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About These Collections: 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