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Det er vanskelig nok å vite hvor man skal henvende seg for å få tak i
informasjon når man er kjent! Her er en oversikt over en del kilder og hvor
disse kan bli funnet. Jeg har med hensikt ikke oversatt informasjonen.
Records at the town level and in local libraries
 | cemetery and tombstone records |
| city directories |
| newspapers |
| scool records |
| tax lists |
| town records |
| vital records |
Records at the county level or county libraries
| county and state census records |
| county histories |
| deed (land and property records |
| naturalization records |
| newspaper collections (obituaries) |
| vital records |
| wills, estates (probate records) |
Records at the state level or in state archives
| archived historical documents |
| immigrant and passenger manifest documents (pre-federal period) |
| manuscript collections |
| newspaper collections |
| state census records |
| state military records |
Records at the federal level
| census (federal only) |
| immigrant and passenger manifest documents |
| military records (for federal military service |
| naturalization records (after INS establishment in 1922) |
| pension records (federal military service) |
Records in church archives or offices
| church histories, anniversary histoies |
| church records pertaining to the purchase of pews, donations, membership
lists etc. |
| lists of clergymen who served in the parish or church |
| sacrament records regarding baptims (christenings), marriages, deaths/burials |
source; The genealogist's q&a book by Marcia Yannizze Melnyk
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