Jackson County
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More Local & Family History Resources

Directories To More Resources

Cyndi's List

 

Directories, Yearbooks, & More

 

Sources & Resources from ProGenealogists

 

Linkpendium

 

RootsWeb

 

US GenWeb

Compiled Family Histories

Family History Collection at Brigham Young University

 

Research Aids (free)

 

Census Form Column Headings 1790-1930

 

Census Enumeration Form questions 1850-2005

 

Citation Guide from ProGenealogists

 

Definitions, Occupations, Wars, & Diseases

 

Family Health History Initiative

 

Free Forms from Family Tree Magazine

 

Genealogy Learning Center

 

How To Use Search Engines for Genealogy

 

These Ancestors Cannot Be Displayed (a free bit of genealogical humor)

Local History Home

Ask the Local History Specialist

Free and For Fee

Ancestry (fee)

 

Death Indexes

 

FamilySearch from LDS (free)

 

Footnote (free & fee) historic documents and photographs from many eras

 

Genealogy Bank (fee) historical newspapers, documents, books

 

National Archives Online Databases

 

Newspaper Archive (fee) historical newspaper database

 

One-Stop Searches from Stephen P. Morse (free & fee)

 

Social Security Death Index from Rootsweb (free)

 

World Vital Records includes some birth, marriage & death records, other resources (fee)

 

Maps

Colonial Maps in Hargrett Collection at UofGA

 

Geography & Map Library at Indiana University Libraries

 

Google Maps to plan route to your research locations

 

Historical Maps & atlases in the Perry-Castenada Collection at UofTx

 

Historic Indiana Maps in IUPUI Digital Collections

 

Location Finder on Ancestor Search

 

Maps at the Library of Congress

 

National Atlas of Printable Maps to track your ancestors

 

USGS Using Maps in Genealogy

April 2010