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Sween's Travel Guide - where to stay, what to see; by state and lodging type
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BEGINNING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH |
Tips for Beginning Your Research:
Genealogy Learning Center,
 One Great Family
Share your family history

Rootsweb
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* Has some one already put your family's history on-line? Search Google with your ancestor's name in quotation marks.
Search specific Genealogy sites with your ancestor's given and surname
Has someone written a book on your family history?
Consider adding your own family tree at
Ancestry.com

Has someone started a DNA research project for your surname? You might be surprised who you are related to.
* See what is on-line at the county where your ancestors lived US GenWeb Project and US GenWeb Archives
USGenWeb Search Us (by state)
* Are you looking for a living cousin? Use the Living People search page
* Did your ancestors have Social Security? Check their names on the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) in searches below
* Explore for on-line Cemeteries - example: Andrew Co Mo tombstone photos
* Subscribe for Census searches, other Databases, Military records, Newspapers, & obituaries
* Search and post to family name or location eMail groups and Forums to get questions answered
* See what your family's state Government & Courts may have on-line.
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BASIC ANCESTOR SEARCHES, various sites For more general searches, see below
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ROOTSWEB,

one of the original comprehensive genealogy sites, started as an archived on-line bulletin board | Free searches into one of the original on-line family history sites
* RootsWeb SSDI
- Search names of deceased people who had Social Security
* RootsWeb General Search
* RootsWeb Surname List
* Roots Location List
researchers (1998)
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World Vital Records offers many free searches in US and international databases. Subscriptions offer more access to these databases.
Advanced Ancestor Searches
Census Databases
Current Special Offers
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KINDRED KONNECTIONS "Ancestry Archive" |

Free Ancestry Search

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Kindred Konnections, MyTrees: "The Ancestry Archive is an index to our pedigree-linked genealogy database. Using this index, you can quickly search through the pedigree information we currently have available on your family ancestry. The information in the Ancestry Archive Index comes from two main sources. The first source is our collection of pedigree files from submitters and other genealogists. Whenever a GEDCOM file of personal family history is submitted to us, we add that file to the Ancestry Archive. The other source of pedigree-linked genealogy is indexed family history websites. After you have determined there are names of interest to you in our Archive, you will want to create and activate an account to see the data in pedigree-linked format with notes and submitter information."
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Surname Index

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ORIGINS NETWORK ancestors from Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland |
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MyFamily.com
went on-line in 1998, offering private web space for family groups - free - by invitation. They now require that someone pays a small fee for each site. You can post pictures there, meet relatives, share research, ask and answer questions. Their
beta site, started in November 2006.
Log in here
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FAMILY TREE SEARCHES, various sites
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Create your Family Tree
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* OneGreatFamily
(online family tree, with subscription)
* Ancestry.com
offers free family tree set ups and initial searches. With a subscription, dig deeper into your family history
| LIVING PEOPLE SEARCHES
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Cousins? Natural parent?
Living People Search Page
for current addresses, phone numbers
Search for Anyone's Email Address

