Core Genealogy Records/Sources. Records to Search at Home.
All core genealogical records for your country
- Personal and family resources
- Federal and state censuses
- Immigration and naturalization records
- Military records, draft records, and pension records
- Alien registration – 1918
- Land, tax, and voting records
- Church records
- Vital records, wills probate, and court records
- Cemeteries, tombstones, obituaries, and mortuary records
- County, and town histories
Records more specific to Irish immigrants
- Irish societies
- Irish newspapers
- U.S. Missing Friends listing in the Boston Pilot (on CD)
- Church histories
- Records about their associates and relatives
- Records of siblings and descendants
- Neighbors and other associates (especially those who migrated together)
- Records in other places, for example
- State, Province or county genealogy and historical societies
- Family name associations
- Internet postings
- Private and commercial databases
- Mail lists for surname and for U.S. localities
- Query postings for surname and U.S. localities
- Other family members