Below and on the previous and following pages are all of our search tips - they are not categorized and are in the order in which they were added to this site.
If you are looking for the birth date of a male who was living in the United States between June, 1917 and September, 1918 you might try looking for a copy of his World War I Draft Registration Card.
All males born between 1872 and 1900 were required to register for the draft and the birth date was one of the questions.
If you are looking for the birth date of a male who was living in the United States in 1942 you might try looking for a copy of his World War II Draft Registration Card.
All males born between April 28, 1877 and February 16, 1897 were required to register for the draft and the birth date was one of the questions. See our discussion of Military Records for additional information.
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If you are looking for the country of birth of an immigrant to the United States try looking in the US Census. If you can't find the immigrant in the US Census look for his or her children in the US Census.
You can find the father's place of birth and the mother's place of birth in many census years - 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1930.
If you can't find any cemetery records try the funeral home's website. More and more funeral homes publish obituaries and other information about deceased individuals on their websites.
On these sites you might find some cemetery records as well as photos of the deceased, comments in the deceased's guestbook, life stories, a life timeline and more.
Think of an event that is part your family history - a birth, high school graduation, college graduation, marriage, death or other event. Then find a local newspaper that was published at the time of the event.
More and more historical newspapers are now indexed by keywords including surnames. So just enter the surname for the year or other date that interests you and search the historical newspaper database.
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Think of an historical event that affected members of your family - like World War I, World War II or other military conflicts. Or perhaps the 1918 flu pandemic (the Spanish Flu) that killed over 50 million people worldwide.
More and more historical newspapers are now indexed by keywords. So just enter the historical event that interests you and search the historical newspaper database.
To facilitate the ordering of copies of death certificates many states provide a free online index of death dates. So a person can search the state's records to find the death date of an ancestor before ordering a copy of his or her death certificate.
Users of these indexes are not required to buy a copy of a death certificate. So you can use a state index to try and find an ancestor's death date - then with the death date you can try to find an obituary in a local newspaper or use the death date in some other way.
In many cases you can find the death date of a deceased US citizen in the Social Security Death Index. In some cases the exact date may not be availanle but at minimum the month and year of death will be provided.
The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) provides information about deceased people who had registered with Social Security and this list includes many people who born before 1900. See our discussion of the Social Security Death Index.
You can usually find residence information for a deceased US citizen in the Social Security Death Index. You will find the county and state of the deceased's "Last Place of Residence".
The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) provides information about deceased people who had registered with Social Security - many people born before 1900 had registered. See our discussion of the Social Security Death Index.
If you are looking for the residence of a male who was living in the United States between June, 1917 and September, 1918 you might try looking for a copy of his World War I Draft Registration Card.
All males born between 1872 and 1900 were required to register for the draft and place of residence questions were on the form. You should be able to find his residence street name and number, city, county and state. See our discussion of Military Records for additional information.