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  Waterford & Oakland County Information

• Waterford Historical Timeline
• Index to Death Notices from 19th Century Pontiac, Michigan, Newspapers
• Waterford Township Cemetery Index, ca. 1820 - 1990
• Index to  Probate Notices from 19th Century Pontiac, Michigan, Newspapers
• Index to Marriage Notices from 19th Century Pontiac, Michigan, Newspapers
• U.S. Census for Waterford Township, 1850 (Printable PDF pages)
• U.S. Census, Agriculture Schedule, for Waterford Township, 1850 -  Printable PDF pages transcription listing farmers, farms & products
• Waterford Township Landowners, 1857
• U.S. Census for Waterford Township, 1860 (Printable PDF pages) Business Notices, from Waterford Township, 1872
• Business Notices, from Waterford Township Villages, 1872
• Clintonville Map, 1872
• Drayton Plains Map, 1872
• Waterford Township Map, 1872 (Printable PDF version)
• Waterford Township Map, 1872 (very large image file)
• Waterford Village Map, 1872 (Printable PDF version)
• Waterford Village Map, 1872 (very large image file)
• Oakland County Pioneer Death Index from the Late 19th & early 20th Centuries
• Waterford Biographies [From the Biographical Record...of Oakland County Michigan (1903)]
• Oakland County Obituary and Death Notice Index, 1999 (Printable PDF page) obits1999.pdf 
• Oakland County Obituary and Death Notice Index, 2000  (Printable PDF page)obits2000.pdf 
• Death Notice Information

  Library Resources

• State & Year Coverage of CD-ROM Census Indexes held by WTPL.  Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-N, and Part 3: O-W
• Genealogy CD-ROM Databases held by WTPL
• Waterford High School Yearbooks held by WTPL
• Books Donated to the Waterford Library by the Waterford Genealogical Society
• Area Genealogy Research Collections

  Other Links

• Oakland County Historical Resources - links to digital resources
• The Waterford Twp. Historical Society and History of Waterford Village - early developments to the 1870s
• 1820 Oakland County Census - online transcription
• 1830 Oakland County Census - online transcription
• Oakland County Atlas, 1872 - limited to township images
• Oakland County - American Local History Network
• Oakland County GenWeb
• Lydia Barnes Potter Chapter - Waterford area chapter of the Daughter of the American Revolution

  OTHER USEFUL LINKS ON THE WEB

  Great Places to Start

• FamilySearch - provides record indexing and pedigrees for tens of millions of individuals
• USGenWeb - free access to state and county level data
• Social Security Death Index - search for individuals receiving social security benefits before death
• American Local History Network - check out info on the state you're researching

  General Collections of Genealogy Links

• Cyndi's List [The top site for links]
• Genealogy Home Page
• Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
• Olive Tree Genealogy

  Michigan Links

• Michigan Death Records 1867-1882 - contains full records and will extend through 1897 when completed
• State of Michigan Vital Records Application Forms - for ordering birth, marriage, death and divorce records
• Michigan County Clerks Genealogy Directory - addresses, hours, fees, etc.
• Macomb County Death Index
• St. Clair County, Michigan Death Index, 1868-1974
• 1870 Michigan Census Online Index - including complete census images from the Library of Michigan 
• Michigan Civil War Regimental Rosters - online transcriptions

  Great Lakes Links

• Illinois Death Certificates, 1916-1950 Illinois Public Domain Land Sales Archive - 19th century
• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900 - searchable index from the State of Illinois
• Indiana Marriages Through 1850 - searchable database from the Indiana State Library
• Minnesota Death Certificate Index, 1906-1996
• Online Ohio Death Index, 1913-1937 (will eventually cover 1908-1944)
• Wisconsin Genealogy Index - more than 100,000 obituaries, personal sketches, and other short biographies of Wisconsin people, fee for copies.

  New England Links

• Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776 Genealogy Books on the Web - mostly Massachusetts
• Index to Maine Marriages, 1892-1996
• Maine Vital Records
• Massachusetts Revolutionary War Soldiers, 1775-1783
• Savage's A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England before 1892

  Southern Links

• Kentucky Vital Records Index - search for death (1911-1992), marriage (1973-1993) and divorce (1973-1993) records
• Kentucky Biographies - online transcriptions of the biographies of prominent and not so prominent Kentuckians.
• State Index to Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1925
• Tennessee Newspaper Obituary Indexes in Public Libraries
• Alabama Birth Records
• Alabama Marriage Records
• Alabama Death Records
• Georgia Obituary Links
• Georgia Civil War Pensions
• West Virginia Birth & Death Certificates
• West Virginia in the Civil War

  Western Links

• California Death Index, 1940-1995
• Texas Confederate Pension Index - contains almost 55,000 Texas Confederate pension applications
• Texas Death Records, 1964-1998

  Canada

• Genealogical and Family History Research at the Library and Archives of Canada
• Quebec and Eastern Township Genealogy Research Page - fee based service for Protestant records and censuses
• PRDH - the comprehensive site of Quebec French-Canadian genealogy of the 17^th & 18^th centuries
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Genealogical Research at the Archives of Ontario

  Ethnic Links

• JewishGen Family Finder - database of towns and surnames being researched by Jewish genealogists worldwide
• Afrigeneas - African ancestored genealogy
• Christine's Genealogy Site - a wealth of information for African-American genealogical research
• African-American Genealogy - includes full text how-to articles

  Immigration & Naturalization Links

• American Family Immigration History Center - search passenger arrivals at Ellis Island
• Ellis Island Database One-Step Search Tool - try these tools if you're having trouble locating your Ellis Island immigrants
• Passenger Ship Information - includes arrival dates, ports of entry and embarkation, and much more

  Links to Useful Tools

• American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library @ the Library of Congress - you may find that old book you need on this site
• Webpages by Stephen P. Morse - includes Census & Soundex, Ellis Island, Ship Arrivals, Birth Death, and other Vital Records search tools
• Print a free Ancestral Chart as well as other useful forms