North America
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Abraham Lincoln Online http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/index.html Access Genealogy U.S.A. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/genealogy-databases African/American Records (Where to find) http://ldsmag.com/?s=African+American+Ancestors&sfid=40590 Aging of Veterans of the Union Army Military, Pension, and Medical Records, 1820-1949 http://www.nber.org/data/milpen.html Aging of Veterans of the Union Army Surgeons' Certificates 1860-1940 http://www.nber.org/data/surgcerts.html Alabama Newspapers Online Alabama Newspapers Online Alaskan Newspapers Online Alaskan Newspapers Online All Newspapers https://news.google.com/newspapers American Ancestors http://www.americanancestors.org/index.aspx Ancestors at Rest (mainly U.S.A.) Search free death records such as coffin plates, death cards, funeral cards, wills, church records, family bibles, cenotaphs and tombstone inscriptions http://ancestorsatrest.com/ Annals- Chicago orphan asylum form 1849-1892 https://archive.org/stream/annalsofchicagoo00whee Arizona Newspapers Online Arizona Newspapers Online Arkansas Newspapers Online Arkansas Newspapers Online |
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Bancroft Collection- INDEX TO SHERIFF SALES
Sheriff's records including foreclosures, auctions, and other legal actions. Massachusetts http://library.uml.edu/clh/Bancrof.Html Big List of Genealogy Links (mainly U.S.A.)
http://articles.usa-people-search.com/content-big-list- of-genealogy-links.aspx Black Dutch and Black Irish, Melungeons, Morovians, Pennsylvania Dutch- Shirley Hornbeck
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/blkdutch.htm BOSTON GENEALOGY RESOURCES
http://library.uml.edu/clh/GenRes.Html Bridgeport Newspaper Index
Wise County North Texas http://www.wisecountytexas.info/bridgeportindex/index.htm |
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Camara (Portuguese) Collection
These images document aspects of life in the Portuguese community Massachusetts, from 1905 to 1930. The exact identities of the people in the photos remain a mystery: it is believed that the photos depict members of the Portuguese community who came to Lowell from the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, and continental Portugal. http://library.uml.edu/clh/Camara.Html Caribbean newspapers- The largest collection of fully searchable 18th- and 19th-century
http://www.readex.com/content/caribbean-newspapers-series-1-1718-1876-american-antiquarian CastleGarden.org
This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. More than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period. http://www.castlegarden.org/ Club Women of New York 1904
https://archive.org/stream/clubwomennewyor00conggoog#page/n234/mode/2up/search/Euterpe Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1924 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Colodrado Newspapers Online
Colorado Newspapers Online |
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DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE LOWELL CHAPTER (Massachusetts)
http://library.uml.edu/clh/DAR.Html Deaf, Dumb & Blind Schools items listed U.S.A.
http://www.familytreeconnection.com/groups/deaf |
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Finding Your Irish Immigrant Ancestor's Place of Birth in Ireland-
A Genealogy Guide for Irish-Americans http://www.genealogybranches.com/irish.html Florida Newspapers Online
Florida Newspapers Online Franklin County Virginia Heritage 2000 Index
http://www.vancpgs.org/images/heritage/VAFRANKLIN1.pdf FRANCO AMERICAN ORPHANAGE AND SCHOOL MASSACHUSETTS
http://library.uml.edu/clh/Exhibit/Orph01.htm Free Newspaper Archives in the US
http://www.freenewspaperarchives.us/ French (Surname) Family Association
http://www.frenchfamilyassoc.com/FFA/CHARTS/Chart195/Bibliography.htm Fulton County Miners
http://www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton/photographs/people_miners.html Fun activities that let you get your hands on American History!
http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/kids_home.html |
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GenDisasters
Newspaper articles about Train Wrecks, Fires, Floods, Shipwrecks, Plane Crashes, Accidents & disasters. Most of the articles list the dead and injured or missing. http://www.gendisasters.com/ GENEALOGY RESOURCES- Massachusetts
http://library.uml.edu/clh/GenRes.Htm Genealogy: Native Hawaiian Information Sources
http://kanakagenealogy.wordpress.com/ http://www.huapala.org/ http://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/content.php?pid=143954&sid=1225140 Golden jubilee of St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum: Montreal
the work of Fathers Dowd, O'Brien and Quinlivan with biographies and illustrations by Curran, John Joseph, 1842-1909 https://archive.org/stream/goldenjubileeofs00curruo |
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HARPER'S WEEKLY
http://harpers.org/archive/ Hawaiian Native Information Sources
http://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/content.php?pid=143954&sid=1225140 Hawaiian Genealogy
http://kanakagenealogy.wordpress.com/ |
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Irish and Irish American Genealogy
http://genealogypro.com/directories/Irish.html |
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Jackson Collection- Andrew Jackson was of one of the most critical and controversial figures in American history. The dominant actor on the American scene in the half-century between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, Jackson lent his name first to a political movement, then to an era, and finally to democracy itself. The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson’s most important papers to the public in easily readable form.
