Misc Genealogy Links
Identifying sources, lineage, prove information and dates and other genealogical sites.
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 Genealogy.com Genealogy.com and maker of Family Tree Maker Family History Software and Historical Records. |
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Ancestry.com Subscription based resource of worldwide census, marriage, newspaper and various other records. Includes some free searchable databases. |
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NARA (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) Military Service Records, Military Personnel Records, Declaration of Independance, Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Amendments 11-27 and genealogy databases. |
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Library of Congress Historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video. Legislative information both current and historical and much more. |
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The David Library of the American Revolution The David Library is primarily a microform archive of approximately 10,000 reels that contain an estimated 8 million pages of documentation. The collection is supported by a reference collection of 40,000 books and pamphlets in both bound volumes and microcards. Although the main focus is on the American Revolution, in recent years the library has been augmenting its materials on the French and Indian War and the early national periods. Microfilm holdings currently include over 200 collections from domestic and foreign repositories. |
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Library of Virginia State government records, military records, personal papers, family Bible records, genealogical notes and charts, church and cemetery records, business records, maps, and other archival and manuscript material. Some finding aids are available online. Document images for 6,000 family Bible records are available online and so much more. |
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USGenWeb Project Organization is by county and state, and provides you with links to all the state genealogy websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. |
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Latter-Day Saints Family History and Genealogy Records Explore the Family History Library Catalog, Birth, Marriage & Death Vital Records, U.S., British, & Canadian Census Collections and much more. |
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The Archives School Marburg Site is in German so you will need to use a translator. The Archives School Marburg is the central training establishment of archives of the Federal Republic of Germany. So maybe someone attending the school would help with research. They also have links for genealogy http://www.archivschule.de/service/weitere-links/genealogie/links-fuer-genealogen.html |
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Cyndi's List A large categorized and cross-referenced directory of sites useful for genealogical research, TONS of links. |
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RootsWeb Useful for genealogical research, with lots of links. |
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The Colonial Records Project Collection of Colonial Newspapers. Pennsylvania Gazette, Boston Gazette, Virginia Gazette, South Carolina Gazette, Belfast Newsletter, Scots Magazine, Caledonian Mercury, Connecticut Courant, Gentleman's Magazine and other newspapers. |
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The Three Rivers The Three Rivers (Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie) website has historical articles, books, genealogy, maps, church information, church records, records and photos. |
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Loyalist Muster Roll Index Loyalist Muster Roll Index by Donna Speer Ristenbatt |
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NORTH CAROLINA LOYALISTS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Robert DeMond, Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution. Copyright 1940, Duke University Press, Durham, NC. |
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Our Roots- Canada Canada's Local Histories Online brings Canadian history to life! Our Roots is a library, archive, museum and school all in one. Check the collection to find Canadian local histories in French and English. |
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Finding Your Patriot Ancestors Revolutionary War Military Records by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG |
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Reasons for Issuing Bounty Land Grants Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck |
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American Prisoners of the Revolution Project Gutenberg's American Prisoners of the Revolution, by Danske Dandridge |
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DAR Library Daughters of the American Revolution-Biographies, Histories, Genealogies and much more. Also see The DAR's Genealogical Records Committee and Preservation of Historic Records http://grc.dar.org/dar/darnet/grc/grc.cfm?Action=New_Search |
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American Revolution Forum Genealogy.com American Revolution Forum. |
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NARA Military Resources: American Revolution NARA Military Resources: American Revolution |
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Loyalist Revolutionary War Links Loyalist Revolutionary War Links. |
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History, Records, Genealogies -- Revolutionary War Virginia Genealogy: A Guide to Genealogical Resources at the University of Virginia. |
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Research at Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada holds a variety of sources relating to the United Empire Loyalists who settled in Canada after the American Revolution (1775-1783). |
