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Regional Roots
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 Kentucky Vital Records Index Marriage Records in Maryland Michigan 1870 Census Index North by South Western States Historical Marriage Index For our complete guide to researching your Southern roots, see the August 2001 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
A digitized collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts and ex-slave narratives by prominent individuals as well as those from relatively inaccessible populations: women, African-Americans, enlisted men, laborers and Native Americans. Choose from hundreds of documents and search by keyword, subject, title or author.
ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/
The University of Kentucky made a century of the state's vital records free and searchable online. On this easy-to-use site, you can check the Kentucky Death Index from 1911 to 1986 and 1987 to 1992, as well as the marriage and divorce indexes from 1973 to 1993. Search by name or, in the death index, by place of death or residence. Once you find what you're looking for, you can order copies of the original files from the Kentucky Department of Health Statistics in Frankfort.
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/html/comarria.html
Find out how to get your hands on Colonial marriage records (1640-1776), marriage licenses (1776-1886), records after 1865, license applications after 1886, public notices of marriages (1890-1941), certificates (1914-1987), indexes and references at the Maryland State Archives.
envoy.libofmich.lib.mi.us/1870_census/
The Library of Michigan scanned all of the state's federal census records for 1870 and made them searchable—free!—on the Internet. Search by first and/or last name (if youre not sure of spelling, check the Wildcard option), county and township. Also, you can download a PDF file of the actual census page.
www.northbysouth.org
Anyone whose African-American ancestors migrated from Charleston, SC, to Harlem, NY, from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago or from Birmingham, Ala., to Pittsburgh, Pa., should check out North by South. It delves into each migratory route, explaining why blacks were there, why and how they left, and what effect the migration had on the population.
abish.byui.edu/fhc/gbsearch.asp
Perhaps your ancestors got hitched in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, northern California, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington or southwestern Wyoming during the mid-1800s to mid-1900s. Search more than 240,000 records (with more records added daily) here by bride or groom.
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