Online Databases
United States Nationwide
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The SS death database search is sponsored by Ancestry, Inc., with advanced search features, including a soundex and state of issuance filter. About the Social Security Death Index. Social Security State Codes. |
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| Cemetery Interment Lists on the Internet. Links to cemetery records on the Internet, by Steve P. Johnson. | |
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Censuses |
Census Online, Census Sites on the Web has links to tons of abstracted census records. If you need to order a census search or page from a census, check here first.
Census4all has online 1910 Census indexes for selected states that you can search for free. After you conduct a search and find someone of interest, you can purchase a digitized copy of that person's actual census page for a small fee. |
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Immigration |
The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is posting online ships lists which are sorted by date, by ship's name, by port of departure, by port of arrival, and by surname. Searchable. |
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Libraries |
The Making of America Digital Library is a digital library of records in U.S. history with over 600,000 pages of searchable pages of history, including city directories, and news articles. |
| The USGenWeb Archives has a search engine for querying all the data found in their archives, including vital records, land, tax, census, wills, and more. | |
| The D.A.R. Library Card catalog is available for you to conduct keyword searches. This is a great resource -- and if you find something in their catalog, it is possible that a copy of the film is available at the Family History Library and I'd be happy to look for and make copies of documents for you. |
Regional
| Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Eastern States, General Land Office. Searchable database of land certificates. This site abstracts the records, but you can also download a .TIF image of the document and print it out for your files. Great site! (This site offline as the U.S. government secures it.) |
State Specific
| Our genealogy sleuth page lists tons of free and subscription databases, arranged by state and topic. | |
| The same idea as the page above, only working with International topics and regions. |
Conglomerate Sites with Databases or Links to Databases
| Ancestry's free (and subscriber) database searches. | |
| Genealogy.com's subscriber database searches. | |
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Family Search |
LDS Family History Library website has access to the International Genealogical Index and their Ancestral File, all of which are searchable. |
| Rootsweb.com hosts many of the USGenWeb sites, which consist of free donated genealogical material and databases. |
