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US Census
OnSite: 1790 1800 1810 1820
1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880
1900 1910 1920 1930
1885-1940s American Indians
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Revolutionary
War
Compiled Services Records:
Continental Troops CT DE MD MA NH NJ NY NC PA RI SC VT VA
War of 1812
Volunteer Soldiers' Consolidated Service Record Index
Civil War
Compiled Service Records - Confederacy
General Staff and Nonregimental Enlisted Compiled Service Records: Index Records
Soldiers Raised by the Confederate Government: Index Records and by States: TX
Compiled Service Records - Union
US Colored Troops (USCT): Artillery 8th-13th Infantry 14th-19th Infantry Misc
Volunteer Organizations: AZ CA CO CT DA DC IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MO1 MO2 NH NJ NY OH PA RI TN VT WV WI
Confederate Prisoners of War
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, Abandoned Lands Field Office Records: AL AR DC GA KY LA MD/DE
Trans-Mississippi Department Records: Cotton Bureau

Pensioners
War of 1812 Pension Application Index
1907-1933 Veteran's Administration Pension Payment Cards
Immigration
Passport Applications: 1795-1905
Baltimore Passengers: 1820-1890 Index 1820-1909 Manifests
New York Passenger Manifests: 1820-1897 1897-1909 1910-1919 1920-1929 1930-1940
New York Passenger Indices: 1820-1892CastleGarden 1892-1924EllisIsland
Philadelphia Passenger Manifests: 1800-1945
St. Albans, VT, Passenger Manifests: 1895-1954 1930-1949Extras
Seattle, WA Passenger Manifests: 1890-1957
Abbreviations:
Ab
Art
Batt
Batt
Capt
Cav
Col
Clrd
Cmd
Co
 abstracts
artillery
battalion
battery
captain
cavalry
colonel
colored
command
company
 Confed
Con
Cont
Drag
Dept
VetRsrv
Engr
Gov
Incl
Ind
 confederate
consolidated
continental
dragoons
department
veteran reserve corps
engineer
governor
including
independent
 Inf
Lt
Misc
Ord
Org
Reg
Tr
v
Vol
US
 infantry
lieutenant
miscellaneous
ordnance
organization
regiment
troops
volume
volunteers
United States
AL
AR
CT
DA
DE
FL
GA
HW
KY
LA
 Alabama
Arkansas
Connecticut
Dakota Territory
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Kentucky
Louisiana
 MD
MA
MS
MO
NH
NJ
NY
NC
PA
RI
 Maryland
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
 SC
TN
TX
VT
VA
 South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia