Lillian Your message inspires me to post a list of some of my favorite research websites that have online records available and can help in your research, and are Free to use by anyone. USGenweb & Rootsweb have a number of free databases which can be searched very easily. First of all try searching at the Rootsweb homepage by name, they have the largest group of free resources online: http://www.rootsweb.com/ USGenweb can researched a number of ways, but probably the best way is by going to the State and County pages that you need. Click onto the State in the left column of the homepage, and then pick the County you want to check. Most of the County Websites have lots of data contributed by users including census, wills, deeds, court records, almost anything for genealogy researching. Try it, you'll be amazed at what's available for free: http://www.usgenweb.org/ By the way, if you don't know the county, but have the city or town, try doing a search at Rootsweb's "U.S. Town/County Database", available on their homepage. Just click onto the link, and type in the city & 2 letter State abbreviation. Most genealogy research locates records based on the names of a County, so it is important to know the County. Here are a number of State or County databases that can help in doing specific researches, and which have documents or links to data: http://halifax.sgarner349.com/ (Halifax County, North Carolina) http://www.b4us.net/ (Northeastern North Carolina Genealogy Research database includes, Maps,Court Records, Military databases for the Spanish American War, Civil War, WWII, County Histories, Cemeteries, plus books for NC, and much more. http://www.lofthouse.com/warren/bibles/sura.htm (Warren Co.,North Carolina family bible records) http://www.nexgenimaging.com/db/warrenpolicy.cfm (Warren Co.,NC Property Records database) http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NC/Granville/ (Linkpendium Genealogy, has websites and resources for most Counties in the USA. I use it for mostly NC research, so this takes you to the Granville Co. webpage, but you can key in your own locations by clicking onto "USA" at the top of the page) http://www.deeds.co.nash.nc.us/ (Nash Co.North Carolina Register of DeedsOnline) http://web.co.wake.nc.us/rdeeds/ (Wake Co.,NC Register of Deeds Online) http://docsouth.unc.edu/ (Documenting the American South website run by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, many online books available for reading ) http://birth-certificates.net/north-carolina.htm (website to assist in North Carolina Birth Certificates searches) http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/HistoricalDocuments.html (Oberlin County, Ohio College website, lots of historical records for Ohio) http://www.ohiohistory.org/dindex/ (Ohio Death Certificates 1913 -1937 Online) http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html (Illinois State Archives) http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/ (Kentucky Vital Records database) http://catalog.kyhistory.org/help/Cem_Database_Intro.htm (Kentucky Cemetery records and more) http://www.sos.state.mo.us./archives/ (Missouri State Archives) http://sos.ky.gov/land/ (Kentucky land records and links to more) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ysbinns/vataxlists/index.htm (Virginia Tax Records 1790 -1800) http://www.bjmjr.com/military/index.htm (Website to help in researching military history) http://www.searchsystems.net/list.php?nid=42 (SearchSystems.net - Public Records directory. This link is for NC, but can key in the State of your choice) http://www.ellisisland.org/ (Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals research - can search for list of people who arrived in Ellis Island) http://www.interment.net/ (Search for cemetery records nationwide) http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/ (cemetery records) http://www.obitlinkspage.com/ (find obituaries) http://www.obitcentral.com/ (find obituaries) http://www.findagrave.com/ (Find a Grave) http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/dawes.php (Index to the Dawes Rolls for Native American Research) http://www.census-online.com/links/ (Search for free census records online) http://www.censusfinder.com/ (free census records finder) http://www.censusdiggins.com/ (free census and genealogy research sites) http://envoy.libraryofmichigan.org/1870_census/ (Michigan Online census) http://www.familysearch.org/ (Latter Day Saints website for free genealogy research and guides, includes free 1880 census online) Enjoy, Deloris Williams ----- Original Message ----- From: <AlviCpl@aol.com> To: <COPELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [COPELAND] Re: Copeland Families from NC to Indiana & beyond > Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am limited to doing online > research. > Us inexperienced researchers don't know about things like this. > > Lillian >