Entire US
Pages with resources for all 50 states or the federal government.
ALA GODORT State Agency Databases - http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases
A listing of state government-supplied databases by state then agency.
ALA GODORT State Blue Books - http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Blue_Books
A Blue Book is an index/phone book of government organizations and key contact information.
NARA Microfilms Digitized by Ancestry - http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/nara.aspx
Suzanne Russo Adams <sadams@tgn.com>, "Re: [APG] NARA film listings on Ancestry.com," APG-L, 20 May 2008, (http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Genealogical_Societies/APG.html)
Common Law Marriages (about, when prohibited in which states) - http://wiki.lawguru.com/index.php/Common-law_marriage#United_States
US Census
Civil War
Newspapers
Property Records/Laws
Books on early property rights.
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Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, Michael Dahlin, Inheritance in AmericaFrom Colonial Times to the Present (Galveston: Frontier Press, 1997), ISBN#0932231128.
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Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986), ISBN #0-8078-4244-3.
Barbara de Mare <barbarademare@yahoo.com>, "Re: [APG] Deeds," APG-L, 11 May 2008, (http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Genealogical_Societies/APG.html)
States
People Search Sites
Some will list both living and deceased individuals.
http://www.veromi.net/
Intellius, Zabasearch, PeopleFinder
