Genealogy Safari

06/19/2016

I was out looking for records for Phelps County, Missouri obituaries and came across this page. Take a look in case you have someone from this county!

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mophelps/obits/obituaries.htm

08/16/2015

I have come across a website that everyone might find useful. It is called the Ancestor Hunt at www.ancestorhunt.com. It has a link to all states and several free search engines you can use.

Search for your family surnames in this large collection of free genealogy search engines including Mormon Church (LDS) records, Ellis Island records search, Social Security Death Index, free ancestry search, newspaper obituaries, Obituary Search Portal, census records, prison records, ship passenge…

07/09/2015

I have come across another website where another genealogist is including obituaries, marriages, etc. that he has come across. There is a mixture of states here so it is worth taking a look at if you are having trouble finding someone.

www.elmersgenealogycorner.com

Elmer's Genealogy Corner is operated by Elmer C. Spear Founder of Elmer's Genealogy Library in Madison, Florida.

07/03/2015

I had heard of the website Elephind, but I hadn't really explored it until today. It is a free website for newspaper searches. I was pleased to find a Columbia, Missouri newspaper here. Check it out!

www.elephind.com

Search free historic newspaper archives from Chronicling America (United States), Trove (Australia), and many more.

06/29/2015

I am working on a case that has taken me to the state of Arkansas. I came across a website where people have submitted their family group sheets and their pedigree charts to the Arkansas Genealogical Society. There is an index by year that is searchable. If you are stuck on someone you might try looking for them here.

http://www.agsgenealogy.org/databases/default.html

Arkansas Genealogical Society

05/01/2015

If you are looking for someone in Pulaski County, Missouri, someone is doing a really good job of posting the obituaries from this county in a blog. You will need to click on the arrow to the left of the month/year, then it will open the obituaries that were posted that month. If you go further down you will see Labels with the years underneath. If you know when the person died, just click on the year to see what they have posted from that year.

http://pulaskicountyobits.blogspot.com/

An online repository of Pulaski County obituaries for genealogical research. Home to 1400+ obituaries, relating to Pulaski County, Missouri between the years 1878-2012. Serving the towns of Big Piney, Bloodland, Dixon, Laquey, Swedeborg, Crocker, Gascozark, Richland, Hanna, Waynesville, Decker, Trib…

04/14/2015

For those of you researching in Linn County, Missouri, I found a register of births for this county from the 1800's. I hope that it helps some of you doing research here.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~molinn/birthreg.html

An Act to provide for the registering of births was approved 21 Mar 1863 by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri.--These registers were poorly kept, and there are few in existence today. The records here given were microfilmed by the compilers in the Office of the County Clerk at Linneus, M…

04/03/2015

Today I was looking for another divorce record in Jackson County, Missouri. I called and they directed me to the form that needs to be filled out and sent in. In case any of you may need it in the future, here it is.

http://www.16thcircuit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/Civil_Records/Civil_Records_Misc_Forms/copyreq-02-18-2011.pdf

04/03/2015

I was looking for a divorce record for Craig County, Oklahoma and discovered an index online that gives you the party names and the case numbers.

https://okcountyrecords.com/search/craig

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03/27/2015

I found an index of probate for Scotland County, Missouri for 1842-1892. It doesn't take you to any images or dates, but it at least will let you know if your family member's probate record is there.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~moscotla/Probate/ProbateIndex1842-1892.html

03/23/2015

For those of you with ancestors in Greene County, Missouri, their archives has been working on an index of property buyers and sellers for 1833-1877. This could give you confirmation of your ancestors location during this timeframe.

http://www.greenecountymo.org/archives/deed_records.php

We would take the real estates indexes, which were mostly on microfilm, and arrange them into an everyname alphabetical listing. It seemed so simple.

03/18/2015

For those of you looking for birth records in Dallas County, Missouri, I have found a free index for those born 1883-1889.

http://genealogytrails.com/mo/dallas/births-index.html