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Recently Added Online Indexes for Cemeteries, Obituaries and Death Records

2011-10-03T10:00:00.006-06:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Website has been updated with links to the following items...

Alabama
- Madison County: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Obituaries Index
- Madison County: Huntsville Cemeteries (has burial indexes for 5 cemeteries in or near Huntsville, Alabama, including Maple Hill Cemetery)

Alaska
- Anchorage Newspapers Obituary Index, 1981 through 10-1-2001

Arkansas
- Sebastian County Birth and Death Records Index from FamilySearch (indexes births and deaths from Sebastian County 1877-1929, and deaths from Fort Smith 1945-1963)

Connecticut
- New Haven Jewish Cemetery Association Burials Database

Florida
- Indian River County Library Obituary Indexes 1916-recent; for the Vero Beach Press Journal and other newspapers (update: more years added)

Georgia
- Sumter County Genealogy Indexes (includes indexes for cemeteries, death certificates and obituaries)

Idaho
- Ada County: Idaho Statesman Obituary Index 1968-Present; from the Boise Public Library (update: more years added)

Indiana
- Harrison County Public Library Obituary Index

Kansas
- Crawford County Vital Statistics Database - Birth and Death Records 1886-1911 and Tombstone Transcriptions 1860-1976
- Johnson County Cemeteries (also includes some cemeteries in nearby Kansas and Missouri counties)
- Rice County: Sterling Cemetery Burials

Maine
- Knox County: Camden Public Library Local Cemetery Database
- Oxford County: Brownfield Cemetery Burials

Massachusetts
- Berkshire County Probate Guide and Index 1761-1900
- Dukes County History and Genealogy for the Town of Tisbury and the Island of Martha's Vineyard (includes some cemetery burials, marriage indexes and death indexes)
- Franklin Coounty Probate Guide and Index 1812-1925

Michigan
- Delta County Death Records Index 1865-2009
- Leelanau County Cemeteries
- Sanilac County: Sandusky District Library Obituary Database and Cemetery Records

Minnesota
- Crow Wing County: Evergreen Cemetery Association Directory of the Dead - Burials (Brainerd, MN)
- Stearns County: St. Cloud Daily Times Obituary Index 1928-recent

Missouri - St. Louis
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index: covers 1880-1930, 1942-1945, 1960-1969, and 1992-2010 (update: more years added)
- Westliche Post Obituaries Index 1879-1890 (some months missing); St. Louis German-language newspaper; (update: more years added)
- St. Louis City Wills Index, Books M-X (1877-1894) and Books Y–J2 (1895-1904); (update: more years added)
- St. Louis City Recorder - Gatewood Gardens Cemetery Index and Washington Park North Reinterments (update: Washington Park Cemetery North Reinterment Index added)

See: Online St. Louis, Missouri Death Records, Indexes & Obituaries

Montana
- Missoula County: Missoula City Cemetery Burials

Nevada
- Carson City Recorder Genealogy Indexes (includes birth and death records indexes 1887-1957)

New Jersey
- Bergen County New Jersey Cemeteries

New York
- Tompkins County Public Library: Indexes for Birth and Death Notices, Obituaries and Gravestone Inscriptions

North Carolina
- Davidson County: Lexington Dispatch Obituaries Indexes
- Madison County Newspaper Obituaries from the Early 1900s - circa 1910-1930s (not complete)

Ohio
- The Ohio list was posted separately at: Recently Added Ohio Death Records Indexes, Obituaries and Cemetery Burials

Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County: Pittsburgh City Deaths, 1870-1905 from FamilySearch (includes scanned images of the death records)
- Blair County: Alto-Reste Park Cemetery Burials (Altoona, PA)
- Butler County: Butler Area Public Library Online Obituary Database 1818-2010 (update: more years added)
- Erie County Public Library Obituary Index 1822-recent
- Northampton County: Bangor Daily News Genealogy Index 1917-1990 (for births, marriages, obituraries, and more)
- Philadelphia County: Laurel Hill Cemetery Burials (Philadelphia)

South Dakota
- Moody County Historical Society Cemetery Database

Utah
- Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949 from FamilySearch

Vermont
- Bennington Town Clerk Cemetery and Genealogy Indexes (includes deaths 1763-1850 and other indexes)

Virginia
- Fairfax County Genealogy and Historical Records Finding Aids (includes death certificate index 1912-1917; will books indexes 1742-1935; marriage book indexes 1853-1957; and other indexes)

Washington
- Cowlitz County Genealogy Indexes (includes indexes for cemeteries, probate records and wills)

Wisconsin
- Richland County: Newspaper Index of Names with Local Interest 1855-1900 (includes birth, marriage and death notices)
- Winnebago County: Riverside Cemetery Burials, 1841-1908, an incomplete list
- Winnebago County: Winneconne Cemetery Burials
- Winnebago County: Oakhill Cemetery Burials (Neenah, WI)

See: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Recently Added Ohio Death Records Indexes and Cemetery Burials

2011-09-27T12:12:00.001-06:00

Links to the items listed below were recently updated or added to: Online Ohio Death Records Indexes and Cemetery Burials

Ohio - General
- Ohio Obituaries Index 1810s-recent from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (update: more counties added)

Cleveland and Cincinnati
- Cuyahoga County: Lake View Cemetery Burials (Cleveland)
See: Online Cleveland & Cuyahoga County, Ohio Death Records & Indexes

- Hamilton County: Cincinnati Birth and Death Records 1865-1912 - includes digital images (update: more records added; database is now nearly finished)
- Hamilton County: Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society Search Burial Records (includes: St. Mary Catholic Cemetery, St. Joseph Old Catholic Cemetery, St. John Catholic Cemetery, Baltimore Pike Cemetery)
See: Online Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Ohio Death Records & Indexes

Ohio Counties
- Butler County: Greenwood Cemetery Burials (Hamilton, OH)
- Bulter County Cemeteries and Other Genealogy Indexes
- Erie County: Milan Cemetery Burials (Milan, Ohio)
- Franklin County Cemeteries - Gravestone Photos (includes many old and abandoned cemeteries)
- Miami County Genealogy Indexes (includes cemetery, probate and marriage indexes; from the Troy Historical Society)
- Perry County Probate Death Index 1867-1908
- Ross County Probate Court Archives - Genealogy Indexes (includes death records index 1888-1908, probate index 1798-1910, marriage records indexes, and other items)

For links to the above items and more Ohio death indexes, see:
Online Ohio Death Records Indexes, Obituaries and Cemetery Burials

Online Indexes for Death Records, Cemeteries and Obituaries (USA) - Latest Additions

2011-07-12T09:06:00.004-06:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records website has been updated with links to the following items...

Arizona
- Arizona Death Records Index 1844-1960 & Birth Index 1855-1935 (update: year 1960 added for deaths; 1935 added for births)

Arkansas
- Washington County Cemeteries
- Yell County Obituaries

California
- Los Angeles County: Long Beach History Index (includes some obituaries)
- Los Angeles County: Pioneer Cemetery Roster (in Sylmar, CA) from the San Fernando Valley Historical Society

See: Online Los Angeles County Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries

- San Francisco County Probate Index 1906-1940

Colorado
- Park County Local History Archives - Genealogy Indexes (includes indexes for obituaries and marriages)
- Routt County History and Genealogy Indexes (includes: Routt County Burial Index and Database of Deceased Steamboat Springs Veterans)

Connecticut
- Hartford County: Ancient Burying Ground of Hartford - Burial List
- New Haven County: Uptown Burial Ground (Derby, CT)
- New Haven County: Oxford Cemetery Project

Delaware
- New Castle County: Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Burial Database Search (update: 2 cemeteries added)

District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1959 at FamilySearch (includes index and digitized images of the death certificates)

Florida
- Charlotte County: Scanned Cemetery Books (includes one book for DeSoto County)

Georgia
- Glynn County Genealogy Indexes (includes some cemetery burials, obituaries and other items)

Indiana
- Indiana Resources from the Allen Public Library Genealogy Center (includes assorted cemetery or other death indexes for Adams, Allen, Grant, Hancock, Hendricks, Huntington, Jay, Madison, Marion, Noble, Posey, Wabash, Wells, and Whitley Counties)

Kansas
- Anderson County Genealogy Indexes and Obituaries (includes some obituary transcriptions from the Anderson County Advocate)
- Doniphan County Cemetery Burials

Louisiana
- Caddo Parish: City of Shreveport Cemeteries Database (includes: Greenwood Cemetery, Jewella Cemetery, Oakland Cemetery and Star Cemetery)

Maine
- York County: Obituaries Index for Sanford and Springvale Newspapers 1890s-present

Massachusetts
- Middlesex County: City of Newton Genealogy Indexes (includes Death Indexes 1635-1899)

Michigan
- Allegan County Genealogy Indexes (includes obituaries indexes and death certificates from Old Douglas Hospital)
- Isabella County: Riverside Cemetery Records (City of Mt. Pleasant)
- Wayne County: Detroit and Nearby: Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association Genealogy Search; See: Online Detroit and Wayne County Death Records & Indexes

Minnesota
- Blue Earth County: Mankato Free Press (and its predecessor newspapers) Obituaries Index (for assorted years with some gaps)
- Hennepin and Ramsey Counties: Minneapolis and St. Paul Death Records Index 1866-1916 (from FamilySearch)
- Olmsted County: Woodlawn Cemetery Burial Index (Stewartville, MN)

Missouri
- Missouri Death Certificates Index and Images 1910-1960 (update: year 1960 added)
- Polk County Genealogical Society Obituaries Index
- Schuyler County Cemeteries

New Jersey
- Morris County: Orchard Street Cemetery Records - Cornish Burials (Dover, NJ area)

New York
- Chemung County Library Obituaries Indexes (for various years)
- Erie County Cemeteries: Indexes To Select Death Notices From The Buffalo, NY Area
- Ontario County: Victor Village Cemetery Index
- Steuben County Obituaries Index

North Carolina
- North Carolina Deaths 1931-1994 (index only) from FamilySearch
- County Records in the North Carolina State Archives (includes estate indexes for: Avery, Clay, Columbus, Gaston, Polk, Sampson, Swain, and Washington counties; and wills indexes for Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Cumberland, Davidson, Forsyth, Greene, Haywood, Hyde, Jackson, Mecklenburg, Pamlico, Richmond, Rowan, Stokes, and Wilkes counties) coverage varies by county

