1779; land grants issued by the Virginia Land Office after 1779; grants issued in the Northern Neck from 1692-1862; and original and recorded Northern Neck surveys. Images for the land patents, Land Office grants, Northern Neck grants, and recorded Northern Neck surveys (1786-1874) are available online. The unrecorded Northern Neck surveys prior to 1782 are available on microfilm.

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Alabama Land Patents Database: Morgan 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.

Useldingen and Rippweiler, Luxembourg Marriage Index 1623-1793 (pdf document)

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

Mt. Zion Region News (Mt. Zion, Macon County, Illinois) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.

Phillips, Franklin County, Maine Cemeteries


2008-02-28 :

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Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements. Currently over 3000 transcriptions posted.

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Menominee County, Michigan Native American Death Index 1872-1881

Wyoming Lynchings 1878-1918

Residents and Non-residents of Frankstown Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania 1780-1781

Misc. Collin County, Texas Records Consisting of Census Records, Deeds, Probate Minutes, Marriage Records, District Court Records and Tax Records.

Manchester Star-Mercury (Manchester, Meriwether County, Georgia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2005.


2008-02-26 :

Featured Database :

National Obituary Archive. Over 55 million records (United States).

New Links :

Gloucester County, Virginia : Chataigne's Virginia Directory and Business Register 1888-1889

Boyle County, Kentucky Deaths

Boulder Daily Camera Obituary Index 1970 - 1974 (Boulder County, Colorado)

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

New Zealand Society of Genealogists South Canterbury Branch Members Surname Interests


2008-02-25 :

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Missouri Naturalization Records, 1816 - 1955. Volunteers are transcribing naturalization data from various county record books and from Supreme Court of Missouri record books to produce a database of immigration information.

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Monroe County, Alabama 1840 Census

Town of Lyndon, Cattaraugus County, New York Biographies

Hamilton County, Tennessee Marriage Records 1889 - 1900 (Partial)

Sylva Herald & Ruralite (Sylva, Jackson County, North Carolina) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1977.

Norway Probate Registers Database (1600-2001)


2008-02-24 :

Featured Database :

AFRA Pedigree Tables. Between 1990-1992, the American Family Records Association [AFRA], published their members' ahnentafel charts in six volumes entitled AFRA Pedigree Tables. These charts are now searchable online on the Mid-Continent Public Library web site.

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1820 Federal Census Walnut Township, Fairfield County, Ohio Index

104 Signal Squadron, Royal Australian Corp of Signals Members in South Vietnam 1967-1971

1870 Federal Census of Bayfield, Bayfield County, Wisconsin

St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Roselle, DuPage County, Illinois Baptism Index 1850-1890

Lake Metigoshe Mirror (Bottineau County, North Dakota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2006.


2008-02-22 :

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GENS-US Surname map. Type in a surname and get a map of the United States showing the distribution of this surname within the 50 States.

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Misc. Graham County, Arizona Marriages : Brides - Grooms

Scott County, Arkansas Misc. Obituaries

Index of the Coleman County, Texas 1870 Census Records and images of actual census pages.

Stone County Enterprise (Wiggins, Mississippi) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1957.

Cross Index of Croatia Surnames (and Locations) in Roman Catholic Parishes of Croatia


2008-02-21 :

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Members of Quantrill's Guerillas in the Civil War. Hundreds of names, along with sources.

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Birth information from the 1917-1918 civilian draft registration cards for Trinity County, California

Berks County, Pennsylvania Surname Register

Misc. Keilor, Victoria, Australia Records

Chattahoochee County, Georgia Civil War Records (pdf document)

Routt County, Colorado Pensions Index, 1935-1936 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)


2008-02-19 :

Featured Database :

Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776

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Virginians Wed in North Carolina,1880-1930

Abstracts, Will Book 3, 1857-1870, Mobile County, Alabama : Part 1 - Part 2

Boyd County, Kentucky 1910 Census Index

Lafayette Ledger (Lafayette, Nicollet County, Minnesota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues from 1907 to 1972.

