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These records for the District of Columbia (Washington DC) include birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, former slave records, freedmen records, pension records, military records and more. Included as well are general United States collections if they include or could reasonably include DC residents.

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District of Columbia | Washington DC

Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

District of Columbia Birth records

• Washington DC Archives (no online collections yet)
• District of Columbia Births and Christenings, 1830-1955, index
• United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index
• Washington Birth Records, 1869-1950, index & images
• United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index & images
• Birth records, (Washington, District of Columbia), 1874-1897; indexes, 1874-1897
• District of Columbia Birth Returns, 1874-1897, images
• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• Washington, Applications for Enrollment and Adoption of Washington Indians, 1911-1919, index & images
• Concordia Lutheran Evangelical Church records, 1833-1944
• Western Presbyterian Church records, 1854-1897
• Union Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1860-1883
• Georgetown Presbyterian Church records, 1863-1932 (aka Bridge Street PC, West Street PC)
• Metropolitan Presbyterian & Capitol Hill Church records, 1864-1954
• Eastern Presbyterian Church records, 1875-1955
• Eckington Presbyterian Church records, 1896-1900
• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• Inventory of church archives in the District of Columbia : The Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington
• Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church Records, 1856-1928
• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• Miscellaneous Bible and cemetery records
• Guardianship case index (District of Columbia), 1801-1997

District of Columbia Marriage records

• Washington DC Archives (no online collections yet)
• District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950, index & images
• District of Columbia Marriages, 1830-1921, index
• United States Marriages, 1733-1990, index
• United States Western States Marriage Index, index

• Washington Divorce Index, 1969-2014, index
• Washington Marriage Index, 1969-2014, index
• Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
• United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index & images
• Blacks in the marriage records of the District of Columbia, Dec. 23, 1811 – June 16, 1870
• District of Columbia marriage returns, 1874-1902, 1907-1923; consents, 1896-Dec. 1950
• District of Columbia marriages, 1811-1950
• A list of certificates returned of the solemnization of marriages in the county of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, 1801-1850
• Registers of Marriages in the District of Columbia, Feb. 1887-Jan. 1902, indexes, ca. 1886-1901
• Concordia Lutheran Evangelical Church records, 1833-1944
• Genealogy Trails Washington DC Divorces
• Western Presbyterian Church records, 1854-1897
• Union Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1860-1883
• Georgetown Presbyterian Church records, 1863-1932 (aka Bridge Street PC, West Street PC)
• Metropolitan Presbyterian & Capitol Hill Church records, 1864-1954
• Eastern Presbyterian Church records, 1875-1955
• Eckington Presbyterian Church records, 1896-1900
• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• Inventory of church archives in the District of Columbia : The Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington
• Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church Records, 1856-1928
• Historical court records of Washington, District of Columbia, marriages, images
• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• Miscellaneous Bible and cemetery records

District of Columbia Death records

• Washington DC Archives (no online collections yet)
• District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961, index & images
• District of Columbia Deaths and Burials, 1840-1964, index
• Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960, index
• Washington Death Index, 1965-2014, index
• United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index
• BillionGraves Index, index & images
• Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index & images
• Find A Grave Index, index & images
• United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
• United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index & images
• United States Social Security Death Index, indexUnited States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• District of Columbia deaths, 1874-1959
• Concordia Lutheran Evangelical Church records, 1833-1944
• Western Presbyterian Church records, 1854-1897
• Union Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1860-1883
• Georgetown Presbyterian Church records, 1863-1932 (aka Bridge Street PC, West Street PC)
• Metropolitan Presbyterian & Capitol Hill Church records, 1864-1954
• Eastern Presbyterian Church records, 1875-1955
• Eckington Presbyterian Church records, 1896-1900
• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• Inventory of church archives in the District of Columbia : The Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington
• Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church Records, 1856-1928
• United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & images
• Washington, County Deaths, 1891-1907, index & images
• Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : District of Columbia; 1850; 1860; 1870; 1880
• Historical court records of Washington, District of Columbia : death Records of Washington, D. C., 1801 to 1878
• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• Miscellaneous Bible and cemetery records

