Free Online Pennsylvania Death Records and Indexes

One of the main goals for genealogists is finding death information about their ancestors.   Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific death […]

Three Very Cool Online Collections from the National Archives

The National Archives recently announced the third in a series of online finding aid tools: the Donated Collection Explorer. Rather than me trying to explain it, please go to the link above. As of September 2023, there are 845,435 scans from Donated Collections online representing 3.1% of the estimated total number of 27,266,434 estimated total textual pages. Yes, they have a ways […]

Free Nevada Online Alumni Records

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

Free Wyoming Online Alumni Records

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

Free Montana Online Alumni Records

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

Free New Mexico Online Alumni Records

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

Free New Hampshire Online Alumni Records

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

8 Reasons You Can’t Find Squat About Your Ancestors Online

Whether you search online, or offline at libraries, courthouses, or archives, many times our ancestors can be elusive. Sometimes they just cannot be found. Whether it be a birth date, census entry, or death date – or anything else of interest to us – we just can’t seem to “score.” There are lots of reasons […]

Manitoba Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Manitoba is one of the Canadian provinces that has a single central online repository for searching historical newspapers. Also, there are several free publications available on other sites and there are collections available on subscription sites. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them.  […]

2.205 Free Online Mid West States Death Record and Index Collections

Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific death information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual death certificates themselves. These free online […]