Genealogy Trails History Group

Genealogy Trails History Group


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VOLUNTEERS DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY

Our Goal
is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data
for the free use of all researchers.


We started out way back in March 2000 by providing data for the state of Illinois and expanded to cover the other states in March of 2006. Since then, we've been very pleased to welcome the many new hosts who have joined our original Illinois volunteers, and to continue to bring free transcribed data to our websites.

Our states are organized by region,
each with their own Coordinator to ensure as many individual county sites get updated as possible.

Regional Coordinators
Northeast Region:  Nancy Piper
Southeast Region:  Dena Whitesell
Southern Region: Veneta McKinney
Midwest Region: Kim Torp
Upper Midwest Region: Angie Lietzau
Pacific Region: Camillia Post
Southwest Region: Peggy Thompson
 

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About Us
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~ We're all Volunteers ~
~ We provide server space to our volunteers to display their county websites under our domain name.
~ The volunteer chooses what data to display on their sites. ~

~ We're completely independent - no big corporation tells us what to do ~
~ We do not accept advertising. NO BANNERS or POP-UPs ALLOWED! ~
~ We're pretty much insane about transcribing data (we don't want to just post scanned images)
~ We do NOT write the history, we just transcribe it~


Our hosts are required to add data to their sites, so you won't see hosted sites that sit for years and years with no changes. As for our unhosted sites, our group works as a team to add data to them on a rotating schedule. So even though a site doesn't have its own host, it will still get data added to it ... just not on as regular a schedule as our hosted sites.


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We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping to keep Genealogy Free.
If you are interested in hosting a county website with us,
view our
G.T.-Volunteer Page for further information.
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And now for the sad part:
We regret that we have no time to
perform personal research for anyone.

We're too busy transcribing data to stop and do research for folks!
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DATA ON THIS NATIONAL SITE
Unlike other genealogy projects, this national site has data on it for more general historical topics.
For specific state data, you'll want to visit our State sites from where you can access each county's data.

Most of our data is on our county websites.
We have an awesome search engine, courtesy of FREEFIND, that will search all of our county sites on our entire domain.
Try it out at:

Search our Sites

DATA TOPICS


SPECIAL PROJECTS

Our group of volunteers work together on large projects
Don't miss out on

Soldiers who received Military Headstones from the Government
Over 160,000 names of Civil War (and some War of 1812) soldiers who received government headstones!

Entire 1840 Census of Pensioners
 
All volumes of Pensioners on the Rolls as of Jan 1, 1883 government-published books have been transcribed

Fanning's 1850 Illustrated Gazetteer - COMPLETE!

Casualties of World War 1
Links to all states' casualties

Revolutionary War Pensioners in 1813
 

African-American Data

Early Famous Americans

Events and Calamities

Historical Data

Maps

Miscellaneous Data
(Research tips are here)

Slavery Data

Military Records

Native American Data

Obituaries

Presidents

State Records

Just for Fun!
Chuckwagon Recipes

Visit our State Sites

If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates,
Subscribe to our
G.T.MAILING LISTS

Volunteer Info

 


 

Visit our State Sites

Select one of our State Sites to visit:

Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware

Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana

Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana

Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota

Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee

Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Washington, DC |  West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
 

 

Volunteer Info

About Us

What's New

Search our Sites

Submit an Obit
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RECENT DATA ADDITIONS TO THIS NATIONAL SITE

These are just some highlights of the data we've added.
There's much more to view on each data topic index page

 

Indexed under MILITARY:

AVERY DALTON - Last Survivor of Black Hawk War

 Revolutionary War Veterans' Obituaries

1840 Census of Pensioners - All States!

Revolutionary War Pensioners in 1813

Pensioners on the Rolls as of Jan 1, 1883

Soldiers who received Military Headstones from the Government
Over 160,000 names of soldiers.

Distinguished Cadets of the Graduating Class of 1956 US Military Academy

Muster roll of the Brig "General Armstrong" in 1814

Military Obituaries, from 1899

Ladies of the GAR

List of Union Prisoners at Richmond, Sept. 1861

Casualties of Battle of the Little Big Horn

Widows still alive in 1922

Mexican War Veterans still alive in 1922


Indexed On President's Page

Timeline of Abraham Lincoln's Life

Tracing the Escape Route of John Wilkes Booth

The Case Against Mrs. Surratt


Slavery and African-American Data

Lynchings from January to June, 1903

Biography of Frederick Douglass

African-American HEROES

1811 German Coast (Louisiana) Revolt

African American Facts and History
- 1920's


Indexed Under Native American Data

Trail of Tears Data

Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas

Indian Traders at Pittsburg in July 1760

Obituaries and Death Notices- Death of Lyncoya Jackson

Newspaper Stories on Sac/Fox Nation

 

Indexed Under HISTORICAL DATA:

1850 Gazetteer - All States!
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer - COMPLETE!
Description of the United States in 1850 -- States, counties, cities/towns, post offices

Heirloom Recipes from around the Country

Chuck Wagon Recipes

Names of Fame in Framing America:
- Obituary of Susan B. Anthony
- Biography of Daniel Boone
- Biographies of the Men who signed the Declaration of Independence


Indexed Under Miscellaneous Data

Beginning Your Family History

Common Terms in Estate and Legal Records

Genealogy Dictionary


Indexed Under State Data

Prisoners of Alcatraz

Prisoners of Leavenworth

Bio of Pioneer Stagecoach and Railman Capt. Silas St. John


Indexed Under EVENTS

Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse of January 1922

The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935

Boston Molasses Flood, January 15, 1919

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - March 25, 1911


Disappearance of the USS Cyclops

Omaha, NE: March 23, 1913 Easter Sunday Tornado

Plane Crash into Empire State Building, July 1945

1968 Farmington, WV Coal Mine Disaster

Debruce Grain Elevator Fire, Haysville, KS, June 1998

Circus Big Top Fire, Hartford, CT - July 1944

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste Ship

The Cherokee Steamboat 1840 Explosion - Lewisburg, Ark

 

 


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A few of our recent awards
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Top 50 of the Most Popular Genealogy Websites in the World  
Genealogy in Time ranks us as the 48th most popular genealogy site WORLD-WIDE in 2016
ProGenealogists Ranked us as #15 on their Top 50 Most Popular U.S. Genealogy Websites in 2014
(and then ancestrydotcom bought them and that was the end of yet another free, unbiased website.)


© Genealogy Trails
Genealogy Trails provides webspace to our volunteers for their county sites and those volunteers are solely responsible for the content they place on their sites with us.
The domain owner, Kim Torp, is responsible for maintaining this main national site and is responsible for that data added by herself, as well as for the data on her own county sites within various states.
The data you find on our sites is free to copy to your computer or to print out for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
"Personal use" DOES include privately sharing data you found on our sites with other family members.
"Personal Use" does NOT include copying the data from this website to ANY OTHER WEBSITE for any reason.

Please respect the transcribing work our volunteers have done and do NOT take ANY data and send it to, copy it to or place on any other website, especially for-profit sites


 

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