ROOTS-L Resources: United States Resources

    For each state, where are the Family History Centers located? What books are there in the Library of Congress? How does one obtain vital records? Pointers to other interesting files and sites are also often included.

    [General] [Military] [State by State]
    USA, General
  • genealog.uscensus: For each federal census between 1790 and 1900, this article by LaVona L. Ness tells what information was collected. Comments are made about the limitations of the census.
  • genealog.qportlst: Supposedly an "OLD PORTS LISTING" (the wine? for ships?), this file seems instead to contain a list of books from the Library of Congress on-line catalog (see Library of Congress files for help on how to use the information referenced) that include the string "port" (as in "report" and "Davenport, Iowa" and "Portage Township" etc) and relate somehow to genealogy.
  • List of United States Counties: In four parts, a list of all the counties in the United States, plus the names of their county seats and the zip code of the county seat. States are in alphabetical order by their two letter postal abbreviation. (That is, Alaska, AK, comes before Alabama, AL, etc.)
    • genealog.uscount1: From Alaska through Illinois plus Adams County in Indiana.
    • genealog.uscount2: From Allen County in Indiana through Prentiss County, Mississippi.
    • genealog.uscount3: From Quitman County, Mississippi, through Saluda County, South Carolina. (A nice source for Pennsyvania are the GENCAP Counties Pages.)
    • genealog.uscount4: From Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to Weston County, Wyoming.
  • genealog.uscounts: A list of all the counties in the United States, in a single file. This differs from the series above in that only the names of the counties are given (not their seats and zip codes). It's set up as a shell script for Unix, so you can run it and have a file built for each state. But it's also an ASCII file and usuable just by ignoring that funny Unix stuff. ;-)
  • genealog.vital-nw: Genealogical and historical societies of the United States with a nation-wide scope. (See the individual states below for societies with a more local focus.) Information about vital records sources (general) plus addresses of major records repositories such as the National Archives and the Library of Congress.
    [General] [Military] [State by State]
    USA, Military
  • genealog.rev-war: How to request Revolutionary War Records.
  • genealog.mil-rec: How to get military records from the National Archives.
  • genealog.natmilc: How to request military records from the National Personnel Records Center.
  • Also of interest:
      Frequently Asked Questions about the U. S. Navy.
    [General] [Military] [State by State]
    USA, State by State Resources:
  • Alabama Resources Page
  • Alaska Resources Page
  • Arizona Resources Page
  • Arkansas Resources Page
  • California Resources Page
  • Colorado Resources Page
  • Connecticut Resources Page
  • Delaware Resources Page
  • District of Columbia Resources Page
  • Florida Resources Page
  • Georgia Resources Page
  • Hawaii Resources Page
  • Idaho Resources Page
  • Illinois Resources Page
  • Indiana Resources Page
  • Iowa Resources Page
  • Kansas Resources Page
  • Kentucky Resources Page
  • Louisiana Resources Page
  • Maine Resources Page
  • Maryland Resources Page
  • Massachusetts Resources Page
  • Michigan Resources Page
  • Minnesota Resources Page
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  • Missouri Resources Page
  • Montana Resources Page
  • Nebraska Resources Page
  • Nevada Resources Page
  • New Hampshire Resources Page
  • New Jersey Resources Page
  • New Mexico Resources Page
  • New York Resources Page
  • North Carolina Resources Page
  • North Dakota Resources Page
  • Ohio Resources Page
  • Oklahoma Resources Page
  • Oregon Resources Page
  • Pennsylvania Resources Page
  • Rhode Island Resources Page
  • South Carolina Resources Page
  • South Dakota Resources Page
  • Tennessee Resources Page
  • Texas Resources Page
  • Utah Resources Page
  • Vermont Resources Page
  • Virginia Resources Page
  • Washington Resources Page
  • West Virginia Resources Page
  • Wisconsin Resources Page
  • Wyoming Resources Page
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