- Harnett County Public Library Obituary and Cemetery Burials Search
- New Hanover County Register of Deeds Death Certificates Index (also has indexes for Birth Certificates and Marriage Records)
- Randolph County: Asheboro Courier and Courier-Tribune Newspapers Obituaries Index 1903-1985

Ohio
- Hamilton County: Cincinnati Birth and Death Records, 1865-1912 for surnames "A" through "Fill" (more being added); includes digital images; See: Online Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Ohio Death Records & Indexes

- Lorain County: Westwood Cemetery Gravestone Inventory Database (in Oberlin, Ohio)
- Sandusky County: McPherson Cemetery Burials (Clyde, Ohio)
- Summit County: Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library Obituary Index

Oklahoma
- Choctaw County Genealogy Indexes and Obituaries (includes obituaries from the Hugo Daily News, December 2003-June 2006)
- Creek County: Sapulpa Herald Obituary Index 1987-1995
- Oklahoma County: Edmond Newspapers Obituaries Index

Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County: McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery Burials
- Bedford County Historical Society: Pioneer Library Obituary Index
- Cambria County: Grandview Cemetery Burials (Johnstown, Pennsylvania)
- Northumberland County: Mount Carmel Area Public Library Obituary Index

South Carolina
- Greenville County Probate Search (recent)

South Dakota
- Lawrence County: Mt. Moriah Cemetery Burials (City of Deadwood)

Tennessee
- Knox County: Knoxville Obituaries Index 1991-present

Texas
- Cass County Cemeteries
- Fort Bend County Libraries Obituary Database
- Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel Newspaper Obituary Index 1971 to present
- Nacogdoches County: Cason Monk-Metcalf Digitized Funeral Registers 1900-1952
- Shelby County Genealogy Indexes (includes indexes for deaths, cemeteries, funeral homes and marriages)

Utah
- Utah County: Spanish Fork Cemetery Burials Search

Vermont
- Vermont Vital Records at FamilySearch (complete for 1871-1908; more years being added; includes town clerk transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths)

Virginia
- Arlington County: Preserve and Honor Arlington Cemetery Burials (includes gravestone photographs for Afghanistan and Iraq War burials at Arlington Cemetery)
- Arlington County: Jewish Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
- Lynchburg Obituaries Index 1837-1930 and Funeral Homes Index (from the Jones Memorial Library)

Washington
- Adams County Obituaries 1898-1964
- Whatcom County: Bayview Cemetery Records (in Bellingham) not yet complete

Wisconsin
- Calumet County Cemeteries and Genealogy Indexes
- Columbia County Cemeteries and Obituaries Indexes
- Fond du Lac County: Campbellsport Area Cemeteries
- Sheboygan County: City of Plymouth Cemeteries (for Woodlawn and Union Cemeteries)
- Sheboygan County: Immaculate Conception Cemetery Burials (in Sheboygan, WI)
- Sheboygan County Cemeteries and Genealogy Indexes

Wyoming
- Laramie County: Cheyenne Cemetery Burials; includes Lakeview Cemetery, Beth El Cemetery, International Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Cemetery, Serenity Gardens (Columbarium), Mount Olivet (Catholic Cemetery), and Mount Sinai (Jewish Cemetery)
- Laramie County: Cheyenne Genealogical and Historical Society Vital Records Indexes (includes indexes for obituaries, Carpenter Cemetery burials, and Laramie County marriage records)

See: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes (USA) - Latest Additions

2011-05-24T10:12:00.000-06:00

Links to the items listed below have been added to: Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes or its supplementary state webpages.

Arkansas
- Craighead County: Marriage and Divorce Records Indexes

California
- California Birth Index 1905-1995
- San Mateo County Marriages Index 1853-1965
- Tulare County Marriage Indexes 1852-1909
See: Online California Vital Records Indexes

Colorado
- Douglas County Marriage Search 1874-current
- Ouray County Marriage License Index 1877-2010
- Pitkin County Marriage Records 1882-1930
See: Colorado Genealogy Records and Indexes on the Internet

Florida
- Florida: Search Official Records (public records search for about 60 Florida counties; includes some marriages; coverage varies by county)
See: Online Florida Vital Records Indexes

Georgia
- Muscogee County, Georgia Marriage Database 1845-1905
- Muscogee County Marriage Database 1845-1878 and Birth Register Database 1890-1900

Illinois
- Champaign County Historical and Genealogical Index (indexes some marriage licenses and other records)

Indiana
- Indiana Marriage Index 1993-2004 (update: 2 years added)
See: Online Indiana Vital Records Indexes

Iowa
- Scott County Genealogy Index; Davenport Area (indexes marriages, census records, obituaries and other items)

Kansas
- Sedgwick County Marriage Affidavits Index (9 May 1870 to 25 Nov. 1933)

Louisiana
- Tangipahoa Parish: Clerk of Court - Marriages 1975-present

Maine
- Maine Marriage Index 1892-2009, except 1967-1976 (update: more years added)

Michigan
- Charlevoix County: Marriage Records Search
- Clinton County Marriage Record Search
- Emmet County Marriage Record Search 1857-recent

Mississippi
- Itawamba Historical Society Online Archives (includes marriage book abstracts 1837-1856, and other items)
- Lauderdale County: Online Bookshelf (includes women's marriage records index 1838-1940)
- Pike County Marriage License Search

Missouri
- Boone County Marriage License Search c.1980s-recent
- Daviess County Marriage Index 1837-1898 and Divorce Index 1842-1896
- Greene County Marriage Records Search
- Howard County Marriage Records Indexes
- McDonald County: Mariage Licenses Index, October 1865 to December 2009
See: Online Missouri Vital Records Indexes

New Jersey
- New Jersey Marriage Records Indexes 1665-1799 and 1848-1878 (update: more years added)

New York
- Monroe County: City of Rochester Historic Marriage Records Search 1876-1943 (update: more years added)
See: New York Vital Records Indexes & Genealogy Records on the Internet

North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County Divorce Index 1846-1969
See: North Carolina Vital Records Indexes on the Internet

Ohio
- Cuyahoga County Birth Corrections (1873-1908), and Affidavits (1860-1897)
- Hamilton County Probate Court - Archived Records Search (includes wills, estates, birth index books, marriages and other records)
- Lake County Marriage Records Index 1840-1915
See: Online Ohio Vital Records Indexes

Oklahoma
- Creek County Marriage Index November 1907-March 1921
- Oklahoma County Marriage Records Index 1889-1951

Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia City Marriage Records Search (recent)

Tennessee
- Nashville and Davidson County Records Online (inlcudes links to marriage indexes and many other items)
- Knox County Marriage Records Index 1901-1950

Texas
- Dallas County Marriage Records Search 1964-present
See: Online Texas Vital Records Indexes

Wisconsin
- Langlade County Birth Records Index to 1909
- Milwaukee County Marriage Certificates 1822-1876

See: Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes

Online Indexes for Cemeteries, Obituaries and Death Records - Latest Additions

2011-02-04T09:02:00.001-07:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records website has been updated with links to the following items...

California
- Santa Barbara County Cemeteries
- Santa Clara County: Los Gatos Death Certificates 1868-1920

Colorado
- Denver County: Riverside Cemetery Block 12 Burials (identifies over 7000 graves in the potter's field section of Riverside Cemetery)
- Denver County: Riverside Cemetery African-American Burials (over 5200 listings)
- Colorado Cemetery Indexing Project: Individuals Interred in Small Colorado Burial Sites

Delaware
- Delaware Death Records and Index 1855-1955 at FamilySearch

Florida
- Nassau County Cemeteries and Obituaries
- Orange County: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records (Orlando and central Florida area)

Illinois
- Champaign County Historical and Genealogical Index (indexes some obituaries, death notices and other records)
- DuPage County: Villa Park Argus Obituary Index 1931-recent
- St. Clair County: Mascoutah Herald Obituaries Index 1912-1971

Indiana
- Carroll County Historical Museum Genealogy Databases (includes wills 1830-1991 and Zion Cemetery burials)
- Cass County: Logansport City Cemeteries Burial Search
- Elkhart County Genealogy Indexes (includes cemeteries, probate files and wills)
- Howard County Memory Project (includes cemeteries, funeral notices and more)
- Marshall County: Plymouth Pilot Obituary Index
- St. Joseph County Genealogy Indexes (includes idexes for burial permits, coroner's records, cemetery inscriptions and more)
- Starke County Family History: Deaths, Coroner's Reports and more
- Switzerland County: Vevay Newspaper Index of births, marriages & deaths (update: more years added)

Iowa
- Jasper County: City of Newton - Union Cemetery Burials

Kansas
- Butler County Cemeteries (also has some obituaries and wills)

Massachusetts
- Barnstable County: Falmouth Genealogical Society Obituaries Index (1990-2009) and Cemetery Transcription Project
- Suffolk County: Zimmer Newspaper Index Digitization Project 1878-1937 (An index to some Massachusetts newspaper articles: "The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Journal, and Boston Transcript were the papers which were indexed most consistently." Includes some obituaries.)
- Worcester County: Evergreen Cemetery Burials (Leominster, Massachusetts)

Michigan
- Berrien County: Niles Obituaries Index
- Charlevoix County: Death Records Search
- Oakland County Genealogy Search: Marriage and Death Index 1941-recent

Minnesota
- Blue Earth County Historical Society: Wills Index 1858-1973, and Cemetery Index

Mississippi
- Neshoba County Cemeteries

Missouri
- Bates County Cemeteries
- Greene County: Hall's Index and Items of Genealogical Interest from Springfield Newspapers
- Jefferson County Newspaper Index 1866-1932 - includes birth, marriage and death notices (update: more years added)

New Jersey
- New Jersey Death Records Index, June 1878-June 1886 (update: 2 years added)

New York City
- Kings County, New York Estate Files Index 1866-1923 from FamilySearch
- Queens County: Montefiore Springfield Jewish Cemetery Burials (Springfield Gardens, NY)

See: Online New York City Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

New York State
- Cattaraugus County Cemeteries
- Livingston County: Dansville Obituary Index 1960-present (update: more years added)
- Rensselaer County: Troy, New York Genealogy Indexes (includes newspaper death notices, cemetery burials and more)
- Suffolk County: New Montefiore Jewish Cemetery Burials (West Babylon, New York)
- Westchester County: Larchmont and Mamaroneck Cemeteries

