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Consider public records
Institutions such as local courthouses, libraries, archives, and other record-keeping government agencies maintain information that could be useful to your research.
Census records: Some countries record an official listing of the population every year or decade, which may include addresses, names of children and spouse, and occupation.
Vital records: These are birth, marriage, and death records. They may list place of birth, names of parents, name of spouse, names of children, and place of death. These records may be located in a local court or other government office in the area where your ancestor resided.
Military records: These records may list place of birth and names of spouse and children. They are usually housed in a country's national archives.
Newspapers: Local newspapers might contain obituaries with information about a person's life. Check libraries in the area where your ancestor resided.
Naturalization records: Some countries require immigrants to complete paperwork at the time they become citizens. This information may include names of spouse and children, names of parents, country and town of birth, and occupation. Some naturalization records are housed centrally in a country's national archives; some are housed at local or state courts, usually in the region where the person lived.
Records from a place of worship: This might be a source for discovering birth, marriage, and death records.
Passenger lists: If a relative emigrated by ship, this may be a good source for finding the town and country of origin, names of spouse and children, date of birth, and names of relatives who may still be in the country of origin. To find passenger lists, first find naturalization records, which may site the name of the ship taken, the port of entry, and the date of entry.
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