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| Marriages, Births, Deaths: Grand Valley Times & The Times-Independent 1896-1932 |

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Grand County Links

• Grand Valley Times & The Times-Independent 1896-1932
• Grant Co. history site
• Grand Co. map from 1895
• Grand Co. official site
• Grand Co. County Clerk
  (435) 259-1321
  125 E Center St
  Moab, UT 84532
• Grand Co. library info@grand.lib.ut.us
• LineagesNet Grand Co.
• Linkpendium Grand Co.
• Dewey Decimal Numbers for Grand Co. books
• Grand Co. School District
• Grand Co. 1917-18 Draft cards by Raymond Banks

Useful Utah sites

• Utah Historical Society Burials Database (search it!)
• Western States Historical Marriage Records (search it!)
• Selected UT Death Certificates  
• Family History Library search (place, surname items)
• Utah Family Group Sheet Project  
• Utah Research/Reference guide  
• Utah State Archives
• Utah Archives on Rootsweb
• Utah Biographies Project
• Utah Census Transcriptions (for some years/counties)
• Utah Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
• Genealogy Helplist Utah
• Courthouse addresses for Utah
• 1895 Atlas of Utah [if you like old maps]
• The Utah Genealogical Association
• Pioneer Library
• LDS Church History
• Utah Pioneer registration
• Into the Western Country
• UT Genealogical Societies
• UT Historical Societies
• Utah Historical Quarterly 1928-1995 (table of contents)
• Utah History
• Utah history bibliography
• Utah Valley PAF User Group
• Utah Valley Family History Library
• Utah Veterans of Vietnam War
• Utah State Archives
• Utah map showing counties
• Utah Development Office (many usefil links)
• Salt Lake City Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists
• Salt Lake Tribune (newspaper)
• State of Utah (government home page)
• The National Association of Counties
• Surname to Soundex Code translator
• Cyberfair project

Grand County References

• Grand County Utah Atlas of 1895
• Paradise name list

Useful sites

• World War II
• National Personnel Records Center
• American War Orphans Network
• Overseas Military Cemeteries
• Links to information on many ethnic surnames
• What's in a Name? (query forum)
• USGenWeb Archives Newsletter

 

Ethnic Genealogy Links

• WorldGenWeb Project [many countries]
• World-Wide Genealogy Resources
• North American GenWeb [Canada to Panama]
• African-American databases, genealogy tools
• Central European GenWeb [many countries]
• Eastern European GenWeb [many countries]
• Canadian Genealogy
• Czech, Bohemian, Moravian Genealogical Research
• Netherlands/Dutch Genealogy
• European Resources
• Federation of East European Family History Societies  
• Genealogy of UK & Ireland
• Irish Genealogy
• Jewish genealogy
• Chronicles of Scot-Irish in VA Colony [put on your reading glasses]
• Scandinavian Genealogy
• Slovakian Genealogy
Links to surname derivation sites

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Genealogy for Beginners and Youth

Genealogy Lessons

• RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Family Trees. Lessons for beginning genealogists regardless of age.
• Genealogy Today Information and links which may be useful for beginners.
• Ancestors by KBYU TV: Information related to the PBS series
• Lana Archibald's Lessons

Youth-oriented resources at RootsWeb

• USGenWeb Kidz Page
• CanadaGenWeb for Kids
• WorldGenWeb for Kids
• 
  "The sites [above] are useful for teaching young people at home or at school about all those ancestors upon whose broad shoulders we stand. There are few greater rewards than to see a sense of history dawn in a child's eyes." says Robert R. Tillman, CEO of RootsWeb.
• Utah History -- Geology, First People, Five Tribes
• Northern Utah Shoshoni History

Molecular Genetics or DNA in Genealogy

Y-DNA (male, surname) and mtDNA (maternal, mitrochondrial dna) are emerging tools for genealogy.  Here are links to Genealogy-DNA List and other major pages of links for this new field.

	GENEALOGY-DNA

| Cyndi's List: DNA | 

Utah Genealogical Association Projects

• If you are a UGA member, and live in Grand Co., please contact the coordinator above.

• Transcribe any Grand Co. census which is not already online
  see UTGenWeb site for state-wide projects-Census, Tombstone, etc.

• Scan or transcribe any old Grand Co. history items (copyright expired).

• Coordinate with Grand Co. church sextons to put burial data in cemetery database.

• Locate and describe any old graveyards with tombstone inscriptions in Grand Co.

• Transcribe old land patents or deeds relating to Grand Co.

• Transcribe any old Native American genealogy items relating to Grand Co.

• Volunteer to do Lookups related to Grand Co.

• Visit the Grand Co. Message Board and do lookups related to queries.

This list was compiled per request by
Board of Directors, UGA
Laurie E. Castillo (lewcastillo@uswest.net)

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