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You can get a list of names, addresses, phones, birthdates, relatives residing in the United States from www.mypoll.us by just entering the person’s name! This is great!. A report matching your search data is then emailed to you. They can even find people by just entering a first name or just a last name with date of birth! You can search just a city, state or entire U.S.

This would allow you to search for your ancestors who have various spellings such as Romanyk, Romanec, Romanek, Romanic, Romaneck, Romanich, Romaniec, Romaniuc, Romaniuk, Romanuck, Romanych, Romanyuk and Romanetz.
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Everyone loves Santa Claus. Robert Rion (1944-2003) did and he resembled Santa too. He loved playing the part so much that according to his obituary he “went to court to change his name to match that of his look-alike folklore hero”. (Deerfield Review (IL) - September 4, 2003). Rion, as Santa, “dispensed good advice to […]

I got the opportunity to use the new Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut last night. This CD-ROM has just been released by Genealogical Publishing Company and is compared to the 55 volume Barbour Collection, also published by GPC. The following three paragraphs are the publisher’s description of the product.
“The Ricker Compilation of […]

The 1897-1920 Michigan Death Records, a brand-new resource that is available at the Library of Michigan, will benefit family history researchers across the state. The Library of Michigan is able to provide these records thanks to a generous gift from the Michigan Genealogical Council and the Abrams Foundation.
“This records set supplements the Library’s existing vital […]

The following news release highlights the launch of over 13,000 geo-coded Scots deaths records at the new WorldVitalRecords.com website. This unique set of Scottish Death Records was extracted from parish records of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Specific parishes include Cockpen, Midlothian; Cranston; Crichton; Dalkeith; Dunfermline, Fife; Edinburgh; Fala; Gladsmuir; Heriot; Humbie; Newbattle; Pencaitland, Midlothian; […]

Campbell County, Wyoming is probably best known for the city of Gillette, a city of about 25,000 on Interstate 90 between Sheridan, Wyoming and Spearfish, South Dakota. The county has some excellent online resources - as follows:
The Campbell County Public Library website has several online databases.
Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Obituary databases have been posted […]

The book contains the known historical material of the Centennial, Brookside, Beech Grove, and Summit Methodist Episcopal Churches of Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. There are some large gaps in the material.
The wedding records include information from 1872 to present. Listed may be the name of the bride and groom, address, minister, place of […]

The Wells County Public Library in Bluffton, Indiana has two online resources that genealogists need to be aware of. First, they have an online Bluffton Obituary Index that runs from 1866 through the year 2000. Second, the Cemetery Index for Wells County, also accesssible online.
The Indiana room houses a number of excellent genealogy references, […]

The Huntington Library in San Marino, California has just launched a major new online database. The searchable database makes accessible the records of about 101,000 baptisms, 28,000 marriages and 71,000 burials performed in California between 1769 and 1850.
According to the website, “The Early California Population Project (ECPP) provides public access to all the information contained […]

New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: Ralls County, Missouri – 2818 Deaths Reported in & Chronological Index to Selected Articles From The Ralls county Record (Includes 956 Marriages) 25 June 1865 to 30 June 1911 – Volume 1.
The weekly Ralls County Record was a condensed copy of articles from national and state […]

At one time, the U.S. Federal Census included a mortality schedule enumerating the individuals who had died in the previous year. These documents exist for the years 1850 through 1880. Although many of the original documents reside in various archives, a good number have been microfilmed and are available through NARA - and now of […]

New Book Announcement:
The full title of the book is: Monroe County, Missouri – 4506 Deaths Reported in & Chronological Index to Selected Articles From The Monroe County Appeal (Includes 2782 Marriages) 3 January 1896 – 26 December 1913 – Volume 4.
The weekly Monroe County Appeal reported on the people and events in and around Paris […]

New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: Monroe County, Missouri – 4204 Deaths Reported in & Chronological Index to Selected Articles From The Monroe County Appeal (Includes 1637 Marriages) 24 February 1874 to 27 December 1895 – Volume 3.
The weekly Monroe County Appeal reported on the people and events in Monroe county and […]

New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: 18th Century Records of the German Lutheran Church of Philadelphia (St. Michael’s and Zion) Volume 4: Marriages and Confirmations
Volume 4 includes marriages recorded from 1745 through 1800 and Confirmations recorded from 1745 through 1769 and 1786.
By Robert L. Hess, Ph.D.; 2005; 5.5×8.25; 391 pp; softbound; Order […]

The following is a teaser from an extensive article written by Jackie Burrell. I found the article to be revealing and of interest to me - as a Genealogist.
IT SOUNDS like a script for a Hollywood movie or some new reality show — a granite vault stacked with precious books and more than a million […]

According to a short article in the Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake County, Utah Death records 1847-1949, and births as early as 1890 have been digitized and will be online in about a year.
…Salt Lake County has partnered with the Genealogical Society of Utah to make digital copies of more than 100,000 of the county’s […]

You can now check the marriage indexes for Multnomah County, Oregon - 1855 through 1904 - Online and order copies of the original documents (by mail) - and the docs are only $5!
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon Library is the home to many of the original Multnomah County marriage books & indexes. When the […]

In playing a bit more at the WorldVitalRecords.com website, I see that besides the 77 millon Social Security Death Index items, the site also has three other indexes that I didn’t comment on.
Note that the searches are done in the boxes found at the top of the home page. It’s easy to skim right over […]

Anyone compiling local history must go check out the new World Vital Records website. Paul Allen - known as being one of the founders of MyFamily.com, has just posted data that will revolutionize at least a portion of our local history research. The initial announcement was made on the fourth of July, but it took […]

I just blogged about the Missouri Death Records website - and folks have been hitting that blog like crazy! Now more information has come out about the success of the site. How about over a million vistors in five weeks? Following is an excerpt from an AP article.
A database of Missouri death certificates that went […]