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CENSUS RECORDS VITAL RECORDS

UNITED STATES_______________________________________ UNITED STATES (partial list) _____________________________

Ancestry ancestryinstitution.com Western States Marriage Record Index
1790-1930 Censuses – Indexes and Images http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/search.cfm
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) Partial marriage index for 12 Western States

1880, 1900, 1920 – Indexes and Images VitalSearch Company vitalsearch-worldwide.com

Note: Free at Family History Centers 1900-1999 Birth, marriage and/or death indexes for several states
Note: May require free registration for guest pass
Heritage Quest heritagequestonline.com
1790-1820 Censuses – Indexes and Images Missouri Death Certificates
1830-1850 Censuses – Images sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates
1860-1870 Censuses – Indexes (head of household) and Images 1910-1956 Death certificates – Indexes and Images
1880-1890 Censuses – Indexes and Images
1900-1920 Censuses – Indexes (head of household) and Images Utah Death Certificates
1930 Census – Indexes (5 states only–head of household) and Images historyresearch.utah.gov/indexes/index.html
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC), subscribing public library, 1905-1954 Death certificates – Indexes and Images
and some Family History Centers
Ohio Death Certificates and Other States
Census-Online census-online.com
Guide with links to various online U.S. censuses and indexes familysearchlabs.org
1908-1953 Death certifcates – Indexes and Images
WorldVitalRecords worldvitalrecords.com
1790-1920 -- Various census images and transcriptions
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) and Family History Centers

ENGLAND & WALES____________________________________ ENGLAND & WALES ___________________________________

Ancestry ancestryinstitution.com FreeBMD freebmd.org.uk
1841-1891 Censuses – Indexes and Images 1837-1915 Civil records of births, marriages, deaths – Partial indexes
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC)
1841-1891 Censuses – Indexes and Find My Past findmypast.com
Household Transcriptions 1837-1983 Civil records of births, marriages, deaths – Partial indexes
Note: Free at Family History Centers Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC)

Find My Past findmypast.com

1841, 1861-1871, 1891 Censuses – Indexes and Images
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC)

U.K. Census Online freecen.org.uk

1841-1891 Censuses – Partial indexes and transcribed households

SCOTLAND __________________________________________ SCOTLAND __________________________________________

U.K. Census Online freecen.org.uk None listed at this time
1841-1891 Censuses – Partial indexes and transcribed households
 IMMIGRATION RECORDS MILITARY RECORDS

UNITED STATES _______________________________________ UNITED STATES _______________________________________

New York Ellis Island Passenger Records ellisisland.org Revolutionary War Pension Files heritagequestonline.com
1892-1924 Index of passenger arrivals through New York port Index and supporting file images to participation in Revolutionary War
Note: Free at Family History Library or participating public library
New York Castle Garden Passenger Records
www.stevemorse.org/ellis/cg.html?firstkind=starts&FNM=&lastkind=starts&LNM Civil War Soldiers Service Records itd.nps.gov/cwss
1830-1912 Index of passenger arrivals through New York port Index of Civil War service records

Port Passenger Records ancestryinstitution.com WWI Draft Cards ancestryinstitution.com

1820-1957 – Indexes and images
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC)
1820-1950 – Indexes only
Note: Free at Family History Centers
Immigrant Ships Transcriber’s Guild
Transcribed ships lists
Steamship Passenger Records
http://www.steamships.org/passlists/index.htm
Steamship passenger indexes
Index and images of draft registration cards
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) and Family History Centers
WWII Army Enlistment and Other Military Records
worldvitalrecords.com
www.immigrantships.net Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) and Family History Centers
Variety of Military Records
footnote.com
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) and Family History Centers

Passenger Ship Lists home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

Links to passenger lists

Various Transcribed Passenger Records

worldvitalrecords.com
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) and Family History Centers
 OTHER RESOURCES

DIRECTORIES & LISTS __________________________________ Freedman’s Bank Records heritagequestonline.com

Linkpendium List of Genealogical Sites linkpendium.com Index and files of those that participated in the Freedman’s Bank
Search tool (list site) for finding sources (indexes and images) (often those of African American ethnicity)
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) or participating public library
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites cyndislist.com
Search tool (list site) for finding sources (indexes and images) Ancestry World Tree ancestryinstitution.com
Site hosting large collection of family trees with over 500 million names
SearchSystems List of U.S. Databases searchsystems.net
List of federal, state, county, and city online databases Ancestry Message Boards
ancestryinstitution.com
Genealogy Sleuth List of U.S. Records “Bulletin board” site with lots of useful information
progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm
List of U.S. vital and other online records RootsWeb rootsweb.com
Site hosting indexes, transcribed records, and genealogies
State of Georgia List of U.S. State Archives Sites
sos.state.ga.us/archives/what_do_we_have/other_state_archives/default.htm Periodical Source Index (PERSI) heritagequestonline.com
Links to U.S. state archives Index of genealogical periodicals
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) or participating public library
Tesla Genealogy Links of U.S. Census Indexes
warnes.net/teslacorp/genealogylinks/index_html?tab=4-us%20census Genealogy in the UK and Ireland (Genuki) genuki.org.uk
Listed by state and year Search tool (list site) for finding British sources (indexes and images)

U.S. Census Help MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES ________________________________

home.att.net/~wee-monster/censuslinks.html Google Search google.com
Helps and links Search engine for finding sources (indexes and images)

U.S. GenWeb Project usgenweb.org Yahoo Search yahoo.com

Site for listing indexes and images relevant to various state and county Search engine for finding sources (indexes and images)
genealogical sources on the internet
Live Search (formerly MSN) live.com
U.S. Newspapers Search engine for finding sources (indexes and images)
worldvitalrecords.com
Various town newspapers Ask Search ask.com
Note: Free at Family History Library (SLC) and Family History Centers
Search engine for finding sources (indexes and images)