The following databases are the most important sources for finding family

  • Living family members
  • Ancestry
  • Family Search
  • Specific ethnic focused Genealogy websites
  • Cindi’s List
  • Birth records
  • Marriage records
  • Death records
  • Federal Census records
  • State Census records
  • County Histories
  • Probate Records
  • Immigration records
  • Emigration records
  • Newspaper records
  • Military records
  • Polk City Directories
  • Other city directories
  • Family Photographs
  • Church records
  • Land records
  • Court records
  • Plat maps
  • Cemetery records
  • Genealogy platforms
  • Institutional records
    • Insane Asylums
    • County Poor Houses
    • Prisons
    • Jails
    • County Farms
    • Nursing Homes
  • High school records
  • School yearbooks
  • Business records
  • Freedman Bureau
  • Share cropper records
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies
  • Newspapers
  • Genealogy Indexes  and databases
  • Specialty indexes
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  • Passenger lists
  • Naturalization Records
  • Telephone books
  • Business advertising directories
  • You tube Video’s
  • Google Earth search for famliy homes and businesses.

 Do not just jump into this list!  It is very important that you develop a well thought out research plan first.