Genealogy
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Learn how to search genealogy records to find people, anywhere – FREE! We’ll teach you the very best ways to search genealogy records to find:
- Lost Family Members
- Birth Parents
- Adoptee (s)
- Missing Persons
- Missing Heirs
Ancestry.com
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Cook County Genealogy Online
Some genealogy searches on this website are free and some genealogy searches require a small fee.
Cemetery Finder
A free online library of burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world, for historical and genealogy records research.
Find A Grave
This site allows you to search for famous and infamous people. You can obtain a picture of the cemetery, the gravesite and in many instances biographical information on the deceased person.
Genealogy Today
Over 3,720 genealogy records sources including Masonic lodge rosters, funeral notices, school catalogues, yearbooks, telephone directories, church member lists and more.
News Archives – USA
This web site has an extensive menu of individual newspapers with searchable online archives. Many of the searches are free. This can be a very helpful tool to find people if you suspect their name has been published in a newspaper or news source. Please note: Make sure you click on the “archive site” link and not the “paper” link when searching.
Here is one additional link to find daily and weekly US newspapers known to have a web site. This site is very user friendly, although there are no provided direct links for searching archives: Search US Newspapers
Obituary Search
You have to pay a small fee (less than $3.00) to conduct a genealogy records search for a deceased person here. But, the beauty of this site is that you can search first, see if you obtain an obituary match, and then pay for the result.
Rootsweb
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Social Security Death Index
The Social Security Death Index is provided by the U.S. Social Security Administration who maintains a Death Master File.
You can search the Death Index by entering one or more fields in the form and clicking the submit button. You’ll receive better, more accurate results by restricting the number of fields you input. For instance, if you submit just a name you will obtain every listing in the index. However, if you submit a name and a year of birth, you will only obtain records on persons whose name and year of birth were indexed. Some years of birth may not be in the Death Master File. So, whenever possible, use the simple form to conduct searches.
Please note that not every death is indexed. Several reasons why a name may be excluded are:
- The death was not reported to the Social Security Administration.
- The death occurred before the Death Master File was entered into a computer database–this started around 1962.
- The person did not participate in the Social Security program.
- Survivor death benefits were or are being paid to dependents.
- A recent death may not yet be indexed.
- Human error when data entering.
For additional information on searching The Social Security Death Index, please visit: Rootsweb’s Social Security Death Index: Definition of Fields and Search Tips
World Vital Records
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