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• American Ancestors

  Web site of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Databases

    Members can search hundreds of unique searchable online collections, offering information on hundreds of millions of people.

  • NEHGS Library and Special Collections

• Ancestry.com - Search Birth Records, Death Records, Marriage Records and US Census Records

  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Search by locality or record type, including U.S. Census, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), PERSI, Ancestry World Tree and much more.

• FindYourFamilyTree.com

• Fold3 - Historical Military Records $

  Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

  • Fold3 Training Center

• GenealogyBank.com $

  Subscription based service from NewsBank Inc. Includes more than 214 million family history records from SSDI, modern obituaries, historical newspapers, historical books, and historical documents (military, land, etc.).

  • GenealogyBank.com - New Content $

    A synopsis of the new content added each month.

  • GenealogyBank.com - Search Historical Books 1801-1900 $

    Complete text of more than 11,700 books, pamphlets and printed items including: genealogies, biographies, funeral sermons, local histories, cards, charts and more - all published in the U.S. prior to 1900. New content added monthly.

    • GenealogyBank.com - Source List - Book Titles $

  • GenealogyBank.com - Search Historical Documents 1789-1980 $

    Find military records, casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow's claims, orphan petitions, land grants and much more including all of the American State Papers (1789-1838) and all genealogical content carefully selected from the U.S. Serial Set (1817-1980). More than 133,000 reports, lists and documents. New content added monthly.

  • GenealogyBank.com - Search Historical Newspapers 1690-1977 $

    108.6+ million articles, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements and other items published in more than 500,000 issues of over 2,400 historical U.S. newspapers. New content added monthly.

    • Source List - Newspapers - Title List

  • GenealogyBank.com - Search Over 23 million obituaries, 1977 to current $

    More than 26.6 million obituaries (the most complete collection from the 20th and 21st centuries) from more than 1,000 U.S. newspapers. New content added daily.

  • GenealogyBank.com - Search Social Security Death Index 1937-current ^FREE

    Search more than 81.1 million death records. This is the only SSDI site to be updated weekly.