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2008-03-31 :

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Revolutionary War Public Service Claims. A fully-searchable index to documents relating to claims for compensation made by Virginia citizens for materials, supplies, and services provided to the Virginia militia or Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. These documents, consisting of certificates, court booklets and lists, and commissioner's books, are available on microfilm.

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Izard County, Arkansas Obituaries

Munday Times (Munday, Knox County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1927.

Moravian Immigrant Database Index

Le Taur Parish, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne Department, France : Death Records of People Born Elsewhere 1613 to 1792


2008-03-30 :

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Mormon Pioneer Search

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Ada County, Idaho 1870 Census

Victoria, Australia 1840 Passengers who arrived and departed Port Fairy and Portland, in the year 1840 : Index 1 - Index 2

Licking County, Ohio Biographies

Campbell County, Tennessee Mortality Schedules : 1850, 1860, 1880

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


2008-03-28 :

Featured Database :

Daniel de Rauglaude's Database. Over 2 million individuals: genealogies of European royal families from the 6th century to the present, French and US Presidents, Nobel price winners, and other celebrities.

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Harrodsburg Herald (Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.

Italian Surnames: Ethymology and Origin

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

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Woodworth, Iroquois County, Illinois Confirmation Register and Todten Register 1873-1890

Misc. Mecklenberg, North Carolina Cemeteries


2008-03-26 :

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List of Most Common Surnames. Most common surnames in over 40 countries.

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Misc. Pinal County, Arizona Marriages : Brides - Grooms

Pike County, Alabama Civil War Rosters

Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania Coroner's List of Deaths 1901, 1902, 1925

Elbert County, Colorado Pensions Index, 1933-1936 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)

Passenger List of the Wilson Kennedy, England to New South Wales, 1852 : 481 passengers.


2008-03-25 :

Featured Database :

Dormant Swiss Bank Accounts. Over 23,000 bank accounts designated as "probably" related to victims of Nazi persecution.

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Floyd County, Virginia 1840 Census

Vital Records as published in the Iron River Pioneer from 1894-1908, Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Anderson County, Texas 1850 Census Images Online

Monroe County Reporter (Forsyth, Georgia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1998.

West Flanders, Belgium Marriages : Marriage indexes for over 100 towns and villages currently online.


2008-03-24 :

Featured Database :

Encyclopedia Titanica. Titanic passenger and crew listings, over 2,400 individual passenger and crew biographies, and much more.

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Massachusetts Archives Collection Database (1629-1799). The Massachusetts Archives database serves as a searchable, descriptive index and catalog for documents of eighteen volumes of the Massachusetts Archives Collection.

Families of Indigent Soldiers of Hempstead County, Arkansas: 1862 (pdf document)

Allegany County, New York Marriages from the 1875 State Census

Portola Reporter (Portola, Plumas County, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2005.

Passenger List : the Robert Small, England to Western Australia, 1853 : 99 passengers and 300 convicts.


2008-03-23 :

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Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1955. A searchable index that links to a digitized image of the original death certificate. This is an ongoing project.

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Park County, Wyoming 1920 Federal Census (US Census Project)

Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883 : Washington County, Iowa

1943 Address Book of Gerlachsheim. Gerlachsheim was a German village that now belongs to Poland.

North Dakota Family Group Sheets

Tennessee Civil War Southern Claims (Index) (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : These 3,929 Tennesseans, who filed claims with the Southern Claims Commission, claimed their property had been taken by United States military personnel for use in the Civil War.


2008-03-21 :

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Galveston Immigration Database. Free registration required. The Texas Seaport Museum has compiled the nation’s only computerized listing of immigrants to Galveston, Texas. The database includes names of passengers and members of their traveling parties, age, gender, occupation, country of origin, ship name, dates of departure and arrival, and destination in the United States.

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California Biographies 1878. State Officers, Officers of the Supreme Court. Officers of the Senate, Officers of the Assembly. Prominent Business, Professional Men & Newspaper Proprietors & Correspondents.

1938 Ohio Telephone Directory of Springfield, Donneleville, New Carlisle, North Hampton, Pitchin, Terre Haute, Tremont City (Clark and Champaign Counties)

Democrat Reporter (Linden, Marengo County, Alabama) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1983.

Farmington, Michigan Historical and Genealogical Indexes Online. Obituary, surname, and marriage indexes compiled by members of the Farmington Genealogical Society. This online versions of the indexes are hosted by the Farmington Community Library.

