Free Online Databases: Massachusetts - New Jersey

An online repository for more than 400 million searchable names covering New England, New York, and beyond.

From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends” column with advertisements from people looking for “lost” friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 41,249 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot.

Search the 328-volume Massachusetts Archives Collection which contains colonial, provincial, and Revolutionary records. Search by name, location, or subject.

Comprehensive index of information pertaining to soldiers, sailors and marines who served in Massachusetts units and regiments during the Civil War. Includes names and regiments only.

Over one million immigrants came through the Port of Boston during this time period. Search by passenger or ship name. This database will be updated monthly.

Index of births, marriages, and deaths between 1841 and 1910.

Records include name, alias, birth date, death date, unit, cemetery, and location for Civil War Union soldiers.

Read through these first-hand experiences of war, both from the battlefield and the home front. This collection consists of letters and diaries from the Civil War period (1861-1865). Most of the collection includes of personal narratives, a few official records concerning the war and pensions for Civil War veterans after the war’s end.

The Archives of Michigan General Photograph Collection consists of approximately 350,000 images, mostly black and white prints, documenting Michigan’s history.

A work in progress, this database includes name, age, birth place, occupation, entry date, discharge date, rank, company, regiment, and discharge cause.

Digital collection of vital records, primary resources, family history, photos, and audio.

Searchable database that given names of substitutes and the person they served for. Lists regiment and company.

Collection of indexes which contain varying degrees of information.

Large collection family history databases: Cemetery, Civil War, Census, City Directory, Birth Records, Marriage Records, Newspaper Articles, People in Books, Church Records, and Obituaries.

The Iron Range Research Center contains one of the largest collections of genealogical and local history research materials in the Upper Midwest and includes census, naturalization records, passenger arrival records, mining company newsletters, and a survey of Women in Industry taken in 1919, among many others.

One stop search from the Minnesota Historical Society. Search across birth and death records, state census records, and veterans grave registrations. Also searches in the Minnesota Historical Society’s Collections Online which includes over 100, 000 World War I Bonus Records.

Index of names that appear in books and records. In most cases, the index points to offline resources but you may be able to get some information on each individual from their record.

Browse tax rolls by county and year.

Browse by county and year for listing of school aged children in Mississippi. Many records include child's name, parent's name, race, school status, age, school, gender, birth month, and address.

In 1860 Mississippi had 436,631 slaves; these contracts contain the names of some 36,000+ of those former slaves.

Browse Army by name, Navy by county, Marine by county, or associated correspondence. Cards include name, race, city, birth date, company, status, and discharge data.

The database currently contains over 185,000 records from 87 counties. Information found in this database includes births, stillbirths, and deaths.

The Missouri Death Certificate database can be searched by first, middle and last name, county, year and month. Digitized images of the original death certificates are linked to the search results.

Search more than 9 million records can be accessed through Missouri Digital Heritage, including the collections of the Missouri State Archives, the Missouri State Library and other institutions from across the state. Use their Advanced Search to search for individuals across multiple databases including vital records, military records, and naturalization records.

Genealogical resources that include birth, marriage, death, church and cemetery records and family papers. Too many databases to list them all!

The information contained in the naturalization records includes name, native city and/or native country, date of record, court of application (county court, circuit court, Supreme Court), and microfilm location for copy of full entry (reel number, volume and page numbers).

The Missouri State Archives holds nearly 1½ million pages that document the service of Missourians in domestic and foreign wars between 1812 and World War I. These military records primarily consist of individual service cards, but the extensive collection also includes muster rolls, special orders, reports, and more.

The Missouri State Penitentiary was the first state penal institution west of the Mississippi River. It opened its doors in 1836 and operated continuously until 2004. The Missouri State Penitentiary, also called MSP or the Walls, was a notoriously brutal prison. In 1967, Time Magazine named it “the bloodiest 47 acres in America.”

Contain admissions for residents from June 25, 1897 through February 15, 1929. Information given in the register may include name, admission date and number, friends or near kin, service record, date and place of birth, age on admission, amount of pension, nature of disability, occupation, marital status, literacy, church and lodge memberships.

Search Lewis and Clark court records, fur trade cases, Native American suits, and freedom suits (nearly 301 legal petitions for freedom brought by or on behalf of persons of color held in slavery within the St. Louis area from 1814 to 1860).

Small collection of indexes that include: the 1930 US Federal Census for Montana, Montana State Death Index, Deaths Recorded in the Montana Workman Newsletter March 1892-February 1899,
Civil War Veterans, and Norske i Montana (records of Norwegian immigrants).

Index that includes groom name, bride name, marriage date, city, and county.

Index that often includes name, unit served, GAR post number, GAR post city, and GAR post county.

This is an index compiled from Nebraska Board of Pardons and Parole registers. It includes prisoners from the state penitentiary, the men's reformatory, and the women's reformatory.

Search WWI draft cards from 1917-1918. Records often include name, birth date, birthplace, and city/county.

Index that includes groom name, bride name, marriage date, city, and county.

An online repository for more than 400 million searchable names covering New England, New York, and beyond.

Large PDF file. The Revised Register is arranged by regiment, battery, or other organization, but it also meticulously indexed. Contains personal information about each soldier and sailor, such as: name, unit information, town of residence, period of service, any information about whether they were wounded, killed in action, died in service, as well as information available at the time it was published regarding their residence or death following the war.

The search engines linked below provide access to over one million database entries in nearly 500,000 documents and photographs in the State Archives' collections. Too many databases to name!