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World's Largest
Newspaper Archive
instantly search over 660 million obituary, marriage, birth and death announcements
in 12 million newspaper pages from 1690-today
Birth
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includes name of mother,
father,
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Marriage
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bride and groom family members, marriage cert access
Death Records Search
includes location
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records, cemetery listings, death certificate access
England & Wales
FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983
free
access to the Civil Registration index
of Marriages for England and Wales
Surname Searches
(large surname databases)
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
Ancestry World Tree
search nearly 400 million names in family trees submitted by Ancestry.com visitors, who have uploaded their family trees. This is a FREE database, no credit card required
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
Geneanet
free database of over 50 million records
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
Search Rootsweb UK Names
this database consists of over 240,000 records containing over 47,000 distinct surnames of Rootsweb's user contributed UK & Ireland sites