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Archives of Pennsylvania Revolutionary War military Abstract Card File. |
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American Revolutionary War Soldiers & Their Descendants Web pages that contain an email address and/or URL of descendants or persons who can give you some background on the revolutionary soldier that is listed in the Surname index. |
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Valley Forge Muster Roll Automated record of nearly 30,000 soldiers who served at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. |
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SAR Resources SAR (Sons of the American Revolution) Revolutionary War Graves Register on CDROM contains more than 140,000 names and burial locations of soldiers, sailors and civilian Patriots of the Revolutionary War, as well as many of their spouses. The majority of records also contain various details on birth, death, type of service, state served and township. SAR Patriot Index includes information on over 732,000 people named in SAR applications. |
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NARA Military Resources: Civil War NARA Military Resources: Civil War. |
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NARA Military Resources: World War II NARA Military Resources: World War II |
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NARA Military Resources: World War I NARA Military Resources: World War I |
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Early Canadiana Online Early Canadiana Online is a digital library containing 2,243,358 pages in 13,941 volumes. |
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History of the Battle of Camden The site has a verified list of the individuals present on both the U.S. and British sides at the battle near Camden August 15 & 16, 1780. Documents by participants and contemporaries, Battle in perspective and much much more. |
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Honoring The Ones Before Me Covering Surnames: Burdette, Rudd, Vaughn, White, Newman, McDonald, Blackstone, Cliett, Helterbrand, Bowman, Teague, Roach, Dye, Johnson, Walls, Lowery, Cox, Fulgham, Williams, Parnell, Purcell, Montgomery, Smitherman, Boyd, Splawn, Sims, Sherrill, Corzine, Preston, Overton, Winston |
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Elder Family Researchers They cover many Elder lines. They also have a Elder forums area http://www.familytrail.com/elder/bb/ |
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Troy's Genealogue Family histories for: ANDREWS, BARRETT, BONHAM, BEAMAN, CERINI, CHAPMAN, CONVERSE, FISHER, GOODWIN, GOSS, GREELEY, KESTER, MALUGANI, MAUGANS, MCNEIL, MILLER (MUELLER), POOLE, SIKORSKI, VAN WERMER, WARGIN and WILLIAMS. Lots of other information as well. |
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UK BMD UK Birth, Marriage and Death certificates. |
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Swiss Roots Swiss heritage, swiss made products, etc. |
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Swiss Genealogy Swiss genealogy. |
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California Pioneer Project The California Pioneer List (CPL) is a list of settlers to California who migrated to or were born in California prior to 1880 (included in the 1880 California Census). |
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National Archives Locations National Archives Locations by State/Territory. |
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Marin History Museum Marin History Museum celebrates the traditions of innovation and creativity of the people of Marin County. Through exhibitions and educational programs, the museum inspires honor for the past, an understanding of the present, and an imagination of the future. |
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New Almaden Quicksilver Museum New Almaden Quicksilver County Park. Come and see our beautiful park and learn about its wildlife, and many historic photographs, writings, relics and landmarks. |
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Sicilian Surnames Search Engine Search for Sicilian surnames with this search engine to possibly locate specific information. You will find the province with the towns where the surname occurs, and an estimate of the number of individuals having the surname. |
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Italian Genealogy Online Do your own free Genealogical Research for your Italian ancestors & surnames from Italy. Discover your immigrant Italian Family Tree Heritage. Free Italy Roots & Ancestral Research Website & Italian Genealogy Message Board. |
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Joe's Italian Genealogy Joe's Italian Genealogy. Useful starting points for exploring your Italian heritage |
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Ticino Genealogy If you have ever wondered about your Swiss-Italian ancestors and where they actually came from in Switzerland, there's a very good chance it was from the most southern Canton of Ticino or Tessin or Tesino, particularly if the surname has an 'Italian' look to it |
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The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) is the only scholarly association devoted to the study of ethnicity and nationalism from Europe to Eurasia. |
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Italian Ancestry Many links to Italian related websites for genealogy. |
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Italian American Cultural Organization Honoring Families Who Emigrated to America from Southern Italy and Sicily. Information on Italian birth, marriage and death certificates and Italian genealogical information. |
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Swiss Archive The link is in German. You can use a link translator to see the information in English. |
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Saving Swiss Graves A collaborative effort of cemetery preservation advocates working to increase public awareness and activism in preserving, protecting and restoring endangered and forgotten historic cemeteries worldwide. |
