ALABAMA
http://www.archives.state.al.us/ – Alabama Civil War soldiers along with online files of WWI servicemen, photos and 1867 voter rolls.
www.rootsweb.com/~alcwroot – Includes tips on tracing your Civil War ancestors.
ALASKA
http://www.akgenweb.org/ – Alaska GenWeb Project
ARIZONA
http://azsgs.org/ – Includes a surname registry.
http://genealogy.az.gov/ – Indexes of births that occurred at least 75 years ago and deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago. Then simply click to download PDF copies of the original records.
ARKANSAS
http://www.ark-ives.com/ – Searchable photo, newspaper, county records and Confederate home-records database.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/ – Personal letters, diaries, photos and maps that bring to life the settling of Kansas and its bloody debate over slavery.
CALIFORNIA
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ – Encompasses more than 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections from California museums, historical societies and archives.
www.cagenweb.com/cpl – California Pioneer Project. List of settlers who were born in or migrated to California before 1880.
COLORADO
http://history.denverlibrary.org/research/genealogy.html – Indexes to pioneers, the 1887 Denver city directory and military records (including Nebraska Civil War records).
CONNECTICUT
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ct/ctfiles.htm – Connecticut GenWeb Project.
DELAWARE
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/de/index.htm – Delaware GenWeb Project.
www.state.de.us/sos/dpa – Naturalization and probate records, orphans-court cases, slave papers & Civil War records.
FLORIDA
http://www.civilwarflorida.com/ – Master Soldier Index and descendant registry.
www.floridamemory.com/collections – Includes digitized Spanish land grants, 13,000 Confederate pension applications and WWI service cards..
GEORGIA
www.sos.state.ga.us/archives – Links to historical postcards, legislative documents and the Vanishing Georgia database of nearly 20,000 photos.
http://docuweb.gsu.edu/CivilWar.htm – Images of the state archives’ Confederate pension-record collection are arranged by county. Search by veteran’s or widow’s name to view the pension file page by page and download PDF versions for printing.
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?Welcome – Digitized books manuscripts, photographs, newspapers and other material.
HAWAII
www.raogk.com/hawaii.htm – Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, Hawaii
IDAHO
www.rootsweb.com/~idgenweb – Includes archives, message boards and queries.
ILLINOIS
www.ilsos.net/departments/archives/databases.html – Statewide indexes cover marriages from 1763-1900 and deaths from 1916-1950. Military databases contain names of Illinois veterans of the War of 1812, Winnebago War, Black Hawk War, Mexican War, Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Indexes to county birth, naturalization and probate records round out the collection.
INDIANA
www.lib.ipfw.edu/1069.0.html – The Indiana Government Resource List is a selected list of links to information by and about Indiana. The resources included supplement IN.gov, the information portal to the government of the State of Indiana and to STATS Indiana, the statistical resource center provided by the Indiana University Business Research Center.
IOWA
www.kinyon.com/iowa – County histories and links to online census transcriptions.
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
http://history.ky.gov/ – Compilation of Kentucky cemetery records, which includes nearly 200,000 gravestone records from 3,000-plus cemeteries.
http://ukcc.uky.edu/vitalrec – Hosted by the University of Kentucky, database of almost 2.7 million deaths from 1911-1992 and indexes to marriages & divorces from 1973-1993.
LOUISIANA
http://www.acadian-cajun.com/ – Acadian & Cajun generlogy & history.
http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/ – Database of more than 49,000 pension applications.
MAINE
https://www.maine.gov/online/archives – Archival database at www.informe.org/sos_archives will tell you whether your Maine ancestors’ records are available in the state archives or other state agencies.
MARYLAND
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/ – Several searchable databases.
http://www.marylandgenealogy.com/ – Articles on history and genealogy plus online resources.
MASSACHUSETTS
www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm – Database of birth and death indexes (1841-1910) searchable by first and last names, year and town or city. Each entry provides the location of the original certificate. Ongoing project to transcribe more than 1 million records of immigrants who arrived on Boston shores between 1848-1891.
http://fitzware.com/ – Database of more than 150,000 soldiers, sailors and Marines who served in Massachusetts regiments during the Civil War. 64 regimental histories.
http://genealogylinks.net/usa/massachusetts – Links to marriage records, pioneer and slave owner indexes and vital records.
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/ – Mayflower passengers.
MICHIGAN
www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/gendisx/index.htm – Complete transcriptions of 170,000 death records covering 1867-1884. Records include name, date and place of death, age, marital status, cause of death, occupation and parents’ names and residences.
www.hal.state.mi.us/cemeteries – Directory of 3,700 Michigan cemeteries. Click the links to find transcriptions in books, microfilms and online.
MINNESOTA
www.mnhs.org/genealogy – Indexes to deaths (1904-2001), births (1900-1934), veterans’ graves and microfilmed newspapers.
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/bdrecords.asp – 185,000 pre-1910 births and deaths, a death certificate database (1910-1956), naturalization records (1816-1955), court papers and land patents. Missouri military records from the War of 1812 through WWI, many linked to images of the originals.
