Genealogical Information in Other Federal Agency Web Sites
These U.S. Government agencies have information on their websites that may be useful in genealogical research. They are listed alphabetically by agency name (ignoring "U.S.").
Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States Office
- provides index information necessary to locate homestead and land entry case files in the custody of the ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡.
U.S. Census Bureau
- enables place name searches based on the 1990 census.
Centers for Disease Control
- tells how to obtain birth, death, marriage, and divorce records from state and territorial agencies).
Congress
Department of Veterans Affairs
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- and what year the last dependent of veterans of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, etc., died.
U.S. Federal Government
- is the home page to links to online statistical information from more than 70 agencies of the U.S. Federal Government.
U.S. Geological Survey
- identifies the location of geographic features in the U.S. and its territories.
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Library of Congress
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- identifies the location of geographic features in foreign countries.
National Park Service
- is a computerized database (data input now in progress) which will contain
basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War; a list of regiments in both the Union and
Confederate Armies; identifications and description of 384 significant battles of the war; references that
identify the sources of information in the database; and suggestions for where to find additional
information. (NARA holds the records
from which this information is being compiled).
- provides information about historical sites maintained by the National Park Service.
- of over 230,000 names is searchable by surname.
U.S. Postal Service