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Swiss Surname Navigator Search all these at once! (there is one draw back it opens multiple windows for each search) LDS Switzerland, All Databases Geneanet Switzerland US UK CAN census (Born in Switzerl.) Google News Gen. Switzerland Swiss passengers NY, 1892-1924 Google genealogy Switzerland White Pages Switzerland E-mail Finder Switzerland Genforum Switzerland Rootsweb M. Board Switzerland RSL Switzerland |
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Sonogno, Verzasca, Canton Ticino, Switzerland Page is in Italian so you will need a translator for URLs to read in other languages. For English http://www.sonogno.com/gendata/en/index.html My cousins husband maintains this website. |
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SWITZERLAND MAILING LISTS List of Switzerland mailing lists. |
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Emigration from Wales Compilation of extracts to give researchers some ideas on how their ancestors may have got from Wales to where ever, and offer some advice on how to go about finding where "in Wales" they came from. |
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FamilyRecords.gov.uk This site aims to help you find the government records and other sources you need for your family history research. The site is divided into two main sections: Topics and Partners. In the topics section you will find information on Births, Marriages & Deaths, Census, Migration etc. In the partners section, you will find information on each member of the FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium. |
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National Archives of the UK Records of the UK govenment from Domesday to the present. |
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All Russia Family Tree We research surnames of people, connected with Russia, and their family trees. Now it is a kind of "Who is (and was) who in Russia" site with display of family links. |
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Jewish Belarus SIG Belarus SIG is to combine our resources of time, expertise and money to aid Jewish genealogy researchers with an interest in the gubernii (provinces) of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk, as well as in the Lida and Vileika uyezds (districts) of the Vilna gubernia. |
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GENEALOGY IN RUSSIA Mikhail Kroutikhin's THE GATEWAY TO GENEALOGY IN RUSSIA |
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Archives in Russia ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic information system for archival repositories in the Russian Federation, maintained in Moscow. |
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Russian Society of Historians Site is in Russian so you will need a URL translator. Russian society of historian- archivist (in abbreviated form: ROIA) |
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The Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) This site provides a forum for individuals and organizations focused on a single country or group of people to exchange information and be updated on developments in the field. While it primarily serves the interests of North Americans in tracing their lineages back to a European homeland, it welcomes members from all countries. |
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Belarus Genealogy Anyone doing the family tree search in a distant and relatively isolated informationaly Belarus will probably need this website at some point. |
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Society of Genealogy of Italian Switzerland You will need a URL translator as the page is in Italian. Local genealogy society in Switzerland including Frasco in the canton of Ticino. |
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The Medici Foundation To preserve and promote Italian-American and Italian heritage, culture and business. Their research focuses on Little Italy, NY. |
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Danish Roots For those searching for thier ancestors, as well as providing some links to on-line resources that feature databases of names and share some Danish history and culture. |
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Columbus Library in GA The Genealogy and Local History Department serves as the Chattahoochee Valley area's primary repository for genealogical and historical research materials. |
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The Scottish Genealogy Society The Society is a charity which exists to serve everyone who has an interest in Scottish genealogy. |
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Scots Roots All Scottish ancestry searches are free, and guaranteed successful or no payment is required. \We will prove it to you". You only pay them once they have located your ancestors. After they have done the search and located information they will tell you what they have found and the cost for the transcriptions of the records should you want the information."" |
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Slovak and Czech Genealogy Information to help you search your Czech, Bohemian, Moravian, Slovak, Lemko, or Carpatho-Rusyn family history and ancestry. |
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UK and Ireland Genealogy Large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. |
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society By working with the Oakville Library, we would like to give the community a chance to have their historical photos scanned and their oral histories recorded to preserve them for future generations. We would like to inform Oakville's citizens, many of whom are new to the area, about the rich history of Trafalgar Township. We would like to celebrate our area's rural roots and give the community, especially the children, a tangible way to connect with the past. We would like to engage the public in the need to preserve buildings of historical significance. |