North Carolina
- Wayne County Death Index 1995-2009

Ohio
- Columbiana County: Salem News Obituaries Index 1965-2010, and Grandview Cemetery Association Burial Database
- Greene County Death Records 1869-1909, and Birth Records 1869-1909
- Lake County: Index to Cemetery Inscriptions
- Lake County: Morley Library Obituary Index
- Wayne County Genealogy Databases (includes Early Obituary Abstracts, Veteran's Home Death Records and other items)

- Cuyahoga County: Cleveland City Cemetery Index (also has Cuyahoga Wills & Estates Index 1826-1904) See: Online Cleveland & Cuyahoga County, Ohio Death Records & Indexes

Pennsylvania
- Beaver County: Beaver Cemetery Burials
- Lehigh County: Morning Call Online Obituary Index 1895-1983 (some years not complete; from the Allentown Public Library)
- Northampton County: Easton Area Public Library Obituary Indexes
- Schuylkill County: Pottsville Public Library - Obituaries and Cemeteries Indexes
- Somerset County: Johnstown Tribune-Democrat Obituary Indexes

South Carolina
- Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina - Cemetery Burials

South Dakota
- Minnehaha County: Sioux Valley Genealogical Society Obituaries Index

Tennessee
- Scott County Death Indexes

Utah
- Utah Death Certificates Index 1904-1959 (update: year 1959 added)
- Utah County Obituary Index

Virginia
- Accomac County: Eastern Shore of Virginia Marriage and Death Notices 1881-1912

Washington
- Grays Harbor County: City of Hoquiam Cemetery Burials

Wisconsin
- Eau Claire County: City of Eau Claire Cemetery Records Search (for Forest Hill and Lakeview Cemeteries)
- Portage County: Cemetery Burials and Stevens Point Area Obituary Index 1864-recent

See: Online Death Records Indexes, Obituaries and Cemetery Burials

Naturalization Records and Indexes (USA) - New Additions

2011-01-24T09:31:00.000-07:00

The Online Naturalization Records and Indexes Directory has been updated with the following links...

California
- Contra Costa County Naturalization Records Index
- Orange County: A List of Citizens Naturalized in Orange County from 1889 to 1905
- Santa Barbara County Naturalizations Index
See: Online California Naturalization Records and Indexes

Colorado
- Larimer County Naturalization Index 1885-1958
- Pitkin County Naturalization Records Index 1888-1908

Kansas
- Assorted Kansas U.S. District Court Naturalization Indexes

Illinois
- Carroll County Naturalization Records Indexes
- Cook County Naturalization Database: Declarations of Intention Index, 1906-1929 (not yet complete)
- Madison County: Naturalizations and Intentions of Madison County, Illinois, an Index 1816-1900
- St. Clair County: Index to Declarations and Naturalizations, Circuit Court 1906-c.1945
See: Online Illinois Naturalization Records and Indexes

Minnesota
- Iron Range Research Center - Genealogy Records Database (indexes some naturalization records and alien registration records for some Minnesota counties)
- Fergus Falls, Minnesota: Name Index to Naturalizations (1897-1944)
- Mankato Petitions, Name Index to Petitions ca. 1907-1929 (U.S. District Court)
- Winona Naturalizations, Name index to petitions and declarations of intention 1895-1924 (District courts)

Missouri
- Assorted Missouri U.S. District Court Naturalization Indexes from the Kansas City National Archives Branch

Nebraska
- Assorted Nebraska U.S. District Court Naturalization Indexes

New Jersey
- Monmouth County: Naturalizations Index 1804-1906
- Passaic County: Naturalization Records Search

New York
- Cayuga County Naturalization Records Index 1799-1952 (PDF file)
See: Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes

Ohio
- Hamilton County Ohio (Cincinatti) Citizenship Records, 1837-1916 (includes transcriptions of original and restored Declarations of Intention to Naturalize and Naturalization papers filed in Hamilton County between circa 1837 and 1916. While a great number of these records were lost, "a significant number survived and others were restored.")

Pennsylvania
- Cambria County Naturalization Records Index 1835-1991
See: Online Pennsylvania Naturalization Records and Indexes

Tennessee
- Knox County Naturalization Index 1792-1907 (includes Knoxville)
- Shelby County Naturalization Records 1856-1906 (partial) -- includes Memphis
- Index to Naturalization Papers, Federal Court, Western District of Tennessee at Memphis 1906-1967 (partial)

Texas
- Travis County Naturalization Records Index (to c. Sept. 1906)

See: Online Searchable Naturalization Indexes and Records

Online Military Records and Indexes Website - Latest Updates

2011-01-03T08:37:00.001-07:00

The Online Military Records, Indexes and Databases of Soldiers Directory has been updated with the following links...

Revolutionary War
- General Section: Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Databases
- Illinois: Index to the George Rogers Clark collection of papers pertaining to the Illinois Regiment of Virginia State Forces

Civil War
- General Section: The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (searchable multi-volume scanned Civil War book series)
- Colorado Territory Civil War Volunteer Records
- Connecticut Civil War Manuscripts Project (from the Connecticut Historical Society Library)
- Michigan: Department of Michigan, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (includes databases for graves and GAR records)
- Missouri: State Historical Society of Missouri, the Civil War in Missouri
- Missouri: Index to the List of Union Veterans Buried in and about St. Louis
- New Jersey Civil War Treasury Vouchers, 1861-1865
- North Carolina: Index of Confederate Section Burials at Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC

World War I
- Hawaii World War I Service Records - Army and Navy
- Kansas WWI and Military Indexes (includes Kansas World War I Bounty Claims Index and Kansas Soldiers of the Great War)
- Michigan: Kalamazoo County World War One Veterans
- Missouri History Museum: Genealogy Index (includes index of Casualties, European War, July 20, 1918-September 8, 1939; and index of Persons Who Enlisted in St. Louis City and County Who Died in Service)
- Nebraska WWI Draft Registration Cards Database 1917-1918
- New Jersey World War I Casualties Database (includes descriptive cards and photographs)

World War II
- World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration) Indexed for Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin at FamilySearch (includes digitized images)
- Kansas WWII and Military Indexes (includes Kansas World War II Selective Service Index, Kansas World War II Army Casualties, Kansas World War II Oral Histories, Kansas Burials/Memorials at World War II Military Cemeteries Operated by the American Battle Monuments Commission)
- Missouri: St. Louis in World War II Casualties, October 1941-March 1943, scrapbook index
- International Section... Russia: Soviet Union WWII Prisoners of War Database

See: Military Indexes and Records

Online Death Records, Indexes and Obituaries - Latest Additions and Updates

2010-09-07T06:58:00.005-06:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Directory has been updated with links to the following items...

Alabama
- Jefferson County: Birmingham Area Newspapers Obituaries Index, 1929-1996 (update: more years added)
- Jefferson County: Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery Interments (Birmingham)

Arizona
- Maricopa County: City of Mesa Cemetery Burials

Arkansas
- Lawrence County Cemeteries

California
- Los Angeles County (and nearby): Forest Lawn Cemetery Burials Database... search is available for the Glendale, Hollywood Hills, Cypress (Orange County), Covina Hills and Cathedral City (Riverside County) locations; See: Online Los Angeles, California Death Records & Indexes

Colorado
- Weld County: Linn Grove Cemetery Burials (Greeley)

Florida
- Hillsborough County Cemeteries

Georgia
- Gordon County Obituaries

Idaho
- Canyon County, Idaho, Headstone Photos and Obituaries Project

Illinois
- Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths 1916-1947 from FamilySearch Beta

- Cook County Deaths 1878-1922 at FamilySearch Beta (includes images) See: Online Chicago & Cook County, Illinois Death Records & Indexes

- Ogle County (and nearby): Polo Area Cemetery Records of Ogle, Lee, Carroll and Whiteside Counties
- Peoria County Cemeteries
- St. Clair County: O'Fallon Progress Obituary and Marriage Index, Feb 1898-Dec 2007
- Sangamon County: Village of Chatham Cemetery Search

Indiana
- Pre-1882 Indiana Deaths (partial; indexes various sources) from the Allen County Public Library
- Tippecanoe County Area Genealogy Society Death and Obituaries Indexes (includes Lafayette Leader Obituary Index 1970-1990 and Tippecanoe County Death Records Index 1882-1920)
- Vanderburgh County: Evansville Newspaper Index 1821 to 1860 (includes death notices)
- Wabash County: Wabash Plain Dealer Obituary Index 2000-2008
- White County: Local Obituaries Brookston, Indiana 1986 to 2004

Kansas
- Washington County: City of Washington Cemetery Burials

Kentucky
- Carter County Cemeteries, Transcribed Records and Images (includes some death certificates and obituaries)

Maine
- Maine Death Index 1960-2009 at the Maine State Archives (update: more years added)
- York County: Biddeford Area Biographical Resource (includes some references to obituaries and death notices)
- York County: South Berwick Cemetery Databases

Massachusetts
- Essex County: City of Gloucester Vital Records and Cemetery Indexes
- Middlesex County: Wakefield Death Record Search 1873-1875 and 1913-2009
- Middlesex County: Deaths in Waltham from City Directories 1912-1960

Michigan
- Livingston County Death and Marriage Records Indexes 1950-present
- Muskegon County Genealogical Society Databases (includes cemeteries, obituaries and more)
- Wayne County: Livonia Public Library Obituary Index

Minnesota
- Anoka County Cemeteries

Missouri
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Death Index (Obituaries, etc.), 1975-June 1977; See: Online St. Louis, Missouri Death Records, Indexes & Obituaries

New York
- Essex County: Willsboro Heritage Society Cemetery Burial Lists
- Monroe County: Mt. Hope & Riverside Cemetery Records Search (Rochester)

Ohio
- Cleveland: Jewish Independent Obituary Index; See: Online Cleveland & Cuyahoga County, Ohio Death Records & Indexes

Oregon
- Early Oregonians Database 1800-1860 (includes death information for some entries)

Pennsylvania
- McKean County: Bradford Era Obituary Index 1935-1995

Tennessee
- Tennessee Death Records Index 1914-1955 from FamilySearch Beta

Vermont
- Addison County: Starksboro Cemeteries

Virginia
- Petersburg: City of Petersburg Virginia - Blandford Cemetery Records

For links to the above items see: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

If you want to follow the Death Indexes website on Facebook go to: Online Searchable Death Indexes on Facebook

130 Years of the Beine Family in America

2010-07-12T13:31:00.001-06:00

July 12, 1880 - July 12, 2010

Binn? Beim? Beine? Just how do you spell my last name? (If you want to know how to pronounce it, see Megan Smolenyak's book, Who Do You Think You Are, page 47). When I was looking for the ship passenger list for my immigrant Beine family, this is what I encountered:

Germans to America (Vol. 36, page 26) lists the family with the surname Binn. The Philadelphia passenger lists index (National Archives microfilm roll M360-7) lists the family members with the surname Beim. Well, they almost got it right. It was the Philadelphia index that actually led me to the passenger list, which I found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in 2002. Here are the details...

