List of Pensioners on the Rolls as of Jan. 1 1883 -
Just about finished putting all 5 volumes of these very large books online.  This data included only Civil War Union soldiers receiving pensions, or their surviving spouses/dependents, as well as some War of 1812 soldiers/dependents who were on the government pension rolls as of Jan. 1, 1883.   Many thanks to our Transcription Team members and our G.T. hosts for all of their VERY hard work getting these volumes online!

Working on Florida this month, highlighting Bay, Columbia, Franklin, Gilchrist, Glades, Gulf, Hardee, Holmes, Indian River, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Levy, Manatee, Martin, Nassau, Okaloosa, Sumter and Union Counties. Visit our FL site at http://genealogytrails.com/fla/

We have been adding a boatload of data to our New York sites.  Check them out at http://genealogytrails.com/ny/

Progenealogists' annual list of Top 50 websites is out .... and we have scooted all the way up to #15! We were just out of the top 25 last year, coming in at #26, so this is a big jump up.
I'm so proud of and thankful to all of our hosts through the years, because without the dedication and hard work of our hosts, there's no way we could have accomplished this. We're not a big group of anonymous people, we don't have a massive corporation financing us, we don't sell our site space for ads, we don't just present a billion links to other peoples' sites -- our data is right there for everybody to use for free. So thanks to Progenealogists for acknowledging our hard work and many thanks to our visitors who helped get us here!

2 million records and Growing!

A shout-out from Genealogyintime! Thanks!!!
Genealogy Trails continues to add new genealogy records on a daily basis from across the United States. All of the information is sorted by state and region. The website now has a couple million records. This is one of the best free genealogy websites available and it is worth checking out on a regular basis. It can also be searched using the Genealogy Search Engine. Access is free. [Genealogy Trails at http://genealogytrails.com/]

Best websites of 2014 List is out and that's us, Genealogy Trails, moving up 10 spots from last year to #40. Many thanks to all the visitors to our websites who are proving that you want to keep your genealogy free!!! This is a world-wide list, not just the U.S., and is based on what matters -- the sites that researchers actually visit!  Start your journey at our national site at http://genealogytrails.com/

 You can view the entire list of "best" websites at http://www.genealogyintime.com/articles/top-100-genealogy-websites-of-2014-page02.html

Jan 2014: Starting the New Year off with Texas, Texas and more Texas! Visit us at http://genealogytrails.com/tex/

Remembering our Veterans....

Many free military records to help in your research at http://genealogytrails.com/main/military.html

View the Fox News video featuring our Laurens and Greenville, SC host Andrew Staton about his recent efforts to reunite a family with a purple heart medal.  http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/21304027/purple-heart-found-inside-a-jockey-lot-bought-record-player#.USb-4uYYvl8.facebook

We're currently working on updating our ALABAMA websites.  Here's just a little tiny sample of the data we've added to just a few of the counties:

Autuaga County: http://genealogytrails.com/ala/autuaga/

Death notices for ALEXANDER, DICKINSON, GOLSON, MONCRIEF, ROBINSON, RUSH, PROCTOR, ROY, THOMPSON
Death Records for State Convicts 1910-1914
Will of LEWIS JONES, MARGARETT WANE
Wills of THOMAS L. HUTTON, F. H. ARMSTRONG
Will of Elizabeth Forth
Escaped Slave Notice
1880 Mortality Schedule - District 3
1880 Mortality Schedule - District 4
Vietnam War Casualties

Barbour County: http://genealogytrails.com/ala/barbour/

Death Notices for: ANDERSON, BRAZIER, CLAYTON, DICKINSON, FLOWERS, MEADOWS, PASSMORE, WRIGHT

Death Records for State Convicts 1910-1914

Marriage News: BLEDSOE, CRUMBLEY, HORN, HOBDY, MCLEAN, RODGERS, PURCELL, DAVIS

Crime news, community news, Births: CODY, OSBORN, Marriage News: POLLARD, LOGAN

Bio: MCLEOD

Vietnam War Casualties

Bibb County: http://genealogytrails.com/ala/bibb/

Death Notices for: CLEVELAND, DOBBINS, GARDNER, MCKINNEY, MOORE

Death Records for State Convicts 1910-1914

Will of BROWN GOODSON

Will of JENNIE JAMES and Pt 1 of Will of BROWN GOODSON

Vietnam War Casualties

Various Deaths 1900 - 1944

Early births  

Blount County: http://genealogytrails.com/ala/blount/

Death Notices for: HYATT, INGRAM, RUSSELL, WADE

Death Records for State Convicts 1910-1914

Vietnam War Casualties

Early births

Bullock County  http://genealogytrails.com/ala/bullock/

Death News: BLUE - transcribed by FOFG mz; 
Death Records of State Convicts 1910-1914
Bio: LEE
WW2 Army Enlistment Records
Vietnam War Casualties
Early Marriages
Early Births

