Eastern European Research Made Easier
By Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.

When I began researching my Slovak ancestors some 18 years ago, librarians, clerks, and even a few fellow genealogists would give me a puzzled look, and then ask: "How do you spell that?" and "Where is that?"
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WorldVitalRecords.com Named One of Top 101 Best Web Sites For Tracing Your Roots

WorldVitalRecords.com was recently named among Family Tree Magazines Top 101 Best West Sites For Tracing Your Roots. This is the second year WorldVitalRecords.com has received this annual award. The Top 101 List of Web sites is applicable for the beginning genealogists, to the advanced, seasoned genealogist.
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South Carolina Black Research Aided by New Addition to WorldVitalRecords.com

Southern research is notorious for its difficulty, especially when there seem to be more burned counties than surviving. The records of Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, South Carolina: 1785 - 1827, were abstracted by Margaret Peckham Motes in an effort to help ease this problem. These records come from "deeds of gift, deeds of sale, mortgages, born free, and freed," sections of Laurens County, SC Deed Books A-L and Newberry County, SC Deed Books A-G.
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Kentuckians in Illinois(Free for 10 more days)
American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731 - 1868 (Free for 10 more days)
Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721 - 1743 (Free for 10 more days)
Genealogical Abstracts from 18th-Century Virginia Newspapers (Free for 10 more days)
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Additional databases at WorldVitalRecords.com mean more family connections for users
PROVO, UT, July 14, 2008 --- On October 4, 2006, WorldVitalRecords.com launched with 24 online databases. Now, less than two years later, WorldVitalRecords.com has more than 10,000 databases online that contain more than one billion names.
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