Family Homeland Journey Contest

Enter Ancestry.com's sweepstakes and you could win a $20,000 journey to your family's homeland. The Grand Prize includes

• $20,000 in travel money 
• Up to 8 hours of consultation time with an expert genealogist 
• Help from up to 5 experts in fields relevant to your family history 
• A yearlong Ancestry.com World Deluxe membership for you and 5 family members

20 First Prize winners will get an annual Ancestry.com World Deluxe membership.

Ancestry.com is partnering with NBC to help celebrities discover their family stories in Season 2 of Who Do You Think You Are? and giving you a chance to win an amazing experience of your own.

For additional chances to win, come back and enter once a day through April 8, 2011.

Be sure to tune in on Friday, February 4 on NBC 8/7c for the first episode of Season 2 of "Who Do You Think You Are?"

Delaware Genealogy Links

Here are my favorite free Delaware statewide genealogy links:


Land and Maps

• American Memory Panoramic Map 1874
  Delaware in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.
• 1895 Map

Military
You can learn a lot about an ancestor from his military pension records. 

• Order pension records from NARA.
• Civil War Records
  • First Regiment
  • Second Regiment
  • Third Regiment
  • Fourth Regiment
  • Fifth Regiment
  • Sixth Regiment

Vital Records
Where to write for Delaware Birth and Death Records

• Delaware Births and Christenings, 1710-1896
• Delaware State Birth Records, 1861-1922
• Delaware Marriages, 1713-1953
• Delaware Deaths and Burials, 1815-1955
• Delaware Death Records 1855-1955
• Catholic Cemetery Database
• Delaware Probate Database
• Delaware Newspaper Indexes - Birth, Marriage and Death
• A Calendar of Delaware Wills

Newspapers Search for obits, birth announcements, marriage announcements and other newsworthy events.

• Google News Archive
  Search for obits in the DE and PA newspapers in the Google News Archive.

General

• Delaware GenWeb
• Delaware US GenWeb Archives
• Delaware Genealogical Society
• State of Delaware Archives
• Delaware Roots
• Delaware Research Guide
• Delaware Historic PostCard Collection

Delaware Naturalization Records