Footnote - A New Online Documents Website

A new website called Footnote has launched with over 4 million digitized records, many of them from the U.S. National Archives. You can search the indexes at the website for free, however viewing the digitized images requires payment (available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or you can view individual images for $1.99 each - price subject to change).

Here are some highlights of what is presently available at the Footnote website...

• Name Index to Civil War (Union) and Later Pension Files 1865–1899
  
• Southern Claims Commission Records 1870s
  
• Pennsylvania Archives Series 1625–1880 (presently free to use with registration)
  
• Naturalization Records Indexes for Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania (years and courts vary)
  
• Some City Directories for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island

The Footnote website is at: Footnote - Documents Online

Some of the records at Footnote were digitized from material in the National Archives (NARA). You can read NARA's press release about this at: National Archives and Footnote Launch Project to Digitize Historic Documents