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Specialized Research Resources
AfriGeneas
Besides valuable tips for researching your African-American ancestors, AfriGeneas adds dozens of forums, census records, slave data, a collection of 14,692 death records and a 48,730-name surname index.
Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records
New to this essential site for land-records research: Survey plats, the official survey documentation the federal government used when transferring a land title to an individual. Images of “serial patents”—land titles issued between 1908 and the mid-1960s—are also here; document images related to survey plats back to 1810 are being added state by state. That’s all in addition to images of more than 2 million federal land title records for eastern public-land states from 1820 to 1908.
Cemetery Surveys Inc.
When a transcription isn’t enough, try this collection of more than 170,000 gravestone photos, most from the southeastern United States. North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia researchers also should check the thousands of county court documents from those states.
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Start your Civil War ancestor search here, with the easy-to-use database of 6.3 million soldier names. Another click takes you to the basics about your ancestors’ regiment or descriptions of 364 significant battles.
DeadFred
Find your old family photos or reunite others with their pictures in this site containing nearly 70,000 images (including a selection of school yearbooks) and 14,000 surnames.
Family Tree DNA
This leading DNA-testing company also boasts the most test-results databases and surname studies, with more than 140,000 records online. That includes more than 4,000 surname projects and nearly 100,000 Y-DNA records in its Ysearch, the largest worldwide public Y-DNA database. You can even test to see how closely your Y-DNA matches Thomas Jefferson’s.
Find a Grave
Search 15 million grave records, find a cemetery or browse by location at this Family Tree Magazine reader favorite.
Nationwide Gravesite Locator
Search for burial locations of veterans and their dependents in Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries and other Department of the Interior and military cemeteries. For service members buried overseas, turn to the companion site for the American Battle Monuments Commission, which encompasses 24 overseas military cemeteries with 125,000 American war dead, plus Tablets of the Missing memorializing more than 94,000 members of the US military.
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation
Get started in the fast-changing frontier of genetic genealogy at the site for this volunteer project, which combines DNA data with genealogical info—billed as the foremost collection of genetic genealogy data in the world. You can search by test results or surname in two databases of DNA profiles and family trees from around the world: The Y-chromosome search contains 17,000 samples, and the mitochondrial database includes 15,000 samples.
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