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Arizona Genealogy Resource The State of Arizona's Department of Health Services, Arizona State Library, and the Mesa Family History Library have teamed up to provide a database of more than 400,000 images of birth certificates (between 1887 and 1928) and death certificates (between 1878 and 1953) (RB)
Find My Pasta database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. You can search by name, destination, and more. Passenger list images can be downloaded too. (LIB)
Ancestry.Com
Ancestry UK
Ancestry Library Editionfor use within Hackley Public Library only.
Canada 1901 Censusrom the National Archives of Canada.
1911 Canadian Census Onlinefrom the Library and Archives of Canada
Castle Garden Immigration Recordsa Manhattan immigration center before Ellis Island.
Census Online - Links to Online Census Recordsonline census transcriptions.
ChicagoAncestorsThe quest to document one's family tree is one that stretches back across the human experience, and it can be done through the use of government records, obituaries, and so on. Recently, the Newberry Library in Chicago created this site for persons looking to trace their roots within the Windy City. First-time visitors to the site can just go ahead and type in a street address or browse through the online collections which are culled from a variety of local institutions. In the Tools area, visitors will find address conversion tools, Chicago City Directory street guides, and a tutorial on researching Chicago in the period before the fire of 1871. Visitors also have the opportunity to add content information to this interactive resource, which it should be noted is open source. (SR)
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Systeminformation on over six million soldiers and sailors from 44 states and territories who were involved in the Civil War (RB)
The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776
Death Indexesincludes pointers to death indexes divided by US state.
Death Index for New York Cityfrom the Italian Genealogical Group.
Ellis Island Records
1901 Census for England and Wales
Family Genealogy and History Internet Education DirectoryHumanities and social sciences mega portal, connected directly to thousands of related sub-sets. (IRN)
FamilySearch from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, one of the best genealogical sites on the web.
Family Tree SearcherEnter your ancestor data just once to search for family trees at multiple web sites.
The Official Federal Land Patent Records Siteaccess to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. [There is] also image access to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. (LII)
Genealogy Search Helpspecialized genealogy search help for ancestor hunting folks. (RB)
Genealogy Today: Civil War Resourcesbrowsable list of Web links to U.S. Civil War resources. (LII)
GENUKI: UK and Ireland Genealogygenealogy site for the UK and Ireland. (LII)
Scottish Emigration Databaseexamine the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for other ports. While the database only covers a small time period, the database is well-designed for general use. First-time visitors should take a look at the “User Guide”, which includes details about the different fields used in each record, such as “occupation”, “urban district/village”, and “destination port”. (SR)
DIMTI: German Emblem Booksdigitally scanned and searchable. (SR)
Illinois Marriages searchfor marriages between 1763 and 1900. (RB)
Illinois Civil War Veteran Database(RB)
Irish genealogya directory. (RB)
Kansas Heritage GroupFor people with ancestors from Kansas
Mayflower Web PageFor people whose ancestors came on the Mayflower. (LII)
Michigan County Histories and Atlases online collectionan assortment of books fundamental to local-history and genealogical research, a collaborative effort of the Library of Michigan, Michigan's Council of Library Directors (COLD) and the Michigan Library Consortium.
Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System (GENDIS)information from archived death records, search for records using key pieces of information such as the decedent's name, father's last name, and year of death. (RT)
Minnesota Historical Society
Missouri World War I RecordsThis database contains over 145,000 cards of Army and Marine personnel from Missouri between 1917 and 1919. (There are plans to add the records of over 18,000 Navy personnel.) (RB)
Missouri Death CertificatesThe database is searchable by last name, first name, county, year, and month. (RB)
National Archives and Records
National Archives and Records Administration : Access to Archival Databasesover 5.2 million records of passengers who arrived at the ports of Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia in the 19th century. These records were transcribed from original ship manifests into databases by Temple University's Center for Immigration Research and donated to NARA. (FGI)
National Historical Geographic Information Systema database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000. (RT)
New England Genealogical SocietyFree for users inside Hackley Public Library
Utah Death Certificate Index OnlineThis database is a name search only, last name first. (RB)
West Virginia Births, Deaths, MarriagesHosted by The West Virginia Division of Culture and History. (RB)
Ohio HistoryFor people with genealogical interest in Ohio.
Oregon State Archives: Genealogy RecordsResources include a guide to Oregon county records (which contains a comprehensive descriptive inventory of selected records for each of Oregon's 36 counties), a searchable selection of hundreds of thousands of vital statistics records, a guide to provisional and territorial records, and topical research aids. (LII)
Public RecordsUnited States and Canada. (LG)
Roots-L Home Page
Scottish Genealogysome free databases, some not free.
South Dakota Birth Recordsbirth records which are over 100 years old are now available online
US Gen Web Project
Valley Forge Muster Rollinformation on those soldiers who served at the Valley Forge Encampment under General George Washington between December 1777 and June 1778.
Vital RecThis site helps you find vital records.
World Gen Web Project

African-American specific sites

African American Genealogy Research
AfriGeneasDevoted to African Americans telling their family stories.
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid for slaves, and slaves' testimony and emancipations. (LII)
Christine's Genealogy WebsiteAfrican American genealogy information.
Cyndi's List: African-American
Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722– 1863):Illinois(RB)
Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls DatabaseSearchable by name/partial name (you must enter at least two letters of the surname), company, unit, or place of residence (RB)
Freedmen's Bureau Online
The St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project search for Freedom Suits, legal petitions for freedom brought by or on behalf of persons of color held in slavery within the St. Louis area from 1814 to 1860. (RB)

Cemeteries

IntermentSearchable cemetery records for over 1700 cemetaries worldwide (most in the US)
Cemetery JunctionCemetery listings for the US and Australia.
South Dakota Cemetery Record SearchThis searchable database includes records that were cataloged as part of the WPA Cemetery Project (pre-1940s) plus any cemetery updates that our office has received. It is not a complete listing of all the burials in South Dakota.
Veterans Cemetary Recordsthree million veterans' cemetery records from the Department of Veterans Affairs

Obituaries

Newspaper Obituaries - ObituariesHelp.orgAccess newspaper obituaries and discover your genealogy online. Discover how to use vital records, obituary resources, old newspaper obituary archives, genealogy forms and printable family tree charts.
Obituary Findersearches the recent obituaries of many newspapers.
The Cleveland Necrology Fileproduced from a microfilmed copy of an alphabetical card file containing local cemetery records and newspaper death notices gathered by the staff of the Cleveland Public Library. The database includes paid death notices published in the following newspapers:
* The Cleveland Plain Dealer - 1850-1975
* The Cleveland Herald - 1833, 1847-1848, 1876, 1878-1879
* The Cleveland Press - 1941-1975. For more recent obits, go to the same site and follow the directions.
Michigan Obituaries
Big 101 Obituariesa list of links to obituaries in newspapers broken out by state (RB)
State of Pennsylvania Obituary Collection microfilmed scrapbooks of obituaries clipped from papers, covering 16 October 1891 to 3 March 1904.

Meta Sites

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
LaPeer District LibraryGenealogy Information from the LaPeer District Library.

Local History

Muskegon City Historyfrom the City of Muskegon.
Muskegon Actor's ColonyBuster Keaton and the Muskegon Connection
Muskegon High School Band
Muskegon Historical Picturesfrom our Flickr account
Muskegon Memoriesincludes old photos, book reviews, and personal reminisces.
Birdseye view of Muskegon City in 1868from the Library of Congress.
Birdseye view of Muskegon in 1874from the Library of Congress.
Grand Rapids History

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