A Small Collection of Online Genealogy Records

Over the last few years my various websites have accumulated a messy pile of transcribed genealogy records :) Most of these are ship passenger lists, but there are one or two other records as well. Many of the names are German and Irish, but other nationalities are also included. Even though these transcriptions are scattered around the web in a seemingly haphazard way -- there really is a method behind all of it I think, or I thought there was at the time :) -- you can search all of them from one place. Right here:

Search Some Cool, Obscure, Weird Genealogy Records and Passenger Lists

You can search by name, surname, keyword or name of ship. You can also search by topic - for example typing in naturalization records will return a list of webpages with information about how to find naturalization records. Try typing in census records or death records, that sort of thing.

Here's a list of many of the transcribed records included in the search:

About 150 New Orleans passenger lists - most from the 1840s (2 from the 1850s)

Some Baltimore passenger lists (and lists of ships to Baltimore) - from the 1830s

14 New York passenger lists - from the period 1820-1867

List of Passenger Ships from Ireland to America 1732-1749 (a few have names of passengers)

Antelope and Welcome reconstructed passenger lists (of William Penn's Fleet)

23 Pennsylvania German Pioneers Passenger Lists - from the period 1736-1807

List of Palatines from Germany to England in 1709 (most went on to America)

Passenger Arrivals in the US in the 4th Quarter of 1819

Passengers to Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia in 1823

Assorted Passengers to Savannah, Georgia 1866-1867

Some German Passengers Missed by Germans to America

Arizona World War One Alien Registration Index (partial)

Assorted Putzig, West Prussia Genealogy Records 1660-1890

Assorted Zarnowitz, West Prussia Genealogy Records 1800s

Hegensdorfer Auswanderer 1824-1893 (Emigrants from Hegensdorf, Germany)

None of this is comprehensive or amazing or anything, but a few people have found their ancestors in these records, maybe you will too, or maybe you'll find some useful tips if you search by topic.

Newly Added Online Death Records Indexes

Links to the items listed below were recently added to: Online Searchable Death Records Indexes and Obituaries. It's quite a long list this time - I hope you find some good stuff...

Arkansas
- Boone County Cemeteries
- Carroll County Cemeteries
- Newton County Cemeteries

California
- Los Angeles County: Green Hills Memorial Park Cemetery Burials (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
- Sacramento County: Fair Oaks Cemetery Burials (Fair Oaks, CA)

Colorado
- Arapahoe County Probate Cases 1902-1937
- Lincoln County Probate Records 1890-1931

Connecticut
Fairfield County Newspaper Databases and Obituaries, includes...
- Obituaries from the Ridgefield Press
- Wilton Bulletin Obituaries Index
- Norwalk Hour Newspaper Index

Georgia
- Georgia Death Certificates 1919-1927

Illinois
- Coles County: Dodge Grove Cemetery Records (Mattoon, Illinois)
- Logan County Cemeteries

Indiana
- Dearborn County: Lawrenceburg Public Library Obituaries Index

Iowa
- Iowa Gravestone Photo Project -- has over 300,000 entries
- Davis County Cemetery Records
- Dickinson County Cemetery Records
- Poweshiek County Obituaries

Kansas
- Crawford County: Pittsburg Morning Sun Obituaries Index 1975-2004
- Lyon County Vital Records and other Genealogy Indexes -- includes indexes for newspaper death notices, funeral home records, census mortality schedules and some cemeteries
- Wyandotte County Cemeteries (PDF files for 6 cemeteries)

Michigan
- Macomb County Funeral Home Records Master Index
- Wayne County: Grosse Pointe Public Library Obituary Database

Missouri
- Cooper County Genealogy Records (includes cemeteries, death records and some obituaries)

Nebraska
- Douglas County: Index to Obituaries and Death Notices in Omaha Newspapers 1901-1977 -- over 90,000 entries

North Carolina
- Cemeteries of Some North Carolina Counties -- includes some cemeteries in the following counties: Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Person, Sampson, Surry, Vance and Wake

Ohio
- Ohio Obituaries Index (update: more counties added)
- Burials in 2 Cuyahoga County Cemeteries -- Strongsville Cemetery (Strongsville), and St. Adelbert's Cemetery (Middleburg Heights)
- Cuyahoga Coroner Files 1833-1900
- Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County - Index to Local Newspaper Articles -- indexes some obituaries 1800s-present (not complete, but more comprehensive from mid 1990s-present)
- Franklin County: Worthington News Index - indexes some newspaper obituaries

