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Civil War Florida Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection Digital Library of Georgia Georgia Archives Kentucky Historical Society Long Island Genealogy Louisiana State Archives: Confederate Pension Applications Index Database Michigan Cemetery Sources New Mexico Ancestors New York State Civil War Soldier Database North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies NYC Death Records Search Online Archive of California St. Louis Naturalization Cards Index The State of Wisconsin Collection Territorial Kansas Online Utah Census Search West Virginia Memory Project Find news and reviews on more great Web sites in the August 2005 Family Tree Magazine.
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www.civilwarflorida.com
Browse the Master Soldier Index and descendant registry-both works in progress-then add information about your own Civil War ancestors to this well-designed Web site.
www.cdpheritage.org/newspapers
This collaborative project serves as the foundation for a statewide historical-newspaper database, beginning with 44 papers dating from 1859 to 1880. The database will include full-text indexing of all articles, graphics, letters to the editor and advertisements. You can view articles individually or in the context of the full newspaper page. Eventually, the project aims to encompass papers through 1923, a total of 1.6 million pages.
dlg.galileo.usg.edu
Explore Georgia's history and culture as found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers and other materials. Content ranges from 50,000 aerial photos and databases of historical books to Southeastern American Indian documents (1730 to 1842) and three newspapers (the Cherokee Phoenix, Dublin Post and Colored Tribune).
www.sos.state.ga.us/archives
Follow the "What do we have?" and online records links to search historical postcards, legislative documents and the Vanishing Georgia database of nearly 20,000 photos.
history.ky.gov
Click on Research, then on Research Databases to access the society's compilation of Kentucky cemetery records, which includes nearly 200,000 gravestone records from 3,000-plus cemeteries.
longislandgenealogy.com
If your kin lived on Long Island, you won't want to miss this rich Web site, offering everything from cemetery and town records to colorful local history.
www.sec.state.la.us/archives/gen/cpa-index.htm
Look for your Louisiana Confederates in this index of more than 49,000 names included in pension applications submitted to the state's Board of Pension Commissioners.
michigancemeteries.libraryofmichigan.org
Search this Web directory of 3,700 Michigan cemeteries, then click the links to find transcriptions in books, microfilms and online.
www.rootsweb.com/~nma
Begin exploring your New Mexico roots with this site's 2 million record transcriptions, tombstone photographs and histories of the state's ghost towns.
www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_mi_civilwar_dbintro.shtml
Muster up information about your fighting New York ancestor in this database: It documents 360,000-plus men who served with the New York State Volunteers, US Sharpshooter units and the state's three regiments of
"colored troops" during the Civil War.
www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/bio&genealogy
If you have pioneer ancestors who braved the Upper Midwest prairies, this is the place to start looking for them. Among the databases here are the 1885 Dakota Territory census, naturalization records and an index to more than 59,000 names in obituaries published in the Fargo Forum newspaper.
www.italiangen.org/nycdeath.stm
Volunteers from the Genealogy Federation of Long Island have created an online index to more than 2.7 million New York City death certificates. So far, the index covers 1891 to 1936, with coverage to 1948 in the works.
www.oac.cdlib.org
This site brings together historical materials from all over the Golden State. It encompasses more than 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections from California museums, historical societies and archives.
stlgs.org/natsearch.aspx
The St. Louis Genealogical Society has posted 93,000 index cards to city court naturalizations between 1816 and 1906, when the federal government took over the citizenship process. Transcriptions of the cards give the person's country of origin, date and court of naturalization and names of witnesses. Check the user-friendly What Do I Do Next? page to learn how to find microfilm of the original cards and records.
digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI
You'll find digitized books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources in this online library. Materials include public documents, local histories, land survey records, and photos and maps of Milwaukee neighborhoods beginning in 1885.
www.territorialkansasonline.org
This handsome site hosts hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos and maps that bring to life the settling of Kansas and its bloody debate over slavery.
www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/census_search.htm
Even you don't think you have Utah ancestors, you might find a relative or two by searching these 1850 to 1880 enumerations of Utah Territory-which, after all, also covered various parts of adjacent states.
www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory
This site from the state archives includes a timeline, state documents, old photos, militia records, a periodical search and even a celebration of the Mountaineer State's historical highway markers.
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