So your ancestors have upped and moved away from their homes, their family and everything they knew to try and start a better life. While possibly a great move for them, sometimes for those of us left scrounging to find them, it can be a pain in the butt! Unless you have family stories they tell you where to look, most times you just pray you get lucky and find them in a census return. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. Since they were normally only done every ten years (some states also did their own midway between the American census), sometimes you will just have ancestors that you can't find cause they moved around or died somewhere in amongst that ten year gap. Oh how I wish mine hadda stayed here, where I KNOW where to look. If you prefer to have all the census returns at the tip of your fingers in one place and are willing to fork over the cash, then ancestry is probably the way to go. If you are cheap like me (my hubby says I'm so cheap I squeak), then you probably want to find as many census returns as you can for FREE (ahhhh my favorite F word). You can find the 1850, 1870 and 1900 indexes and images on the familysearch pilot site listed below. Completely FREE! There are other ones there as well, but not all have the images available so you can be sure what was transcribed is actually the information that was recorded. The Washington site below has their 1910 images available on their site. You can also sometimes find information on some county/state rootsweb sites. Check them out.
Here are some of the American sites I have stumbled across. Again, some are indexes only so just be cautious. Just cause you find a name that matches someone you are searching, doesn't mean that IS who you are looking for. Investigate further to prove.
Illinois (Cook County) - www.cookcountygenealogy.com/Default.aspx
Maine Marriages - http://portal.maine.gov/marriage/archdev.marriage_archive.search_form
Maine Deaths - http://portal.maine.gov/death/archdev.death_archive.search_form
Massachusetts - http://www.sec.state.ma.us/vitalrecordssearch/
Massachusetts (Early Records) - http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org/Towns.shtml
Minnesota Births - http://people.mnhs.org/bci/
Minnesota Deaths - http://people.mnhs.org/dci/Search.cfm
Minnesota Marriages - http://www.mncounty.com/Modules/Certificates/Marriage/Default.aspx
New York - http://www.italiangen.org/VRECLIST.stm
Ohio (Cleveland Necrology File) - http://dxsrv4.cpl.org/WebZ/Authorize?sessionid=0&next=/html/obit_start.html&dbchoice=1:dbname=necr&bad=html/authofail.html&style=noframe
Oregon - http://genealogy.state.or.us/
Washington - http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/
Wisconsin - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/
And of course don't forget my favorite - http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start This site has tons of American records! Check it out!!
Happy hunting!
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Colorado Historical Records Index -
http://accipiter.state.co.us/archive/publicrecordsearch.do
Washington State Library has a free obituary look up service. Click here for information
http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/Obituaries.aspx
Missouri Births and Deaths pre 1910
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/
New Hampshire, Keene - http://keenepubliclibrary.org/subject-guide/genealogy
Arizona births and deaths - http://genealogy.az.gov/
Montana Death Index - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mtmsgs/death_records.htm
Colorado - Pike Peaks Library - Colorado Springs - news articles
http://more.ppld.org:8080/specialcollections/Index/article_search.asp
Utah - State Cemetery Burials website
http://www.slcgov.com/cemetery/cemetery-burials-database
California - Ivy Lawn Memorial Park interment records in Ventura County http://www.ivylawn.org/
California Digital Newspaper Collection - http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc
Newspapers - http://news.google.com/newspapers
North Dakota Public Death Index - https://apps.nd.gov/doh/certificates/deathCertSearch.htm
ILLINOIS - death certificates 1916-1950
http://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/idphdeathsrch.jsp
New York Death Index 1957-1963
http://www.newyorkdeathindex.com/
New York - Westchester County - online Indexes
http://archives.westchestergov.com/browse-all-online-indexes-main
Massachusetts - Melrose Cemetery, Brockton - http://www.brockton.ma.us/Government/Departments/Cemeteries/cemetery-search
Maine - Aroostook county newspapers http://turner.advantage-preservation.com/
New York - Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo - many records have burial permits linked http://www.forest-lawn.com/genealogy/locate-a-loved-one
Michigan - Digital Michigan Newspapers
https://digmichnews.cmich.edu
American Newspapers (Library of Congress) -
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=Nevada&lccn=&dateFilterType=yearRange&date1=1789&date2=1963&language=&ortext=&andtext=Vivan+Misson&phrasetext=&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced#tab=tab_search
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