South Carolina
- Southern Christian Advocate and South Carolina United Methodist Advocate Obituaries Index
- Greenwood County Library Obituary Index for Greenwood, SC Newspapers (work in progress)
- Richland County Library Obituary Index - Columbia, SC Newspapers (ongoing project)

Tennessee
- Tennessee Death Index 1914-1922 (update - 3 years added)
- Blount County: Index to Miscellaneous Obituaries 1867-1940 -- not complete, but has 11,000 entries
- Davidson County (Nashville) Death Records Index 1900-1913
- Davidson County: Nashville Obituaries & Death Notices Index for 1913

Texas
- Collin County: McKinney Obituaries Indexes

Utah
- Weber County: Ogden City Cemetery Burials Index

Virginia
- Portsmouth USGenWeb Archives -- includes Portsmouth Deaths 1856-1895, some Portsmouth cemeteries and other records

Wisconsin
- Monroe County Newspaper and Cemetery Indexes -- also includes other genealogy indexes
- Winnebago County: Omro Herald Vital Records Index, 1977, 1978 & 2002 to present -- includes obituaries

Online Death Certificates

This article has been updated and moved to: Online Death Certficates

Ship Passenger Lists and Indexes You Can Find Online

One of the most popular webpages on my German Roots genealogy website is one called "What Passenger Lists Are Online?" It's a directory of Internet sources for some transcribed or digitized ship passenger lists or name indexes of passengers. These are for ships that brought immigrants and other passengers to the USA and to or from many other countries. There are also links to other finding aids for some ports.

The top half of the webpage is for USA arrivals and includes sub-sections for New York, Alaska, Baltimore, Boston & New England, Florida, New Orleans, Oregon, Pennsylvania, San Francisco & Hawaii, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. About half way down the page you will find an international section with sub-sections for Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Some of the items listed on the webpage are free to use, some are fee-based -- these latter are usually marked "requires payment" or something similar. You can find the passenger lists directory at:

What Passenger Lists Are Online? - Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records and Indexes

Online Naturalization Records Indexes - Recently Added

Links to the items listed below were recently added to: Online Searchable Naturalization Records and Indexes

Iowa
- Cerro Gordo County: Mason City Naturalization Index - Petitions and Declarations, 1942-1961
- Lee County: Keokuk - Index to Miscellaneous Records Pertaining to Naturalization, 1840-1888
- Union County: Creston Naturalization Index - Declarations and Petitions, 1930-1951
- Wapello County: Ottumwa Naturalization Index - Petitions and Declarations, 1916-1951

Kansas
Assorted Kansas Naturalization Indexes - includes:
- Fort Scott Naturalization Index to Petitions and Declarations, 1915-1967
- Kansas City Naturalization Records Index, 1948-1970
- Topeka: Index to Declarations of Intention ("first papers"), 1852-1942
- Topeka: Index to Overseas Naturalization Petitions, 1943-1954
- Topeka: Index to Naturalization Petitions, 1868-1984

Michigan
- 11 counties have been added to the Michigan State Archives naturalization indexes database (now has 32 total counties)

New York
- Clinton County Naturalization Records Index 1865-1906
- Essex County Naturalization Records Index 1836-1880
- Queens County Naturalization Records Index 1906-1957

Ohio
- Summit County (Akron), Ohio Naturalization Records Search (includes images)

Pennsylvania
- Centre County Naturalization Records 1802-1929 -- includes digitized images of the records
- Chester County Naturalization Records Index 1798-1935 (Updated: previously went to 1906)
- Pennsylvania now has its own separate webpage - see: Online Pennsylvania Naturalization Records and Indexes

Social Security Death Index Now Has 80 Million Entries

The online Social Security Death Index (SSDI) at Genealogy Bank has surpassed 80 million entries. It has been updated to include some August 2007 entries. The SSDIs at FamilySearch and Ancestry now include July 2007 entries. The Social Security Death Index at FamilySearch is free to use (with registration). For links to all three of these SSDIs see: The Social Security Death Index - Online Searching