{"id":344,"date":"2006-10-14T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-01-06T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:35:39","slug":"az-genealogical-databases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/genealogy\/az-genealogical-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Genealogical Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the databases I use most often when volunteer researching about ancestors in the State of Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 This list is mainly for my own quick use, although you may find it helpful if you are seeking information about an Arizona resident.<\/p>\n

Searchable Databases<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mesa Arizona Regional Family History Center<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/mesarfhc.org\/<\/a>
\n– AZ Obituary Index (Free)<\/p>\n

Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/genealogy.az.gov\/<\/a>
\n– Search births 1887-1930; deaths 1878-1955 (Free)<\/p>\n

Maricopa County Recorders Office<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/recorder.maricopa.gov\/recdocdata\/GetRecDataSelect.asp?mcrs=1<\/a>
\n– Search all recorded documents in Maricopa County since January 1983 (Free)<\/p>\n

Maricopa County Assessor’s Office<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.maricopa.gov\/Assessor\/ParcelApplication\/Default.aspx<\/a>
\n– Search for a current\u00c2\u00a0homeowner in Maricopa County (Free)<\/p>\n

Supreme Court of Arizona – Public Court Records<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.supreme.state.az.us\/publicaccess\/notification\/search.asp<\/a>
\n– Search all Arizona public court information\u00c2\u00a0online (Free)<\/p>\n

Maricopa County Library District – Death and Obituary Database<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/mcldaz.org\/logon.aspx?src=search%2fmisc%2fesources.aspx%3fctx%3d1.1033.0.0.1%26Target%3d1228%26ESourceLogon%3d1&ctx=1.1033.0.0.1<\/a>
\n– Search the\u00c2\u00a0America’s Newsbank Death and Obituary Database (Free with Maricopa County Library\u00c2\u00a0Card)<\/p>\n

Phoenix Public Library Arizona Newsbank Database<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org\/wcLogin.jsp?resid=3370<\/a>
\n– Search the Arizona Republic, plus dozens of additional random newspapers, fully archived online\u00c2\u00a0since 2001 (Free with Phoenix Public Library Card)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Department of Veteran’s Affairs Gravesite Locator<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/gravelocator.cem.va.gov\/j2ee\/servlet\/NGL_v1<\/a>
\n– Search for grave locations of Veterans buried in\u00c2\u00a0any National Memorial Cemetery (Free)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Informative Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obituary Lookup Volunteers of Arizona<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com\/~obitl\/volaz.html<\/a>
\n– Request help in looking up an obituary (Free)<\/p>\n

Arizona History and Archives Division – Family History<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.lib.az.us\/archives\/famhistory.cfm<\/a>
\n– Contains resources and links to Arizona family information (Free)<\/p>\n

Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records – Genealogy Collection<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.lib.az.us\/is\/genealogy\/<\/a>
\n– Contains a list of all newspapers held at the State Archives, and allows you to make an obituary request if you cannot visit the Archives in person (Free)<\/p>\n

Maricopa County Area Cemeteries<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.rootsweb.com\/~azcemete\/phoenix_and_maricopa_co.htm<\/a>
\n– Contains a list of all area cemeteries with some lnks (Free)<\/p>\n

USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project of Arizona<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.rootsweb.com\/~cemetery\/arizona\/arizona.html<\/a>
\n– Search volunteer entries of Tombstone transcriptions (Free)<\/p>\n

Looking for an Arizona Obituary?<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com\/~azclips\/<\/a>
\n– Search about 8,000 Arizona obituaries (Free)<\/p>\n

Ancestry.com<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a>
\n– The best search site on the web!\u00c2\u00a0 (Search SSDI and some public records for free.\u00c2\u00a0The rest is\u00c2\u00a0subscription based.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good luck in your searches!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are the databases I use most often when volunteer researching about ancestors in the State of Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 This list is mainly for my own quick use, although you may find it helpful if you are seeking information about an Arizona resident. Searchable Databases Mesa Arizona Regional Family History Center http:\/\/mesarfhc.org\/ – AZ Obituary Index […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":541,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions\/3301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}