Genealogy Trails History Group
Finding Ancestors Wherever their Trails Led!	Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We started out way back in March 2000 by providing data for the state of Illinois and expanded to cover the other states in March of 2006. Since then, we've been very pleased to welcome the many new hosts who have joined our original Illinois volunteers, and to continue to bring free transcribed data to our websites.
Visit Our State Sites for more FREE DATA Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington D.C. West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Project Start Date March 1, 2006 Have a Comment? Write National Coordinator Kim Torp  (This is NOT to request an obituary - it's to SUBMIT one) DON'T COPY DATA FROM OTHER SITES, INCLUDING FUNERAL HOMES! SiteAdvisor Rates us Safe to Surf	With all the changes going on in the genealogical world, we feel it's important to state that Genealogy Trails is an independent group of volunteers. We are not affiliated with any for-profit company, nor do we have any intention of ever affiliating with one (yes, we've been asked). Our volunteers made the decision at our group's beginnings to fund and support our group's needs themselves and that's what we have every intention of continuing to do. Be assured that the data you contribute to our websites will remain free on our sites for all researchers' use, now and in the future. We welcome your feedback and comments, and especially your data contributions. How are we different from other online projects? Our hosts are required to add data to their sites, so you won't see hosted sites that sit for years and years with no changes. As for our unhosted sites, our group works as a team to add data to them on a rotating schedule. So even though a site doesn't have its own host, it will still get data added to it... just not on as regular a schedule as our hosted sites. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping to keep Genealogy Free. If you are interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information. If you do not feel you have the webpage skills to adopt a county as its host, consider joining our Transcription Team. No commitments, no special skills needed other than accurate typing :-) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anyone. We're getting hundreds of emails a day, so we're sorry, but requests for research help will not be responded to. Our Data Unlike other online genealogy projects, we have data on this main site, though these topics are usually broader in scope. Click any of the buttons below to view the data available here... NOTE: For Obituary Submissions: PLEASE DO NOT TAKE DATA OFF OF OTHER WEBSITES to submit to us. This includes funeral home sites... unless the obituary is for your family and/or someone from your family wrote it. If that's not the case, don't copy other sites' data to submit to us. Thank you for helping us to stay on the right side of the copyright laws! If you're looking for specific states and county data, click any of the states on the left side bar to go visit those websites. From the state sites, you'll be able to navigate to our county sites.

Welcome to our Newest Hosts: Tammie Rudder - Halifax Co, VA Richard Cox - Kankakee Co, IL Diana Wingerter - Medina Co, TX Candace Reed - Wyoming Co, WV Tammie Stills - Henderson and Transylvania Cos, NC Mary Kay Krogman - Jackson Co, IA Tammy Inman - Randolph Co, IN Marla Snow - Whatcom County, WA Shannon Thomas - Columbia Co, PA Jennifer Zimmerman - Fort Bend Co, TX Kathy Stanley - Hocking Co, OH Rhonda Kevorkian - Bedford Co, PA Stephanie Lyons - Carter Co, KY Helen Coughlin - Hillsborough Co, NH Terri Griffiths - Somerset Co, PA Norman Adkins - Fayette co, WV Jimmy Davis - Gillespie, TX Sheila Massie - Worth Co, GA Many Thanks to our Regular Transcribers and Data Contributors! Read the names of those special folks who regularly help our hosts out! Thank you to all the folks that have been visiting our websites! Genealogy in Time ranks us as the 50th most popular genealogy site WORLD-WIDE! We were also honored as one of the Top 50 Most Popular U.S. Genealogy Websites from ProGenealogists from 2009-2011	If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our MAILING LISTS or check out our Facebook page. Like Us? Like Free Genealogy? Appreciate our transcribing? Show your support for our efforts with this logo for your website. Save the logo to your own computer. Insert the graphic on your website or Facebook page. Link back to genealogytrails.com WANT TO HELP? Join our Transcription Team Our Transcription Team "Hall of Fame" March 2013: Tammy Clark February 2013: Mamre Wilson January 2013 : Kristen Bisanz December 2012 : Mary Saggio November 2012 : Kim Mohler  RECENT DATA ADDITIONS ON OUR MAIN SITE Indexed under MILITARY:   Names of Soldiers who received Military Headstones from the Government All done! Over 160,000 names of soldiers. Burial Places of Rev. War Soldiers List of Distinguished Cadets of the Graduating Class of 1956 US Military Academy Report of Deaths of Active and Retired Military Personnel Muster roll of the Brig "General Armstrong" in 1814 Military Obituaries, from 1899 Ladies of the GAR Miscellaneous Military News from 1900 Battle at Blue Licks, KY - last battle of the Rev. War List of Union Prisoners at Richmond, Sept. 1861 Casualties of Battle of the Little Big Horn Widows still alive in 1922 Mexican War Veterans still alive in 1922 Indexed On President's page: Obit of Mrs. Hoover Obit of Mrs. James Polk Biographies of Presidents Grant, Garfield, Cleveland and his wife Frances Cleveland Timeline of Abraham Lincoln's Life Slavery and African-American Data Lynchings from January to June, 1903 Biography of Frederick Douglass HEROES 1811 German Coast (Louisiana) Revolt African American Facts and History - 1920's Indexed Under EVENTS: Events of 1875 Car of Commerce Steamboat Disaster, 1828 Events of 1894 Snowstorms of the Past Greatest Maritime Ship Disasters Indexed Under HISTORICAL DATA: 1850 Gazetteer Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer - COMPLETE! Description of the United States in 1850 -- States, counties, cities/towns, post offices Heirloom Recipes from around the Country Chuck Wagon Recipes Names of Fame in Framing America: Obituary of Susan B. Anthony Biography of Daniel Boone Biographies of the Men who signed the Declaration of Independence Indexed Under Miscellaneous Data: Common Terms in Estate Records Common Terms in Legal Records Genealogy Dictionary Dating Tombstones How to Read Land Records Indexed Under State Data Prisoners of Alcatraz Prisoners of Leavenworth Newspaper Items concerning Rivers/Boats Biography of Pioneer Stagecoach and Rail man Capt. Silas St. John 1850 Gazetteer State Archives and Historical society websites Indexed Under Native American Data Trail of Tears Data Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas Indian Traders at Pittsburg in July 1760 Obituaries and Death Notices - Death of Lyncoya Jackson Newspaper Stories on Cherokees and Creek Nation
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