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Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
From Ancestry.com, "This database is an index to over 5.9 million births recorded in Kentucky between 1911 and 1999."
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Indiana, Index to Select Marriages, 1780-1992
From Familysearch.org, "Name index to marriage records from the state of Indiana. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History 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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Illinois, Marriage Index, 1851-1900
From Ancestry.com, "This database is an index to approximately 707,000 individuals who were married in select areas of Illinois between 1851 and 1900. A complete list of the counties included in this index is provided below. Information that may be found in this database for each individual includes their name, gender, spouse's name, marriage date, location, and source information. Marriage records are great sources for genealogists because they document an individual in a particular place and time as well as provide details about that person's marriage. "
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Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
From Ancestry.com, "This database contains an index of details from state deaths and stillbirths records."
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Illinois, County Marriages, 1800-1940
From Ancestry.com,
"This collection consists of county marriage records from various counties in Illinois. Details vary, but may include the following information for both the bride and groom:
name
age at marriage
marriage date
marriage place
parents' names"
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Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953
An index of deaths registered in Ohio between 1908 and 1953.
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Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973
From Ancestry.com, " This collection includes Cuyahoga County, Ohio marriage records for the years 1810-1973. Record types include: marriage license returns, marriage license applications, marriage banns, and indexes to marriage records.
In 1856–57 Ohio enacted a statute that required birth, death, and marriage registration, a law that was generally disregarded. A second law passed in 1867 attempted to maintain the record keeping process, but it wasn’t until the third law, passed in 1908, that it became regulated.
Cuyahoga County itself was organized on June 7, 1807 as the county seat of Ohio only 5 years after Ohio was granted statehood. It is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie. The city of Cleveland, founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, is the county seat of Cuyahoga County. This municipality’s economy centered around manufacturing due to its proximity to the Erie Canal during this time period."
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Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920
From Ancestry.com, "This database contains an index of details extracted from Cook County, Illinois, marriage records.
What’s in the Index
This index was extracted from Cook County marriage records held by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Marriage licenses were not required in Illinois until 1877, though Cook County recorded marriages back to 1871, the year of the Great Fire, which destroyed Cook County records."
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Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878-1922
From Ancestry.com, "This database contains an index of details extracted from Cook County, Illinois, death records.
What’s in the Index
This index was extracted from Cook County death certificates and registers held by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Though legislation requiring that births and deaths be registered in Illinois was not passed until 1877, Cook County began recording births, marriages, and deaths after the Great Fire in 1871. Responsibility for registration was assigned to local registrars in 1915, which led to improved reporting."
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Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988
From Ancestry.com, "In Illinois, deaths were not generally recorded on a county level until 1877, and the practice was not universal until 1916. Prior to 1916 deaths were only recorded at the county recorder’s office. After 1 January 1916, it became mandatory to record deaths at both the county recorder’s office and the Illinois Department of Public Health.*"
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Colorado, Compiled Marriages from Mesa, Arapahoe and Boulder Counties, 1859-1900
From Ancestry.com,
"This database is a collection of marriage records from three counties in Colorado, since this update adds Arapahoe and Boulder counties to records from Mesa County, Colorado. Taken from microfilm copies of original county documents, each record provides spouses' names, marriage date, and county of residence. The database lists the names of more than 37,000 men and women.
Home to 4,260 residents in 1890, Mesa County, Colorado was formed in 1883 from neighboring Gunnison County. This database contains nearly 900 records and the names of about 1,700 men and women from Mesa County.
Arapahoe County was created in 1861. This database includes marriages for the county from 16 October 1859 through 1900.
Boulder County was formed in 1861 and is the original county. Records for this county span from 27 June 1864 through 1900."
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Chicago, Illinois, Voter Registration, 1892
From Ancestry.com,
"Original voter registration lists were thought to be unavailable for Chicago and Cook County. Most of the old lists were supposed to be either destroyed or in warehouses, inaccessible to the public. However, in the late 1980s an amateur genealogist found 20 ledgers in the back room of the Voter Registration department at the County Building. Recorded in these ledgers were several hundred thousand voters for the years 1888, 1890, and 1892, covering the city of Chicago and some other areas within Cook County, Illinois. The 1888 index covered the city of Chicago as well as the city of Lake View, town of lake, and the village of Hyde Park. These municipalities became part of the city of Chicago on July 15, 1889. The time period covered is very important because the 1890 federal census is not available, thus we have included this database in our 1890 Census Substitute Collection.
The handwritten ledgers were microfilmed by the Illinois State Archives. Ancestry.com has used these 25 microfilm rolls to create an electronic index of this valuable collection. Fields in the original index include: name, nativity (country of birth), date and place of naturalization; term of residence in precinct, county, and state; current address. This electronic index lists name and nativity. Once a name is found you will then be able to view the electronic image of the index. Due to the age of the originals and/or the microfilming of the paper ledgers, many pages of the index were not legible enough to convert to electronic text, and have thus been omitted.
Taken from Section Thirty-Five: Voter Registration Lists and Tax Records, Chicago and Cook County: A Guide to research by Loretto Dennis Szucs (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1996)."
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California, Death Index, 1940-1997
From Ancestry.com, "This database is an invaluable tool for those researching in the state of California.
Vital records in California have been kept by the state registrar of vital statistics since 01 July 1905. This database is an index to the death records in California from 1940 through 1997. The database may provide such valuable information as first, last and middle names of the decedents, birth dates, mother's maiden name, father's last name, sex, birth place, death place, residence at time of death, death date, social security number (when available), and the age of the individual at the time they became deceased. The information provided in this database is sure to prove useful to those researching in the state of California."
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Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940
From Ancestry.com, "An estimated 87 percent of Americans today can connect with at least one relative in the 1940 United States Federal Census—currently the largest census released to date and the most recent census available for public access.
Historical Background
Since 1790, the federal government has taken a census every 10 years to determine how members of the House of Representatives are apportioned. The U.S. census taken on 1 April 1940 was the 16th census of the United States. It tallied the population of the country at 131,669,275 for the continental U.S. This represented an increase of 7.2 percent for the continental U.S. since the 1930 census. Adding Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Panama Canal Zone (all included in this database) brought the total to 134,176,298.
To facilitate the count, census planners divided the country into enumeration districts. These were geographic areas designed to allow a census taker (enumerator) to visit every house in the district within a two-week period (in rural areas, enumerators had a month). Enumerators were instructed to “visit every house, building, tent, cabin, hut, or other place in which any person might live or stay, to insure that no person is omitted from the enumeration” and to count “each person alive at the beginning of the census day, i.e., 12:01 A.M. on April 1, 1940.”
Census enumerators wrote "Ab" after names of people who belonged to the household but were absent on April 1. Visitors were to be counted as members of the household at their normal place of residence, as were students, patients at hospitals and sanitariums who had a permanent home, and servants and household employees who did not sleep on the premises.
Because the official cutoff for the census was 12:01 a.m. on April 1, babies born later that day should not have been included. Residents of “hotels, tourist or trailer camps, missions, and cheap one-night lodging houses (flophouses)” were enumerated based on where they spent the night on 8 April 1940. Enumerators worked throughout the month and into May finishing the count."
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Siren I (StwGbt)
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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Sebago
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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Red Rover
A brief history of the ship.
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Prairie Bird
A brief history of the ship.
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Petrel II (Tinclad Wooden Steamer)
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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Milwaukee I (Monitor)
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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Great Western
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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Grampus II (Side-wheel Steamer)
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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General Bragg (side-wheel ram)
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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Cricket
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.
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Rattler
A brief history of the ship, as well as the origin of its name.