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Search Birth, Marriage & Death Records
search hundreds of databases inc.
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by country/state/county

 

Search Immigration & Emigration Records
over 50 passenger list, naturalization,
immigration databases

totalling more than 20 million names



Search 7 Billion Names
search over 7 Billion names worldwide,

inc US censuses 1790-1930,
international immigration & military databases



800 Million Name UK & Ireland Database
including 1841-1901 UK censuses,
parish & probate records, UK B,M&D indexes



Search Military Records
now over 90 million military records, including
WW1 draft cards, WW2 POW,
WW2 enlistment records, Civil War databases


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United States Free Genealogy Search Engines



Immigration

Ancestry.com - Immigration Databases
Over 10 million US passenger & naturalization records from 15th-19thC, includng 19thC NY passenger lists

Bremen (Germany) - New York Passenger Lists
Search the Bremen Chamber of Commerce's database of passenger lists to New York from 1920-1939, of over 120,000 passengers.

Castle Garden Immigration and Passenger Lists 1830-1892
database of over 10 million US immigrants from 1830 - 1892 through Castle Garden, the year Ellis Island opened

Ellis Island U.S. Immigration Records
Search over 22 million names of US immigrants who arrived as passengers and crew
in the port of New York between 1892 and 1924
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Europeans to America Passenger Lists 1834 - 1897
over 500,000 records of immigrants who identified their country of origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine.

 

Cemeteries

African American Cemeteries Online
a database of African American cemetery interments from 30 US states

Cemetery Records Online
search over 3.7 million names from more than 7,500 cemeteries worldwide

The Tombstone Transcription Project
this huge database of US cemetery transcriptions is constantly being updated by volunteers from USGenWeb

 

Censuses

Censuses
Search one of the largest collection of US censuses maintained by US GenWeb in three ways: by name, by year of census or by state.

Mormon Databases (inc IGI index)
search the Mormon Church's (Latter Day Saint's) database of over 700 million names including IGI International Genealogical Index, 1880 US Census, 1881 British Census, 1881 Canadian Census, Pedigree Resource File, US Social Security death Index (SSDI), Vital Records Index and Family History Websites


Military

Index to Loyalist Muster Rolls
Search their extensive collection of orderley books, lists of regiments and muster rolls.

Pension Index for 1861-1934
This database is an index to and images of pension cards of Civil War veterans in the United States.

Rootsweb Civil War Rosters
This database contains over 32,000 records with over 10,300 distinct surnames.

 

Other US Free Genealogy Search Engines

Ancestry.com
Over 7 billion names in 3,000 databases in this; the largest retail database on the net. A wealth of information at this site, some by paid membership, some for free.

Family Finder Name Search
search over 1 Billion names in several combined databases, including 1850 and 1900 US censuses, passenger lists, social security death index, cemeteries and civil war databases

Mormon Databases (inc IGI index)
search the Mormon Church's (Latter Day Saint's) database of over 700 million names including IGI International Genealogical Index, 1880 US Census, 1881 British Census, 1881 Canadian Census, Pedigree Resource File, US Social Security death Index (SSDI), Vital Records Index and Family History Websites

NewspaperArchive.com
search an online database of scanned newspapers of over 1,500,000 pages from US & Canada

Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
This database of the U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) contains over 81 million records

US GenWeb Archives Search
search the largest database of US genealogical data online (65,000 pages), inc cemeteries, censuses, military and many other records

 

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