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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => US Resources & Offers => Topic started by: Ohio Susan on Monday 22 January 07 15:24 GMT (UK)
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http://www.footnote.com/
Footnote is a web site that makes historical documents available.
Southern Claims Commission
Naturalization Records 1792-1966 - Petitions and Declarations for NY, PA, MA
Pennsylvania Archives 1625-1880 (a FREE database)
Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789
Papers of the Constitutional Convention 1787
Civil War Pensions Index 1865-1899
Mathew B. Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs
Bureau of Investigation 1908-1922
Basic Membership is available free of charge. The free membership allows you to access all of the Pennsylvania Archives collection and to look at all member-contributed web pages. Finally, you can search through all the databases to find information and to see a tiny thumbnail image of the documents found. To view a full document, however, will require payment of $1.99 (U.S. funds) per image
Read more at:
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/01/footnotecom_for.html
Susan
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I'd heard about it Susan and thought ..... "oh no not another one " !!
but it really looks like it will be a tremendous help to us doesn't it ??
Thank you for posting !!
Annie :) :)
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I've just seen this!
"WWII records are free for the month of December"
http://go.footnote.com/wwii/
Handy if you are looking for a WWII U.S. soldier.
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Footnote are offering free access to all census records for a period of time
http://go.footnote.com/discover/?xid=641
gormangenealogy
Dublin, Ire
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Footnote are offering free access to all census records for a period of time
http://go.footnote.com/discover/?xid=641
Content of census records vary greatly- 1900 = 5 %, 1910 = 3 %, 1920 = 3 %, etc.
http://go.footnote.com/census/?iid=642
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Not all naturalisation records have been indexed yet either.
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I used this for 2 full years, and I found a great deal of information. There were passport applications and naturalizations that were complete and contained a wealth of information, but the the single greatest find was a Civil War Navy Widow's Pension! 75 pages of information that solved many riddles, and this record was not available any place else. The city directories are helpful, again depending upon the area of interest. What suprised me was the Revolutionary War pension files: through one data base, I'd received on average 8 pages per pension, and I thought they were complete files. They were not. I've found two that are over 50 pages (sorry, don't recall the number). It helps to search before buying to see what's available.
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Free limited access
http://go.footnote.com/civilwar/
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Free Access to the Civil War Collection on Footnote.com
April 7th to 14
http://go.footnote.com/civilwar/?xid=1007
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Ancestry also have Civil War Records available 7-14 April-
http://www.ancestry.com/civilwar_sub?o_iid=47668&o_lid=47668
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Footnote is now www.fold3.com, and they have their WWII collection accessible for free through Apr. 30.
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Fold 3 is giving free access to its Confederate Civil War records for the month of April.
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Fold 3 has their Black History Collection free for the month of February. http://blog.fold3.com/access-the-black-history-records/
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Fold 3 has free access to their WWII collection through May 15 - http://blog.fold3.com/free-access-to-the-world-war-ii-collection-2/