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
- 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.