State Group Resources:

  • Alabama

    • Alabama 1867 Voter Registration Records Database
    • Alabama Department of Archives and History
    • Encyclopedia of Alabama

  • Arkansas

    • Arkansas History Commission

  • California

    • Death and Funeral Records

  • Georgia

    • African American Funeral Programs from the East Georgia Library
    • Georgia Genealogical Society
    • Digital Library of Georgia

  • Illinois

    • Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court  Don’t let the Chicago locus of this site fool you: Many Illinois ancestors who wound up living elsewhere in the state can be found in this searchable archive of more than 260,000—and growing—naturalization records from 1906 to 1929.
    • Illinois State Archives  The Illinois State Archives serves by law as the depository of public records of Illinois state and local governmental agencies which possess permanent administrative, legal, or historical research values. Its collections do not include manuscript, newspaper, or other nonofficial sources.
    • Illinois Regional Depository  The Center’s Local Government Records collection is part of the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) system administered by the Illinois State Archives. The Regional History Center at NIU serves as one of the seven regional depositories throughout Illinois involved in preserving local public records and making them available to researchers. These records are older documents used by historians, genealogists, and local government officials. For more recent records contact the county courthouse. Types of records available vary from county to county and may include: birth, marriage, death, naturalization, probate, and deed records.

  • Indiana

    • Indiana African American Records
    • Genealogical Research Locations in Indianapolis and Vicinity
    • Indiana Genealogy
    • Indiana State Digital Archive The fruit of 15 years of work by Friends of the Indiana State Archives volunteers, this site now boasts nearly 2.5 million searchable records, with more being added. The latest addition is a database of more than 213,000 Hoosier Civil War records.
    • Allen County Public Library Although renowned for its general genealogy collection, this library in Fort Wayne is also a treasure trove for hometown and home-state researchers. Statewide databases include county courthouses, WWI deaths, African-American settlements, orphans and pre-1882 deaths.
    • Indiana Commission On Public Records  Each section contains a brief description of the collections available in each area; some sections also feature online exhibits and searchable indexes. Where possible, pointers are provided to additional outside sources for records not collected by the State Archives.
    • Indiana Freedom Trails History of the underground RR in Indiana
    • Indiana History Online  Expand your educational experience even further by exploring informative published articles, exhibits and recipes about the history of the Midwest in the 19th century. Conner Prairie Historians and experienced staff continue to work together to expand the ever-growing history online archives.
    • Indiana History and Genealogy  Indiana History and Genealogy is a genealogical and historical resource for finding genealogy and historical data concerning Indiana on the web. There is also a link to Indiana African American genealogy resources.
    • Indiana State Archives The Indiana State Archives is the permanent repository for important records of state and local governments. Its holdings include approximately 38,000 cubic feet of records dating from the territorial period to the present.
    • Indiana State Department of Health  Order birth records 1907/death records 1900 or later (both).
    • Indiana State Library  Databases and indexes
    • Indiana Vital Records  Marriages 1925-Present
    • Ingenweb  Indiana genealogy links
    • Inspire  Indiana virtual library online resources
    • Marion County Clerk  Marion county clerk contact information
    • Sullivan Munce Cultural Center Museum and Genealogy Library  The mission of the Sullivan Munce Cultural Center Museum and Genealogy Library is to increase the appreciation, awareness and understanding of the history and culture of Boone County and Indiana. To accomplish this mission the genealogy library works to collect, preserve and make available genealogical resources to aid those who are exploring their roots in Boone County and beyond.

  • Jamaica

    This is a virtual genealogy library for those researching family history for Jamaica, West Indies, especially for people born before 1920. The site contains transcriptions from various documents including nineteenth century Jamaica Almanacs (which list property owners and civil and military officials), Jamaica Directories for 1878, 1891 and 1910, extractions from Jamaican Church records, Civil Registration, Wills, Jewish records, and excerpts from newspapers, books, and other documents. There is information on immigration and on slavery.

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  • Kentucky

    Kentucky Historical Society

    For over 100 years, KHS has been collecting a treasure trove of research materials which help shed light on the lives of Kentuckians in earlier times. The resources in the Martin F. Schmidt Research Library and Special Collections Reading Area, which include manuscripts, maps, oral history tapes, photographs and rare books, provide scholars, genealogists and the

    public with clues to the past.


