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BUSINESS & EMPLOYMENT RECORDS
apprentice & indenture records
business license records
doctors' & midwives' journals
insurance records
merchants' account books
railroad, mining & factory records
CEMETERY & FUNERAL HOME RECORDS
burial records
grave-relocation records
tombstone inscriptions
CENSUSES
agriculture schedules (1840-1880)
American Indian (special censuses)
Civil War veterans schedules (1890)
defective, dependent & delinquent schedules (1880)
federal population schedules (1790-1930)
manufacturing/industry schedules (1810, 1820, 1850-1880)
mortality schedules (1850-1880)
school censuses
slave schedules (1850, 1860)
social statistics schedules (1850-1880)
state & local censuses
CHURCH RECORDS
baptism & christening records
confirmation records
meeting minutes
membership, admission & removal records
ministers' journals
COURT RECORDS
adoption records
county clerk records
civil records
coroners' files
criminal records
custody papers
estate inventories
insanity/commitment orders
licenses & permits
marriage bonds, licenses & certificates
military discharges
minute books
name changes
property foreclosures
wills
DIRECTORIES
biographical
city
professional/occupational
telephone
HOME SOURCES
baptism & confirmation certificates
birth certificates & baby books
death records & prayer cards
diaries & journals
family Bibles
funeral/memorial cards
letters & postcards
marriage certificates & wedding albums
medical records
photographs
recipe books
school report cards, yearbooks & scrapbooks
IMMIGRATION RECORDS
alien registration cards
citizenship papers & passports
passenger lists
naturalizations
INSTITUTIONAL RECORDS
almshouse
hospital
orphanage
police
prison
school
work-farm
LAND & PROPERTY RECORDS
deeds
grants & patents
homestead records
mortgages & leases
surveys
tax rolls
warrants
MILITARY RECORDS
Colonial wars
Revolutionary War & frontier conflicts
War of 1812, Indian Wars & Mexican War
Civil War
Spanish-American War
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
draft records
pension applications
records of relocations & internment camps for Japanese-Americans,
German-Americans & Italian-Americans during World War II
NEWSPAPERS
birth announcements
classified advertisements
engagement, marriage & anniversary announcements
ethnic newspapers
family-reunion announcements
gossip & advise columns
legal notices
obituaries
runaway notices (slaves, indentured servants, wives)
unclaimed-mail notices
PUBLISHED SOURCES
compiled genealogies
genealogical periodicals
local & county histories
record abstracts & transcriptions
VITAL RECORDS
birth
death
divorce/annulment
marriage
social security