Ship: SS Pennsylvania
Arrived: July 12, 1880 in Philadelphia from Liverpool
Ship's Captain: Harris
335 total passengers

The Beine family are on pages 1 and 2:

Augt. Beine, 40, male, labourer, Germany (August)
Mrs. Beine, 39, female, wife, Germany (Christine)
Augt., 11, male, child, Germany (August)
Elisabeth, 9, female, child, Germany
Anna, 7, female, child, Germany
Johannis, 5, male, child, Germany
Augt., 4, female, child, Germany (Augusta)
Anton, 2, male, child, Germany
Helen, -, female, infant, Germany

From: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at the Port of Philadelphia; FHL Microfilm Roll #419674 (National Archives Microfilm Roll #M425-100)

August and Mrs. (Christine) Beine are my great great grandparents. Their son, August, is my great grandfather. They left their oldest daughter, Christine, behind. I don't know much about Christine's life, but I do know that she married, had 3 children and died before her father did. She's listed in her father's will as "Christina Jakob (deceased)." So I know her married name, but not her husband's first name. I only have three records that mention the youngest child, Helena - her German baptismal record, the family's German emigration record and the Philadelphia passenger list (above). After that she disappears. There's no indication she died on the voyage. I'm assuming she died while still an infant after the family settled in Missouri. But I've never been able to find a death or burial record for her.

August and Christine had one more child, William, after arriving in the United States. William's World War II draft registration card gives his place of birth as Silica, Missouri. That ended up being an important clue that showed the family first settled in Jefferson County, Missouri before moving to St. Louis.

My great great grandfather, August Beine, was a coal miner in Germany and became one in the U.S. as well. Once settled in St. Louis, he worked in coal mines across the Mississippi River in Illinois, where he eventually lived. The 1910 census shows August, Christine, William, and a grandson, Fred, living in Looking Glass Township/New Baden Village, Illinois. August died in 1913, Christine in 1925. They are buried in Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in St. Louis.

August Beine was born in 1839 in a small German village called Grosseneder. His wife, Christine Walter (born 1840), is from another small German village called Siddinghausen. I visited both villages in 1995. The couple was married in Stoppenberg, which was then a suburb and is now a part of, the German city of Essen. Their children (except William) were baptized in the St. Nikolaus Catholic Church there.

So July 12, 2010 is the 130th anniversary of this Beine family's arrival in the United States. I propose a celebration involving German beer. Prost!

For more information on my Beine immigrant family see:
How I Found Some Genealogy Records for My German Ancestors

Sources used for this article - 130 Years of the Beine Family in America

Online Death Records and Indexes - New Additions and Updates

2010-06-01T08:56:00.002-06:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Directory has been updated with links to the following items...

Arizona
- Arizona Death Records Index 1844-1959 & Birth Index 1855-1934 (update: year 1959 added for deaths; 1934 added for births)

Arkansas
- Garland County: Hot Springs Sentinel-Record Obituaries Index (ongoing project) also has some cemetery transcriptions and links to obituary indexes for nearby counties

California
- San Mateo County: Cypress Lawn Cemetery Burials (Colma, CA)
- Santa Clara County Archives (includes indexes for some probate cases, wills and coroner inquests)

Connecticut
- Connecticut Archives 1629-1820 - Indexes (includes Estates of Deceased Persons 1640-1820, and other genealogy indexes)

Delaware
- Sussex County: Lewes & Rehoboth Hundred Cemetery Survey

Florida
- Pinellas County Public Records Search (c.1980s to present; includes a probate court index, death certificates index and other items)

Georgia
- Troup County Cemetery Database

Idaho
- Ada County: City of Boise Cemetery Burials (for Fort Boise Military Cemetery, Morris Hill Cemetery and Pioneer Cemetery)

Illinois
- Christian County: Oak Hill Cemetery Burials (Taylorville)
- Cook County: Glenview Public Library Obituary Index; See: Online Chicago and Cook County Death Records and Indexes
- Montgomery County Historical Society - Genealogy Research Databases (includes death certificate index 1877-1950; obituary index 1980-2008; cemetery burials index and more)
- Sangamon County: Oak Ridge Cemetery Interment Records, March 1858-1940 in Springfield, IL (update: more years added)

Indiana
- Clark County: Obituary and Death Notices Index 1872-1900
- Clinton County: Genealogy Obituary Records (from the Frankfort Community Public Library)
- Floyd County: New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Newspaper Index (includes obituaries)
- Hendricks County: Brownsburg Public Library Obituary Finder
- Hendricks County: Probate Records of Hendricks County, Indiana 1824-1930 (not yet complete)

Iowa
- Cherokee County: Oak Hill Cemetery Burials (Cherokee, Iowa)

Kansas
- Franklin County Genealogy Indexes (includes obituaries and cemeteries)
- Harvey County: Bethel College Mennonite Library and Archives Obituaries Indexes
- Rush County: Obituary Index for Rush County Newspapers 1874-1939

Maine
- Jewish Burials: State-wide Index for Some Jewish Cemeteries in Maine
- Cumberland County: Westbrook Historical Society Genealogy Indexes (includes cemetery transcriptions and more)
- Oxford County GenWeb Archives - Includes Some Cemeteries
- Oxford County: Andover Maine Genealogy Indexes (includes cemeteries and death indexes)

Maryland
- Maryland Portal to Court Records: Estate Search
- Frederick County: Reformed Cemetery Burials (Knoxville, Maryland)

Massachusetts
- Middlesex County: Cemeteries of Littleton, Massachusetts

Michigan
- Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society: Historical Records (inlcudes Foreign Deaths 1931–2002, and other items; also has PDF files for two large cemeteries)
- Oakland County: Clover Hill Park Cemetery Burials (Jewish Cemetery in Birmingham, MI)

Minnesota
- Carver County Newspaper Index Search (includes death notices)

Mississippi
- Hancock County Historical Society Genealogy Indexes (includes indexes for some obituaries, cemetery burials and other items)
- Itawamba County Book of the Dead - Cemetery Burials
- Lee County Cemeteries
- Lincoln-Lawrence-Franklin Regional Library - Genealogy Indexes (includes obituaries, cemeteries and more)

Missouri
- Missouri Death Certificates Index and Images 1910-1959 (update: year 1959 added)
- Adair County: Obituaries & Death Notices Index for the Kirksville Daily Express, March 1979-2009 (update: more years added)
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index (update - more years added: 1965, 1966, 2009); See: Online St. Louis, Missouri Death Records, Indexes & Obituaries

New Hampshire
- Cheshire County: Vital Records of Keene, New Hampshire

New York
- Madison County Cemeteries
- Onondaga County: Skaneateles Historical Society Archives - Genealogy Indexes (includes newspaper death indexes and some cemetery burials)
- Rockland County Cemetery Records and Funeral Homes (update: funeral homes index added)

North Carolina
- Union County Public Library Obituary Indexes (for Monroe and Marshville Newspapers)

Ohio
- Lorain County: Index to Lorain County News, Oberlin Weekly News, and Oberlin News, 1860-1934 (includes obituaries)
- Mahoning County: Goshen Township Cemetery Burials

Oregon
- Lane County: Eugene Pioneer Cemetery Burials

Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County Death Registrations 1893-1905 (not yet complete - more being added)
- Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Obituaries Index (most are from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal)

South Carolina
- Chesterfield County: Cheraw Chronicle & Chesterfield Advertiser Obituary Archive 2003-recent (not complete)

Tennessee
- Tennessee Death Index 1914-1931 (update: year 1931 added)

Vermont
- Windsor County: Cemeteries, Obituaries and Death Notices Indexes (from the Hartford Historical Society)

Virginia
- Prince William Public Library System's Digital Library - Genealogy Indexes (includes births, marriage, deaths, probate records and more)
- Prince William County Indexes (includes cemeteries and obituaries)

Wisconsin
- Dane County: Forest Hill Cemetery Burials (Madison, WI)
- Forest County: Crandon Public Library - Local History Obituary Index 1909-1923, 2001-2003 and 2005-recent (ongoing project)
- Marathon County Cemeteries
- Pierce County Cemeteries

See: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Death and Burial Indexes at FamilySearch Record Search

2010-05-03T14:18:00.006-06:00

As part of their recent update adding 300 million names, FamilySearch Record Search has added several databases that index some death and burial records for various states. See the list below. The update also includes many indexes for Births, Christenings and Marriages for various states. You can access these indexes and many more genealogy indexes at: FamilySearch Historical Records Search

While these death and burial indexes are not necessarily complete, they do contain numerous listings that may be helpful for genealogy research.

Recently Added Death and Burial Indexes at FamilySearch:

Arizona Deaths and Burials, 1910-1911; 1993-1994
Arkansas Deaths and Burials, 1882-1929; 1945-1963
Delaware Deaths and Burials, 1815-1955
District of Columbia Deaths and Burials, 1840-1964
Florida Deaths and Burials, 1900-1921
Hawaii Deaths and Burials, 1862-1919
Idaho Deaths and Burials, 1907-1965
Kansas Deaths and Burials, 1885-1930
Kentucky Deaths and Burials, 1843-1970
Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910
Maryland Deaths and Burials, 1877-1992
New Mexico Deaths and Burials, 1788-1798; 1838-1955
New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952
North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994
Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997
Oregon Deaths and Burials, 1903-1947
Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946
Vermont Deaths and Burials, 1871-1965
Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912
West Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1854-1932

For more online death indexes see: Online Death Indexes and Records

New York Genealogy Records and Resources Online

2010-04-25T13:56:00.003-06:00

Here are some places to find New York City and State Genealogy Information, Records, Indexes and Resources on the Internet...