    Kentucky Vital Records Project

    Records available (although not all on this site): Kentucky marriage records are available beginning in 1792 with statewide registrations beginning in 1958. Birth and death records were kept sporadically from 1852-1910 by individual counties and cities. Statewide birth and death registration began in 1911.


    Online Kentucky Death Records & Indexes

    A genealogy records guide


    Owensboro Area Obituary Index

    Kentucky Room staff members have been abstracting obituary information from the Owensboro newspapers since 1977. This online index is added to and updated almost daily. The amount of data abstracted divides the database into three time periods. 


    Kentucky African Americans

    African American Ancestry in Kentucky

    site hosted by Mary Jewell


    Kentucky African American Griots

    African-American Family History Resources Fayette County Kentucky

    Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

    There are more notable African Americans with Kentucky roots and ties than any one person

    knows about. Very little has been written about many of them and it is a challenge to find what was written in the past. For some, their stories have only been told by word of mouth. The Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA) has been developed as a finding aid to bring together a brief description of pertinent names, places, and events, and to list the sources where additional information may be found.


    Kentucky African American Genealogy

    African American genealogy online research is much more difficult due to the scant nature of record keeping for African American's prior to the Civil War. This is the reason for creating a separate section for African Americans much like we have for Native Americans who's research can also be hampered by the available records.


    First Mom's Kentucky Genealogy Resources

    Kentucky Land Records

    The Secretary of State's Office is the place to start when researching Kentucky land acquisitions. All chain of title in the Commonwealth traces back to Virginia land patents and Kentucky land patents. In fact, all Kentucky deeds eventually trace back to an original patent recorded in the Kentucky Land Office. The Secretary of State maintains the security and preservation of these historical documents. We assist a variety of researchers such as historians, genealogists, and applicants for honorary societies as well as attorneys, mineral rights researchers, and land owners tracing the history of their properties. Researching land patents is as easy as determining the surname of your ancestor, when he might have obtained a land patent, and the area in which he might have been located. A number of publications, as well as databases on our website, can help you determine if your ancestor was involved in a land patent.


    African American Genealogy Group of KY

    Kentucky Genealogy Databases

    Kentucky began to record births and deaths statewide as early as 1852. Compliance, however, was never complete and by 1862 state law no longer required births and deaths to be recorded. There are some birth and death records recorded 1874 to 1879 and 1892 to 1910, but, again, it was sporadic. Marriages were recorded from the time Kentucky was created in 1792. These are recorded at the county level. $ = subscription database


    KYGenWeb Online Ky Genealogy Resources

  • Louisiana

State Group Resources:

Alabama


Arkansas


California


Georgia


Illinois 

Don’t let the Chicago locus of this site fool you: Many Illinois ancestors who wound up living
elsewhere in the state can be found in this searchable archive of more than 260,000—and growing—naturalization records from 1906 to 1929

The Illinois State Archives serves by law as the depository of public records of Illinois state and local governmental agencies which possess permanent administrative, legal, or historical research values. Its collections do not include manuscript, newspaper, or other nonofficial sources.

The Center’s Local Government Records collection is part of the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) system administered by the Illinois State Archives. The Regional History Center at NIU serves as one of the seven regional depositories throughout Illinois involved in preserving local public records and making them available to researchers. These records are older documents used by historians, genealogists, and local government officials. For more recent records contact the county courthouse. Types of records available vary from county to county and may include: birth, marriage, death, naturalization, probate, and deed records.


Indiana

The fruit of 15 years of work by Friends of the Indiana State Archives volunteers, this site now boasts nearly 2.5 million searchable records, with more being added. The latest addition is a database of more than 213,000 Hoosier Civil War records.

Although renowned for its general genealogy collection, this library in Fort Wayne is also a treasure
trove for hometown and home-state researchers. Statewide databases include county courthouses, WWI deaths, African-American settlements, orphans and
pre-1882 deaths.

Each section contains a brief description of the collections available in each area; some sections also
feature online exhibits and searchable indexes. Where possible, pointers are provided to additional outside sources for records not collected by the State Archives.

History of the underground RR in Indiana

Expand your educational experience even further by exploring informative published articles, exhibits
and recipes about the history of the Midwest in the 19th century. Conner Prairie Historians and experienced staff continue to work together to expand the ever-growing history online archives.

