New Additions - Online Birth and Marriage Indexes

The following links were recently added to Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes ...

California...
- Shasta County Marriage Records Index 1854-1930

Colorado...
- La Plata County Marriage Records Index from 6/19/1877 through 7/2/1959

- Colorado Historical Records Index - includes...
-- Boulder County Birth Index 1892-1906
-- Denver (City) Birth Index 1875-1906
-- Elbert County Birth Index 1869-1906
-- Kit Carson County Birth Report Register 1892-1907

Florida...
- Brevard County, Florida Marriage License Application Inquiry 1999-current - also includes historical marriage records 1938-1998

Indiana...
- Indiana Marriage Index 1993-2000

Kentucky...
- Fayette County Kentucky Birth Index 1911-1930

Louisiana...
- Caddo Parish Marriage Index 1937-present

Maryland...
- Howard County, Maryland Marriage Licenses 1860-1939

Minnesota...
- Minnesota Birth Certificate Index 1900-1911 (updated)

New York...
- New York City Brides Index - various years (ongoing project)

North Dakota...
- Grand Forks County Marriage License Search, November 1875 - June 1914

Oregon...
- Multnomah County Marriage Records Index 1850s-1904

Vermont...
- Early Vermont Marriages from Berlin, Burlington & Montpelier

West Virginia...
- West Virginia Vital Records Indexes - includes birth indexes for 3 counties & marriage indexes for 6 counties; more are being added

Wisconsin...
- Wisconsin Pre-1907 Vital Records Index -- covers 1852 to September 30, 1907 (most entries date from 1880; includes some entries prior to 1852)
- Milwaukee County Marriage Records 1822-1876

Pre-1907 Wisconsin Marriage Index

The Wisconsin Historical Society has updated their pre-1907 vital records index to include marriage records. Birth and death records were already included. While the index covers 1852-Sept. 30, 1907, most entries date from 1880. You may find a few entries prior to 1852. You can purchase copies of the records for a fee.

Wisconsin Pre-1907 Vital Records Index

Also helpful...
Online Wisconsin Death Records, Indexes, Obituaries and Cemetery Burials

Ancestry Expands Their Florida Death Index

Ancestry has expanded their Florida death index to include more years. The index now covers 1877-1998 (previous coverage was from 1936-1998). Note that the entries prior to 1917 are spotty. You must be an Ancestry subscriber to get full results when using the database. See...

Online Florida Death Records and Indexes

Buddy Holly's Passport

Buddy Holly's passport was recently offered for auction by his widow, Maria Elena Holly, and it sold for $26,290.00 (whoa!). If you want to see what a nearly 50-year-old passport looks like, or if you're a Buddy Holly fan, the auction house has some nifty scans on their website.

Buddy Holly's Passport at Heritage Auction Galleries
(scroll down on that page to the Buddy Holly Passport link)

Looking Around at Genealogy Blogs

Since starting this blog I decided to look around the "blogosphere" (yeah, that's what it's called) at some other genealogy-related blogs. When I come across a blog I find interesting or useful I'll occasionally tell you about it here. I'm going to start today with "Megan's Roots World."

Megan Smolenyak is a genealogy lecturer and writer. Her specialties are tracing families of servicemen killed or missing in Korea, World War II and Vietnam, and exploring genealogy and DNA. But she also writes and speaks about a variety of topics to help further your research. Like mine, her blog is a relatively new. You can see what she and her cool contributors are up to at... Megan's Roots World

More genealogy blogs I like can be found in my Mini Directory of Cool Genealogy Blogs

Online Canadian Census Records

Here you can find a nifty directory of some major online census indexes for Canada - some of them are free to use...

Online Canada Census Records

You will also find links to some online city directories for Canada there.