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Champaign County, Illinois Baptism Register: 1860-1875

East Coast, New Zealand Returns of Sheep Owners 1875-90


2008-03-20 :

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Library of Michigan 1870 Census Index. The Michigan 1870 Census Index is a searchable database of the head of household of families residing in every county and township in Michigan in 1870. Results allow you to view scanned images of the microfilmed census pages.

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Berks County, Pennsylvania Will and Estate Records

Italy Genealogy Search at GeneaNet

Galveston County, Texas 1850 Census

Southerner (Welcome, Davidson County, North Carolina) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2005.


2008-03-18 :

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Italian Emigrants to the United States, Argentina and Brazil, Free registration required.
- The United States data bank contains the files on about 200,000 Italian emigrants recorded in the Ship Passenger Lists who arrived in New York between 1880 and 1891.
- The Argentinian data bank is made up of 1,020,000 files on Italians who arrived in Buenos Aires between 1882 and 1920. The information is taken from the disembarkment lists.
- The Brazilian data bank is mainly based on information taken from the embarkment registers of ships leaving Italy, to which have been added checks and additions through other archive sources. The information covers about 27,000 Italian emigrants who arrived in Vitoria between 1858 and 1899.

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Misc. Navajo County, Arizona Marriages : Brides - Grooms

Land Holdings in Highland County, Virginia around the time of the Revolution

Union County, Georgia Grave Database Project

El Paso County, Colorado Pensions Index, 1893-1907 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)

Roll of Honour : Tumbarumba, Tumblong, and Yass, NSW, Australia, WWI and WWII.


2008-03-17 :

Featured Database :

Mennonite Passenger List 1872-1904. Lists 14,207 individuals who arrived in the U.S. on 205 passenger ships between 1872 and 1904. (1.3 Mo .txt file)
List of Mennonite Ships 1872-1904

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Blair Press (Blair, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search of browse issues back to 1927.

Lake Village Cemetery Records, Chicot County, Arkansas

Civil War Military list - May 29 1861, Geneva County, New York

Pickens County, Alabama 1850 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

International Genealogy Community pages : Russia. Click on 'Russia Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 130 websites related to doing genealogy in Russia.


2008-03-16 :

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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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South Kingstown, Rhode Island Friends Records : Marriages to 1880 For the Towns of South Kingstown, Charlestown, Westerly, Hopkinton and Richmond.

Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1880 Census

Bradley County, Tennessee Cemeteries

Lubec Light (Lubec, Washington County, Maine) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.

Burials in Copperfield Cemetery, Queensland, Australia

Archives départementales des Alpes Maritimes : consultation des documents numérisés. The French Department of Alpes-Maritimes has made available online : 1) Scanned images of local historical newspapers (including several local english language newspapers for tourists. These newspaper regularly publish lists of British and American visitors to this popular resort area of France); 2) the 'État civil' : registers of births, marriages and deaths to 1886, and the 'Tables Décennales' (1802-1902) which are alphabetical lists of births, marriages and deaths compiled by municipalities every 10 years; 3) The Napoleonian cadastre (established between 1807 and 1850). These documents are browsable but not searchable. Web site in French.


2008-03-14 :

Featured Database :

New York City Prison The Tombs : 1850 and 1860 US Federal Census Transcriptions. Provides name, age, gender, occupation, birthplace, and reason for incarceration.

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Genealogical Gleanings From Texas Obituaries & Death Records : This collection of some 2,000 records spans the 1870s through the 1990s and largely represents the north central portion of Texas; though it also reaches the western gateway city of Abilene and the southeastern city of Houston.

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

Maple Ridge Cemetery, Westlake, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Vivy, Belgium Civil Register Index : Births 18/01/1797 - 08/12/1906, marriages 25/12/1797 - 09/12/1906.

News Record (Cerro Gordo, Piatt County, Illinois) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.


2008-03-13 :

Featured Database :

Utah State Archives Index Search. Search multiple indexes, including misc. county vital records, naturalization records, mining records, and more.

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Perry County, Alabama Cemeteries

Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1830 Census Index

Boone County, Kentucky High School 1969 Yearbook

Montmorency County Tribune (Atlanta, Michigan) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2003.

Mourambine Cemetery in S.W. Western Australia


2008-03-11 :

Featured Database :

1880 Idaho Census

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Dallas County, Iowa 1900 Census, Enumeration District 20

Fairfax County, Virginia Road Orders 1749-1800 (Large 326 page pdf document). Includes the names of all the able-bodied men (the "Labouring Male Tithables") living on or near the road. Name index on pages 194 to 222.

1870 Transylvania County, North Carolina Census

Talbotton New Era (Talbotton, Talbot County, Georgia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2005.

Album Academicum Universitatis Tartuensis 1918-1944. Academic album of Tartu University, Estonia. Note : you can browse all 31402 names in the database by leaving all fields blank and clicking on Osti (in Estonian)


2008-03-10 :

Featured Database :

Alabama 1867 Voter Registration Records Database. Currently all entries for Wilcox, Winston, Walker, Tuscaloosa, Tallapoosa, Talladega, Sumter, St. Clair, Shelby, Russell, Pike, Pickens and Macon Counties are available.

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1860 Slave Census Schedules, Bradley County, Arkansas

Farmers of Long Island, New York 1875-1919

Colorado State Penitentiary Prisoner Index 1871-1973

News-Democrat (Waverly, Humphreys County, Tennessee) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1955.

New South Wales 1830 Cops & Cons News Index (Australia)


2008-03-09 :

Featured Database :

Acts of Tennessee 1796-1850 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This name index to the Acts passed by the Tennessee legislature is intended to help provide access to this vast source of early Tennessee history & genealogy.

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Misc. Mohave County, Arizona Marriages : Brides - Grooms

Parish Register of St. John's Episcopal Church, Columbus, Colorado County, Texas 1874-2002

Pre-1907 Wisconsin Vital Records. Searching the index is free. You can use the information from the index to find the records on microfilm. You can also order copies directly from the website.

Lake Region Times (Madison Lake, Blue Earth County, Minnesota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1908.

Zhitomir area, Ukraine Expropriation lists 1915


2008-03-07 :

Featured Database :

DAR Library Online Catalog. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library is one of the largest genealogical library in the world. What is unique about their online catalog is that the DAR Library cataloging staff makes extensive subject tracings to identify the major families mentioned in every family history or genealogy processed into the collection. To search for your surnames of interest, select SUBJECTS from the drop down box and then just type in a surname.

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American Historical Society of Germans From Russia Obituary Collection Index

Belmont County, Ohio Cemetery Project

Pinson News (Pinson, Jefferson County, Alabama) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2005.

Mountain View Cemetery, Weld, Franklin County, Maine

Victoria, Australia : Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Male Prisoners, 1868-1947


2008-03-06 :

Featured Database :

World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938-1946. This series contains records of approximately nine million men and women who enlisted in the United States Army, including the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Although incomplete, the records contain data for a majority of the enlistments in the United States Army during World War II.

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Latah Eagle (Moscow, Latah County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2005.

Tolumne County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Webster County, Kentucky 1870 Census

Athens Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania : Misc. Records

Cuban Jewish Cemetery Headstones (partial)


2008-03-04 :

Featured Database :

Indianola Immigrant Database. Begun in 1994 as a project of the Victoria County Historical Commission, the Indianola Immigrant Database seeks to record the individuals and families that reached Texas through that ill-fated port on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, Texas.

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Pembina Territory 1860 Census Index (North Dakota - Minnesota)

Grayson County, Virginia Census Information

Washington County, Georgia 1860 Census

Ottawa County, Michigan 1850 Census Images Online

Clarendon Enterprise (Clarendon, Donley County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2003.

Misc. New Zealand WWI Records


2008-03-03 :

Featured Database :

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 13,350,000 database entries.

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Benton County, Arkansas Cemeteries

Broome County, New York Directory Database. Sources : Boyd's 1869 directory of 100 Cities, and Boyd's 1872 NY state business directory.

Cherokee County, North Carolina 1840 Census

Enterremens, annoncés dans 'Annonces, affiches et avis divers', Paris, France : Death announcements published in the Parisian newspaper 'Annonces, affiches et avis divers' from 1751 to 1765.


2008-03-02 :

Featured Database :

ODESSA ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library Browse or search over 300 Mbytes of data.

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Orleans Parish, Louisiana Hospital Records

Minnesota Family Group Sheet Project

Ashwaubenon Moravian Cemetery, Ashwaubenon, Brown County, Wisconsin

Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, Tennessee

Eagle County, Colorado Probate Index, 1884-1935 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)

Index to the Book Port Macquarie, A History to 1850 (NSW, Australia)



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