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Family Search Labs is the site you can search for all the new
information they are indexing at FamilySearch. It also has other
Wiki-based features that are very helpful. Find a Grave One World Tree WeRelate |
projects like the
Iowa Graves Registration Survey
are done in cooperation with WPA government records Michigan Death Index 1867-1897 from Michigan.gov Immigration projects have begun in some state sites that had port cities like the Boston Massachusetts Passenger Manifests 1848-1891 the National Archives now has the Irish Famine Immigrants to New York Bureau of Land Management Site is not new but they are adding new types of content. county courthouses are getting involved Shelby Co. TN Archives Hardin County KY Court
this is also happening in other
countries - sites like
Danish Demographics Database
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the Italian research group has done indexes like Ohio Historical Society now has the Ohio Death Certificate Index 1913-1944 the Rutheford B. Hayes Presidential library provides an Obituary Index to over 300,000 Ohio obits from the 1810s to present. Cherokee Heritage Documentation Center Miami Valley Genealogical Index indexes records found in Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Hamilton, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby & Warren Co. OH New York City Brides Index 1866-1937 New York City Grooms Index 1864 -1936 New York City Death Index New York State Vital Records 1847-1849 and put them at the New York Public Library site the Castle Garden Society(the New York port of immigration before Ellis Island) now has a database of its own Oklahoma Historical Society Newspaper Index Card Database Death Certificates of Finns in King County |
World Vital Records Pennsylvania Archives Series Online (Footnote) Sometimes professional genealogists are now building their sites and adding content such as the Immigrant Servant Database or Scotlands Family a portal for people with Scottish Roots run by professional researchers. We are also seeing Ancestry like services for other countries. While these are by subscription they often have helps for free and may also give short trial subscriptions such as Genline: Swedish Genealogy Online |
Libraries & Archives & Universities
Family History Library Catalog will soon be showing up in
Google searchs! You also want to make certain you look carefully at
family histories. Example: Keyword: Peters Lineage Five Generations
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