Immigration Genealogy Search Engines
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
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Castle Garden Immigration
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database
of over 10 million US immigrants from 1830 - 1892 through Castle Garden,
the year Ellis Island opened
Ellis Island U.S. Immigration
Records
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22 million names of US immigrants who arrived as passengers and crew
in the port of New York between 1892 and 1924.
Russians to
America Passenger Lists 1834 - 1897
over 500,000 records of immigrants f who identified their country
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Cemetery Search Engines
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
Rootsweb Cemetery Database
search 1 million records with 81,000 distinct surnames
The
Tombstone Transcription Project
this huge database of
US cemetery transcriptions is constantly being updated by volunteers
from USGenWeb
Census Search Engines
African
American Censuses Online
search African American censuses in 25 states
US GenWeb Census Project
Search one of the largest
collection of US censuses maintained by US GenWeb in three ways: by
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Mormon
Databases (inc IGI index)
search the Mormon
Church's (Latter Day Saint's) database of over 700 million namesincluding
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 Search Engines
Index
to Loyalist Muster Rolls
Search their extensive
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US Civil War 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 Genealogy Search Engines
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Over 7 billion names in 3,000
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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
Genealogy Bank Obituaries
Search over 200 million obituaries and death records
in more than 4,000 newspapers from 1690-Today
Mormon
Databases (inc IGI index)
search the Mormon
Church's (Latter Day Saint's) database of over 700 million namesincluding
IGI International Genealogical Index, 1880 US Census, 1881 British Census,
1881 Canadian Census, Pedigree Resource File, US Social Security death
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Native American Searchable Databases
search Indian Censuses, the Dawes Commission Index, the Guion MIller Roll etc. for
Native American records going back to 1885
Rootsweb Land Records Search
search this free genealogy database of Rootsweb Land Records
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MN, MO, MS, OH, PA, TN, and TX
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
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largest database of US genealogical data online (65,000 pages), inc
cemeteries, censuses, military and many other records