Online collections of voter registration records are available through both free and "for pay" sites, including the California, Great Registers, 1866-1910 (FamilySearch.org), Alabama 1867 Voter Registration at archives.alabama.gov and voter registration records for Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom at Ancestry.com. The Family History Library Catalog includes more than 2,000 listings for voter records. Go to FamilySearch.org, click on Catalog, select "Subject" search and type the state where your ancestor lived plus the word "vote." (Not every location will have voter records.)
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Voter Registrations
Now that we're past the dramatic focus on the elections and voters, you may want to consider the value of voter registration in a totally different way. Voter Registration records can be a great source of birth and residence information in family history research.
Online collections of voter registration records are available through both free and "for pay" sites, including the California, Great Registers, 1866-1910 (FamilySearch.org), Alabama 1867 Voter Registration at archives.alabama.gov and voter registration records for Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom at Ancestry.com. The Family History Library Catalog includes more than 2,000 listings for voter records. Go to FamilySearch.org, click on Catalog, select "Subject" search and type the state where your ancestor lived plus the word "vote." (Not every location will have voter records.)
Online collections of voter registration records are available through both free and "for pay" sites, including the California, Great Registers, 1866-1910 (FamilySearch.org), Alabama 1867 Voter Registration at archives.alabama.gov and voter registration records for Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom at Ancestry.com. The Family History Library Catalog includes more than 2,000 listings for voter records. Go to FamilySearch.org, click on Catalog, select "Subject" search and type the state where your ancestor lived plus the word "vote." (Not every location will have voter records.)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Alabama On-Line Digital Collection
If you have ties to Alabama, check out the on-line collections at archives.alabama.gov. Collections particularly helpful in family history research include:
Use the Alabama Department of Archives and History site to find out what newspapers have been microfilmed, then arrange to view the microfilms through the public library Interlibrary Loan program.
There may be a Confederate Civil War Pension file, and finding the soldier's regiment and company are key to finding the right pension file.
The search mechanism finds only those entries that have exactly that same string of characters. In the case of a last name, that string of characters can be the whole name, or just part of a name (e.g., searching for "Lay" will yield "Lay, Layden, Layet, Layton, etc.). Because names can be misspelled, try a variety of spellings when you search.
If you find someone you're interested in researching, make note of the Regiment and unit, then go back and search for that regiment and unit (no specific person's name). That way you can see the names of all the soldiers in that unit.
- 1867 Voter Registration
- Civil War Service Database
- Index to City Directories (1837-2006)
- Index to Church Records Collections
- Newspapers on Microfilm
- Confederate Officers Photograph Albums
Use the Alabama Department of Archives and History site to find out what newspapers have been microfilmed, then arrange to view the microfilms through the public library Interlibrary Loan program.
There may be a Confederate Civil War Pension file, and finding the soldier's regiment and company are key to finding the right pension file.
The search mechanism finds only those entries that have exactly that same string of characters. In the case of a last name, that string of characters can be the whole name, or just part of a name (e.g., searching for "Lay" will yield "Lay, Layden, Layet, Layton, etc.). Because names can be misspelled, try a variety of spellings when you search.
If you find someone you're interested in researching, make note of the Regiment and unit, then go back and search for that regiment and unit (no specific person's name). That way you can see the names of all the soldiers in that unit.
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