William (Bill) Dollarhide and Family Roots Publishing continue to to produce new guides, or quick reference sheets, for genealogists in their series, titled, A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide. The latest titles have focused Dollarhide’s popular name lists books. One of the newest guides is A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Online U.S. Name Lists.
Unique to Online U.S. Name Lists
Internet websites with databases, indexes, or eBooks documenting the early residents of the U.S. were extracted from Dollarhide’s Name Lists books (Family Roots Publishing Co, Orting, WA, 2013-2015). Using the PDF version of this Insta-GuideTM, every website address is hot linked to the Internet – just one click away.
The 144 databases listed here include Censuses and Census Substitutes, i.e., Name Lists derived from Federal Census Records, Immigration Lists, Historical Books & Documents, Land Records, Federal Tax Lists, National Vital Records, and U.S. Military Lists (including Lists of Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Veterans, and Pensioners). Together, all of the databases listed have 1.526 billion searchable records/images. Keep in mind that one record/image may have dozens of names on it. Use these databases to locate the name and residence of an ancestor or relative anywhere in the United States.
The databases are identified by their inclusive dates, the name of the database, and the number of records/images in each.
About Name Lists
Bill’s Name List books give a state-by-state listing of what name lists are available, where to find them, and how they can be used to further one’s research.
Name lists are key to success in any genealogical endeavor. Name lists, be they national, state, county, or even city or town in scope, can help nail down the precise place where one’s ancestor may have lived. And if that can be done, further records, usually found on a local level, will now be accessible to research. But success depends on knowing where the ancestor resided. This is where Dollarhide’s Name List guides can make the difference.
William Dollarhide is best known as the co-author and cartographer of Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, a book of 393 census year maps, and one of the bestselling titles ever published in the field of genealogy. Mr. Dollarhide currently lives in Utah. He has written numerous guidebooks related to genealogical research.
A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Online U.S. Name Lists is available from Family Roots Publishing. With the purchase of the print format also comes an electronic copy in PDF format, or, you can order just the electronic format.
Other titles in the series include:
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Colonial Wagon Roads to 1750
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: American Migration Routes, 1750-1800
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Dollarhide’s Rules & Daffern’s Laws
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Online Resources for Finding Living Relatives
and those in the name lists group include: