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2008-06-30 :

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Henley Marriage and Obituary Index. A fully-searchable personal name index to more than 45,000 marriage and obituary notices published primarily in Richmond, Virginia area newspapers between 1780 and 1876. The index was compiled by Bernard J. Henley (1909-1989), former librarian at the Richmond Public Library. The index contains references to newspapers available on microfilm.

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Cleburne County, Alabama Death Register, 1928-1932. Surnames : A to L - M to Z

Alma Signal (Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Browse or search selected issues back to 1896.

Valleytown, Cherokee County, North Carolina 1920 Census

Ottawa County, Michigan List of Pensioners on the Rolls, January 1, 1883


2008-06-29 :

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List of the names found in the book Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854
- Note : This book may be purchased on AbeBooks

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Manchester City, Virginia Deaths 1886-1896

Kern County, California Biographies.

Harmon's Creek Methodist Church, Benton County, Tennessee : Misc. Records

Stonewall County Courier (Aspermont, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1985.

The 100 most common surnames in Denmark


2008-06-27 :

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Utah Census Search 1850-1880

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New Orleans 1721 Alphabetical Census Extract

Almond, Allegany County, New York 1850 Census

Clark County, Ohio Military Records

Arapahoe County, Colorado Old Age Pension Records, 1933-1936. This record identifies the people who applied to the county for old age pension assistance during the Great Depression era.

Tasmania Index to Census Records. Some census returns have survived for some districts for census taken in the following years: 1842, 1843, 1848, 1851, and 1857.


2008-06-26 :

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Case Files for Early Immigrants to San Francisco and Hawaii : Record Search 1882-1955. This website can help you find out what cases are available at the NARA archives.

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Misc. Lonoke County, Arkansas Obituaries. Mainly 1998 obituaries from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Boone County, Kentucky Surname Interests

Sun (Mount Vernon, Linn County, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1978.

List of Those Who Recieved Coats of Arms for the Conquest of Mexico

Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Wrightstown, Brown County, Wisconsin


2008-06-24 :

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Tennesseans of the Revolutionary War. Records and Histories of Soldiers who Lived or Fought in Tennessee.

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Company F, 46th Alabama Infantry Roster : Macon County and Tallapoosa County.

San Manuel Miner (San Manuel, Pinal County, Arizona) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2005.

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

Taylor County, Georgia 1870 Census

Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia WWI Volunteers


2008-06-23 :

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St. Louis, Missouri Naturalization Index Cards 1816-1906

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Historical Society of Berks County (Pennsylvania) : Historical Review Index. A comprehensive searchable subject index has been compiled for all issues since the first in 1935 through 2004.

Adams County Record (Council, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Browse or search issues back to 1977.

Old Belknap Town Cemetery, Young County, Texas

Union County, North Carolina Marriages 1843-1864

Rachecourt, Province of Luxembourg, Belgium Registers. Database includes both parish and civil registers. (In French.)


2008-06-22 :

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Western States Marriage Records Index. Virtually all of the pre-1900 marriages are included in the index for Arizona, Idaho and Nevada. Many Idaho and Utah counties have been extracted into the 1930’s and some, much later. A significant number of marriages from selected counties in California, western Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Utah, eastern Washington, and Wyoming are also included. Very early marriages (1700’s) in New Mexico are currently being added. This file currently contains about 600,000 marriage records.

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Goochland County, Virginia Road Orders, 1728-1744 (A 93 page pdf document). Includes the names of all the able-bodied men (the "Labouring Male Tithables") living on or near the roads. Name index near the end of the document.

Muskegon County, Michigan Pensioners On the Roll 1883

Campbell County, Tennessee Tax Records

San Miguel Basin Forum (Nucla, Montrose County, Colorado) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1956.

Extracts from the Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Newspaper 1859-1870, Victoria, Australia


2008-06-20 :

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Search the Ellis Island Site at MyTrees: Search the Ellis Island database using a variety of parameters not available on the Ellis Island web site.

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Lawrence 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 Lawrence Co, AR.

Civil War Military list - 10 Sep 1862, Geneva County, New York

Catalina Islander (Avalon, Los Angeles County, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Record) : Search of browse issues back to 1940.

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Woodworth, Iroquois County, Illinois Parish Register 1880 - 1890

International Genealogy Community pages : Tonga. Click on 'Tonga Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 60 websites related to doing genealogy in Tonga.


2008-06-19 :

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Virginia Cemeteries. Misc. cemetery transcriptions listed by county or city. Part of the USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project.

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1840 Census for Adair County, Kentucky

Genealogical Gleanings From Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1820-1826

Spring Hills Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Champaign County, Ohio

Crew on ships out of the port of Launceston, Tasmania 1836


2008-06-17 :

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Obtaining New York Naturalization Records in One Step. Search 9 different databases from this one page.

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Misc. Vineyard (Duke County) Massachusetts Military Lists

Ysearch. Much has happened since Y-DNA testing first became available commercially through Family Tree DNA in February of 2000. Many thousands of people have tested to find family connections as well as family origins. Since then, other labs have entered this market, and the number of tested individuals is growing as the use of DNA is becoming more and more accepted as an important tool for family research, enhancing traditional genealogy research methods. In order to allow people that have tested with the different companies to make their results available for comparison, Family Tree DNA is offering Ysearch as a free public service.