Birth, Marriage and Death Records

Online New York Death Records Indexes and Obituaries for New York State

Online New York City Death Records Indexes and Finding Aids for New York City

New York Birth and Marriage Records Indexes on the Internet includes information on ordering copies of New York Vital Records

Census Records

New York State Census Records 1825-1925 - Information & Some Online Indexes a brief guide for non-federal New York census records

Immigration Records

New York Passenger Lists Research Guide 1820-1957

Online New York Naturalization Indexes and Records

New York Newspapers

New York Times Article Archive Search 1851-present some articles may require payment; many earlier articles (1851-1922) are free

Also See the New York Section at: Directory of Historical Newspapers on the Internet

More Helpful New York Genealogy Resources

New York National Archives Branch

New York GenWeb

Online Death Indexes and Records - Latest Additions and Updates

2010-03-07T06:56:00.009-07:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Directory has been updated with links to the following items...

Alaska
- Alaska Probate Index 1885-1960

Colorado
- Boulder Genealogical Society - Cemeteries and Obituaries - Updated (includes: Boulder Daily Camera Obituary Index 1970-1974; burial indexes for the following cemeteries: Columbia Cemetery, Green Mountain Cemetery, Hygiene Cemetery, Lyons Cemetery, "Roadside" Cemetery, Rowley Cemetery, Weisner Cemetery; and more)
- Jefferson County: Ralston Cemetery Burials (small pioneer cemetery in Arvada)
- Pitkin County: Cemetery Records for Red Butte, Aspen Grove, Ute and Basalt Cemeteries
- Weld County Cemeteries - Tombstone Photographs

Florida
- Flagler County Genealogy Indexes (includes some obituaries and cemetery records)

Illinois
- DeKalb County Genealogy Indexes (includes early wills and coroner records)
- DuPage County: Obituary Index, 1972-2009 for Burr Ridge, Darien and Willowbrook, Illinois
- Will County: Indexes of Obituaries Printed in the Joliet Herald News 1991-2009

Indiana
- Marion County Wills Index
- Sullivan County Obituaries Indexes (for obituaries 1929-present, and obituaries and death notices 1870-1905; also has indexes for wills and marriages)
- Union County Genealogy Indexes (includes cemetery records, obituaries index and more)

Kansas
- Clay County Rural Cemeteries
- Clay County: Greenwood Cemetery Burials (Clay Center, KS)
- Russell County Cemeteries
- Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Obituaries Index 1906-1935 and 1971-present with a few from 1936-1970 (update: more years added)

Kentucky
- Edmonson County: Mammoth Cave National Park Cemetery Database

Maryland
- Garrett County: Ruth Enlow Library Obituary Database, March 1877-1904

Massachusetts
- Middlesex County: Lowell Vital Records Indexes (Birth, Marriage, Death) from Local Newspapers
- Middlesex County Cemetery Projects
- Middlesex County: St. Mary Cemetery Burials (Tewskbury, Massachusetts)
- Middlesex County: Lowell Cemetery Burials (recent burials and veterans)
- Worcester County: Southborough Rural Cemetery Burials, and Southborough Vital Records 1727-1849

Michigan
- Monroe County: Monroe Evening News Obituaries Index (from the Monroe County Historical Commission Archives)
- Tuscola County: Cass City Cemetery Records and Digitized Newspapers

Minnesota
- Scott County Historical Society Newspaper Index - Marriages and Obituaries

Missouri (St. Louis)
- Gatewood Gardens Cemetery Burial Database (St. Louis)
- St. Louis City Wills Index, Volumes M-X, 1877-1894 (downloadable PDF file)
- Index to Names in the Annual Reports of the Coroner of Saint Louis, Missouri, for the Years 1894, 1895, 1896, and 1897

- See: Online St. Louis, Missouri Death Records, Indexes & Obituaries

Nebraska
- Cass County Cemetery Burials and other Genealogy Indexes
- Platte & Madison Counties: Columbus and Norfolk Public Libraries - Historical Obituaries Indexes

New Hampshire
- Belknap County: Town of Belmont Genealogy Indexes (includes death index 1887-2008 and other indexes)
- Hillsborough County: Amherst Historical Society Genealogy Indexes (includes death index 1884-1989 and other items)

New Mexico
- New Mexico Death Records Index 1889-1945 from FamilySearch Record Search (Pilot)

New York
- Albany County: Knowersville Enterprise July 1884-July 1888 and Altamont Enterprise July 1888-December 2008 (digitized newspapers; includes obituaries and death notices)
- Dutchess County: Interments in Dutchess County Cemeteries before 1880
- Monroe County: Village of Churchville Cemetery Records Search

North Carolina
- Lenoir County: Kinston Free Press Newspaper Index 1895-1928 (indexes births, marriages, deaths)
- Mecklenburg County: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Genealogy Indexes (includes some cemetery burials & early death notices)
- Wake County: Historic Oakwood Cemetery Burials (in Raleigh, NC)
- Wake County: Raleigh City Cemeteries Burial Databases (for City Cemetery and O'Rorke Cemetery)
- Wake County Wills Index 1771-1802
- Washington County: Roanoke Beacon Newspaper Index 1889-1899 (indexes births, marriages, deaths)

Ohio
- Fulton County Death Register Book 1 (1868-1886) transcriptions and images
- Wood County Cemetery Search

Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Cemeteries (a collection of cemetery transcriptions and photographs; coverage varies by county)
- Kingfisher County Cemeteries
- Muskogee Death and Newspaper Obituary Indexes 1916-2009 (update: more years added)

Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County: Index of Death Notices and Obituaries that Appeared in Pittsburgh Area Newspapers (ongoing project)

Texas
- Dallas County Probate Court - Search Case Records (recent)
- South Texas Area: Catholic Cemeteries of The Victoria Diocese (the Victoria Diocese comprises the counties of Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Lavaca, Matagorda, Victoria, Wharton and Fayette County west of the Colorado River)
- Tarrant County: Death Notices and Miscellaneous News Items from the Arlington Journal and Arlington Citizen 1897-1940 (does not include all years)
- Tarrant County: Arlington Cemetery Burials
- Victoria County: McFaddin Cemetery Burials (Catholic cemetery in Victoria, Texas)

Virginia
- Richmond: Burial Records of Jewish Cemeteries in Central Virginia

Washington
- Walla Walla County: City of Walla Walla Burial Search - for Mountain View Cemetery
- Wenatchee Area Obituary Index 1880-2008 (update: more years added)

Wisconsin
- Dodge/Jefferson Counties Genealogical Society Indexes (some death notices are indexed in their newspaper clippings index; also has some cemetery indexes)
- Outagamie County: Kaukauna Newspaper Index (for births, obituaries, weddings)
- Outagamie County: Kaukauna Cemetery Transcriptions
- Rock County Cemeteries
- Rock County: Janesville Gazette Obituaries Index, January 1981-May 1983; and January 1993-present (update: more years added)

See: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Online Genealogy Records Directories - Moving

2010-02-05T10:06:00.005-07:00

Some of my online directories of genealogy indexes and records are moving to new URLs. Here is a list of some of the most popular, along with their new URLs. Please update any links you may have to these webpages. Thank you! -Joe

Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes for the USA
was at: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/vitalrecords.html

is now at:
http://www.germanroots.com/vitalrecords.html

What Passenger Lists Are Online?
Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records and Indexes
was at: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

is now at:
http://www.germanroots.com/onlinelists.html

Online Searchable Naturalization Indexes and Records (USA)
was at: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalization.html

is now at:
http://www.germanroots.com/naturalization.html

Finding U.S. Naturalization Records - a Genealogy Guide
was at: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalizationrecords.html

is now at:
http://www.germanroots.com/naturalizationrecords.html

Online Military Indexes and Databases - USA
was at: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/military.html

was expanded into a separate website (in 2004):
http://www.militaryindexes.com/

Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records
was at: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/deathrecords.html

was expanded into a separate website (in 2003):
http://www.deathindexes.com/

Thank you!

The German Roots (wee-monster) Website is Moving

2010-02-03T15:22:00.001-07:00

If you have any links to my German Roots website, please update them - the old website will be going away soon. It was located at:

German Roots: German Genealogy Resources
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/

It has moved to:

http://www.germanroots.com/

If you are linking to an interior webpage such as:

What Passenger Lists Are Online?
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

Please change the URL to:

http://www.germanroots.com/onlinelists.html

Please change any other links to the old "wee-monster" website you may have.

Thank you kindly! :)

-Joe Beine

How I Found Some Genealogy Records for My German Ancestors

2010-01-10T22:20:00.005-07:00

Last year I obtained a marriage record from a church in Germany that was not available at the Family History Library. I thought this might be a helpful example of how you can sometimes find genealogy records by writing to churches or archives in Germany.

My immigrant ancestors, August and Christine (Walter) Beine came to the US in 1880 with 7 of their children. August Beine was originally from a small German village called Grosseneder and Christine Walter came from another village called Siddinghausen. I have already researched their family lines in each of the villages, but I was not able to find their marriage record in either place. But I have a photocopy of a family document that gives the birth and baptismal dates of their German born children from the St. Nikolaus Catholic Parish in Stoppenberg, Germany. Stoppenberg was then a suburb and is now a neighborhood of the city of Essen. I always assumed the couple was married in Stoppenberg and recently I decided to pursue obtaining a copy of their marriage record.

The LDS Family History Library does not have microfilmed records for the St. Nikolaus Parish. So I needed to determine where the church's records, if available, were located. Essen is a Catholic diocese ("Bistum" in German), and using Google, I found the Essen diocese has a website: http://www.bistum-essen.de. From the website's contact link I sent an email asking where the St. Nikolaus church records were today. I received a response saying the records were still at the church and was given an email address for the parish priest.

I emailed the parish priest, asking if I could obtain the marriage record of August Beine and Christine Walter, and the baptismal record of their son, also named August, who is my great grandfather. Three weeks later I received a response saying they had found the records I wanted and were sending copies. A few days later the photocopies arrived in the mail.

I had inquired about a fee in my email to the church, and the response was: "We don't get a fee for this service, but it would be nice if you can give a donation to a project of the Roman-Catholic parish in your town." So I made a donation to a local parish.