MONTANA
www.rootsweb.com/~mtgenweb – Photo archives, online newspapers and queries.
NEBRASKA
http://idreamof.com/school/ne.html – School records dating from 1871.
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NEW MEXICO
www.rootsweb.com/~nma – 2 million record transcriptions, tombstone photographs and histories of the state’s ghost towns.
http://landing.trafficz.com/index.php?domain=newmexicogenealogy.org – Surname and query pages and cemetery and Latino research links.
NEW YORK & LONG ISLAND
www.italiangen.org/nycdeath.stm – Online index to more than 2.7 million New York City death certificates. So far, index covers 1891-1936 with coverage to 1948 in the works.
http://longislandgenealogy.com/
NORTH CAROLINA
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/iss/gr/genealog.htm – Genealogical Research in North Carolina
NORTH DAKOTA
http://library.ndsu.edu/repository/ – 1885 Dakota Territory census, naturalization records and an index to more than 59,000 names in obituaries published in the Fargo Forum newspaper. North Dakota naturalization records index.
OHIO
http://www.cpl.org/ – Cleveland obituaries dating from the mid-1800s to 1975.
www.ohiohistory.org/resource/archlib – Index to records from the state’s boys and girls industrial schools (1858-1915). Joins the Ohio Death Certificate Index at www.ohiohistory.org/dindex (1913-1944) and the roster of Ohioans in the War of 1812..
OKLAHOMA
www.oklaosf.state.ok.us/?c=&&sc=95 – State history.
OREGON
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/banners/genealogy.htm– Portland birth and death indexes.
PENNSYLVANIA
www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp – Databases include the Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File, Militia Officers Index Cards (1775-1800), Civil War Veterans Card File and WWI Service Medal Application Cards.
RHODE ISLAND
www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb – Search database for the Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
www.state.sd.us/doh/VitalRec/birthrecords – More than 99,000 birth records for people born at least 100 years ago.
TENNESSEE
http://members.tripod.com/~rosters/index-8.html – Transcriptions of Tennessee marriages arranged by county.
TEXAS
http://www.tshaonline.org/ – Search 23,000 articles on Texas people, places and history.
www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc – Databases of 54,634 Confederate pension applications (1899-1975), Texas Adjutant General Service Records (1836-1935), the Index to Republic Claims (1835-1846) and more.
http://lsjunction.com/ – Searchable database of more than 10,000 early Texans beginning in 1835.
UTAH
www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer.htm – Guide to tracing Mormons traveling to Utah from 1847-1868.
www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/census_search.htm – These 1850-1880 enumerations of Utah Territory also covered various parts of adjacent states.
http://historyresearch.utah.gov/indexes/ – Index to more than 250,000 1905-1954 death certificates with links to digital images of the originals. Various county and court records searchable, including some births, divorces and probate files.
VERMONT
http://vermontcivilwar.com/ – Everything from artillery units to women in the war.
VIRGINIA
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ – 80-plus databases, indexes and finding aids. Indexes to marriage records dating from 1630 and death records from 1853-1896. Military indexes cover Revolutionary War bounty land warrants, War of 1812 pay and muster rolls and Confederate pension rolls. Indexes to land patents and grants from 1623-1992. Images from family bibles.
WASHINGTON
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/ – Includes Washington state’s 1910 census and an image-linked index to pre-1930 marriage records.
http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/obits – More than 367,000 individual index records of obituaries published in the Tacoma news Tribune/Morning News Tribune from 1930 on.
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy – More than 150,000 obituaries and biographical sketches; over 1 million births, 40,000 deaths and 1 million marriages in the pre-1907 Vital Records Index; 1,000 articles, memoirs, interview and other primary sources covering early Wisconsin history; and Civil War rosters.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/ – Public documents, local histories, land survey records and photos and maps of Milwaukee neighborhoods beginning in 1885.
WYOMING
www.rootsweb.com/~wygenweb – Queries, archives, biographies and histories.
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NEW ENGLAND
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rbrown/ – Comprehensive site of vital records, town histories & links.
MULTIPLE STATES
http://www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com/ – Massive database indexes more than 70 million vital records from seven states: California births (1905-1995), marriages (1949-1986) and deaths (1905-2000); Florida deaths (1877-1916 and 1999-2000); Georgia marriages (1998); Kentucky births (1911-2001), marriages (1973-2001) and deaths (1900-2001); Oregon marriages (1999-2001) and deaths (1951-1960 and 1999-2001); Texas births (1926-1997), marriages (1967-2000), divorces (1968-1998) and deaths (1956-1959 and 1964-2000); and Washington deaths (1970-1974). More records are coming.
www.publicrecordfinder.com/vitalrecrds.html – Links to free web resources. Bulk of its vital-statistics-listings cover California, Florida and Texas with a handful of other states.
NATIONAL
http://www.usgenweb.com/ – One of the most valuable sites for United States researchers. There’s a site for each U.S. county with links to archives, queries & county histories.
http://vitalrec.com/usmap.html – State-by-state guide that outlines how to order vital records.
