MyTrees.com is pleased to announce the partnering with Footnote.com to make available to you, our patrons, the 1860 US Census Index. This index contains over 25 million names and is a free search. To search this index, click the "Census Records " link under Specialized Searches on our homepage. Our results connect to images of these records at , a website dedicated to providing you with original documents of historical and genealogical importance. Footnote.com charges a small fee to view the images.

Cut your search time in half by using our new search engine at MyTrees.com. This new extensive search engine will more easily help you to find your family in the 1860 US Census, even if the family you are seeking has a common name like Smith. This census search at makes it possible for you to expand your search to include parents, siblings, or children of the family. The results also show all family members with their ages, helping you to quickly find the family you are seeking.

Other documents available at include: military records, naturalization records, city directories, newspapers, and more. Footnote.com is more than just a storehouse of old records, though. It's a thriving community where you can make connections with other researchers. Have a personal insight about a historical event? Want to share a family anecdote about an ancestor listed on the record? Go ahead. Footnote.com provides an environment of social networking where you can discover and experience history along with others who share your passion.

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MyTrees.com is privileged to present the new full-text search of the "Books and Source Records" database at FreeFamilyPages.com. This is an exciting new database and will provide new documentation and sources for genealogists. Many of these records are original extractions and have not been displayed online before. We have made arrangements to test this new searchable database and hope you, our patrons, will give us feedback as to its functionality and content. (You must register a free account to search these records.)

So far the Books and Records that have been added are:

• Houghton County, Michigan Daily Mining Gazette extracts
• Allegan County, Michigan birth extracts
• Campbell County, Kentucky marriage extracts
• Rockingham County, New Hampshire birth, marriage, and death extracts
• Alamance County, North Carolina - Mount Zion Baptist cemetery extracts
• Bedford County, Pennsylvania cemetery extracts
• Nevada County, California - Grass Valley Union newspaper extracts
• More Tombstone transcriptions from Bedford County, Pennsylvania -NEW
• Tombstone transcriptions from Hopkins County, Kentucky -NEW
• Meade County, Kentucky Death Records -NEW
• Coshockton County, Ohio Marriage Bonds -NEW
• HISTORY OF Tuscarawas County, Ohio -NEW
• HISTORY OF THE BARBER FAMILY -NEW
• Descendants of ISOM MARTIN DAWSON -NEW
• History of the Thorer Family -NEW