US Sources
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Access Genealogy
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Access Genealogy has been providing free genealogy records since
1999. It remains one of the oldest and largest private
repositories of US based genealogy records. |
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Archives.com |
Archives.com has added over 900,000 Texas and North Dakota
cemetery and vital records. Access is by subscription after 7
day free trial.
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California Birth Record Index |
FamilySearch.org has released a massive new index collection of
California births. The collection contains reference to some
24.6 million birth records from 1905 to 1995. This is not a
complete birth record, but an index to birth records created by
the California Department of Health Services. The index contains
the following: name, date of birth, place of birth, sex and
mother’s surname. The index can be searched by first and last
name. Access is free. |
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California Electoral Registers |
FamilySearch.org has added a rare collection of electoral rolls
(voting registers) for the state of California. This searchable
collection has some 1 million records of eligible voters. These
lists were created every other year for most California
counties. The records span the time period from 1866 to 1910 (it
varies somewhat by county). To get the most out of the
collection please read article posted on February 4 - "Searching
Electoral Rolls for Ancestors" |
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Distant Cousin
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DistantCousin is an online archive of genealogy records and
scanned images of historical documents from a wide variety of
sources, such as newspaper obituaries, city directories, census
records, ship lists, school yearbooks, military records, and
more. In all there are more than 10 million genealogy records
from over 4,200 sources online. There are no fees or memberships
required to use the records at DistantCousin. This is a free
genealogy library bringing new resources online regularly |