New online death records and indexes

Joe Beine has additional death records and indexes posted. For our five-state Midwestern focus, they are:

Illinois: Boone and Cook counties

Michigan: Ottawa County

Ohio: Cleveland



Harold Henderson, "New online death records and indexes," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 23 September 2014 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

More Midwestern deaths on line

Joe Beine's Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records has new material for twelve lucky Midwestern counties:

Illinois: Cook, DuPage, Jackson
Indiana: Warrick
Michigan: Alpena, Emmet, Mason, Oakland
Ohio: Montgomery, Tuscarawas
Wisconsin: Oneida, Rock

Some of these are tied in with other local indexes -- take a little time to check out the others as well!


Harold Henderson, "More Midwestern deaths on line," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 15 July 2014 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

Additional Midwestern death records on line!

Joe Beine has added or updated online records for 14 Midwestern (and many other!) counties at his Genealogy Roots Blog:

Illinois:  DuPage and Lee

Indiana: Allen, Clark, Howard, Jefferson, Miami, and Tipton

Michigan: Calhoun, Chippewa, Kalamazoo, and Oakland

Ohio: Mahoning

Wisconsin: Waupaca and statewide



Harold Henderson, "Additional Midwestern death records on line!," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 7 January 2014 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

Good news from the fast-moving world of dead people

Joe Beine has posted latest updates on death records. From the Midwest we have:

ILLINOIS: obituary indexes from Alexander, Cook, Pulaski, Rock Island, Tazewell, and Union counties

INDIANA: obituary indexes from Henry, Lake, and Rush counties

MICHIGAN: indexes from Clinton, Grand Traverse, Kalamazoo, Livingston, and Shiawasee counties

OHIO: indexes from Cuyahoga (cemeteries) and Scioto (general) counties

WISCONSIN: cemetery database for Marinette, Oconto, and Shawano counties

For the full strength, visit his main site.



Harold Henderson, "Good news from the fast-moving world of dead people," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 20 August 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

More Online Ohio Deaths!

Collected in Joe Beine's Genealogy Roots Blog for the counties of Belmont, Columbiana, Geauga, Henry, Lorain, Stark, Summit, and Trumbull.

More Midwestern Military Indexes On Line

For those of you not yet familiar with Joe Beine's online guides to on-line indexes, and his related Genealogy Roots Blog, consider this your wake-up call. For everyone else, here are the Midwestern military records among a goodly number he's just enlisted:

INDIANA

SAR patriot graves registry
Mexican War veterans
Civil War muster rolls index
South Bend Tribune service notes (WW2)

MICHIGAN

Military personnel who died in the Vietnam War



Harold Henderson, "More Midwestern Military Indexes On Line," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 14 December 2012 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

Mostly Midwestern genealogy finds on and off the web

* The summer issue of the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly includes a well-cited article by Charlene Preston Mundy, "Five Ferguson Brothers from Scotland."A bonus for me: ISGSQ is using footnotes instead of the dreaded endnotes.


* As usual, the Ohio Genealogy News is packed with instructional articles of interest. For Summer 2012, I particularly enjoyed:

Chris Staats' "Deed Anatomy 101" with a clever graphic;

Joyce Quigley's "Online Cemetery Research" (interment records!); and

Delores Jones's "My Last Name is Jones (Success with a Common Surname)": "The only way I found my Jones family in the 1930 U.S. census for Mississippi was by reading my late aunt's papers again."


* Whenever you're in a law library, take the opportunity to snoop around. During IGHR at Samford, some sharp-eyed Pennsylvania researchers found an unlikely treasure: county-level court case reports for several counties in Pennsylvania, mostly from the 20th century. Who knew?


* Joe Beine has updated his wonderful index to on-line indexes of death records of various kinds, including indexes for ten Midwestern counties:

in Illinois -- DeKalb, McDonough, Sangamon, and Will;

in Michigan -- Menominee, Oakland, and Wayne;

in Ohio -- Montgomery; and

in Wisconsin -- Barron and Eau Claire.





Charlene Preston Mundy, "Five Ferguson Brothers from Scotland,"Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 74-91.

Ohio Genealogy News, vol 43, no. 2 (Summer 2012).

