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United States, Homestead Final Certificates, 1863-1909
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United States, Homestead Final Certificates, 1863-1909
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Florida Marriages, 1837-1974 |
I’m offering one last session of this class as I transition away from webinars and online presentations. Details are here.
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Illinois, Cook County, Obituaries, ca. 1970-1990
These are apparently from the South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society.
The Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas at Austin has thousands of digital images of maps available online at no charge on their site. The site has a Texas emphasis (and includes Sanborn fire insurance maps for many Texas towns), but includes maps for other areas of the United States as well as the entire world.
There is still time to get Casefile Clues at our old rate of $20 for 52 issues–that’s over 200 pages of genealogy how-to and instructional material written in a way that’s easy to follow and understand.
We’ll also throw in a free subscription to my weekly blog update which summarizes postings from my four blogs along with a few extra features only found in the weekly update. Join us and discover more of your ancestors.
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New York, New York City, Police Census, 1890
This is an index only.
Most websites implement wildcard searches in the same fashion, but there can always be variations. Practice using the wildcard searches for entries that you have already located in the database. That’s the best way to know if the wildcard operators are working in the way you think.
If an English language database has no entries with a last name of Smi*, then “*” might not work the way you think it does (or the site may be having issues). A soundex-based search for Jenssen should turn up Johnson as well.
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United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872
They are unindexed, but are organized by year and location from which the pension was paid. This is a digital version of National Archives microfilm publication T718.