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2008-08-31 :

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Virginia Archives and Manuscripts Catalog. A catalog of state and local government records, military records, personal papers, family Bible records, genealogical notes and charts, church and cemetery records, business records, maps, and other archival and manuscript material. Some finding aids are available online. Document images for 6,000+ family Bible records are available online.

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Cemeteries in Saline County, Arkansas

New Era (Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Record) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1941.

Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery, Cherokee County, North Carolina

Pleasant Hill Baptist Cemetery, Benton County, Tennessee

Victoria, Australia : Nominal Register of Patients, Kew Asylum : 1871-1906, 1871-1914, 1871-1919


2008-08-29 :

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1900 Idaho Census

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King George Journal (King George County, Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1989.

Index of the Coleman County, Texas 1920 Census Records

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

Farmington, Franklin County, Maine Cemeteries

Marriages at Saint Pierre 1763-1790. Part of the French Territory of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, near Newfoundland, Canada.


2008-08-28 :

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Accessing the Illinois Death Index in One Step : Search pre-1950 records.

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Washington County, Ohio 1850 Census (partial)

San Jose, California State Normal School Catalogue 1862-1889. Source: Historical Sketch of the State Normal School at San Jose, California, with a Catalogue of Its Graduates and a Record of Their Work for Twenty-Seven Years [1862-1889].

Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863/4

Pitkin County, Colorado Probate Index, 1881-1953 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)

1831 Apprehended Convict Absconders, New South Wales : Part 1 - Part 2


2008-08-26 :

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New Netherland Notables - Person Index. Lineages of notable individuals and/or their spouses who can trace one or more ancestral lines back to the original inhabitants of what was once known as New Netherland. Thousands of names.

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Broome County, New York 1810 Census

DeKalb County, Alabama 1850 Census Index

New Salem Journal (New Salem, Morton County, North Dakota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1955.

St. John The Baptist Catholic Church Cemetery, Village of Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin.

Georgia Civil War Dead buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.

Fays-les-Veneurs, Belgium Parish Registers : Baptism index 1627-1789; Marriage index 1668-1789; Death index 1668-1789. (In French.)


2008-08-25 :

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1885 Dakota Territory Census. The database includes only the counties in northern Dakota Territory (present-day North Dakota). This 1885 Dakota Territory census index contains over 150,000 names.

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Arkansas Gazette Obituaries January 01, 1930 to January 05, 1930

Barren County, Kentucky Notice of Delinquent Taxpayers 1818

Saint Michael's Cemetery #2, Hamburg, Tilden Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Newcastle News (Newcastle, King County, Washington) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2006.

Name Index to the Book A Drift of 'Derwent Ducks'. A book on the lives of the 200 female convicts transported on the Australasia from Dublin, Ireland to Hobart, Tasmania in 1849.


2008-08-24 :

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Behind the Name. The Etymology and History of First Names.

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Coke County, Texas Obituaries and Death Notices. Some Copied from the Observer/Enterprise, Ballinger Ledger, and The San Angelo Standard-Times.

Misc. Marriage Records Macon County, North Carolina

Anderson County, Tennessee Pedigree Charts

New Era (Parker, Turner County, South Dakota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Record) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1899.

International Genealogy Community pages : Japan. Click on 'Japan Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 100 websites related to doing genealogy in Japan.


2008-08-22 :

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FoundDogTags.com. This site has been created for the purpose of returning dog tags found from Vietnam to their respective families.

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1931 Cass County, Illinois Farmers Directory

Orange County, Virginia Road Orders 1750-1800 (Large 344 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.

Woodlawn Cemetery, Almond, Allegany County, New York

South Canterbury, New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1857-1877

Colorado 1900 Federal Indian School Census Index (Grand Junction) (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)


2008-08-21 :

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City of Boston Historic Burying Grounds Initiative. The information in this database is based on surveys conducted in the mid-1980s by staff and volunteers of the Historic Burying Grounds Initiative.

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Dallas County, Alabama 1850 Agricultural Census

Misc. Tulare County, California Census Records

Lyon County News, Inc. (George, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1959.

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

Declarations de Belle-Ile-en-Mer (Acadians in France, 1767). The registers of these depositions were deliberately compiled in order to compensate for the lost parochial archives.


2008-08-20 :

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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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Pope County, Arkansas 1830 Census

Franklin County, New York Marriages in 1875

Mountain Messenger (Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1985.

1870 Fannin County, Georgia Census

Southwest Michigan Obituary Index. This obituary index is a work in progress and contains over 76,000 entries dating from Southwest Michigan's earliest history through the year 2000. Obituaries included pertain to residents of the Michigan counties of Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo and Van Buren.

Walterhall State School Register of Pupils 1949 - 1969, Queensland, Australia


2008-08-19 :

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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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Mukilteo Beacon (Mukilteo, Snohomish County, Washington) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1992.

Yavapai County, Arizona Old Age Pension Index 1933-1937

Bastrop County, Texas 1850 Census (US GenWeb Archives)

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 1860 Census Index

Goongarrie 1904 Electoral Roll, Western Australia


2008-08-18 :

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Misc. Alabama Bible Records

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1834 Clark County, Ohio Petition Signers

1900 Monroe County, Tennessee Census Index

Yancey County, North Carolina Marriage List for 1850-1920. Partial, over 3200 marriages currently online.

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

Population of Zondereigen in 1796 (Baarle-Hertog, Belgium)


2008-08-16 :

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Washington State Digital Archives : Search birth, marriage, death, naturalization, census, military records, and more.