Butler County - http://genealogytrails.com/ala/butler/

Death Records of State Convicts 1910-1914

Marriage News: TIPPS, SEARCY, THOMAS, SKIPPER

Vietnam War Casualties Calhoun County:

Cane Creek Cemetery
Fort McClellan Cemetery
Fort McClellan Cemetery
Morrisville Cemetery
Prisoner of War Cemetery
Death Records for State Convicts 1910-1914
Obits: BAGLEY, BOOTH, CHAMPION, CROSS, HINDMAN, MATTOX, MORTON, PARKER, WELLS, WHITLOCK
Marriage News: FERRELL, MORELAND
1837 Advertisers, Estate Notices: TURNER, MCREYNOLDS, Estray notice: STEWART, NORMAN, GRAY
Vietnam War Casualties

Early births

There's MUCH MORE DATA that has been added to many more of the counties.  Visit the state site at http://genealogytrails.com/ala/ and navigate to your favorite county site from there.

 

Announcing the completion of our 

Civil War Union Soldier Headstone Project! 

All done and all online for your FREE viewing.

Happy New Year and Happy Hunting through 167,000 records!
http://www.genealogytrails.com/cwstones/

We're back to work on our state sites --- we just finished working on Michigan at http://genealogytrails.com/mich/  and are now out west working on transcribing data for California.  http://genealogytrails.com/cal/
Our special focus on California is transcribing the Voters Lists from various years.  Since California doesn't have a lot of state census available, these Voters Lists help to fill that gap.  For instance, here's one from Los Angeles county:   http://genealogytrails.com/cal/la/voters/1873pg1.html   Enjoy!

If you haven't checked out our Civil War Headstone page lately, you'll want to visit to see the huge amount of progress we've made. We are actually done transcribing all files (YEAH!!!) and we have all surnames A-O proofread and ONLINE! We also have quite a few files from the remaining alpha letters online as well, so check it out at http://genealogytrails.com/cwstones/

We are ALMOST DONE with transcribing the Civil War headstones!!
The transcribing part is almost done - we have just a few more W surname files to go, and then we start concentrating on proof-reading all those transcriptions!  The data from the files is put online as webpages after each set of 5 files is proofread, so keep your eye on    http://genealogytrails.com/cwstones/  to view the files as they go up!

What are We Working On?

It's all about Civil War Headstones.  We have over 80,000 soldier names online already and when finished, it'll be well over 100,000.  These are government supplied headstones for Union soldiers and lists their service information and their burial places and dates (when known).   And did I mention this is a FREE database?
 Check it out at http://genealogytrails.com/cwstones/

Lots of new data to view at our North Dakota Genealogy Trails websites. And even more was added today in Cass, Richland, Grand Forks, Ransom, Dickey, Griggs, Barnes, Steele, Traill, LaMoure, Eddy, Burleigh, Foster, Stutsman, Sargent and Wells counties. Visit our N. Dakota site at http://genealogytrails.com/ndak/ to get to our county sites...
Happy Hunting!

Hatfield and McCoy Family Feud

Did you enjoy the mini-series on the History Channel about the Hatfield-McCoy Family Feud?  If so, here's the real thing - news postings as they happened:
On our KY site:
http://genealogytrails.com/ken/pike/hatfield_mccoy_feud.html
and on our West Virginia website at
 http://genealogytrails.com/wva/hatfield_and_mccoy_feud.html and
 http://genealogytrails.com/wva/logan/Hatfield%27s_Declared_Innocent.html

New Data Coming Online

FINISHED WORKING ON: South Dakota Genealogy Trails  TONS of new data now online!
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:  Adding new Oklahoma data!  Starting to upload this data over the next weeks at Oklahoma Genealogy Trails.
UP NEXT:  Kentucky

We're currently working on adding data to the unhosted county sites of VIRGINIA!  Help us fill these sites with data --- bios, census, obituaries, your family's cemetery listings - whatever you feel would be of interest to a researcher is what we're looking to add (no trees or gedcoms though - we want to stick to transcribed data found while researching)
Visit our sites at http://genealogytrails.com/vir/  and help us out!

FINISHED WORKING ON: Minnesota Genealogy Trails  TONS of new data now online!
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:  Adding new Iowa data!  Starting to upload this data over the next weeks at Iowa Genealogy Trails.
UP NEXT: North Dakota

Only 15 more days til the 1940 census is released!!!