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Online County Histories, Biographies and Indexes - USA

A Genealogy Guide

General USA

Family History Books at FamilySearch includes more than 150,000 digitized histories of families, county and local histories, and more (access to some books may be restricted)
Google Books has some digitized county histories online
The Internet Archive has some digitized county histories and other items
- Internet Archive: Free Downloads: Genealogy

Alabama

WPA Index to Alabama Biography (about 28,000 entries)
A History of Birmingham and Its Environs by George M. Cruikshank, 1920 two volumes)

Arkansas

Arkansas Digital Archives

California

California County Biographies and Histories -- Indexes

Colorado

59ers Directory - Colorado Argonauts miners in the Pikes Peak region
Old Ladies' Relief Society of Denver Index of Residents 1897-1980
Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity, Colorado - 1898 includes biographies of prominent citizens

Florida

Florida Heritage Collection - Florida Counties

Idaho

Idaho Biographical Index downloadable PDF files

Illinois

Illinois Digital Archives

Indiana

Indiana Biography Index

Iowa

Iowa State University - Iowa County Histories Collection for assorted counties
Iowa Biographies Project

Kansas

Kansas Book Transcriptions On-Line includes state & county histories with name indexes
Kansas Biographical Name Index
Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, 1883 includes counties

Louisiana

Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index, 1804-1972 mostly from newspapers

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Archives Collection Index, 1629-1799

Michigan

Michigan County Histories 1866-1926 for many counties; searchable online
Michigan Biographical Index
Wayne County: The Book Of Detroiters - A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of Detroit, 1908

Mississippi

Mississippi Biographical Index

Missouri

Missouri General...
- Missouri County History Project
- University of Missouri Digital Library includes county histories or other material for the following Missouri counties: Boone, Chariton, Clay, Harrison, Henry, Johnson, Linn, Marion, Monroe (Civil War era), Nodaway & Saline. There are a few small resources for St. Louis.
- Missouri Valley/Kansas City Local History Index includes a local history index to 36,000 records
St. Louis...
- Index to the History of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis
- St. Louis, the Fourth City, 1764-1909, 1911 text of the books online - various volumes (downloadable)
  - Name Index to St. Louis: the Fourth City, 1764-1909
- History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men (1883) text of the book online (downloadable)
  - Also at: History of Saint Louis City and County, published 1883
- Missouri History Museum - Genealogy and Local History Index mostly for St. Louis, but "the index includes a small percentage of individuals who did not reside in St. Louis"

Montana

Local Histories of Montana

Nebraska

Nebraska GenWeb Project Resource Center - Online Library includes county and state histories
History of the State of Nebraska 1882 in progress; includes counties

New York

New York Biographical Index from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
New York State History - Towns and Counties includes Albany, Corning, Dryden, Herkimer County, Orange County, Schuylerville, Stony Point, Troy and Rensselaer County
Monroe County: Rochester History 1939-present a journal that covers the history of Rochester and western New York
Schenectady County Digital History Archive

North Carolina

North Dakota

The North Dakota Biography Index (has about 192,000 entries)

Ohio

Ohio Name Index 1796-1850

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania County Histories and Pennsylvania Biographies
Historic Pittsburgh contains the full text of over 1200 books from the 19th and early 20th centuries

South Dakota

Biographical Index of South Dakota for prominent South Dakotans from c. 1897 to 1930

Tennessee

Index to Brief Biographical Sketches of 30,000 Tennesseans from the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Texas

Portal to Texas History includes the Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas and other items
Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas

Utah

Utah Historical Society Online Publications
Utah Early LDS Church Information File, 1830-1900 from FamilySearch

Washington

Eastern Washington Biographical Sketches for Adams County, Chelan County, Douglas County, Ferry County, Franklin County, Lincoln County, Okanogan County & Stevens County

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Local and County Histories includes histories for nearly 72 Wisconsin counties
The State of Wisconsin Collection from the University of Wisconsin includes some county and local histories

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