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San Joaquin County, California Cemeteries

Biographies of Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania. Extracted from Biographical And Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana And Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania, published in 1891.

Passenger List of the Kate, England to New South Wales, 1849. Full passenger list with some extra genealogical details on 31 of the 338 assisted passengers.

Boyd County Library, Kentucky : Obituary & Census Search

Mouse River Journal (Towner, McHenry County, North Dakota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1933.

Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil, tables décennales des Yvelines et de l'ancienne Seine et Oise (France). Browse vital records held at the French Departmental Archives of Yvelines, including a few communities of the former department of Seine et Oise. The collection includes parish registers (1533-1792), civil registrations (1792-1860), and decennial tables (1792-1902). Over 1,200,000 records. Web site in French only.


2008-08-15 :

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Ohio Family Group Sheets

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1900 Coffee County, Alabama Census Images Online

Necrology Record For The Year 1875 as published in The Long Island Farmer (New York)

Some Richmond City, Virginia Deaths, 1879 & 1887

Mountain Mail (Magdalena, Socorro County, New Mexico) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1980.

Norway Emigrants Database (1811-1930)


2008-08-12 :

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Massachusetts Birth and Death Index 1841-1910. Each index entry includes the person's first and last name, the town or city where the event occurred, the year, volume number, and page number. The database is searchable by first and last names, year, and location.

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Polk 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 Polk Co, AR.

Marion County News (Pleasantville, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 2005.

Confederate Pension Applications Clay County, Texas

Thomas County, Georgia 1830 Census

Missing Family and Friends in Australia, pre 1900. Names published in colonial newspapers for missing Family, Friends, Employees, Convicts and Absconded Spouses.


2008-08-11 :

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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War : National Graves Registration Database

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Morgan Messenger (Berkeley, Berkeley County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2004.

Clear Creek County, Colorado School Census 1874. School District No. 5 : Town of Idaho, Spanish Bar, Gilson Gulch, Grays Valley, Bear Creek, Illinois Bar, Floyd Hill & Soda City.

Washington County, Wisconsin 1880 Census, Enumeration District 251

Inhabitants of Howell, Livingston County, Michigan in 1868

Generals of the Cuban Army of Liberation 1895-1898


2008-08-10 :

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West Virginia Vital Research Records Project. The Vital Research Records Project is placing Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates on-line. Users can search the records and view scanned images of the original records.

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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina WWII Veterans

Campbell County, Tennessee Index to Minutes, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Vol. 3 Date 1834-1839

Strong, Franklin County, Maine Cemeteries

Name Index to some brass band players in Victoria, Australia from 1890


2008-08-08 :

Featured Database :

Records for Passengers Who Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine. These materials identify 604,596 persons who arrived in the Port of New York, 1846-1851, and the ships on which they arrived. Approximately 70 percent of the passenger records list Ireland as the native country.

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Clermont County, Ohio Rivermen : From census records 1850-1880.

Conecuh County, Alabama 1870 Census (partial) (USGenWeb Archives)

Montrose Herald (Montrose, McCook County, South Dakota) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1943.

Guia Oficial General de Puerto Rico (1897) Surname Index. The book contains a listing by government office and/or town of individuals who held positions in government and clergy during 1897.

Carroll County, Illinois Federal Pension Roll of 1883


2008-08-07 :

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Index to New Jersey Marriage Records, 1666-1799. All references are to records held at the New Jersey State Archives.

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Placer County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Durrell Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania : Misc. Records

Monroe County Appeal (Paris, Monroe County, Missouri) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1965.

Cherokee County, Texas Methodist Church Members, 1880-1890

Passenger List : the Warrior, London to Western Australia 1830. Passenger list and passenger biographies.


2008-08-05 :

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The Immigrant Ancestors Project. The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, uses emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries. Volunteers working with scholars and researchers at Brigham Young University are creating a database of millions of immigrants based on these emigration registers.

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Slave Inhabitants in Fredericksburg, in the County of Spotsylvania, State of Virginia, 1860

Wilkinson County, Georgia 1850 Census

Mesa County, Colorado Probate, 1883-1900 Index (Free Database Online - World Vital Records)

Aywaille, Province of Liège, Belgium Vital Records. From 22 Brumaire of the Year VII (French Republican Calendar) to the end of 1907.


2008-08-04 :

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New York 1795 Epidemic: Report and List of Dead

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Pike County, Arkansas Cemeteries

Early Settlers of Broome County, New York

Census of Wilcox County, Alabama 1820 (pdf document)

Moville Record (Moville, Woodbury County, Iowa) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1989.

New Zealand's Women Aviators 1925-1939


2008-08-03 :

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Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database

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Molokai Dispatch (Kaunakakai, Maui County, Hawaii) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2005.

Shawano County, Wisconsin 1900 Census

Calhoun County, Michigan 1860 Census (partial)

Bradley County, Tennessee Will Indexes

Deportation from Estonia to Russia : Deportation in June 1941 & Deportation in 1940–1953 (in Estonian)


2008-08-01 :

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Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York

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Orleans Parish, Louisiana Ships and Passenger Lists

Mineral County Independent-News (Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nevada) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1936.

Chambers County, Texas Cemeteries

Cherokee County, North Carolina 1850 Census

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Will County, Illinois Confirmation Index 1855-1910

Victoria, Australia : Port Phillip Census 1836



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