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2008-12-31 :

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Kentucky Biographies

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Wilcox County, Alabama 1860 Slaveholders and Surname Matches for African Americans on 1870 Census

New Hampshire Family Group Sheets

Index to the New Era newspaper 1865 and 1866. Published in Fredericksburg, Virginia

Misc. Adair County, Kentucky Marriages

Victoria, Australia : Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1920


2008-12-30 :

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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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Town of Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County, New York Biographies

Walton County, Georgia 1830 Census

San Diego County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Cleveland County, Arkansas 1880 Census : White Township

Mesnil Saint Laurent, Aisne (02), France Marriages 1790-1900 (pdf document, in French)


2008-12-29 :

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Virginia Lost Records Localities Database. This database consists of entries for a wide variety of court records found as part of chancery and other locality records-processing projects. The entries are for surviving records from localities, most of whose records are no longer extant.

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Lost Creek Cemetery, Brown County, Texas

Lumpkin County, Georgia 1850 Census

Kartuz Bereza Sections of Various New York State Cemeteries. Kartuz Bereza (or Biaroza) is a town in Belarus.

Monroe County, Indiana Deaths in 1935. icon A complete list of deaths recorded during the 1935 year.

Family records & obituaries from German Newspapers


2008-12-28 :

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Early California Population Project. The Early California Population Project provides public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers.

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Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania : Misc. Records

Spanish Land Grants in St. Louis County, Missouri

Arizona's War Dead : Korea

Oregon WW-I Draft Registration Index

Deaths at the Sables-d'Olonne Hospital, Vendée, France : 1700-1751, 1752-1791, 1791-1792


2008-12-27 :

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Missouri Death Index. Over 35,000 names.

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Dale County, Alabama Marriage Licenses November 1884 to 1930 by Grooms

History and Roster of the Kansas State Guard, August 6, 1917, to November 11, 1919

1818 Monroe County, Illinois Census Index

Roane County, Tennessee Naturalizations 1810-1900

New South Wales, Australia 1826 Births, Deaths & Marriages Index : An index of births, deaths, marriages & inquests, taken from Sydney papers for the year 1826.


2008-12-26 :

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Purple Heart Recipient Database (United States)

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Grayson County, Virginia Postmasters to 1971

Ventura County, California Biographies, 1917

Boyd County, Kentucky Misc. Vital Records

Records of Repatriated Korean War Prisoners of War. This series contains information about 4,447 former prisoners of war (POWs) from the Korean War.

Liste des mariages catholiques en Tunisie de 1801 à 1949 : Tunisia Catholic Marriage Index 1801-1949 (in French).


2008-12-24 :

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Kentucky Cemetery Photographs

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Bastrop County, Texas 1850 Census

Hempstead County, Arkansas 1860 Slaveholders and Surnames Matches for African Americans on 1870 Census

North Carolina Lynchings 1882-1930

1910 Census for Torning Township, Ward County, North Dakota

Listing of Bulgarian Jewish (Sephardic) Soldiers Killed During the Balkans Wars and WWI 1912 CE - 1918 CE


2008-12-23 :

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Civil War Rosters - Arranged by State. A directory of Civil War Rosters/Muster Rolls that have been found on the internet.

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Jefferson County, Georgia 1860 Census

Gallatin County, Montana 1870 Census

Search 1850 Raleigh County, West Virginia Census Search

Walton, Delaware County, New York Cemeteries

Corbion, Belgium Parish Registers : Baptisms 1642-1703, marriages 1702-1799, and burials 1663-1703.


2008-12-22 :

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Pennsylvania Land Warrant Applications for 1748: All counties

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1830 Covington County Alabama Census Images

National Representatives from Berks County, Pennsylvania to 1909

Stearns County, Minnesota 1870 Census

Union Township, Dallas County, Iowa 1879 Biographical Directory

Tenterden Cemetery in S.W. Western Australia


2008-12-21 :

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Emigration out of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 19th century. Recently updated this database now contains 58,000 individuals.

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Brown County, South Dakota 1890 Veterans Census Images Online

Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana 1840 Census

Bradley County, Tennessee Direct Tax List for 1862

Arenzville High School Alumni Directory, Cass County, Illinois 1890-1959

Mi'kmaq in the Parish Registers of the Islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, 1764-1848. The islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon are part of France and located near Newfoundland, Canada.


2008-12-20 :

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Georgia Death Certificates, 1919-1927 : 275,000 death certificates linked with index and images.

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Stanislaus County, California Cemeteries

Letters to Santa Claus published in The News Leader of Richmond, Virginia in 1910 and 1912

1870 Adair County, Kentucky Census

Birth, Marriage, Death records Seychelles 1794 – 1905


2008-12-18 :

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Men and Officers who served in King Philips War (The Indian War of 1675-1677)

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Greene County, Arkansas Marriages 1876-1881, sorted by Brides

Dakota County, Minnesota Native American (i.e. 'Indian') Census databases for the years 1900 and 1910

Index of Immanuel Lutheran Church Records, St. Louis, Missouri. Currently online : Index to baptisms 1848-1909 and index to marriages 1848–1920.

Germanic Lineage Register of the German Research Association (U.S.). Re-published on the GRA web site based on back issues of The German Connection (links are near the bottom of the page.)

Luxembourg GEDCOM Database. Over 180,000 individuals.


