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Below are various links to websites that you might find useful for your genealogical research OUTSIDE of Monroe County.  For Monroe County resources, check the Monroe Research button on left menu.
 
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Pension files being scanned and added to Fold3.
[Located in Category: War of 1812]
Dedicated to the regiment known as the Fourth Michigan Infantry, and to those men who served under its glorious banner during the American Civil War. You will find an extensive collection of images, letters, documents, diaries, etc. about the men who served in the 4th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War.
[Located in Category: Military]
AccessGenealogy has been online since 1999. What started out as a small 50 page website has evolved over the years to one of the leading websites in providing free genealogy. With over 240,000 links it is also one of the largest directories of genealogy websites found online. It’s crowning achievement though is in providing Native American researchers an avenue for research online. With partnerships between it and Fold3, Native American data has finally been provided to the masses electronically.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Link to download the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader required to access our newsletters and transcriptions on the website. Just click on the blue button and follow the instructions on the page to download the FREE reader.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Everything you wanted to know about alien registration. A PDF from the National Archives tells you who, when, where and why.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Open, private participatory project of digitized civil registry registers from the research area of ​​the historical provinces of East and West Prussia.
[Located in Category: Polish Research]
Actual pages of the records of births, marriages and deaths for towns in Alsace-Lorraine! Note the intro is in French, but you should be able to use the translate function in your browser to be able to do a simple search.
[Located in Category: German Research]
There are 13 volumes of this report which was started in 1963. Family Search has 12 volumes, missing vol 7. At least 4 Monroe County individuals were interviewed. See Volumes 8, 11, and 13.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Church records are at the center of Archion’s activities. The portal makes it possible to search for your ancestors in original sources from anywhere in the world and at any time of day – and from the comfort of your own home.
[Located in Category: German Research]
ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
This site is in German, but much of the main page can be figured out. Lots of links and resources for German ancestors.
[Located in Category: German Research]
A project of the William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is a powerful historical research and reference tool in electronic form. The Atlas presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Digitized newspapers for the Wyandotte area. Newspapers start in 1880. Several papers are available.
[Located in Category: Newspapers- FREE sites]
The BaSIA project, or the 'Archival Indexing System Database', was created with a wide range of genealogists and researchers of the history of Wielkopolska in the 18th-20th centuries in mind (although it also contains older information). Through a user-friendly interface, it provides users with a database containing indexes prepared by volunteers, originating from materials stored, among others, in state and church archives.
[Located in Category: Polish Research]
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Blätter für fränkische Familienkunde- Band 10-19 Great resource for Bavarian families. Some volumes contain emigration lists with the town of origin.
[Located in Category: German Research]
To foster public confidence in genealogy as a respected branch of history by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics among genealogical practitioners, and by publicly recognizing persons who meet that standard.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
This site serves as a research notebook into the study of the history of Buffalo, New York and the study of German Language and Literature.
[Located in Category: German Research]
Has microfilm copies of Detroit area churches.
[Located in Category: Michigan Records]
The mission of this project is to capture digital images of headstones of our ancestors. As decades pass, it is becoming harder - if not impossible - to read the inscriptions these stones originally contained.
[Located in Category: French-Canadian]
CCPreservation is a fully insured Cemetery Preservation company. David Carter received his training in Indiana from one of the most recognized authorities in cemetery preservation in the mid-west.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
The Catholic Portal provides access to and discovery of rare, unique, and uncommon Catholic scholarly resources via robust search and display tools.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
An awesome resource for newspapers! All digitization funded by donors. See the list of donors on the site.
[Located in Category: Newspapers- FREE sites]
Part of Library of Congress
[Located in Category: Newspapers- FREE sites]
This county was established on October 29, 1801, created from Grainger and Hawkins counties and extended the southern boundary to Anderson County. It was named for Virginia tidewater aristocrat William Charles Coleman Claiborne, one of the first judges of the Superior Court and one of the first representatives in U.S. Congress from Tennessee. The county seat is located at Tazewell, TN.
[Located in Category: Kentucky/Tennesee]
Claiborne County Historical & Genealogy Society in Tennessee. Links and resources available.
[Located in Category: Kentucky/Tennesee]
Index to obituaries and death notices from the Cleveland area newspapers.
[Located in Category: Ohio Records]
French Families of Trenton (and Monroe!), MI including Venier, Beaudry, Boudry, Chenever, Chinavare, Lazette, Mexicotte.
[Located in Category: Member's Web Pages]
The Columbus News Index (CNI)Obituary Search is an index of the Columbus Dispatch obituaries from 1931 thru 1997. The asterisk (*) can be used at the end of a name as a substitute for any number of characters (Field* will display results for Field, Fields, and Fielding).
[Located in Category: Ohio Records]
Becoming a Genealogy N.I.N.J.A.: A New Look at Research Methodology and Brick Walls
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
The Dayton Obituary Index contains information on obituaries and death notices appearing in Dayton newspapers 1850-1890, 1920-1931, 1985-present, and additional years being added to the index daily.
[Located in Category: Ohio Records]
List of 75,000 burials in Delaware Co, Ohio.
[Located in Category: Cemetery Indexes]
A-Z index of old occupations Jobs are listed alphabetically by job title, so this index will help you browse through the dictionary to find interesting and obscure old occupations and their definitions.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
[Located in Category: Newspapers- FREE sites]
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
[Located in Category: Newspapers- FREE sites]
Has many digitized city directories and other sources.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
[Located in Category: Dutch Ancestry]
From Eaton County Genealogical Society website.
[Located in Category: Cemetery Indexes]
Eloise Cemetery was the name applied to cemeteries used by the Eloise hospital complex located in what is now Westland, Michigan. The patients buried in the cemetery were from the Infirmary Division, the William P. Seymour General Hospital, the T.B. Sanitarium and the Eloise Hospital (Psychiatric Division). There are no tombstones on the graves, only numbered markers indicating a burial. Many have Find A Grave memorials thanks to dedicated volunteers. (Wikipedia)
[Located in Category: Cemetery Indexes]
Over 36,000 digital books are now available at Family History Books.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
A great resource for finding living relatives.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Family History Books is a collection of more than 150,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees.
[Located in Category: Digital Books]
Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet
[Located in Category: German Research]
FEEFHS was organized in 1992 as The Federation of East European Family History Societies, an international organization to promote genealogical research in Eastern and Central Europe without any ethnic, religious, or social distinctions. Originally set as an umbrella organization for societies with similar interests, the organization changed their name in 2014 to The Foundation for East European Family History Studies with a new focus.
[Located in Category: Eastern European]
Located in Springfield, Clark Co, OH. Gives exact location in cemetery and either death date or service date.
[Located in Category: Cemetery Indexes]
Font generator for German handwriting and Fraktur fonts which allows you to see what words should look like in the old German script.
[Located in Category: German Research]
This list includes databases, collections and search tools, selected by Smithsonian Libraries staff, that are freely available via the Internet.
[Located in Category: Miscellaneous]
Free UK Genealogy provides free, online access to family history records. We work with a team of dedicated volunteers to create high-quality transcriptions of public records from governmental sources, parish churches, and other trusted institutions.
[Located in Category: United Kingdom]
[Located in Category: French-Canadian]
[Located in Category: French-Canadian]