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Beginners
- Starting Points:
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Roots Web's Guide to Tracing
Family Trees -
Great links for beginners
NEW - RootsTelevision -
"Where History Meets Heritage" - videos of television shows,
interviews, lectures and more.
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NEW - Blogs:
(blog
(short for
weblog) is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and
intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format:
a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order.)
Ancestry.com Blog
- "Your address for
family history on the web"
Footnote
Genealogy Blog Finder
Genealogy Lines
Cemeteries:
Macomb County Cemetery
Master Index -
A searchable database and "guide to the
cemetery transcription work which has been done by
Macomb
County's genealogy
organizations."
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Census, U.S.
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As of October 1, 2008, all four Warren libraries have access to Ancestry
Library edition (in library use only), from the Magazines and Online
Databases listings. Ancestry has the Federal Census from 1790-1930.
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1930 Census Resources for Genealogists online source for all
census information (not just 1930 census), including federal, state and
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Abstract forms for
census records - blank
forms for each census year
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Heritage Quest
- search census records in the library and from home using this database |
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Surname to Soundex Code Converter -
Enter your surname and convert
it to Soundex coding
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Directories:
several "best of the
best" or comprehensive sites
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NEW
- Footnote
- Genealogy in Historical Documents -
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Archives.com - A privately-owned, for
profit web site. Used to be the Genealogy Home Page, often included in top ten/best
genealogy sites on the Internet lists |
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RootsWeb - One of the
genealogical pioneers of the Internet, with extensive holdings and links.
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Treasure Maps -
the "How-To Genealogy WWW
Site"
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US GenWeb Project
- A web page for
each county in every state provided by volunteer genealogists - a
great place to start
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Family History Centers: (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
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Family
History Centers - use this to find a
Family
History
Center near you
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Family Search -
a searchable database of the
International Genealogical Index, Ancestral File and more!
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Forms:
Family Tree
Magazine - download free charts and
forms to keep your genealogical research organized.
Genealogy charts and
forms - (from
Ancestry.com)
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Immigration:
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Castle Garden -
Passenger lists of
10 million immigrants who passed through Castle
Garden from 1830 through 1913.
Castle
Garden is known today as Castle
Clinton National Monument,
a major landmark within Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan..
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Ellis Island -
American
Family
Immigration
History
Center
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Primer of Emigration, Immigration,
etc - created
by the Polish Genealogical Society
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Local Genealogical Societies
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Detroit Genealogical Society
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Macomb County Genealogy Group -
see: Mount Clemens
Public Library genealogy page
Warren Historical and Genealogical
Society
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Geography:
City
Search - Find
the county a city is located in by either browsing through all the cities
for a selected state or type the name of the city in the space provided.
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How Far is It? -
Distance between locations in
miles (as the crow flies) Service provided by Bali Online
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United
Kingdom and Ireland Parish Finder
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International
Resources: (a sampling)
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CANADA
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FINLAND
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GERMANY
- Germany
GenWeb
This site is designed as a resource for
genealogists researching their German ancestors
within the present political border of the Federal Republic of
Germany, with links to sites of former German areas.
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GREAT BRITAIN
(England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)
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ITALY
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POLAND
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UKRAINE
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WORLD
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World GenWeb - Global starting point for genealogical research,
narrowing down by regions, countries, states, provinces, districts and
counties.
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Libraries online:
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Allen County Public Library -
Click on Genealogy or check
their library catalog. This renowned collection contains more than 220,000
printed volumes and 251,000 items of microfilm and microfiche
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Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR) Library -
Click on "Online Library Catalog" to search
their library for specific titles
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Detroit Public Library -
The Burton
Historical Collection is one of the most important genealogical and
local history collections in the country - and just minutes away.
"Genealogical
materials include: federal census population schedules, family histories,
cemetery inscriptions, church records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths,
military records, hereditary society indexes, heraldry books, immigration
records, probate indexes and records, vital records, obituaries, land
records."
Check the
Detroit Public Library
Catalog.
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The Library of Congress -
Search their catalogs and
collections, this page also includes information on how to use their
gateway to catalogs of over 220 libraries in the
United States.
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Library of
Michigan - Abrams
Foundation Historical Collection: Genealogy and Local History. You
can also look at their library catalog to
see what materials they own.
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Mount Clemens Public Library -
Includes a page devoted to their
Genealogy Collection and Services
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Roseville Public Library - Soundex
collection "Through an LSCA Title I Grant, the Roseville Public Library
has acquired 876 reels of Soundex microfilm. This
collection contains the Soundex microfilms for
ALL the Federal Population schedules for
Michigan, for which a Soundex was created. These include the 1880 (73 reels),
1900 (259 reels), 1910 (253 reels), and 1920 (291 reels) Censuses. If your
ancestors were in
Michigan for any of these Census years,
the Soundex will help you locate them on the
Census microfilm."
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Macomb County:
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Macomb County GenWeb
- This valuable
site is extremely well-organized, and information is added frequently
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Macomb County Surname
List - Check
this out if your family is from
Macomb
County
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Macomb County Cemetery
Master Index
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Macomb County Obituary
Index
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Magazines/Newsletters:
Eastman's Online
Genealogy Newsletter
Family
Tree Magazine
Michigan:
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Michigan GenWeb
Project - search
for the county your family lived in for local records and information
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Biographical
index (Macomb County) -
Index of Macomb County entries found in
Michigan
Biographies
Michigan Family History Network
- Using the Databases pull-down menu, look under Military for
information on Michigan soldiers in the Civil War, Spanish-American War and
World War II. Researcher-submitted resources include family group sheets and
birth, marriage and death records.
NEW
Seeking Michigan - The
Library of Michigan and Archives of Michigan began work on this site in
2008. Among many valuable resources, there is an online Michigan Death
Records 1897-1920 with the digitized image of the death certificate.
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Military:
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Macomb
County (MI) Draft Index for WWI
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Record of Macomb County Soldiers and Sailors in
Service in the Great War (WWI)
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