2008-12-16 :

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1820 U.S. Pension List. Names of Persons placed on the Pension Roll of the United States, under the act of the 18th of March, 1818; showing the rank and line in which each served (16,067 pensioners)

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Conklin Baptist Church Directory 1921, Broome County, New York

Burke County, North Carolina 1800 Census

Macon County, Alabama Cemeteries

Yass Courier, NSW, Australia Extracts from 1857 - 1905 Births-Deaths-Marriages-Probates-General Information


2008-12-15 :

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MennObits. Nearly 75,000 obituaries from the Herald of Truth (1864-1908), the Gospel Witness (1905-1908), the Gospel Herald (1908-1998), The Mennonite (1998), and the Mennonite Weekly Review.

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Oconto County, Wisconsin Deaths

Misc. Arizona Obituaries 1888-1910

Fairview Cemetery, Kutztown, Berks County, Pennsylvania

City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Alger, Brookmere, and Denison Cemeteries Index of Names

Douglas County, Colorado Pensions Index, 1933-1936 (Free Database Online - World Vital Records) : This index was compiled from the official record of the Old Age Pension applications granted by the Douglas County Commissioners during the Depression years.

Fonds généalogique Freslon (France) : Birth, marriage, and death records of notable families from the French departments of Loire-Atlantique, Ille-et-Vilaine and Morbihan extracted from parish registers by a local scholar. Browsable by location. Not searchable.


2008-12-14 :

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Misc. Virginia Marriages by County. Part of the USGenWeb Archives Marriage Project.

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Industry, Franklin County, Maine Cemetery Index

Bexar County, Texas Dependents of Civil War Soldiers

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

Campbell County, Tennessee Deeds

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


2008-12-12 :

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Pensioners of Revolutionary War—Struck Off the Roll. A list of the names of pensioners, under the act of 18th of March, 1818, whose names were struck off the list by act of 1st May, 1820, and subsequently restored (5,417 pensioners)

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San Bernardino County, California Index to Federal Land Records

Index to the Christian Banner newspaper, 1850, and 1862. Published in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Boyd County, Kentucky Income List for 1865

City of Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Index of Death Records, 1899-1906

Saint-Etienne Parish, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. Death Records of People Born Outside of Toulouse 1597 - 1792 (partial): Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 6 - Page 7 - Page 8


2008-12-11 :

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State Archives of Michigan Naturalization Record Indexes. Naturalization indexes for several counties are now on-line.

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

Douglas County, Colorado Inheritance Tax Records 1911-1944

Chataigne's Virginia Gazetteer and Classified Business Directory 1888-1889 for Grayson County

Lowndes County, Alabama 1850 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

Tolaga Bay, New Zealand Saleyards Coy Shareholders 1905-35


2008-12-09 :

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Database of 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor. This database indexes the 1929 publication, Roll of Honor, which contains the locations of the burial places of soldiers, sailors, marines, and army nurses who served in any of the wars of the United States and are buried in Illinois. The database contains more than 72,000 names.

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Town of Little Valley, Cattaraugus County, New York Biographies

Richmond County, Georgia 1830 Census

Cleveland County, Arkansas 1880 Census : Saline Township

Columbia County, Wisconsin Biographies

Nocario, Haute Corse, France. Nocario, Island of Corsica, France births from 1700 to 1899 (links to the data are on the right hand column of the main page, Web site in French).


2008-12-08 :

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Texas Adjutant General Service Records 1836-1935. The Service Records Series combines both official service record files from the Adjutant General's Office and alphabetical files created by other agencies which contain records related to an individual's service in a military unit.

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Nevada Family Group Sheets

Spain Genealogy Search at GeneaNet

1850 Census for Clark County, Ohio

Asylum Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania : Misc. Records


2008-12-07 :

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Passenger List of the Pennsylvania German Pioneers. Passenger lists from 1683-1726, 1809-1819 do not exist and are being reconstructed on this site.

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Buncombe County, North Carolina 1820 Census

Early German Settlers in Adams County, Illinois

Benton County, Tennessee 1860 Slave Schedule

Misc. Transcriptions of Decennial Tables of the Departments of Oise (60) and Nord (59), France. Decennial tables are alphabetical indexes of births, marriages and deaths compiled by municipalities (communes) every 10 years.


2008-12-05 :

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Kentucky Marriage Records. Part of the USGenWeb Archives Marriage Project.

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Index To Gloucester County, Virginia Surveyor's Book 1733 - 1806

Alabama Land Patents Database: Russell 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.

Bourbon County, Kentucky Deeds of Manumission

Burials in the Jewish Cemetery of Shumen, Bulgaria


2008-12-04 :

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Missouri Soldiers Database: War of 1812 to World War I. The Soldiers Database is a comprehensive database abstracted from the individual service cards and listing more than 576,000 Missourians who served in the military from territorial times through World War I. It includes entries for twelve wars and military engagements in which Missouri soldiers took part.

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El Paso County, Colorado List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883

Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona in Polk's Arizona Pictorial Gazetteer And Business Directory for 1912

Dunham Cemetery, Madrid, Franklin County, Maine

Saint-Gervais, Department of Val-d'Oise, France Marriages : 1677 to 1792 - 1793 to 1869 - 1870 to 1880 - 1881 to 1902


2008-12-02 :

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Genealogical Death Indexing System, Michigan (GENDIS). The current system contains information on 170,000 Michigan death records from 1867-1884.

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Caldwell County, Texas Tax List - 1848

Biographies of Sebastian County, Arkansas

Civil War Military Service : Enfans Pedus, Independent Battalion NY Infantry; New York

1860 Marion County, Georgia Census (pdf document)

South Canterbury, New Zealand War Memorials


2008-12-01 :

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Baptisms at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (New York) 1639-1730

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Holland, Brown County, Wisconsin 1860 Census

Early Donegal Irish Settlers In Butler County, Pennsylvania

Department of Côte d'Or, France Baptisms, Marriages, Burials to 1902. Browse parish registers, civil registers and decennial tables (Web site in French).



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