Harold Henderson, "Midwestern genealogy finds on and off the web," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 26 June 2012 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

More Midwestern deaths on line

Joe Beine's recent blog post of newly added online death indexes includes the following Midwestern entries:

Illinois -- Vermilion County

Indiana -- Knox County and Southern Indiana

Michigan -- Detroit area (recent)

Ohio -- Cuyahoga, Lucas, and Trumbull counties

Wisconsin -- Wisconsin Medical Journal (WMJ) Physician Obituary Database 1903-2008

New online records from Joe Beine

If you don't know this resource, you should. If you do, you shouldn't be reading this ;-) Midwestern marriage additions to Joe Beine's "Online Birth & Marriage Records Indexes for the USA":

Illinois: Champaign County

Indiana: Statewide Marriage Index 1993-2004 (years added)

Michigan: Charlevoix, Clinton, and Emmet counties

Ohio: Cuyahoga, Hamilton, and Lake counties

Wisconsin: Langlade and Milwaukee counties

More on line records from Michael Hait

My friend Michael Hait has just published the first edition of his PDF book, Online State Resources for Genealogy, an ambitious undertaking devoted to materials brought on line by states, counties, towns, organizations, and individuals. It has many sites you could easily miss, including vital records but with much more specialized information. Indianapolis or Milwaukee Sanborn Maps, anyone? Inmate case records from the boys' industrial school in Lancaster, Ohio? Poor farm records from Morgan County, Illinois? The WPA index of land and buildings in Hillsdale County, Michigan, 1936-1942? These can be brick-wall breakers if you know about them and know how to use them.

Listings are organized by state and by repository within each state; there is also an index. The book does not include any of the national-level web sites like Ancestry, Footnote, Findagrave, or FamilySearch. It does include many databases not covered in specialized free sites like Joe Beine's or Miriam Midkiff's city directory reference site.

The first edition of Online State Resources runs to 310 pages, and a second edition is anticipated around midyear. I'll be surprised if it isn't twice the size. And I'll be astonished if you don't learn several new things from the current version. In my opinion it's well worth the $15 download, and that price includes the second edition too if you register.

More on -line death records from Joe Beine

The vast majority of records of interest to genealogists are not on line, and may never be. Few genealogical problems can be solved using only on-line resources. But there are always more places to get started using on-line indexes and images of original documents.

Joe Beine has updated his Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records site, including material for more than twenty Midwestern counties: three in Illinois (Champaign, DuPage, and St. Clair), eight in Indiana (Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Howard, Marshall, St. Joseph, Starke, and Switzerland), three in Michigan (Berrien, Charlevoix, and Oakland), five in Ohio (Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Greene, Lake, and Wayne), and two in Wisconsin (Eau Claire and Portage).

more online death indexes

I'm a week late with news of additions to Joe Beine's indispensable "Online Searchable Death Indexes." He's added links pertaining to sixteen Midwestern counties:

Illinois: Christian, Cook, Montgomery, Sangamon
Indiana: Clark, Clinton, Floyd, Hendricks
Michigan: Kalamazoo, Oakland
Ohio: Lorain, Mahoning
Wisconsin: Dane, Forest, Marathon, Pierce

More online indexes from Joe Beine

As the physical libraries shrink, the online repositories grow. Can they ever catch up? Joe Beine does his part at Online Death Indexes and Records. New additions in the Midwest include:

Illinois: DeKalb, DuPage, and Will counties

Indiana: Marion, Sullivan, and Union counties

Michigan: Monroe and Tuscola counties

Ohio: Fulton and Wood counties

Wisconsin: Dodge, Jefferson, Outagamie, and Rock counties

Online Military Records

Who knew Joe Beine has an Online Military Indexes and Records site to go with his vital records sites? Not me! Fortunately I see that it's been updated. The free sites dealing with individual states include:

Illinois data from Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, and World War I.

Indiana data from Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, World War I, and World War II.

Ohio data from Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.

Michigan data from Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World War I.

Wisconsin data from Civil War.

Missing from this site, however, is the relatively recent Michigan bonanza of Civil War resources (blogged here March 5) just as you would find them if you visited the archives in person -- i.e., largely unindexed.

Online records update at Genealogy Roots

There's no substitute for Denver-based Joe Beine's Genealogy Roots Blog, which makes up in quality for what it lacks in frequency. His 14 Jan post, for instance, includes word of three online marriage indices for Indiana (statewide, Marion County, and Whitley County), and one for Michigan (Kent County).