I have a family document that gave me the name of the town and parish in Germany. But you may not have something like this. Here's a list of other places where you might find the name of your ancestral village in Germany:

Tips for Finding Your German Immigrant Ancestor's Hometown in Germany

This article may help if you already know the name of the village or town:
Tips for Finding German Genealogy Records for your German-American Ancestor

The above photograph of the St. Nikolaus Catholic Church in Essen-Stoppenberg is from Wikipedia

Online Death Records and Indexes - New Additions and Updates

2010-01-02T09:56:00.004-07:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Directory has been updated with links to the following items...

Alabama
- Madison County: City of Huntsville Cemetery Burials Search

Arkansas
- Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society - Cemetery Grave Marker Index
- Yell County Cemetery Records

California
- Los Angeles County: Inglewood Park Cemetery Burials Index 1974-present; See: Online Los Angeles, California Death Records & Indexes

Connecticut
- Fairfield County Cemeteries

Florida
- Broward County: Jewish Cemeteries (ongoing project) presently has Jewish burials in Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Lauderdale (Excel file)

Georgia
- Georgia Non-Indexed Death Certificates, 1928-1930
- Georgia Death Certificate Summaries 1914-1927 and 1930 from FamilySearch Labs (Updated: year 1930 added)

Idaho
- Canyon County: City of Nampa Cemetery Interment Database

Indiana
- Clark County Cemeteries
- Parke County Cemeteries

Kansas
- Cherokee County Obituary Index 2000-2007

Massachusetts
- Essex County: City of Peabody Archives - Birth, Marriage and Death Records 1855-1880 (death records go to 1879)
- Essex County: Spring Grove Cemetery Burials (Andover, MA)

Michigan
- Ogemaw County Death Records Index
- Saint Clair County: Lakeside Cemetery Records Search (Port Huron, Michigan)

Minnesota
- Hennepin County: Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery - Burial Search
- Marshall County: Holt Weekly News 1911-1952 (scanned newspaper pages - includes obituaries)
- Mower County Cemeteries
- Pennington County: Historic St. Pauli Church, Thief River Falls, Minnesota (includes baptisms, funerals and other listings)

Mississippi
- Adams County: Natchez Jewish Cemetery List

Missouri
- Gentry and Worth Counties: Cemetery Transcriptions (PDF files)
- Saint Louis County: Cold Water Cemetery Burials (DAR Cemetery in Florissant, MO); See: Online St. Louis, Missouri Death Records, Indexes & Obituaries

Nebraska
- Adams County: Hastings Regional Center Cemetery Records, 1889-1959
- Lancaster County: Nebraska State Historical Society Genealogy and Other Indexes (includes: Wyuka Cemetery Interments, Lincoln, 1877-Feb. 1881; and many other indexes)

New Hampshire
- Hillsborough County: Cemeteries of Bedford, NH
- Hillsborough County: Pelham Historical Society Genealogy On-Line Library (includes early town clerk vital records, cemetery inscriptions and more)

New Mexico
- Bernalillo County Cemeteries
- Chaves County Cemeteries
- Dona Ana County Cemeteries and Funeral Home Records
- Lincoln County Cemeteries and Deaths 1913-1919
- Lincoln County: Catholic Funeral Records from St. Rita Parish, Carrizozo, Nov 1897-April 1956
- Socorro County Cemeteries

New York
- Erie County Lodge Cemetery Records (Jewish Cemetery in Buffalo, NY)
- Rockland County Cemetery Records Search

North Carolina
- Buncombe County: Index of Obituaries in the Asheville Citizen-Times and other area Newspapers 1977-1989

Ohio
- Ohio Obituaries Index 1810s-present from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; for selected counties (update: 300,000 more entries added; now has 1.5 million entries)
- Hamilton County Ohio Wills Index, 1791-1901 (PDF files)
- Hamilton County Probate Court: Probate Case and Archived Records Search (includes births, marriages, wills, naturalizations and more; some unindexed)
- For the above two see: Online Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Ohio Death Records & Indexes

South Carolina
- South Carolina Death Index 1915-1958 (update: year 1958 added)
- Florence County Library Obituary Index - assorted years (update: more years added)

Tennessee
- Tennessee Death Index 1914-1930 (update: years 1929 and 1930 added)
- Knox County Death Records and Obituaries Indexes (includes: Index of Obituaries Published in The Hickory Daily Record, 1915-1989; Funeral Records from Shuford Funeral Home, 1908-1957; Knox County, TN Death Records, 1914-1925)

Texas
- Franklin County News Archive 1870-Sept 1875 (includes some obituaries)
- Lamar County Death and Cemetery Records Database

Utah
- Utah Death Certificates Index 1904-1958 (update: more years added)

West Virginia
- Cabell County: Huntington, West Virginia Newspapers Obituary Indexes (PDF files)
- Mercer County: Walnut Grove Cemetery Burials (in Bluefield, West Virginia)

Wisconsin
- Douglas County Cemeteries
- Milwaukee County: Kuryer Polski Death Notice Index 1900-1931 (Milwaukee Polish Language Newspaper)
- Shawano County Genealogy Indexes (includes cemetery burials, obituaries and more)

See: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Recently Added Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes

2009-11-12T10:10:00.003-07:00

Links to the items listed below were recently added to: Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes or its supplementary state webpages.

Alabama
- Madison County Marriage License Index 1809-Feb 1973 (update: more years added)

Delaware
- Delaware State Birth Records, 1861-1908 from FamilySearch Labs (not yet complete)

Georgia
- Morgan County Marriage Records Searchable Database

Hawaii
- Hawaii State Archives Genealogy Indexes (includes some marriage indexes)

Illinois
- Cook County and Chicago: Historical Cook County Vital Records - Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
- Cook County Marriages 1900-1920: Index and Images of Marriage Licenses and Returns (from FamilySearch Labs)
- Cook County Birth Certificates 1878-1922 (not yet complete) (from FamilySearch Labs)
- Cook County Birth Registers 1871-1915 (not yet complete) (from FamilySearch Labs)

Indiana
- Indiana Marriage Records Index 1811-1959 from FamilySearch Labs; presently includes Adams, Blackford, Decatur, Franklin, Henry, Huntington, Owen, Rush, and Sullivan counties (coverage may vary by county)
- Montgomery County Marriage Records Index (includes PDF images of the records)
- Shelby County Birth and Marriage Indexes
See: Online Indiana Vital Records Indexes for Birth, Marriage & Death Records

Kansas
- Kansas Marriage Index, 1854-1861 (not complete)

Louisiana
- Orleans Parish Birth Records Index -- for births over 100 years ago
- Orleans Parish Marriage Records Index -- for marriages over 50 years ago

Maryland
- Washington County Marriages Index 1861-1949, 1950-2007

Michigan
- Michigan Birth Records 1867-1902 and Michigan Marriages 1868-1925 at FamilySearch Labs
- Clinton County Genealogy Records Indexes -- includes newspaper indexes for births to 1900, marriages 1863-1940

Nebraska
- Sarpy County Marriage License Search 1987-present

New Jersey
- Monmouth County Marriage Index 1790-1890

New York
- New York City Birth Records Index 1901-1907
- Nassau County Marriage Index 1908-1936
See: New York Vital Records Indexes & Genealogy Records on the Internet

Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Marriage Indexes 1885-1951 from FamilySearch Labs
- Westmoreland County Marriage License Search 1885-present

South Carolina
- Greenville County Marriage License Index

Tennessee
- Hamilton County Marriage License Index Search (includes Chattanooga) presently covers 1857-1919 and 1985-2008

Texas
- Colorado County Marriage Records Index 1837-1886
- El Paso County Marriage Records Search 1963-current (also has birth & death records searches)
- Liberty County Birth, Marriage and Death Index
See: Online Texas Vital Records Indexes

See: Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes

Online Indexes for Obituaries and Death Records - Latest Additions

2009-09-01T12:02:00.008-06:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Directory has been updated with links to the following items...

California
- San Diego Public Library's Digital Library - Includes Obituaries Indexes (indexes obituaries and death notices in the San Diego Union, 1868-1915; and the San Diego Herald, 1851-1860)

Colorado
- Denver Death Index 1870-1909 (update: years 1906-1909 added)
- Larimer County Genealogical Society - Online Databases (includes indexed scanned obituaries 1980s-1990s)
- Mesa County Cemetery Records
- Weld County: City of Evans Cemetery Burials

Georgia
- Clarke County: Oconee Hill Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions (Athens)
- Richmond County: African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library (mostly from the Augusta, Georgia area)

Illinois
- Cook County: The Roll of Honor, Containing the Names of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of All the Wars of Our Country Who Are Buried in the Cemeteries of Cook County (scanned searchable book from 1922)
- Cook County: Burr Oak Cemetery Headstones Photo Database (near Alsip, Illinois) not yet complete
- See: Online Chicago & Cook County, Illinois Death Records & Indexes

- La Salle County Genealogy Guild Record Search (includes indexes for some obituaries, probate records and others)

Indiana
- Shelby County Genealogy Indexes - Cemeteries, Obituaries & More

Louisiana
- Louisiana Death Index 1850-1875, 1894-1954 from FamilySearch Labs
- Orleans Parish: Louisiana Biography and New Orleans Obituary Index 1804-1972 (includes "selected biographical references")

Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Death Records 1906-1915 from FamilySearch Labs (will eventually cover 1841-1915; includes scanned images of the death registers and certificates)
- Middlesex County: St. Patrick Cemetery Burials (Lowell, Massachusetts)
- Worcester County: Town of Rutland Death Records to the end of the year 1849 (also includes birth and marriage records)

Michigan
- Michigan Death Records Collection 1897-1920 (update: now 99% complete)
- Arenac County Historical Society Obituaries Indexes (also includes other genealogy indexes)
- Arenac County Cemetery Inscriptions Index
- Jackson County Death Indexes 1886-1899 and 1900-1901 (list of names only, no dates)
- Monroe County: Monroe Commercial Obituary Index 1870-1873 and 1877-1879
- Van Buren County GenWeb Site (includes a death index 1935-1945 and some cemetery burials)

Minnesota
- Hubbard County Cemeteries (includes Greenwood Cemetery, largest cemetery in Park Rapids, MN)

Mississippi
- Clarke County Genealogy Indexes (includes indexes for obituaries, cemeteries, death records and more)

