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Southern Genealogy Web Sites Premium
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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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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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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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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New England Web Sites Premium
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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When States Began Death Registration Premium
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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Appalachian Toolkit Premium
Northeastern Mississippi Evans Memorial Library www.tombigbee.lib.ms.us Lee County Library www.li.lib.ms.us Mississippi Department www.mdah.state.ms.us University of Southern Mississippi McCain Library and Archives www.lib.usm.edu/~archives Northern Alabama Alabama Department of Archives & History www.archives.state.al.us...
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Now What? Split Decisions Premium
When a county switches states, which should I research in?
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Are your family's roots planted in the desert sand and red rock of the American Southwest? Use our guide to find ancestral ties in the land of sagebrush and saguaros.
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