by Andrew on October 16th, 2009

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Social Security and U.S. census records are sketchy at best before 1920. Besides Ancestry.com, what other organizations could someone get information on someone from before 1920?

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by BigDaddyBS on October 26th, 2009
Online, there are a few. http://www.usgenweb.org has some, as do many other genealogical sites.

Offline, go to the county in question (from the Census or SSDeath records) and go to the courthouse and/or health department. There may be records there. Marriage, will, divorce, death, birth, etc.
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- that is helpful. The person primarily in question died before 1920. SS death records hadn't kicked in yet and county courthouse burned in 1930 losing alot of local records. As he wasn't born there, I hope to find records elsewhere. I am not sure exactly where he was born.
  
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- I see. I've done quite a bit of genealogical research on my family, and have found that Ancestry seems to be the BEST. Now, besides them, there are many others, and I've collected quite a number of links. I put them on my website, here: http://www.orangefrogproductions.com/ofp2m_links_genealogy_aahome.shtml . I hope some of them help.
  
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- I really appreciate that, thanks
  
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by sm00z on October 26th, 2009
You can log onto iconn.org as a guest.

Click on iconn resources and when a new screen appears, click on HeritageQuest. Once you get into HQ, you can search the federal censuses and download as many as you want for free.
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- Thank You. That will give me somewhere new to look
  
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by Ray Del Sol on October 26th, 2009
not sure but good question +4
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by yahoot on October 26th, 2009
Absolutely agree with Mr M. About the best place for genealogy information is your local genealogy library from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints.

They have almost 5000 libraries around the world.

They are usually staffed with very helpful volunteers (surprisingly, many (most?)of the volunteers are genealogy buffs who are not members of that church- so don't worry about them trying to convert you).

Most of the libraries have free web access to lots of genealogy websites that usually require paid subscriptions.

Best of all, all of their libraries are FREE. Can't get better than that.

To find one near you, go to:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp
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by - MojoThunder - on October 16th, 2009
the Mormon church has a HUGE archive of family trees ... odds are if you have a family member who is LDS, you are in there
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- Their records are not limited to the LDS. They are also the power behind Ancestry.com. Thank you.
  
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  by Andrew on October 16th, 2009
- yup ... that was my whole point ... they toss everybody in there
  
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