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San Joaquin County California Obituaries, 1850-1991

Ancestry has published a “new” database to their collection: California, San Joaquin, County Public Library Obituary Index, covering the years 1850-1991. The images for this “new” database have been hosted at FamilySearch for some time, and can be freely found there for individuals without an Ancestry membership. There is no difference in the data at either website, and the images at Ancestry are actually hosted by FamilySearch. While the original images at FamilySearch are completely indexed there, the Ancestry database provides relevant “leafing” for users of FTM and Ancestry’s Online Family Trees.

This collection consists of images of index cards located at the San Joaquin County Public Library in Stockton, California. The index cards contain references to obituaries from various San Joaquin County and Stockton city newspapers, and often include the actual clipping. The collection covers the years 1850 to 1991.

You can learn more about this collection at the FamilySearch WIKI.

New Oklahoma Cemetery Transcriptions Added

Continuing with building new directories of Oklahoma Cemeteries online, today AccessGenealogy added 11 new cemetery record pages for counties in Oklahoma, likely providing the most complete online index of available cemetery records for the following counties: Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cimarron, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, and Craig counties.

779 new links were added to the AccessGenealogy website through these new pages. They currently have 285,760 genealogy links on their website with only 74 reporting as bad links.

Priory Church of Bridlington, East Riding, Yorkshire, England

A new manuscript has been added to Archive’s collection of digital books. It’s long title is: An Historical and Architectural Description of the Priory Church of Bridlington, in the East Riding of the county of York. Written in 1831 by Marmaduke Prickett this manuscript provides a vivid historical rumination about the Church and includes several fine etchings of the various churches in East Riding, and of various architecture details of this specific priory church. But the value to genealogists comes in its multiple appendices of which you can find many details concerning Bridlington past residents. Once you click to view the free book you can use the search in the top right to find a surname.

 

West Virginia Naturalization Records 1814-1991

Ancestry has published a “new” database to their collection: West Virginia, Naturalization Records, covering the years 1814-1991. The images for this “new” database have been hosted at FamilySearch for some time, and can be freely found there for individuals without an Ancestry membership. There is no difference in the data at either website, and the images at Ancestry are actually hosted by FamilySearch. While the original images at FamilySearch are completely indexed there, the Ancestry database provides relevant “leafing” for users of FTM and Ancestry’s Online Family Trees.

Records include the following:

  • Declarations of intention
  • Petitions
  • Oaths of allegiance
  • Certificates of naturalization
  • Registers of naturalizations granted and/or denied
  • Card files of naturalization
  • Naturalization orders
  • Lists of naturalized citizens
  • Naturalization dockets

The collection consists of a variety of naturalization records for 32 of 55 West Virginia Counties: Barbour, Berkeley, Brooke, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Lewis, Logan, Marion, Mason, McDowell, Mineral, Mingo, Monongalia, Nicholas, Ohio, Pocahontas, Preston, Raleigh, Randolph, Roane, Summers, Tucker, Upshur, Wetzel, Wood, and Wyoming.

You can learn more about this collection at the West Virginia, Naturalization Records at AccessGenealogy or the FamilySearch WIKI.

New Oklahoma Cemetery Records

Today AccessGenealogy has added new cemetery record pages for several counties in Oklahoma, likely providing the most complete index of available cemetery records for the following counties: Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, and Bryan.

Adding over 630 new links to the AccessGenealogy website through these new pages. They currently have 284,981 genealogy links on their website with only 123 reporting as bad links.