• UK Census Image Samples
  
• Three Chicago Birth Certificates
  
• Analyzing pre-1850 census records
• Chicago, Illinois
• Illinois
  
• Census
• Civil War Pension Records
• Females
• Hiring a Professional Genealogist
• Illinois Death Certificates - samples, articles, and other information
• Immigration
• Land Records
  
• Selective Service Records from World War Two
• State Archives Web Sites
  
• Tombstone Rubbings and Photographs
  
• World War I Draft
• World War II Draft Cards
  

Sample images on this site

• Unusual World War I Draft cards (born in 1917 and 1918)
  
• Sample Union Civil War Pension File-Complete
• Union Civil War Pension File Special Examiner's Report
• 1893 Birth Certificate with off the wall name
  
• Selective Service Records from World War Two
• World War II Draft Cards
• Chicago 1888 Voter Registration Lists
• late 1700s christening records from Belgium
• Deeds from 1880s in Illinois
• Illinois Death Certifcates
  
• 1890s New York City Death Certificate
  
• World War I Alien Registrations

• Santa Clause in 1930
  
• Passenger Manifests
  
• US Census Images 1850-1930
• UK Census Images
  
• President Abraham Lincoln in the 1850 and 1860 census
  
• "Roots" Author Alex Haley's Family in Census Records
  
• Famous People enumerated TWICE in the same year
  
• World War I Draft Cards
  

Michael's Families (not rich and famous--just plain old fashioned hard working--nothing wrong with that!)

• Michael's Ostfriesen Ancestors
• Michael's Paternal Ancestors
  
• Michael's Wife's Ancestors (very incomplete)

• Teddy Bears from Grandma Neill's Chenille Bedspread
• My aunt's immigrant trunk
• My Grandmother-in-law's SS-5 form -- which opened up a whole can of worms!
• pictures from Tallahassee seminar
• rabbit pictures

Sophia Derle and George Trautvetter
Taken from an oil portrait done in the 1860s