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Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930
From Ancestry.com, "The 1930 Census contains records for approximately 123 million Americans. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1930 and contains information about a household’s family members and occupants including: birthplaces, occupations, immigration, citizenship, and military service.
The census can be a valuable tool to use when researching your twentieth-century ancestors because it contains records for approximately 123 million Americans. If you had family in the United States during the early twentieth century, you are likely to find at least one relative’s information within these census records. This makes the 1930 census a good place to start research if you are a beginner, or if your family, vital, or religious records are missing."
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Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952
From Ancestry.com, "This collection contains marriage registers (1868-1925) as well as licenses and certificates (1926-1952) from the state of Michigan. In some cases, marriages prior to 1868 may have been recorded in a later register and may be found in this collection. Marriage records are particularly valuable documents because they often provide much more than names of the bride and groom and a marriage date. "
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Card Index to Supreme Court and Court of Chancery Documents on Parchment, 1684-1848
From the New York State Archives, "this card index provides access to documents (mostly on parchment, some on paper) filed by clerks of the Supreme Court of Judicature and Court of Chancery. Most of the indexed documents are Supreme Court judgment rolls. Other indexed documents include Supreme Court bonds, writs, and criminal indictments, as well as Court of Chancery documents. An index card for a case document contains the names of plaintiff and defendant, name of court, type of action or proceeding, date of filing, and reference to the document code (year-letter-number)."
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Indiana Marriages, 1810-2001
A collection of marriage records from the state of Indiana for the years of 1810 through to 2001.
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Indiana, Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850
From Ancestry.com, "This database of Indiana marriages to 1850 contains nearly 200,000 names. Each entry includes groom, bride, marriage date, county, and state. Every name is indexed so you can search for one name, or two names that are linked.
Early American Marriage Collection
This collection of early American marriages represents years of research gathering marriages from local town and county sources. While these marriages have been published in book form for their individual states, now you can search several nearby states at once with just a few keystrokes. Although not every marriage was recorded, or later found as this collection was assembled, you will surely find many of your early relatives, often in places you never planned on searching.
Ancestry is pleased to present this collection of early American marriages, now available in electronic form to make searches easier than ever before. This collection is based on years of research by Jordan R. Dodd and his staff at Liahona Research and was first published as a series of books by Precision Indexing Publishers, a division of American Genealogical Lending Library of Bountiful, Utah. Liahona Research conducted their searches in the world-famous collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and all the marriages in this collection can be found in the myriad of records at that library. The staff at Liahona poured through published books and microfilmed copies of original records to collect these marriages.
Cautions About this Collection
Every effort was made to keep the spelling in the original text, and to find all possible records for the time period covered. However, many county records were destroyed by fire, floods, neglect, and carelessness.
The purpose of this collection is to provide a time and place for as many marriages as possible. It is up to the researcher to examine the original records (usually available on microfilm) and gather whatever additional genealogical information is desired.
In this collection, the marriage date is usually the date of marriage as given in the original entry. However, when no marriage date is given (e.g., the marriage return was not provided to the record keeper), the date of the license is used. In a few cases, a marriage will be listed twice, but in two different counties. This most often happened when a couple obtained a license in one county, but were actually married in another county. To provide additional research clues, this collection includes both entries.
There are records that may have been overlooked, misspelled, or not available to the researchers. Therefore, if a marriage is suspected to have occurred, but is not in this collection, further research in additional sources may locate the evidence.
Finding the Original Marriage Record
Unfortunately, Liahona Research did not indicate which sources were used in this process, nor did they provide citations for the origin of each entry. However, careful researchers who wish to examine the original source will find sufficient information to lead them to that source. Most early American marriages were recorded by the county (except in the northeastern states) and this collection provides the county for virtually every marriage. Original microfilms can be obtained from the Family History Library."
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Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky
NARA M397. Compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the State of Kentucky.
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Missouri Deaths and Burials, 1867-1976
From Family Search.org, "Name index to death and burial records from the state of Missouri. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 58,813 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later. "
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Michigan Death Records 1867-1952
From Ancestry.com, "This collection contains death registers (1867-1897) as well as certificates (1897-1952) from the state of Michigan."
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Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1830-2011
From Ancestry.com, "Do you have a long line of ancestors from Montana? This collection contains birth and death records from various counties in Montana between the years of 1830 and 2011."
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Kentucky, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
From Family Search.org, "The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads."
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Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960
From Familysearch.org, "Name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state of Kentucky. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and FamilySearch Centers. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later."
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Fayette County, Kentucky, Marriage Index, 1803-1814
From Ancestry.com, "This collection of marriages adds to the growing number of databases in the "Ellsberry Collection." The database was compiled by long-time researcher, school teacher, and professional genealogist Elizabeth Ellsberry. Marriage records contain the names of both spouses and date of marriage.
Ms. Ellsberry began genealogical publication in 1958, when she published her own family history, The Warrens and You. In researching her own family, she found that libraries needed additional information from cemetery records, wills, land records, probate records, census records, etc., to help people with their family history. Ellsberry decided that she wanted to help by publishing books that contained solid genealogical data. She taught school for 34 years, but on weekends and summer vacation, she would travel around to different courthouses and cemeteries, recording the information she found. She also corresponded with several researchers and helped them in their research. Ellsberry self-published more than 300 books, and most of them are available for sale.
Most of the compilation of these books took place between 1958 and into the 1970s, so the recorded information should include the cemetery and/or courthouse records of that time period."
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Indiana, Marriage Index, 1806-1861
An index of marriage records for the state of Indiana from 1806 until 1861.
