Finding Living
Relatives
And Adoption-Related
Searches
Using Public Records
on the Internet
Priscilla Stone Sharp
Genealogist/Adoption
Search Angel
My Favorite Sites for Searching
Google …. Google
… Google - hands down overall favorite FREE searching
site
When searching Google, put names in quotation marks: "John Q. Public" in various forms "Public, John" and qualify it with the name of a town or other family member, or the word "obituary" or "census" etc.
To find if a website exists
for what you’re looking for:
Birth/Marriage/Death Records:
www.genealogybank.com ($) (SSDI, searchable by range-of-year, is free)
www.italiangen.org (Free; NYC area)
www.fold3.com ($) (Mostly
military oriented)
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1085804&mode=2 (PA Death
Indices 1906-1962)
http://ssdmf.info (SSDI by DOB)
http://sortedbyname.com (SSDI by name)
www.americanancestors.org (NEHGS)
Newspapers:
www.ancestry.com ($$)
www.nytimes.com ($$)
(New York-area society and news archives)
www.fultonhistory.com (Free; over 20
million pages of mostly New York newspapers)
www.news.google.com/newspapers (Free, but not
easily searchable)
www.news.nnyln.net (Free, uppermost
NYS counties)
City Directories:
www.fold3.com ($)
www.spyralsearchsales.com (City
directories and telephone books available for sale on CDs and DVDs)
Obituaries:
and newspapers
People Finders:
www.spokeo.com ($)
www.mylife.com ($)
The following sites are free
to lookup, but they want you to pay for more complete information:
Yearbooks:
Military Records:
www.fold3.com ($)
Arrests/Mugshots:
Social
Networks
