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Free
Genealogy Databases
By Rick Crume
See
the book Plugging Into Your Past: How to Find Real Family
History Records Online for many more free online genealogy databases.
1. Vital
Records
The
BMD Project: Nearly 60,000 birth,
marriage and death records from 11 states.
Genealogy
Today—Online Records:
Includes 19th-century marriage records from 8 states.
International
Genealogical Index: 725
million names, including 62 million US birth and marriage records.
Social
Security Death Index (SSDI): More than 70 million deaths, mostly since
1962. Several versions: <www.familysearch.org>,
<www.familytreelegends.com/ssdi>,
<www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/ss>
and <ssdi.rootsweb.com>
USGenWeb
Project State
Pages: Includes many
vital records indexes.
VitalSearch:
Indexes to 80 million birth, marriage, divorce and death records in 9
states.
Western
State Marriage Records Index: 270,000 marriage records from 8
states.
2.
Census
Records
Census
Finder: Links to more than 10,000 free census records.
Sources2Go.com:
Census Records:
Digital images
of the entire 1790 census and parts of the 1800 through 1860 enumerations.
3.
Cemeteries and Tombstone Inscriptions
Cemetery
Junction:
Transcriptions from
the United States, Canada and Australia.
Find
a Grave:
1 million
transcriptions, some with photos.
Interment.net:
More
than 3.2 million cemetery records from more than 6,000 cemeteries around the
world.
Nationwide
Gravesite Locator:
3.2
million records for veterans buried at most of the 120 national cemeteries
since the Civil War, as well as records for some state veterans cemeteries
and burials in Arlington National Cemetery since 1999.
RootsWeb
Cemetery Records: Over 700,000 gravestone transcriptions from across the
United States and a few from Canada, England and Germany.
US-GenWeb
Tombstone Project:
Cemeteries
across the United States and a few American cemeteries abroad.
4.
Civil War records
Andersonville
Prisoner Lookup:
More
than 45,000 Union soldiers imprisoned by the Confederacy.
5.
Miscellaneous military records
Archival
Research Catalog:
Military
records here include selected Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land
warrant applications, case files for Spanish-American War “Rough
Riders” and World War II casualty lists.
Birth
Info in WWI Civilian Draft Registrations:
Includes
data
from more than 1.2 million of the 24 million draft registration cards for men
born between 1873 and 1900.
RootsWeb
Military Rosters:
100,000
records, mostly for the American Revolution through World War II.
6.
Newspapers and obituaries
Newspaper
Abstracts:
Extracted
and abstracted articles
published in
the United States, Canada and Ireland before
1923.
Obituary
Daily Times archive:
An index to 9.2 million recent obits from hundreds of newspapers.
TheOldenTimes.com:
Historic Newspapers Online:
Includes obituaries
and birth and marriage announcements from newspapers dating from 1788 to
1920. The database covers the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland
& Australia.
RootsWeb
Obituaries Database: More than 9,000 records.
7.
Bibles, books and manuscripts
American
Memory:
More
than 7 million digitized items, including rare books, manuscripts and maps,
from the Library of Congress.
Bible
Records Online:
More
than 3,200 surnames in 1,000-plus Bibles, which span from 1596 to 2003.
DAR
GRC Index:
More
than 12 million
names in unpublished family history materials, including transcribed Bible
records, personal papers and gravestone inscriptions.
Making of America <moa.umdl.umich.edu>,
<moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa>:
2.5
million page images from about 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles. Most
date from 1850 to 1877.
8.
Wills and Land records
Sampubco:
Indexes
to more than 300,000 wills in 15 states. Also, some guardianship and
naturalization records.
Official
Federal Land
Patent Records Site:
Images of more than 2 million federal land title records issued between 1820
and 1908.
RootsWeb
Land
Records Database:
More than 1.3 million entries, including many homestead records.
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