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Beginners
- Starting Points:
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Beginner's Guide to
Genealogy in Seven Easy Steps -
from Heritage Quest
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Roots Web's Guide to Tracing
Family Trees -
Great links for beginners
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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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All public libraries in Michigan have access to
Ancestry
Library edition, which contains the US Census from 1790-1930.
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1820 Macomb County
Census - online
transcription
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1830 Macomb
County Census - online
transcription
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1870 Michigan Census
Online Index - provided
by Library of
Michigan
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Abstract forms for
census records - blank
forms for each census year
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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
Heritage Quest
NOTE: Every
public library in the State of
Michigan has a subscription to Heritage
Quest, paid for by the Library of Michigan. Details on remote
access will be coming soon.
As of October 1, 2007, the Warren Public
Library no longer has free access to Ancestry Library Edition.
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24/7 Family History Circle (hosted by Ancestry.com) - "Your address for
family history on the web"
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The Genealogy Home Page - Often included in top ten/best
genealogy sites on the Internet lists |
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Mining Company -
Genealogy page
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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 - find a
Family
History
Center
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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
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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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Geographic
Names Information Service (GNIS) - for places in the U.S.
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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
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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
Everton's
Genealogical Helper - currently under renovation, unavailable. 9/4/2006
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.
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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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