Ucimont, Belgium Civil Registers of Marriages 1796-1904 (In French.)


2008-02-18 :

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Pennsylvania Militia Officers Index Cards, 1775-1800 Indexes. Index card file of the names of Pennsylvania militia officers who served during the American Revolution, in Indian campaigns in northwestern Pennsylvania, and in quelling the Whiskey Rebellion.

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1891 Portrait & Biographical Album for Ingham & Livingston Counties, Michigan : Published in 1891. Over 11,000 names.

Campbell County, Tennessee Cemetery Census Database. Search user contributed data.

Quoddy Tides (Eastport, Washington County, Maine) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1968.

Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Sheep Returns 1876


2008-02-17 :

Featured Database :

Revolutionary War Soldiers Living in the State of Ohio in 1818-1819

New Links :

Misc. Early Rhode Island Records
. Officers to command the several Trained Bands, or Companies of Militia, June 1775
. Amount of Rations, &c., Allowed to the Soldiers, by the Continental Congress.
. Assistants and Militia Officers Chosen December 10, 1776
. Committee appointed by the General Assembly to procure Blankets for the Soldiers.

Veterans Database of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (Ohio)

Coke County, Texas Index to Deeds

Monday Times-News (Mt. Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1932.

Archives Départementales de l'Eure (France) - Etat Civil et Registres Paroissiaux. Over 10 million digital images of parish registers, civil registers and decennial tables of births, marriages, and deaths from 1529 to 1872 held by the Archives of the French Department of Eure. Records are browsable by municipality but not searchable by name.


2008-02-15 :

Featured Database :

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

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Casualties of the Vietnam War - Alabama

Membership List, Karpovka Mennonite Brethren Church, Sointsevsk Council Borough, Isil-Kul District, Siberia. Includes birth year (ranging from 1856 to 1916)

Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1800 Census

McIntosh County, Georgia 1840 Census Images Online

Kiowa News (Kiowa, Barber County, Kansas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1948.


2008-02-14 :

Featured Database :

Arkansas Family Group Sheet Project

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Tehama County, California Cemeteries

Fredericksburg, Virginia, Confederate Burial Index Search. Listings of Confederate burials recorded by the Ladies Memorial Association for the Confederate Cemetery, located on the corner of Amelia Street and Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Adair County, Kentucky School Photos and Yearbooks

Kuna Melba News (Kuna, Ada County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2005.

YHRD - Y Chromosome Haplotype Reference Database : Y chromosomal profiling can trace back paternal lineages into the past and has thus been proven a useful tool in genealogical and kinship testing. This database is interactive and allows the user the search for Y-STR haplotypes in various formats and within specified metapopulations.


2008-02-12 :

Featured Database :

Pennsylvania Archives (Free Database Online - Footnote) : These are the published Pennsylvania Archives, a well-known collection of early government records printed by the Commonwealth. It is comprised of some 132 volumes within 10 series. Each series, 1 through 9, plus the Colonial Records series, is available here for you to access.

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Wiling, Allegany County, New York Marriages, 1849-1920

Whiteface Cemetery, Cochran County, Morton, Texas

Bradley County, Tennessee Union Soldiers from the Ninth District

Southern Herald (Liberty, Amite County, Mississippi) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1979.

Coolgardie, Western Australia School Register of Attendance 1911, 1913

Breitenbach, Department of Bas-Rhin (67), Alsace, France Marriage Index 1793-1892 : Grooms - Brides - Chronological (pdf documents, in French.)


2008-02-11 :

Featured Database :

Utah Digital Newspapers. The digitized newspapers in this website may be browsed by issue or searched by keywords, article titles, weddings, deaths, and births.