Missouri (St. Louis)
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index (update: more years added; includes 1880-1930, 1942-1945, 1960-1964, and 1992-2008)
- St. Louis County Probate Court - Closed Estates Index, circa 1876-July 11, 2004 (does not include St. Louis City)
- Westliche Post Obituaries Index 1880-1887 - St. Louis German Language Newspaper (update: more years added)
- See: Online St. Louis, Missouri Death Records, Indexes & Obituaries

New Hampshire
- Carroll County: Conway Death Records 1887-2003 & Cemeteries of Conway, Albany & Eaton, NH (update: more years added to death index; cemeteries added)
- Hillsborough County: Cemetery Records of Hillsborough, NH (includes 19 Municipal Cemeteries and Gravesites)

North Carolina
- Onslow County Death Index 1982-2008 (also has indexes for births 1976-recent, marriages 1962-recent, and more)

North Dakota
- Fargo Forum Obituaries Database, 1892-1909 & Nov. 1982-1995 (update: more years added)

Ohio
- Erie County: Oakland Cemetery Burials (Sandusky, Ohio)
- Lucas County: Mt. Carmel Cemetery Index (in Toledo, OH) surnames only
- Summit County: Akron Beacon Journal Obituaries Index 1937-2008 (update: several years added)
- Wood County Sentinel Obituaries Index 1867-1876 (newspaper from Bowling Green, Ohio)

Oregon
- Benton County Genealogical Society Newspaper Project - names published in Benton County newspapers 1865-1925 (work in progress) includes some deaths
- Marion County: Burials in Pioneer Cemeteries
- Multnomah County: Historic Pioneer Cemeteries - Burial Search

Pennsylvania
- Dauphin County: Harrisburg Newspaper Index - Marriages & Deaths from 4 Newspapers, 1799-1827

Tennessee
- Blount County Death Records Database (includes more than 42,000 entries from Blount County newspapers and funeral home records)
- Davidson County: Death Notices in Nashville Newspapers 1855-1907 (not complete)

Texas
- Gillespie County: Fredericksburg Genealogical Society Indexes (includes cemetery burials index and obituaries index 1980-2004)

Virginia
- African American Cemeteries in Albemarle and Amherst Counties - Burial Search

Washington
- Benton County: Tri-City Herald Obituaries Index 2000-March 2009
- Thurston County: Masonic Memorial Park Cemetery Burials (in Tumwater, Washington)

General Obituaries
Added to the general obituaries webpage...
- Necrology Index of Obituary Listings for Congregational Clergy and Missionaries
- Evangelical Messenger Obituary Index 1900-1912

See: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Online Death Indexes and Records - Latest Additions and Updates

2009-06-15T19:59:00.003-06:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records directory has been updated with links to the following items...

Alabama
- Alabama Death Index 1908-1974 from FamilySearch Labs

Alaska
- Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery Burials
- Angelus and Valley Memorial Park Cemetery Burials (in Anchorage)

Arkansas
- Arkansas Gravestones (has over 170,000 gravestone photos)
- Pike County Genealogy Records Indexes (includes some cemetery burials for Clark, Hot Spring, Montgomery and Pike Counties)
- Sebastian County Cemeteries
- Washington County: Evergreen Cemetery Burials (Fayetteville, Arkansas) database is not yet complete

Arizona
- Maricopa County: Pioneers' Cemetery Association (includes some burial indexes)

California
- California Genealogy and History Archives (includes over 144,000 listings for California cemetery burials)
- Fresno Catholic Cemeteries - Burial Records Search

Colorado
- Arapahoe County: Evergreen Cemetery Burials (Deer Trail, Colorado)
- Arapahoe County: Columbine Genealogical & Historical Society Indexes (includes: Littleton Cemetery Interment Records 1869-1981, Nickels-Hill-Drinkwine Mortuary Records 1915-1950, Obituary Index for the Littleton Independent Newspaper/ongoing project, and other items)

Florida
- Florida Death Index 1877-1939 from FamilySearch Labs

Georgia
- Georgia Colonial Will Books 1754-1779 and Colonial Wills 1733-1778
- Floyd County: City of Rome Cemeteries (3 city owned cemeteries can be searched for burials)
- Muscogee County: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Obituary Database 1998-2005
- Muscogee County: Columbus, Georgia Newspapers Obituary Project 1872-1918

Illinois
- Whiteside County: Sterling Daily Gazette Index from the Sterling Public Library (includes obituaries)
- Whiteside County: Tampico Area Historical Society Obituary and Cemetery Indexes

Indiana
- Cass County: Logansport Pharos Tribune Obituaries Index 1974-1980 and 1992-1999
- Cass County Cemeteries
- Henry County Death Records Index 1880-2000
- Howard County Cemeteries and Kokomo Tribune Obituary Index 1941-2008
- Miami County: WPA Death Index 1882-1920 (also includes cemeteries and other death indexes)
- Switzerland County: Vevay Newspaper Index 1840, 1853-1858 (births, marriages & deaths) ongoing project

Kansas
- Atchison County Online Cemetery Files
- Pratt County Cemeteries

Massachusetts
- Hampshire County: Burials in North and West Cemeteries in Amherst
- Nantucket County: Nantucket Grave Markers Database Search ("not comprehensive")
- Plymouth County: Plymouth Colony Archive Project (includes wills and probate inventories, 1600s)

Michigan
- Berrien County: Silverbrook Cemetery Grave Search (Niles, Michigan)
- Calhoun County: Albion Area Obituaries Index 2001-recent
- Oakland County: DAR Cemetery Transcripts for Oakland County Michigan
- Van Buren County: Hartford Obituary Index (various years; also includes some cemeteries)
- Van Buren County: Paw Paw Township Cemetery Burials

Minnesota
- Ramsey County: Roselawn Cemetery Burials (Roseville, MN)

New Jersey
- Hudson County Genealogical Society - Genealogy Databases (includes indexes for newspaper death notices, cemetery burials and more)
- Warren County: Belvidere Apollo Obituary Index 1826-1899 (from the Warren County Public Library)

New Mexico
- Santa Fe and New Mexico Obituary Index 1870s to 2005 (not complete; for the second half of the 20th century covers Santa Fe only)

New York
- Fulton County Cemeteries
- Monroe County: Webster Union Cemetery Burials (Webster, New York)
- Nassau County: Town of Oyster Bay Genealogy Indexes (includes historic cemeteries, death index 1881-1920 and other items)
- New York City (Brooklyn): The Evergreens Cemetery Burial Records (not yet complete)

North Carolina
- North Carolina Deaths 1906-1930 from FamilySearch Labs (includes digitized images of the death records)
- Wake County: North Carolina Family Records Online (includes "Marriage and Death Notices from the Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette: 1799-1893" and 220 family Bible records)

Oklahoma
- Kay County Genealogy Indexes: includes Cemeteries and Obituaries (from the Pioneer Genealogical Society)
- Logan County: Summit View Cemetery Burials (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
- Oklahoma County: Oklahoma City Oklahoman Obituaries Index 1972-2008 (some years missing; work in progress) also has deaths found in OKC City Directories 1918 & 1920-1923

Pennsylvania
- Delaware County: Arlington Cemetery Burials (Drexel Hill, PA)

South Carolina
- South Carolina Death Index 1915-1955 from FamilySearch Labs (includes digitized images of the death records from 1915-1943)
- Charleston County Probate Court: Estate/Will & Conservatorship/Guardianship Records Search

Tennessee
- Tennessee Death Index 1914-1928 (udpate: year 1928 added)
- Shelby County: Baron Hirsch Jewish Cemetery Burials (Memphis)

Texas
- Burnet County Obituary Index 1876-1910 (from the Burnet County Genealogical Society)
- Burnet County GenWeb - Genealogy Indexes (includes some cemetery transcriptions and obituary indexes)
- Liberty County Birth, Marriage and Death Index
- Williamson County Genealogical Society Cemetery Project

Vermont
- Northeast Kingdom Vermont Genealogy (has cemetery listings and other indexes for Caledonia County, Essex County and Orleans County)

Washington
- Spokane Spokesman Review Obituaries Index 2008-recent

See: The Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries

Millvina Dean, Last Survivor of the Titanic, Dies

2009-06-01T00:02:00.006-06:00

Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic sinking, died on May 31 at age 97. She was nine weeks old when her family boarded the Titanic in 1912. Her mother and brother also survived the sinking. Her father died in the tragedy. You can read more here: Millvina Dean, last remaining survivor of the Titanic, dies aged 97

The above image is a portion of the Carpathia passenger list showing the three surviving members of the Dean family, siblings Bertram and Elizabeth (two-month-old Eliza) and their mother Georgette (Ettie). The Carpathia rescued 705 of the Titanic's survivors and brought them to New York on April 18, 1912. See: Partial List of Survivors of the Titanic who were taken aboard the Carpathia at the U.S. National Archives website.

James Cameron, director of the popular film, Titanic, along with two of the film's stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, donated money to help pay Millvina Dean's nursing home costs in her last days.

For information on Titanic passenger records see the New York section at... What Passenger Lists are Online?

For more on Titanic survivors see the Titanic category on the right side.

FamilySearch Labs adds Death Indexes for 4 Southern States

2009-05-15T23:52:00.005-06:00

The FamilySearch Labs website has recently added death indexes (some with digitized images) for four Southern states. These are:

Alabama Deaths 1908-1974
Florida Deaths 1877-1939
North Carolina Deaths 1906-1930 (with images)
South Carolina Deaths 1915-1943 (with images)
South Carolina Deaths 1944-1955

These indexes are now available at FamilySearch Record Search

Formerly at: FamilySearch Labs Record Search

For more death indexes for these states see:

This article was updated on 8 January 2011.

Search Strategies for Finding Ship Passenger Lists 1820-1940s

2009-05-11T13:56:00.012-06:00

Here are some suggestions for finding your immigrant ancestors on a ship passenger list (or manifest) for their arrival in the US from 1820 to the 1940s (1950s for some ports).

Search Tips

Clues in the Census: the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 US federal censuses have a column for year of arrival for immigrants. This can help narrow down the search. Be careful as census records may contain errors.
Naturalization Records: Naturalization records created September 27, 1906 and later will usually give the name of the ship, port and date of arrival. Naturalization records before that usually do not give this information (although some might). You may sometimes find errors in these records.
Be sure to try alternate spellings of names when searching online databases or other indexes.

