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French Digitized Records & Online Databases

Les Archives des Alpes-Maritimes (includes the city of Nice) - copies of the actes d'etat civil & ditized copies of old newspapers (la presse ancienne): http://www.cg06.fr/culture/culture-archives.html Cannes Archives Municipales - birth, marriage and death for over 100 years (etat civil): http://archives.ville-cannes.fr/ Côtes d'Armor Archives Departementales - registres paroissiaux (parish registers) of Côtes d'Armor plus The Cadastre Ancien (land register): http://sallevirtuelle.cotesdarmor.fr/EC/ecx/connexion.aspx Geneactes some civil records, mostly from 1700s & early 1800s: http://www.geneactes.org/ ; in English: http://www.geneactes.org/index-en.html Sarthe Archives Departementales - Parish & civil registers, and Le Cadastre index (land records): http://www.archives.sarthe.com/ Yvelines Archives Departementales - Actes etat civil (birth, marriage and death), recensements de population (census records) and parish registers (registres paroissiaux) for

Deep Web Search Engines

" Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web ," according to Search Engine Watch . They say, "The goal is to allow and enable users to search over scholarly content," said Anurag Acharya, a Google engineer leading the project. [Scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports.] Much of this material has been added to Google over the past few months. However, the new service allows searchers to specifically search against just the academic material.... Google has worked with publishers to gain access to some material that wouldn't ordinarily be accessible to search spiders, because it is locked behind subscription barriers. ... When spidering the content, Google has worked to understand who the authors of the papers are, as well as the formal titles of the papers and other documents that cite the material.

Sweden & Swedish Emigrants to the US

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives: http://www.elca.org/os/archives/    Research in the archives, hire research, rent microfilm. 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL, just south of Oakton St. Bonnie Lane is about halfway between Arlington Heights Road and Busse Road (Rt 83). Open 8:30 to 5, Monday through Friday. Phone: 847-690-9410, FAX: 847-690-9502, email: archives@elca.org Swedish Research Augustana College's Genealogy Research FAQs : http://www.augustana.edu/x14885.xml Smultron list archives: http://smultron.com/pipermail/swedestoo/ Jerry's Scandinavian/USA Genealogy Links : http://longstrom.com/ SweGGate : http://sweggate.com/ Genealogy in Sweden : http://www.algonet.se/%7Ehogman/swe_genealogy.htm R&oubml;tter : http://www.genealogi.se/ (part in English) The Swedish Emigrant Institute at Växjö (Svenska Emigrantinstitutet): http://www.swemi.nu/eng/ Gothenburg Regional Archives (Landsarkivet i Göteborg är din arkivmyndighet i Västra Götalands län):