The 1911 Census
Details and news of the 1911 Census for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Personal...but Polite - old newspaper town personal announcements
A searchable collection of old small-town newspaper personal announcements for genealogy research.
Texas Confederate Military Page
Contains a list of abbreviations commonly used in Confederate records; a list of Confederate military camps in Texas and their general location if known; a list of Confederate companies furnished by each county in Texas.
The Honorable East India Co
Contains birth, marriage and death notices for people who worked for the HEICo
Dublin Street Directory 1862
A list of names, addresses and occupations of the residents of Dublin in 1862, taken from Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory for that year.
Slave Compensation Claims
Compensation paid to slave owners in Antigua and Barbados 1836/7.
List of Historical Societies
List of hundreds of historical societies in the United States with descriptions, collections overviews, link to website where available.
Really Useful Sources For UK & Irish Genealogy on the Web
More than 300 categorised links to genealogy web sites of proven value.
The Army Children Archive (TACA)
The Army Children Archive (TACA) collects, records, preserves and shares details of the unique aspects of growing up as the child of a soldier serving in the British Army, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Florida's Lost & Abandoned Graveyards
location, preservation & restoration of cemeteries throughout Florida
Coroner Files 1833-1900
Provides cause and date of death for those occurring in Cuyahoga county, Ohio between 1833 and 1900 (pdf file).
Soldiers of Gloucestershire
This site has a searchable on line database of over 40,000 names of those who served in the Gloucestershire Regiment during the First World War.
Fashion-Era
Fashion history, costume trends & eras, Victorian costumes & haute couture. Useful source for dating old photographs.
Galena Trail and Coach Road
This site discusses the 1825 Galena Trail and its successor, the 1833 Peoria-Galena Coach Road in Illinois. Both alignments followed ancient Native American trails, and were used by early American miners to link the Lead Mine Region of Illinois and Wisconsin with Peoria and southern Illinois. Many old maps, articles and photos are displayed on this website.
The Montana Sedition Project - Montana's Sedition Prisoners
Montana's state Sedition Law was similar to that of the United States law of 1917. The Montana Sedition Project acquired pardons for those imprisoned under the Sedition Law in 2006. Included in this site is the list of Montana's Sedition Prisoners along with their scanned prison in-take forms.
Black Hawk Rifles; Co. G, 22nd Mississippi
History of Company G, 22 MS Infantry that accounts for every soldier. Black Hawk, Carrol Cty, MS.
Canadian War Brides Of The First World War
Information about the War Brides who came to Canada after WWI.
Barmaids and Skinkers - traditional trades and occupations in pubs
An article describing the many occupations found in pubs, coaching inns and the brewery trade over the centuries.
Penny Postcards
Photo postcards of locations around the United States. Many of these are antique photo postcards.
Mambi Soldiers Data Base
Searchable data base of participants in Cuba's War of Independence against Spain 1895-1898.
Passenger Data Base
Searchable data base of ship passengers to and from Habana, Cuba. Covers 1850-1900 mostly.
Paper Trail
Paper Trail is the website database created by the Oregon-California Trails Association from thousands of trail-related documents of the mid-19th century western migration. Whether people traveled west for gold, land, religious freedom or new opportunity, they wrote diaries, letters, articles and recollections about the journey. From over 3500 original documents Paper Trail organizes information into an easy-to-search database, featuring names, dates, routes, travel parties, locations and interesting features. The website also lists the library where each document or its copies may be found. The information from each document is accessible by subject codes and by a 6-page outline survey of each document in the Paper Trail website. Names searches are free. Reports require modest subscription.
Karten-Himmel
postcards from all over the world.
Kartenmeister
Kartenmeister is the most comprehensive database of its kind in the world. It contains 75562 locations with over 30.559 name changes once, and 5,500 twice and more. All locations are EAST of the Oder and Neisse rivers and are based on the borders of the eastern provinces in Spring 1918. Included in this database are the following provinces: Eastprussia, including Memel, Westprussia, Brandenburg, Posen, Pomerania, and Silesia. It currently list most towns or points, points being: Mills, some bridges, battlefields, named trees, cenotaphs etc
Mortality Schedules
Search marriage, death records found in the New York State federal and state census mortality schedules 1850, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1870, 1875, 1880.
The Rich Men of Massachusetts
Indexed page images of an 1851 book containing 'A Statement of the Reputed Wealth of About Fifteen Hundred Persons, with Brief Sketches of More than One Thousand Characters'.
Transatlantic Steamship Passenger Contracts
The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives has a number of original steamship contracts for Transatlantic and other destinations, dating from the 1880s through the 1950s for immigrant passages to America. All of the contracts have been transcribed and have an English translation.
Morgan Index of Ohio People, Businesses and Institutions, 1796-1850.
This is a new updated and expanded index of the Ohio Name Index. It is now called the Morgan Index of Ohio People, Businesses and Institutions, 1796-1850. The site is now platformed on OhioLINK, has a new search engine for basic searches as well as advanced searches with limit options. Searches can be conducted by name, address, city, state, occupation, race, birth/death date and place of birth and death, as well as employer. Searches may be sorted by name, date city or occupation and by gender , male or female, or business. Entries have been expanded from 88,000 to over 130,000 with quarterly updates now a regular feature.
Great Baltimore Fire of 1904
Interactive map showing the Great Fire's destruction of the Baltimore business district in 1904.
1670 Connecticut State Census
The 1670 Connecticut state census is a reconstructed listing of 1,544 household heads and 824 freeman. Data for the census was found in household, estate, tax, landowner, church and freeman lists between the years 1660 and 1673.
World War I Through the Lens of one Private's Camera
John E. Schroeder's photo Diary of World War I documenting from his enlistment in late in 1917 through the end of the war, the early occupation of Germany and his return to the USA. Many of his fellow soldiers are named on this site.
