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Got Ancestors From Oakland County, Michigan?
The clerk’s office in Oakland County, Mich., has added an online genealogy search with an index of marriage and death records back to 1941. Older records will be gradually added. Home to the city of Pontiac, Oakland County is just north of Detroit and considered part of the Detroit metro...
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Massachusetts Bill Threatens Vital Records Back to 1841
The National Genealogical Society UpFront blog is reporting on another threat to vital records access, which could make it harder for genealogists to learn about their Massachusetts ancestors.Massachusetts Senate Bill 820 would close the state’s birth and marriage records dated after 1841, the year statewide record keeping began, so...
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Did your ancestors live in a records-rich or paperwork-poor state? Whichever way your genealogical fortunes fall, you’ll find advice in our list of the best and worst states for family history research.
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Search Arkansas Marriages Free on FamilySearch
To coincide with the ongoing Federation of Genealogical Societies conference in Little Rock, Ark., FamilySearch released the first installment of a collection of Arkansas marriage records on its free Record Search Pilot site. Volunteer indexers from the Arkansas Genealogical Society have completed a quarter of the project so far--that’s 442...
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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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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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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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