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Burials Database   This is a project to locate and gather burial records for every cemetery in Utah. This is an ongoing project. If you do not find the information you are looking for check back often.

Census Research Forms Free forms, customized by census year, for recording census information. There are also many other forms that you may find useful. These forms may be downloaded.

Soundex Code Find the census soundex code for the surname of your choice.

Census Data Browser   Compile your own demographic census data for the years 1790 - 1960. Other data is also available.

Census Secrets   Article on census basics, however even the experienced may find something useful here.

Every Ten Years   Find out what questions were asked by the interviewer on each of the federal censuses 1790-1920.

Census Bureau   The official site for the US Census. No census records, but lots of useful information.

Genealogy Index  -- This index contains links to 42, 900 websites having to do with genealogy. For ease of use these are divided into categories:  1--Information by Topic, 2--Information by Surname and 3--Information by Location.

Geographical Information, Maps & More    This is part of the USGENWEB Project. If you have need for information about maps or a specific map, this would be a good place to look.

Help For Researchers  This is part of the USGENWEB Project. It contains a large number of links as diverse as Calendar Information, Cousins Explained, Finding Names, Geography & Maps, Vocabulary and many others. You should at least look through the list.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild  This Guild is a group of volunteers dedicated to making the search for our ancestors  who immigrated to the United States easier.

Ellis Island Records   Between 1892 and 1924 over 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. Now you can research passenger records from ships that brought the Immigrants and even see the original manifests with passengers' names. To see the information in detail you will need to register and receive a user name and password. There is no cost for this registration.

National Archives and Records Administration  NARA is an independent Federal agency that helps preserve our nation's history be overseeing the management of all Federal records. Using this link takes you directly to The Research Room.

Marriage Record Index   Over the past decade, the BYU-Idaho Family History Center has been extracting early marriage records from counties in the western part of the United States. This file contains some 267, 000 marriage records with additional entries being added nearly every working day.

Vital Records Information   This page contains information about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States. See the guidelines for information on how to order vital records.

Social Security Death Index   This is the best SSDI search engine on the internet. It updated monthly.

GEDCOM What is it, what does it do, do I want to use it. The answers to these and other questions and facts are to be found it the following:

• What is a GEDCOM? This is a simple, single page explanation. For a complete explanation see GEDCOM In and Out found below.

• GEDCOM In and Out  This a very good, detailed explanation of GEDCOMs.

• Types of Problems Encountered with GEDCOM Transfer between different Genealogy Programs.

Translation Program  This program allows you to type material in English and have it translated into either French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. The program will also translate material from any of these languages into English.