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Genealogists and family historians use all sorts of historical records to locate information about their ancestry. Ancestry has divided our genealogical records into the following ten categories.
Census
  Images and Indexes of U.S. Federal Census, Tax Lists
Birth, Marriage & Death
  Vital Records from the U.S., Cananda, and UK/Ireland
Family Trees
  Pedigrees, Message Boards, Database Comments
Military
  Service & Pension Records, Military Histories
Immigration
  Passenger Lists, Naturalization, Emigration Records
Periodicals & Newspapers
  Historical Newspapers, Journals, Periodicals Indexes
Family & Local Histories
  Compiled Biographies, Local Histories, Slave Histories
Court, Land & Probate
  Land Grants, Wills, Case Files
Reference & Finding Aids
  Bibliographies, Maps, Catalogs, Reference Books
Directories & Member Lists
  City Directories, Telephone & Address Listings

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Family Trees
  Family Trees
  - OneWorldTree®
  - Public Member Trees
  - Personal Member Trees
Historical Records
  Census & Voter Lists
  - US Federal Census
  - 1940 Substitute
  - UK Census Collection
  - Canada Census Collection
  - more...
  Birth, Marriage & Death
  - Social Security Death Index
  - Obituaries - Updated
  - California Birth Index
  - more...
  Immigration & Emigration
  - New York Passenger Lists
  - U.S. Passport Applications
  - Canadian Border Crossings
  - more...
  Military
  - WWI Draft Registration Cards
  - U.S. Civil War Soldiers
  - U.S. Veterans Gravesites
  - more...
  Directories & Member Lists
  - City Directories - Updated
  - New York City Directory, 1890
  - British Phone Books
  - more...
  Court, Land, Wills & Financial
  - U.S. General Land Office Records
  - British Chancery Records
  - Texas Land Title Abstracts
  - more...
  Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference
  - BGMI
  - AGBI
  - Periodical Source Index
  - Historical Newspaper Collection
  - more...
Stories & Publications
  Newspapers & Periodicals
  - more...
  Stories, Memories & Histories
  - Public Member Stories
  - Slave Narratives
  - more...
Photos & Maps
  Pictures
  - US School Yearbooks
  - Public Member Photos
  Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
Special Collections
  - New York 400th Anniv - New
  - African American Collections
  - Jewish Family History
Other Resources
  - Family Facts
  - Surname Distribution
  - Place of Origin
  - NARA on Ancestry
  - more...
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