http://thepapersofandrewjackson.utk.edu/ Jewish Genealogy in Chicago guide
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/chicago/private_orgs_chgo.htm Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, Ohio, Fiftieth anniversary 1868-1918 by Wolfenstein. S
https://archive.org/stream/fiftiethannivers00wolf#pa |
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Leake and Watts Orphan House N.Y. 1918
https://archive.org/stream/reportofleakewat00leak#p Library of Congress Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/ Longworth's American Almanac, New York Register & City Directory 1835
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Magazine Collections
http://mediahistoryproject.org/collections/ Marriage in the Middle Ages
In the middle ages, children were married at a young age. Girls were as young as 12 when they married, and boys as young as 17. http://educators.medievaltimes.com/1-5-marriage.html Marriage Records, American Genealogy
http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=Marr Mayors of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayo Michigan Newspapers Online
Michigan Newspapers Online Mississippi Newspapers Online
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National Archives at New York City > Finding Aids > Passenger Arrival Lists
https://www.archives.gov/nyc/finding-aids/passenger-lists.html Native Hawaiian Information Sources
http://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/content.php?pid=143954&sid=1225140 Newberry Library | Irish Genealogy
A world-renowned independent research library in Chicago, it offers readers an extensive noncirculating collection of rare books, maps, music, manuscripts & other printed material spanning 6 centuries. http://www.newberry.org/genealogy-and-local-history New Mexico Newspapers Online
New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1368704 |
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Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn 1865
https://archive.org/stream/manualoforphanas00orph |
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Passenger Search- Ellis Island
http://libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger Pennsylvania's Soldier's Orphan School: by Paul, James Laughery 1876
Giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orphan system, and legislative enactments relating thereto; with brief sketches and engravings of the several institutions, with names of pupils. https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniassol00paulu Probate Records Online (U.S.)
https://sites.google.com/site/annesfamilyhistoryresources/probate/probate-at-familysearch |
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Quaker History & Genealogy
http://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical |
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Rare & Early Newspapers
http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/173352 Rhode Island Newspapers Online
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San Francisco Genealogy
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/sfdata.htm Search U.S. Newspapers
Pacific Rural Press, Volume 4, Number 25, 21 December 1872 http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18721221.2.19.1 South Carolina Newspapers Online
South Dakota Newspapers Online
STATE HOSPITALS OF MASSACHUSETTS
http://www.1856.org/documentation.htm http://www.1856.org/historicalOverview.html State register & year Book of factc 1859 San Francisco
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LzwVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=full Student's Guide to Irish American Genealogy.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=ED408219 SWISS IMMIGRATION TO WISCONSIN PROJECT
The total number of Swiss immigrants who came to Wisconsin in the 19th century is approximately 12,000, according to the most reliable estimates. Also, the Selkirk Project- Swiss emigrants who left Europe in 1821 and traveled together to Lord Selkirk's colony on the Red River of the North in Western Canada. http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/family/swissproj |
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TEWKSBURY ALMSHOUSE INTAKE RECORDS
http://libhost.uml.edu/items/ show/7250 Texas Newspapers Online
Texas Newspapers Online The Official Federal Land Records Site
https://glorecords.blm.gov/default.asp |
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University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries- Digital Photographs
http://library.uml.edu/clh/Lophoto/photopg.ht University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries- Immigrant Archives
http://library.uml.edu/clh/P/Groups.htm University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries- SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
http://library.uml.edu/clh/Collect.Html U.S.A. State Archives
http://www.censusdiggins.com/state_archives.htm U.S. National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy Utah Newspapers Online
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Vermont Newspapers Online
Burlington Free Press (2002– ) Pay Virginia Newspapers Online
Virginia Newspapers Online |
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Washington Newspapers Online
Washington Newspapers Online Washington, D.C. Newspapers Online
See District of Columbia for Washington, DC papers. West Virginia Newspapers Online
Wood County obituary index (1841–1890, 1896–1902, 1930–2007) index only Free WILKES-BARRE, PA ANCESTRY & FAMILY HISTORY
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nepaphotos/Feb/ http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=15102 Wisconsin Historical Society Collection
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ Woodville Republican, Mississippi 1920 (From Smalltown Newspapers U.S. browse other states)
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=999&dat=19201127&id=VbkkAAAAIBAJ&sjid= Wyoming Newspapers Online
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SOUTH AMERICA
Camara (Portuguese) Collection
These images document aspects of life in the Portuguese community Massachusetts, from 1905 to 1930. The exact identities of the people in the photos remain a mystery: it is believed that the photos depict members of the Portuguese community who came to Lowell from the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, and continental Portugal. http://library.uml.edu/clh/Camara.Html |
Clandestine (secret) graves found in in Convent- Guatemala
Manila Standard - Jun 16, 1999 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1370&dat=199906 |