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Spider Jerusalem

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2. There are online birth, death, and census records
Thu Nov 29, 2012, 03:16 AM
Nov 2012

but you're limited to what's available; The LDS site is a good place to start, for free (a lot of the records you'll get in your search results may require payment to view, though); start with what you know (names of great-grandparents, if known, or great-great-grandparents) and work your way back; the census data is a good place to look and can be correlated with marriage, birth and death records (note that censuses prior to 1850 don't list all the inhabitants of a household, only the head of household and number of inhabitants by sex and age range).

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