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Milton's Historical Society Milton Historical Society in Milton ON, Canada |
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Ontario Historical Society Provides a forum for individuals, organizations and institutions to exchange ideas, research and experiences related to the rich history of the province, including artifacts, architecture, folklore, social history, archives and archaeology. |
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Castle Garden Database on about 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. |
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Ellis Island Search passenger arrival lists. |
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Ireland's Historical Mapping Archive Between 1829 and 1842 Ordnance Survey Ireland completed the first ever large-scale survey of an entire country. Acclaimed for their accuracy, these maps are regarded by cartographers as amongst the finest ever produced. OSi has captured this and later mapping data in a digitised format. Through this website you can view and download this data or place an order for delivery by post. |
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Sicilian Dictionary Has Sicilian and English. |
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Genealogical Word Lists Genealogical Word Lists: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. |
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Letter Writing Guide for different Languages Czech, Slovak, Finland, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish Letter-Writing Guides. |
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The Regional Archives Leiden To get an English version. Click Digitale Stamboom (Family Tree); and then the Union Jack this will give you the English version. To do a search click 'Zoeken' (Search). For example, you can find Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke's marriage information: Groom: Franchoys Couck, Bride Hester Mahieu, Date of license 04-07-1603 (July 4, 1603), Place: Leiden. |
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Land Office Grants for Virginia Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys - A fully-searchable index to: land patents issued prior to 1779; land grants issued by the Virginia Land Office after 1779; grants issued in the Northern Neck from 1692-1862; and original and recorded Northern Neck surveys. Images for the land patents, Land Office grants, Northern Neck grants, and recorded Northern Neck surveys (1786-1874) are available online. The unrecorded Northern Neck surveys prior to 1782 are available on microfilm. The main URL to the Library of Virginia is http://www.lva.lib.va.us |
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Palatines to America On-line postings of immigrants to the United States from German-speaking areas of Europe, including the places of origin in Europe for many of the immigrants. |
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The Danish Emigration Archives Search emigration lists compiled by the Copenhagen Police from 1869 to 1908. Go to Databases. |
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FreeSurnameSearch.com World Wide Directory of Free Genealogy Databases and Record Transcriptions. |
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A to Z Surname Links at ABCgenealogy.com You will find links to information on Adoptions, Genetics and Heredity, Royalty and Nobility, and Surnames plus more. |
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Genealogy in the News Keep current on worldwide news regarding genealogy. |
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National Library of Scotland Especially useful is 19th century town plans of Scotland. |
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University of Edinburgh Parish information is very helpful especially the statistical accounts of Scotland, 1799 and 1845. |
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Ordance Survey-the national mapping agency of Great Britain View United Kingdom using Get-a-Map link. This lets you search for maps anywhere in the UK. |
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Irish Genealogical Society International (IGSI) Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry. |
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International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH) Good site for anyone doing British ancestry. |
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Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society They preserve African-ancestored family history, genealogy, and cultural diversity. |
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The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Was founded in 1869 to collect and make available information on genealogy, biography and history, particularly as it relates to the people of New York State. |
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Royal Genealogies People with a listed surname are indexed under that surname; others are indexed by first name. Princes and monarchs are always indexed by first name, even if they are also indexed by surname. In general, people are not indexed by title ("King of England, Duke of Rutland") |
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International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists The International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists internationally recognized as ICAPGen sets standards for the genealogical community through comprehensive written and oral examinations. |
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Board for Certification of Genealogists® To foster public confidence in genealogy as a respected branch of history by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics among genealogical practitioners, and by publicly recognizing persons who meet that standard. |
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