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Indiana, Select Marriages Index, 1748-1993
An index of marriage records for the state of Indiana from 1748 until 1993.
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New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965
From Ancestry.com, "This collection consists of county marriage records from various counties in New Jersey. Details vary, but may include the following information for both the bride and groom: name, age at marriage, marriage date, marriage place, and parents' names."
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Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874–1955
From Familysearch.org, "Name index to death and burial records from the state of Tennessee. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 227,540 records."
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Pension Application of William Hamilton
The pension application of William Hamilton, who served in the revolutionary war with the Virginia militia. Presented to the state of Kentucky on January 8, 1833. Transcribed by C. Leon Harris.
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Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements and Rosters
From the site, "This site is dedicated to celebrating the lives and contributions made by the brave men and women who fought or lived in the South during the American Revolution and making their eye-witness accounts freely available in this searchable database."
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Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908
From Ancestry.com, "Like other New England states, in Vermont vital records were kept on the town level, and the date when formal record keeping began varied from place to place, with some records dating back to early Colonial days. A law requiring civil registration went on the books in 1779, but compliance was not universal.
In 1857, the state began requiring town clerks to create records of the previous year’s vital events and send them to the secretary of state. The state sent cards to cities and towns, where clerks filled them out with data extracted from their vital records and then sent them back. This database includes images of those cards through 1908.
For earlier years, availability may vary somewhat from town to town. There were also known gaps in early death records, and clerks were encouraged to fill these gaps with cemetery records. You’ll find these among the records with dates prior to 1870 in this database."
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Personal Property Tax Lists of Buckingham County, Virginia 1764-1792
Tax lists of Buckingham County (Va.) for the span of 1764 until 1792.
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Missouri, Jackson County Marriage Records, 1840-1985
From Ancestry.com, "This database is an index to nearly 700 thousand marriages registered in Jackson county, Missouri from 1840-1985. Information that may be found in this database includes:
Full Name
Spouse's Full Name
Marriage Date
Residence
The information found in this database can be used to locate your relative in the original records that this index references. Usually more information is available in the records themselves than is found in an index. For example, marriage records often contain residence or birth information, in addition to the information provided in this index."
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Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850
From Ancestry.com,
"Elizabeth Bentley’s book Virginia Marriage Records contains details on Virginia marriages extracted from three publications: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, and Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. The book’s introductory note offers some background on the original sources:
“For the most part these marriage lists were compiled from marriage bonds, ministers’ returns, licenses, registers, ministerial records, and newspapers. While they represent only a fraction of the marriages recorded in Virginia through the mid-nineteenth century, their range is still quite substantial. If they are somewhat uneven in coverage, it is owing as much to the variety of contributors as the condition of the records themselves. In some cases the articles are copious and complete; in others merely fragmentary. Some have appeared in revised or expanded versions, or in different versions entirely, while a great many have never appeared anywhere but in the periodicals. Whatever their strengths or weaknesses, in the aggregate or individually, they have been brought together here for the convenience they afford the researcher in having a widely scattered body of materials available in a single volume.”
What You Can Find in the Records
Marriages are arranged by county and then date. Entries typically include
name
spouse’s name
marriage or bond date
marriage county
Some may also provide witnesses, residence, marital status, or other details."
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R. Richardson to Thomas E. Bramlette
A letter from R. Richardson to Thomas E. Bramlette, governor of Kentucky from 1863-1867. This letter was archived in his official correspondence collection containing petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites. The letter requests remission of a $100 security payment owed by Wickliffe and William Grubbs for an enslaved woman held by their family by the name of Evelina. She was to stand trial for infanticide but absconded beforehand.
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Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWGK) is a freely-accessible online collection of historical documents associated with the chief executives of the state, 1860-1865. CWGK is not just about the five governors; it is about reconstructing the lost lives and voices of tens of thousands of Kentuckians who interacted with the office of the governor during the war years. CWGK is working to identify, research, and link together every person, place, and organization found in its documents. This web of hundreds of thousands of networked nodes will dramatically expand the number of actors in Kentucky and U.S. history, show scholars new patterns and hidden relationships, and recognize the humanity and agency of historically marginalized people.
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Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920
From Ancestry.com, "This database is an every name index to individuals enumerated in the 1920 United States Federal Census, the Fourteenth Census of the United States. In addition, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1920 Federal Census, copied from the National Archives and Records Administration microfilm, T625, 2,076 rolls. (If you do not initially find the name on the page that you are linked to, try a few pages forward or backward, as sometimes different pages had the same page number.)
This new index (released 2005) maintains the old head of household index and adds to it a new every name index (including a re-keying of the heads of households). As a result, for many heads of households you will see two names - a primary, and an alternate. The primary name is the newly keyed name. The alternate name is the name as it appeared in the original head of household only index. Alternate names are only displayed when there is a difference in the way the name was keyed between the two indexes. By making both names available to researchers, the likelihood of your being able to find your head of household ancestor has increased. Likewise, researchers who were once able to find their head of household ancestor under a particular spelling will still be able to easily find that ancestor.
What Areas are Included:
The 1920 census includes all fifty U.S. states and territories, as well as Military and Naval Forces, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and for the first time American Samoa, Guam, and the Panama Canal Zone.
Why Census Records are Important:
Few, if any, records reveal as many details about individuals and families as do the U.S. federal censuses. The population schedules are successive "snapshots" of Americans that depict where and how they were living at particular periods in the past. Because of this, the census is often the best starting point for genealogical research after home sources have been exhausted."