Jasper County, Georgia 1850 Census (partial)

Wood County, Wisconsin Pensioners on the Roll in 1883

Malakoff News (Malakoff, Henderson County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1930.


2008-06-16 :

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Indiana Family Group Sheets

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Johnson 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 Johnson Co, AR.

Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory, Virginia, 1851

Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1850 Manor Township Census Images

Passengers and crews of Jacques Cartier's Second Voyage to Canada, Spring 1535

Tennessee State Penitentiary 1831-1850 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This index contains the following information: inmate's first and last name, age, county, and crime.


2008-06-15 :

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Marriage and Death Notices from The North Carolina ARGUS newspaper 1848-1884

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Brooklyn Dressmakers in 1895 (Kings County, New York)

Alabama Land Patents Database: Winston 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.

St. Patrick's Parramatta Roman Catholic Burials, New South Wales, Australia

Cass County, Illinois Biographical Sketches. From 'History of Cass County, Illinois' published by O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882.

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


2008-06-14 :

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Kentucky Bible Archives

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Darrtown, Butler County, Ohio Cemetery

Members Of San Joaquin Pioneer Association 1890 (California)

Sebree Banner (Sebree, Webster County, Kentucky) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1962.

Silverton Cemetery, Silverton, Briscoe County, Texas

Surnames of Konavle, Croatia. This list shows over 98% of the surnames of Konavle since around 1800.


2008-06-10 :

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Names of the 189 Men Who Fought & Died at The Seige of the Alamo: 189 men who were born in twenty different United States and seven different countries.

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Nez Perce GEDCOM. Over 2000 members of the Nez Perce tribe. One big family tree connecting tribal family members back to the early 1800's.

St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Denver, Maxfield Township, Bremer County, Iowa Baptisms Index 1861-1900

Co K, 12th Regt Ga Volunteer Infantry Army of Northern Virginia : Marion County, Georgia

Saguache Crescent (Saguache County, Colorado) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1900.

Brown Hill Postal Directory 1921, Western Australia


2008-06-09 :

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Soldiers of King Philip's War (1675-1677)

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Jefferson County, Arkansas 1850 Census Index

Bingham Cemetery, Salt Lake County, Utah Photo Survey of Headstones

Greenlake County, Wisconsin 1910 Census

Haywood County, North Carolina 1830 Census

Passengers to Cuba Data Base


2008-06-08 :

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Dead Fred - Genealogy Photo Archives. The Archive contains over 14000 surnames and 75000 records.

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Amelia County, Virginia Marriages in 1889

Wilcox County, Alabama 1850 Census

Latah Observer (Troy, Latah County, Idaho) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues from 1982 to 1984.

Bradley County, Tennessee Petitions to the State Legislature 1837-1866

Victoria, Australia : Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1856. This database is a searchable list of passengers travelling on ships leaving Victoria.


2008-06-06 :

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Roots of the Sixty Colonists. F.L.Weis collected a set of lines from sixty colonists, who came from New England between 1623 and 1650. These lines are entries into the world of higher nobility of Europe.

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Online Cemetery listings, Broome County, New York

Veterans of Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Evangelical St. Peters Church of Champaign County, Illinois Index to Marriages 1866-1908

Clarendon Press (Clarendon, Donley County, Texas) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues from 1973 and 1983.

Rawboots Dutch Genealogy : GEDCOM database, over 140000 entries.


2008-06-05 :

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Early American Pioneers Held Captive or Killed by Indians

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Belmont County, Ohio, 1807 Tax List

Free Colored People in the 1840 Mercer County, Kentucky Census

Beverly Hills Weekly (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 1999.

Livingston County, Michigan Death Index 1867-1948

Victims of the Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Earthquake, 3 February 1931 : 258 names.


2008-06-03 :

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American Historical Society of Germans from Russia - Ancestors List. This genealogy database has been developed from the family history data submitted by members of AHSGR.

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Burials in Woodlawn National Cemetery From the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp

1860 Federal Census Arizona Territory (partial)

La Genealogía de Puerto Rico Surname Index. This surname index page was generated for the La Genealogía de Puerto Rico Web pages by Surname Helper. The La Genealogía de Puerto Rico pages are managed by Puerto Rican Hispanic Genealogical Society.

McIntosh County, Georgia 1830 Census Images Online

Original Irregular (Kingfield, Franklin County, Maine) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.


2008-06-02 :

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Maine Marriages 1892-1966 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This index, made available by the Maine Department of Human Services, contains the bride and groom names, date of marriage, marriage certificate number, and the places of residence.

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Jackson County, Arkansas 1850 Census

Washington County, Alabama 1850 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

Sioux County Index-Reporter (Hull, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2002.

Cherokee County, North Carolina 1860 Federal Census

1830 Apprehended Convict Absconders Index, New South Wales : Part 1 - Part 2



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