Indiana History and Genealogy is a genealogical and historical resource for finding genealogy and historical data concerning Indiana on the web. There is also a link to Indiana African American genealogy resources.

The Indiana State Archives is the permanent repository for important records of state and local governments. Its holdings include approximately 38,000 cubic feet of records dating from the territorial period to the present.

Order birth records 1907/death records 1900 or later (both).

Databases and indexes

Marriages 1925-Present

Indiana genealogy links

Indiana virtual library online resources

Marion county clerk contact information

       Genealogy Library

The mission of the Sullivan Munce Cultural Center Museum and Genealogy Library is to increase the
appreciation, awareness and understanding of the history and culture of Boone County and Indiana. To accomplish this mission the genealogy library works to collect, preserve and make available genealogical resources to aid those who are exploring their roots in Boone County and beyond.


Jamaica

This is a virtual genealogy library for those researching family history for Jamaica, West Indies, especially for people born before 1920. The site contains transcriptions from various documents including nineteenth century Jamaica Almanacs (which list property owners and civil and military officials), Jamaica Directories for 1878, 1891 and 1910, extractions from Jamaican Church records, Civil Registration, Wills, Jewish records, and excerpts from newspapers, books, and other documents. There is information on immigration and on slavery.


Kentucky

For over 100 years, KHS has been collecting a treasure trove of research materials which help shed light on the lives of Kentuckians in earlier times. The resources in the Martin F. Schmidt Research Library and Special Collections Reading Area, which include manuscripts, maps, oral history tapes, photographs and rare books, provide scholars, genealogists and the
public with clues to the past.

Records available (although not all on this site): Kentucky marriage records are available beginning in 1792 with statewide registrations beginning in 1958. Birth and death records were kept sporadically from 1852-1910 by individual counties and cities. Statewide birth and death registration began in 1911.

A genealogy records guide

Kentucky Room staff members have been abstracting obituary information from the Owensboro newspapers since 1977. This online index is added to and
updated almost daily. The amount of data abstracted divides the database into three time periods. 

site hosted by Mary Jewell

There are more notable African Americans with Kentucky roots and ties than any one person
knows about. Very little has been written about many of them and it is a challenge to find what was written in the past. For some, their stories have only been told by word of mouth. The Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA) has been developed as a finding aid to bring together a brief description of pertinent names, places, and events, and to list the sources where additional information may be found.

African American genealogy online research is much more difficult due to the scant nature of record keeping for African American's prior to the Civil War. This is the reason for creating a separate section for African Americans much like we have for Native Americans who's research can also be hampered by the available records.

The Secretary of State's Office is the place to start when researching Kentucky land acquisitions. All chain of title in the Commonwealth traces back to Virginia land patents and Kentucky land patents. In fact, all Kentucky deeds eventually trace back to an original patent recorded in the Kentucky Land Office. The Secretary of State maintains the security and preservation of these historical documents. We assist a variety of researchers such as historians, genealogists, and applicants for honorary societies as well as attorneys, mineral rights researchers, and land owners tracing the history of their properties. Researching land patents is as easy as determining the surname of your ancestor, when he might have obtained a land patent, and the area in which he might have been located. A number of publications, as well as databases on our website, can help you determine if your ancestor was involved in a land patent.


Kentucky began to record births and deaths statewide as early as 1852. Compliance, however, was never complete and by 1862 state law no longer required births and deaths to be recorded. There are some birth and death records recorded 1874 to 1879 and 1892 to 1910, but, again, it was sporadic. Marriages were recorded from the time Kentucky was created in 1792. These are recorded at the county level. $ = subscription database


Louisiana


Mississippi


Missouri


North Carolina


Ohio


Oklahoma


South Carolina


Tennessee

This highly visual virtual vault is strongest in Civil War materials, including maps, photos and letters. Other
collections showcase historical maps, Tennessee in WWI, early 1900s schoolhouses, Fisk University and old postcards.


Texas

With 254 counties, Texas is a big state with a vast amount of resources for the genealogy and family history researcher. General resources that pertain to the whole state of Texas are listed first below, and then selected counties in alphabetical order are listed next. 


Utah

Links to other websites containing information on African Americans


Virginia


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