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Boulder County, Colorado Inheritance Tax Record 1941 - 1943

Ebenezer Chapel & Cemetery Records, Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois

Freeman, Franklin County, Maine Cemeteries

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

1897 Oficiales del Instituto de Voluntarios de Puerto Rico. Officers of the Institute of Volunteers Corps of Puerto Rico.


2008-02-09 :

Featured Database :

The Tombstone Transcription Project. New York State Cemeteries, Past and Present Counties : Albany to Niagara - Oneida to Yates

New Links :

35th Alabama Infantry, Confederate States of America

1850 Randolph County, Arkansas Slave Schedule

Clark County, Ohio High School Yearbooks

Kenyon Leader (Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1886.

Misc. Queensland, Australia Cemetery Transcriptions


2008-02-07 :

Featured Database :

Search the US Social Security Death Index at MyTrees.com

New Links :

Canton Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania : Misc. Records

Catalog of Grave Markers, St. Marys Cemetery, Humboldt, Brown County, Wisconsin

Union County, Georgia 1850 Slave Schedule

Kenly News (Kenly, Johnston County, North Carolina) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.

Data Base of Officers of the Ten-Years War, Cuba 1868-1878


2008-02-06 :

Featured Database :

Illinois State Archives Global Database Search. Are you not sure which database may contain your ancestor? Don't have time to search all of the Illinois State Archives databases one by one? Need to narrow your search? The Global Database Search will examine all databases on the Illinois State Archives web site containing name fields for the name you enter. A list of all databases containing the name you enter will be returned. Simply click on a database from the list which is returned to search for the record in that database.

New Links :

Stanislaus County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Descriptive List of Persons Convicted of Felony and Other Infamous Offenses in the County of Floyd, Virginia 1871-1943

Name index to Boone County, Kentucky Wills 1799-1862

Johnson Pioneer (Johnson, Stanton County, Kansas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1940.

Victoria, Australia : Case Books of Female Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1878-1912


2008-02-04 :

Featured Database :

Ancestral Files, Family Search. A worldwide database of family groups and pedigrees created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Orleans Parish, Louisiana Cemetery & Burial Records

Bastrop County, Texas Cemeteries

1860 Benton County, Tennessee Special Railroad Census : Names of the officers, laborers & boarding housekeepers and families employed on the Memphis, Ohio & Louisville Railroad & Bridge Companies in Benton County, Tennessee.

Evergreen and Fairview Cemeteries, Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado

Kendrick Gazette (Moscow, Latah County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1938.

Population of Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) in 1796 (in Dutch)


2008-02-03 :

Featured Database :

Mexican Border Campaign Veterans' Card File (Pennsylvania). These cards, bearing the title "Mexican Emergency, Call of President, June 18, 1916," contain the following information about veterans: name and rank, regiment and company, age and place of birth, a physical description (height, complexion, hair and eye color), date of commission or enlistment into service, home station and date of rendezvous, and date of acceptance into United States service. Additional remarks may indicate the date that the soldier's enlistment was to expire and the name and address of a person to be contacted in case of an emergency.

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Misc. Gila County, Arizona Marriages to 1907 : Brides - Grooms

Tompkins County, New York Census of Pensioners for Military Service in 1841

Confederate Beterans buried in Marshall County, Alabama

Atwood Herald (Atwood, Douglas County, Illinois) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 1972.

Victims of the eruption of Mount Tarawera, Rotorua, New Zealand - Thursday 10 June 1886 : 120 names.


2008-02-01 :

Featured Database :

Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows. Searchable database of pension applications and amended applications filed by resident Virginia Confederate veterans and their widows.

New Links :

Pulaski County, Arkansas 1860 Census (US GenWeb Archives)

Dibean Michigan Marriage Collection : Oscoda County

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

Kalona News (Kalona, Washington County, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1998.

Actes en Vrac France GenWeb. A database of nearly 100,000 birth, marriage, and death records submitted by France GenWeb visitors. Web site in French.



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