Free: Search Louisiana Obituary Index 1804-1972
The Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index is now online at the New Orleans Public Library Web site. The database has references to obituaries and death notices published in New Orleans newspapers from 1804 to 1972, and biographical information from older Louisiana biography collections. You can use three options to...
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Seeking Michigan Adds Free Death Records
The historical records site Seeking Michigan has added Michigan death certificates from 1897 to 1920. You can search athe index and click to view a record—free.Run a basic search by name or construct an advanced search by typing keywords and assigning a data field for each term (such as...
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Search Wyoming Historical Newspapers Free Online
The Wyoming State Library has posted the first set of historical Wyoming newspapers from the Wyoming Newspaper Project. This project involves digitizing a 70-year collection of the state’s newspapers from 1849 to 1922. So far, more than 407,000—about half—of the newspaper images are online. They span 1867 to 1922...
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Use these outstanding nationwide and state-specific sites to find your ancestors from sea to shining sea.
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AfriGeneas www.afrigeneas.com African-American genealogy. Carolina Cuzins www.carolinacuzins.org The Freedmen's Bureau Online freedmensbureau.com Records of freed slaves. Mid-Atlantic Roots Network midatlantic.rootsweb.com Includes Virginia and North Carolina. Southern Trails homepages.rootsweb.com/~south1/trails1.htm Traveller Southern Families genealogy.traveller.com/genealogy/ National Archives Confederate Pension Records information...
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The American South: A History by William J. Cooper Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill (McGraw-Hill, $53) Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree by Tony Burroughs (Fireside, $16) The Dixie Frontier: A Social History by Everett Dick (University of Oklahoma Press, $16.95) Encyclopedia...
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Regional Resources Cyndi's List—US State pages www.cyndislist.com National Archives and Records Administration regional facilities www.archives.gov/facilities/research_centers.html USGenWeb State Pages www.usgenweb.org/thestates.html Arizona 1883 Pensioners on the Roll homepages.rootsweb.com/~godwin/reference/arizona1883.html Arizona Historical Society www.arizonastatehistoricalsociety.org Arizona State Genealogical Society...
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New England Archivists: Archives in New England www.lib.umb.edu/newengarch/nearch.html Contains a list of archives arranged by state. • Connecticut GenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~ctgenweb Links to county pages and a list of Connecticut research helps. • Maine GenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~megenweb Links to state and county resources. •...
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Connecticut • Town clerks began recording vital records in 1650. • Military census exists for 1917. • Probate, court and cemetery records are located at the Connecticut State Library. Maine • The Maine Old Cemetery Association is indexing cemetery transcripts. • Probate records relating to wills, adoptions and guardianships...
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Alabama: 1908 Alaska: 1913 Arizona: 1909 Arkansas: 1914 California: 1905 Colorado: 1907 Connecticut: 1897 Delaware: 1881 District of Columbia: 1855 Florida: 1899 Georgia: 1919 Hawaii: 1896 Idaho: 1911 Illinois: 1916 Indiana: 1900 Iowa: 1880 Kansas: 1911 Kentucky: 1911 Louisiana: 1914 Maine: 1892 Maryland: 1898 Massachusetts: 1841 Michigan: 1867 Minnesota:...
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