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BOOK SEARCHES
LIBRARY List (WWW-VL) |
Interlibrary Loan Info | I-Gen Book Store
* Gen-Books - YOU are invited to list genealogy and history books you have for sale - or want to buy - on this free Yahoo group. Read as email, or on-line.
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Some books are on-line for you to do direct family history research, such as History of the State of Kansas (Cutler), the Kansas Collection Book list, or The History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio. But many books you would like to use are not yet on-line. To access these books, try using online library catalogs to identify and locate books by title, author, or topic. Then order them through your local library with an inter-library loan request.
Or you may want to purchase new or out-of-print books for your research at home. AbeBooks (search box below) is popular for out-of-print and used books. Amazon (search box below) is reliable for new books.
Questia Online Library
and Ancestry.com
offer subscription-based on-line research libraries.
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Books from AMAZON.com:
Immersion Travel USA (available Sept 2008)
* Andrew County MO
* Special Census: 1890 Andrew Co, MO
* Butler County OH
* USA genealogy
* USA history
* USA travel
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AbeBooks currently has
books on
* American Indians * Andrew Co MO or Andrew County *
Butler County OH history and Butler Co * Genealogy * Geography * Hispanic American genealogy,
History * Rare book collections * Reference * Travel
History of * Kansas,
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Ohio and of the * USA
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* Genealogy Book & CD Store
Shop and find genealogy and history reference resources to own. Includes software and out-of-print book searches.
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DNA Testing - for Ancestors and Unknown Cousins
How Are Two or More Family Lines Related?
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Relative Searches
DNA tests can
help determine if two families have a common ancestor, or if you are part Native American, etc.
FamilyTree DNA may help you.
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Try DNA Tests through Family Tree DNA
More on DNA: Journey of Mankind, The Peopling of the World (Bradshaw Foundation)
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CEMETERY SEARCHES
Where are your ancestors buried? What can you learn from their tombstones?
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Cemetery Searches Also see:
Appropriate county sites on US GenWeb
Death and newspaper obituary searches
Visiting National Cemeteries such as
* Fort Scott and * Leavenworth in
Kansas
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* Cemetery Message Board
- GenForum at Genealogy.com
* Cemetery Junction
* Find A Grave
* Interment.net
* IIGS Cemetery Links
* Politicial Graveyard
* National Archives and genealogy research from Washington, DC
* Tombstone Transcriptions
* Tombstone Central
* USA Veterans Gravesite Locater
* USA Veterans National & State Cemeteries
* Photograph Andrew County Tombstones project
is an example of what cemetery photo volunteers are putting on-line.
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CENSUS SEARCHES
Before the 1850 US census, only one name for each household was listed. The 1890 census was destroyed.
Before internet searches, we looked for the names of our ancestor's family by scrolling through microfilm copies.
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Census Searches
USA - Ancestry.com
CANADA - Ancestry.ca
| USA Census Records
* Search Census Records,
Ancestry.com
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DATABASE SEARCHES
such as • Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
• Census Records
• Passenger Lists & Naturalization Records
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* by State
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* Search Historical Newspaper Collections
- for history and family news, Ancestry.com
* Ancestry.com
- search for census, marriage, name, obituary records - Canada, Europe, Ireland, USA, UK
* Genealogy.com
- library resources: census, marriage, name, obituary records - USA, international
* RootsWeb.com - user contributed records, searchable indexes - USA, international
* USGenWeb Project and the
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DATE of DEATH and LOCATION SEARCHES
SSDI (Social Security Death Index) SEARCHES
*TIP: Sometimes you can find where someone lives from an on-line obituary of one of their close relatives. Search the SSDI to find the town where the deceased person lived, and with that info, check obituaries from their local online newspaper.
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Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Did your US ancesters have Social Security? It began 1/1/1937.
The Death Master File (DMF) from the Social Security Administration (SSA) is created from internal SSA records of deceased persons possessing social security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the SSA. If someone is missing from the list, it may be that the benefit was never requested, an error was made on the form requesting the benefit, or an error was made when entering the information into the SSDI.
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* Free: Social Security Death Index
- (Rootsweb) Search names of deceased people who had Social Security
* Social Security Death Index Search - (World Vital Records)
* Social Security Death Index
- (Ancestry) Search names of deceased people who had Social Security
* SEARCH Genealogy.com
- (Genealogy) Use the
Social Security Death Index search at bottom to help verify deaths and death locations.
* Casualties and Veterans of US wars - (Interactive Genealogy)
* The state of Missouri has many FREE death
certificates on-line (1910-1956) as well as pre-1910 birth and death records. Thanks to the MO Secretary of State and staff.
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EMAIL LISTS for GENEALOGY, HISTORY, BOOKS
Sharing your search and interests with others
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Genealogy eMail Lists
* GEN-BOOKS: Post genealogy and history books for sale, and books you want to buy at this Yahoo! group
* GEN-EVENTS: Announce or check genealogy reunions, meetings, historical re-enactments at Yahoo! group
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* John Fuller's Genealogy Resources on the Internet and
* Rootsweb

Rootsweb surname lists
RootsWeb - worldwide list of countries with email lists
Rootsweb List search: African American lists, US Civil War lists, more
Archived lists: Yahoo genealogy and history lists (previously Escribe.com)
CataList genealogy lists
RootsQuest Mailing Lists
Adoption email lists and websites, Google
US Civil War Colored Troups email lists and websites, Google
Sween's e-mail lists
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FORUMS on FAMILY HISTORY
Have other researchers already posted information about your interests? Check Forums.
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Genealogy FORUMS
Ask and answer questions
Find fellow researchers
Popular Surname Forum Searches:
* Ancestry
* GenForum
* Rootsweb

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* Ancestry.com Forums

* GenForum
- ask and answer family history questions by STATE
* GenForum
- ask and answer family history questions by COUNTRY
* GenForum
- ask and answer family history questions by SURNAME or TOPIC
* GenForum
- who posted about your surname or county on a certain date?
* GenForum
- forums, surnames, regional, general topics
* Rootsweb
- message board, surnames, states, counties, other countries
* Yahoo! USA and
Country genealogy forums
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MILITARY Records kept on veterans of various US wars | Some who died in France | OBITUARY - NEWSPAPER RESEARCH Obituaries can tell which, and where, other family members were living when a close relative died -
Andrew County MO "obituaries to share", for example.
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Military Record Searches by war
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* Newspapers (some with obituaries) on-line: NewsVoyager and
Online Newspapers - current newspapers on-line, by state
Historic Newspapers Online
- Ancestry.com subscription details
Historical Newspaper Collections
- SEARCH, Ancestry.com
Read history as it was happening in more than 16 million pages from over 1000 different newspapers across the US, U.K. and Canada dating back to the 1700's. The full-text index and Advanced Image Viewer deliver highlighted search hits on every page.
Your Newspaper subscription also includes access to the new Obituary Collection that contains more than 9 million obituaries.
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ANDREW COUNTY, MISSOURI NW Missouri, just north of St Jo |
Andrew County, Missouri
Andrew Co MOGenWeb
search with FreeFind.com
Note that
Missouri has many statewide death
certificates on-line.
Cemetery photos: The Photograph Andrew County Tombstones project
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Andrew County MO Forums:
* Missouri county forums including Andrew Co,
GenForum
Missouri:
* Missouri Travel, Genealogy, History I-Gen searches
* Missouri Death Certificates, on-line and free
* Missouri Genealogy and History databases
- Ancestry.com
The History of Andrew and Dekalb Counties, Missouri - Amazon.com
1890 Andrew County, Missouri special census - Amazon.com
| BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO SW Ohio, just north of Cincinnati
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Butler County, Ohio
* Butler Co OHGenWeb
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