Ancestry.com's Immigration Records Collection
Ancestry has digitized and indexed microfilm of National Archives passenger records for the major ports (New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Orleans) as well as many smaller ports. These can be searched online if you have an Ancestry subscription (fee required). This can be a good place to start your search because they have so many records in one place. And you don't need to know the name of the port where your ancestor arrived, or the date of arrival.

Ancestry's Immigration Records Collection (information link)

Port by Port Search
If you're having difficulty finding your ancestor's passenger list you might try a more specific search at each port. If you don't know the arrival port or don't know where to start, you can find some ideas at: Tips for Determining Your Ancestor's Probable Port of Arrival

Finding Passenger Lists and Immigration Records 1820-1940s is a basic research guide for finding passenger records, listed by the major ports and some of the smaller ports
What Passenger Lists Are Online? lists some Internet sources for transcribed passenger records and indexes
New York Indexes and the Ellis Island Database...
The largest port where immgrants arrived in the U.S. is New York. Most people with European immigrant ancestors will probably want to search New York arrivals first, unless they know their immigrant ancestor arrived elsewhere. Here are some tools and articles which may be helpful for finding New York passenger arrivals:

New York Passenger Lists Research Guide
Ellis Island Database: for New York arrivals 1892-1924

Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step can be a useful tool for searching the Ellis Island Database

Castle Garden Database indexes some NY arrivals from about 1830-1892 (may have some omissions or errors)
Ellis Island? Castle Garden? Which One? And When? is an article about New York's immigrant processing centers

Boston...

Boston Passenger Lists Research Guide

Baltimore...

Baltimore Passenger Lists Research Guide

Philadelphia...

Philadelphia Passenger Lists Research Guide

New Orleans...
If your immigrant ancestor settled in St. Louis, Missouri or along the Mississippi river (especially prior to the Civil War), he or she may have landed at New Orleans and taken a riverboat up the Mississippi.

New Orleans Passenger Lists Research Guide

Smaller Ports, West Coast Ports and Border Crossing Records...

US Ports of Arrival and their Available Passenger Lists 1820-1957 is a list of many United States ports with information about the available passenger records and indexes. Includes information about Canadian and Mexican border crossing records.

Indexes for Various Ethnic Groups: Germans to America, Italians to America, Irish Immigrants, etc.
Some ship passenger indexes have been created for various ethnic groups and these may be helpful as alternate resources if you can't find your immigrant ancestor in other indexes.

The Germans to America (1850-1897), Italians to America (1855-1900), Russian Immigrants (1834-1897) and Irish Famine Immigrants (1846-1851) databases can be searched online at the National Archives website: Passenger Lists - Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
For more details on these indexes and others see:
- Germans to America, Irish Immigrants, Italians to America, Russians to America, and Dutch Immigrants in U. S. Ship Passenger Manifests
- Armenian, Bohemian, Czech, Greek, Luxembourgish and Swedish Ship Passenger List Resources

Passenger Lists and Indexes on Microfilm Although many of the National Archives publications of ship passenger lists have been digitized and put online, you may still want to use these microfilms in your search. A little old school genealogy can sometimes go a long way...

Microfilm Roll Numbers for USA Passenger Arrival Records includes National Archives and Family History Library microfilm roll numbers
Also see the individual port links above.

Disclaimer: you might not find the person you're looking for in any of the indexes or records listed here; these are merely suggestions.

Online Military Records and Indexes - New Additions and Updates

2009-05-05T19:33:00.003-06:00

Links to the items listed below have been added to the Directory of Online Military Indexes, Records and Rosters of Soldiers

Revolutionary War
- Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements (partial collection)
- Alabama: Alphabetical List of Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama

War of 1812
- Indiana Territory: War of 1812 Collection (consists of muster, pay and receipt rolls of Indiana territory volunteers or militia)

Civil War
- Arkansas Confederate Pension Records Index
- Delaware: Records Related to Delaware's Involvement in the American Civil War (from the Delaware Public Archives)
- Georgia Confederate Veteran Grave Database (work in progress)
- Kansas Virtual Civil War Cemetery Tombstone Photos (not complete, but has over 11,000 photographs of grave markers of Civil War veterans buried in Kansas - searchable by name)
- Mississippi Confederate Grave Registry
- Nebraska Civil War Veterans Database
- Oregon: Index to 1890 Veterans Census
- South Carolina: The New South Newspaper 1862-1866, Port Royal and Beaufort, South Carolina (digitized and searchable)

Spanish American War
- Georgia: Spanish-American War Service Summary Cards
- Kansas Troops in the Volunteer Service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine Wars

World War One
- Denver Public Library World War I Indexes (includes: Fallen Heroes of World War I from Denver, Colorado; Colorado World War I Draft Registration Cards Index; Colorado World War I Draft Registration Index - Minorities; Colorado World War I Casualties Buried in Europe)
- Oregon WWI Draft Registration Index
- International WWI Section, Australia: World War I Service Records
- International WWI Section, New Zealand: New Zealand and World War One Assorted Indexes

World War Two
- Iowa: World War II Iowa Press Clippings Digital Collection
- Ohio: Cleveland Servicemen's Photographs Index 1940-1955
- International WWII Section, Canada: Second World War Service Files Canadian Armed Forces War Dead

Korean War
- Korean War/Access to Archival Databases (AAD) includes Korean War casualties, wounded, prisoners of war and missing in action

Vietnam War
- Vietnam War/Access to Archival Databases (AAD) includes Vietnam War casualties, wounded, prisoners of war, missing in action, and more items

See: Online Military Indexes and Records

Online Death Records and Indexes - New Additions and Updates

2009-04-06T06:33:00.004-06:00

The Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Directory has been updated with links to the following items...

Alabama
- Madison County Probate Records Index 1809-1965 (also includes indexes for marriage licenses and other items)
- Montgomery County Cemeteries

Arizona
- Arizona Death Records Index 1844-1958 (update: year 1958 added)
- Maricopa County: Double Butte Cemetery Burials (2nd listing)

California
- Riverside County: Lake Elsinore Cemetery Burials

Colorado
- El Paso County Cemeteries (from the Colorado Tombstone Transcription Project)
- Larimer County: Local History Archive (includes burials in Grandview and Roselawn Cemeteries and indexes for some obituaries)

Florida
- Escambia County: St. John's Historic Cemetery Burial Search (Pensacola, Florida)

Illinois
- Boone County Historical Society Museum Obituary Search
- Kane County: St. Charles Public Library Local Newspapers Index 1993-present (includes obituaries)
- Madison County Genealogical Resources - includes Cemetery Burials (from the Edwardsville Public Library and the Illinois Digital Archives)
- McHenry County Historical Society Obituaries Index
- Winnebago County Death Index 1844-1981

Indiana
- Morgan County Cemeteries Index

Kentucky
- Jefferson County: Herman Meyer & Son Jewish Funeral Home - Burials and Headstone Photos (Louisville, KY) ongoing project

Maryland
- Early Maryland Probate Indexes
- Allegany County: Percy Cemetery Burials and Obituaries (small older cemetery in Frostburg, MD)
- Washington County Obituary Locator 1790-2007

Massachusetts
- Barnstable County: Barnstable Patriot Newspaper Archive 1830-1930

Michigan
- Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 (ongoing project - not yet complete)
- Delta County Genealogical Society - Genealogy Indexes (includes: probate index 1873-1975, and a cemetery burials index)

Mississippi
- Monroe County Book of the Dead: Cemetery Burials (work in progress)

Missouri
- Missouri Death Certificates Index and Images 1910-1958 (update: year 1958 added)

New Hampshire
- Belknap County: Sanbornton Historical Society Cemetery Burials (ongoing project)
- Sullivan County: Cemeteries of Washington, NH

New Jersey
- New Jersey Death Records Index, June 1878-June 1884 (from the NJ State Archives)
- Bergen County: Riverside Jewish Cemetery Burials (Saddle Brook, NJ)

New Mexico
- Bernalillo County: Burials in 4 Albuquerque Cemeteries
- San Juan County Genealogy Indexes (includes an obituary index 1982-Feb. 2000, and cemetery burials)

New York
- Chautauqua County Cemeteries (also has some church death and burial transcriptions)
- Western New York Genealogy Indexes from the Painted Hills Genealogy Society (includes cemetery burials and other indexes for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County and Steuben County)
- Northern New York Historical Newspapers (for Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and Saint Lawrence Counties)
- For more historical NY newspapers see the New York section at: Historical Newspapers and Indexes on the Internet - USA

Ohio
- Clermont County Cemetery Photo Project
- Cuyahoga County: Western Reserve Historical Society - Genealogy and Other Indexes (includes index to McGorray Brothers Funeral Home Ledger Books; Marriage and Death Notice index from the Jewish Independent, and Jewish Review and Observer 1889-1964; and other items)
- Trumbull County: Warren-Trumbull County Public Library Obituaries Index

Oregon
- Multnomah County: Portland Oregonian Newspaper Index Search 1851-1987, includes obituaries index 1975-1987
- Washington County Cemetery Records

Pennsylvania
- Assorted Pennsylvania Cemeteries/WebCemeteries (a collection of mostly small cemeteries in PA; includes a genealogy search)
- McKean County Cemeteries
- Philadelphia County Cemeteries (USGenWeb Archives)
- Philadelphia County: Fair Hill Burial Ground Interments (historic Quaker cemetery in Philadelphia)
- Potter County Cemeteries
- York County Death Indexes and Genealogy Indexes (update: new URL and new indexes added)

South Dakota
- South Dakota Gravestone Photos (ongoing project)

Tennessee
- Rutherford County Cemeteries

Texas
- Nueces County: Corpus Christi Obituary Index and Old Bayview Cemetery Burials (update: Bayview cemetery added)

Utah
- Iron County: Cedar City Cemetery Burials (ongoing project)

Washington
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State Cemetery Project

West Virginia
- West Virginia Death Index 1917-1958; coverage varies by county (update: year 1958 added)
- Huntington Herald Dispatch & Charleston Gazette Obituaries Index 1990-2005 (PDF files; has some gaps)

Wisconsin
- Milwaukee County: Wisconsin Jewish Death & Burial Index, and Jewish Chronicle Obituary Index

See: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries