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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: [NEWGEN] Genealogists can find ancestors in federal materials
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 05:17:22 -0700

Genealogists can find ancestors in federal materials, including military,
immigration, land, and Social Security records. As you widen your search,
The following Web sites may be helpful:

· Some military pension abstracts: www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/

· Civil War soldiers and sailors: www.itd.nps.gov/cwss

· Confederate pension information: www.nara.gov/genealogy/confed.html

· Ellis Island passenger arrivals, 1892-1924: www.ellisislandrecords.org

· Federal land patents for some states: www.glorecords.blm.gov under "Search
Land Patents"

· Social Security Death Index, 1937 forward: www.ancestry.com under
Search>Record Type> Birth, Marriage, & Death Records"

· Social Security history and information: www.ssa.gov

· Microfilm of National Archives records: www.nara.gov/genealogy/ under
Microform Catalogs and Finding Aids"

· Articles on African-American research:
www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/aframpro.html


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