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FamilySearch: FamilySearch free resources help millions of people around the world discover their heritage and connect with family members. Find a Grave : Search millions of grave records worlwide. Digital Library of Free Surname Books. A Collection of Unusual Epitaphs. Funny, original, curious, quaint, touching, poetic, telling graveyard litterature. Browse by location or by surname. List of Most Common Surnames. Most common surnames in countries around the world. Rodovid. Rodovid uses state-of-the-art family tree building technology to organize genealogical information on living and deceased relatives and the relationships among them into a cohesive family tree. Rodovid is free and open to everyone. Visitors are welcome to contribute information and publish it on this website at any time. Genealogy.com: A source for family history buffs to find genealogical research originally posted in GenForum and genealogy articles. Books We Own : A Free Look-Up Resource for International Genealogical Research Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. The Central Database of Holocaust Victims is an international undertaking led by Yad Vashem, from Jerusalem. It is the attempt to reconstruct the names and life stories of all the Jews who perished in the Shoah. Yizkor Books Online : 650 of the 700 postwar yizkor (Holocaust memorial) books at The New York Public Library are accessible online in their entirety. World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms, 1534-1983. Index to selected World Miscellaneous births and baptisms. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. This set contains 616,743 records. World Miscellaneous Deaths and Burials, 1767-1950. Index to selected World Miscellaneous deaths and burials. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. This collection contains 15,269 records. World Miscellaneous Marriages, 1662-1945. Index to selected World Miscellaneous marriages. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. Rulers : This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries, as well as a selection of international organizations. Table of Common Surname Variations & Surname Misspellings (archived website : may be incomplete, unavailable or slow to respond). These tables contain more than 10,500 surname variations and misspellings that inGeneas researchers have encountered. inGeneas specialises in Canadian passenger and immigration records. Obituary Daily Times. The Obituary Daily Times is a daily index of published obituaries across the world. The archives are fully searchable online. Search the archives to find a publication date of an obit. You can then refer to the newspaper to get a copy of it (at the library or directly with the newspaper itself). Register of One-Name Studies. Each of the over 7900 surnames and variants listed in the register is currently registered by a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies as the subject of a one-name study. The member is therefore collecting all occurrences of the surname on a world-wide basis and contact information is provided. The War Graves Photographic Project. The initial aim of The War Graves Photographic Project was to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day and make these available within a searchable database. It has now been extended to cover all nationalities and military conflicts. YHRD - Y Chromosome Haplotype Reference Database : Y chromosomal profiling can trace back paternal lineages into the past and has thus been proven a useful tool in genealogical and kinship testing. This database is interactive and allows the user the search for Y-STR haplotypes in various formats and within specified metapopulations. Newspaper Abstracts Site Search. Thousands of pages newspaper abstracts from various countries contributed by visitors. Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. People at Sea (archived website). An index for references to any passengers who were on shipping vessels and/or were drowned/lost/survivors at sea, and are for the most are mentioned in articles of information from the Australian newspapers. Mariners Index (archived website): An index to references for mariners and seamen worldwide, mentioned in colonial Australian newspapers, pre 1900. Lost at Sea (archived website - may be unavailable, incomplete, or slow to respond). Alphabetical lists of names of those Lost At Sea - listed by province, state or country. Mainly Atlantic Canada, but also several US East Coast and other countries fishermen and mariners who were lost at sea. Behind the Name : The Etymology and History of First Names Daniel de Rauglaude's Database. Over nine million individuals: genealogies of European royal families from the 6th century to the present, French and US Presidents, Nobel price winners, and other celebrities. Dead People Server: Find out if a celebrity is dead or alive (not updated after early 2017). Surnames. Free online edition of this book by Bernard Homer Dixon tracing the etymology and meaning of surnames. Published in 1857. People who died as a result of a witchcraft accusation (Europe and America) (archived website - may be unavailable or slow to respond). The Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial. Located in Arlington, Virginia. The Freedom Forum’s Journalists Memorial lists the names of 2,355 reporters, editors, photographers and broadcasters who died covering the news between 1837 and 2019. World Wedding Bells Thru 1899: a place to research and post your marriages up to 1899 from your Family Histories. Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. The Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography is a public webresource that will ultimately contain hundreds of concise biographies of Unitarian and Universalist leaders and celebrated individuals whose religion was Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist. Over 400 biographies are currently online. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections : Close to 800,000 records in two databases: 1) For archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies located throughout North America and around the world; 2) For archival and manuscript collections in public, college and university, and special libraries located throughout North America and around the world. Encyclopedia Titanica. Titanic passenger and crew listings, over 2,400 individual passenger and crew biographies, and much more. The Official Academy Awards Database. The Academy Awards Database contains the record of past Academy Award winners and nominees. |
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