Cemeteries

• United States, Cemetery Abstracts, index & images
• Cemetery records (Washington, District of Columbia), 1775-1988
• Cemetery records, 1820-1988, in queue for images to be released
• Cemetery records, 1845-1988, in queue for images to be released
• Cemetery records, 1858-1988, in queue for images to be released
• District of Columbia, Glenwood cemetery records, 1854-2013
• Historic graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia : with the inscriptions appearing on the tombstones in most of the counties of the state and in Washington and Georgetown
• Interment card file : 1854-1988
• Interment list, 1856-1911
• Register of burials in District of Columbia cemeteries, 1847-1938
• Record of disinterment, 1912-1940

Funeral Homes

• [Safell Funeral Home register], 1958-1964

Obituaries

• United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index & images
• United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
• Foreign death certificates, 1888-1965
• Interments, 1855-1874; death certificates, 1874-1931; index to (1) interments, (2) death certificates, (3) “foreign” death certificates, 1855-1949; stillbirth certificates, 1874-1964 (District of Columbia)
• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• Washington (District of Columbia), obituaries, 1992-2014, images

Wills & Probate

• District of Columbia – Washington DC Archives (no online collections yet)
• District of Columbia – Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900
• District of Columbia – Probate records, 1801-1930
• District of Columbia – Will books, 1800-1878; index to wills, 1800-1951
• District of Columbia – Wills, Book IV, dated 1799 to 1837
• District of Columbia – Washington DC Genealogy Trails Wills

District of Columbia Residence Records

Census

1800

• United States Census, 1800, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1800 and 1820-1840 federal census : population schedules
• [Washington, DC Census 1800] : [Sebert and Margaret Scott]

1820

• United States Census, 1820, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1800 and 1820-1840 federal census : population schedules

1830

• United States Census, 1830, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1800 and 1820-1840 federal census : population schedules

1840

• United States Census, 1840, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1800 and 1820-1840 federal census : population schedules

1850

• United States Census, 1850, index & images
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1850 federal census : population schedules
• Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : District of Columbia; 1850; 1860; 1870; 1880

1860

• United States Census, 1860, index & images
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860, index & image
• District of Columbia, 1860 federal census : population schedules
• Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : District of Columbia; 1850; 1860; 1870; 1880

1870

• United States Census, 1870, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1870 federal census : population schedules
• Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : District of Columbia; 1850; 1860; 1870; 1880

1880

• United States Census, 1880, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1880 federal census : Soundex and population schedules
• Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : District of Columbia; 1850; 1860; 1870; 1880

1890

• United States Census, 1890, index & images
• United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
• Population schedules of the eleventh census of the United States, 1890

1900

• United States Census, 1900, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1900 federal census : Soundex and population schedules

1910

• United States Census, 1910, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1910 federal census : population schedules

1920

• United States Census, 1920, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1920 federal census : Soundex and population schedules

1930

• United States Census, 1930, index & images
• United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index
• District of Columbia, 1930 federal census : population schedules; NARA microfilm publication T626

1940

• United States Census, 1940, index & images
• District of Columbia, 1940 population census : population schedules

Native American Census Records

• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index & images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index & images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• Washington, Native American, Census Records, 1880-1952, index & images

Citizenship | Naturalization | Migration

• Index to naturalization records of the U.S. Supreme Court for the District of Columbia, 1802-1909 : NARA RG21 publication M1827, index
• United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
• United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
• United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index & images
• United States, New England Petitions for Naturalization Index, 1791-1906, index & images

Directories

• An alphabetical list of the names of all persons residing in Washington City and the District of Columbia, June 1, 1880, aged 75 years or more
• American biographical directories, District of Columbia : concise biographies of its prominent and representative contemporary citizens, and valuable statistical data, 1908-1909
• Boyd’s directory of the District of Columbia : together with a compendium of its governments, institutions, and trades
• Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown directory : containing a business directory of Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria to which is prefixed a guide ; sketches of American and other wars ; president and cabinet record from 1789 to the present time ; XXXVIII congress ; department directory with full list of clerks, etc. ; American and foreign diplomatic, consular and agents, with other much useful information
• The Washington directory, and Congressional and executive register, for 1850
• A Directory of churches and religious organizations in the District of Columbia, 1939

Land

• Land records, 1792-1886; general index to deeds, 1792-1919
• United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955, images
• United States, Cancelled, Relinquished, or Rejected Land Entry Case Files, 1861-1932, images
• United States, Homestead Final Certificates, 1863-1909, images

Maps & Gazetteers

• District of Columbia Map with County
• Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
• A new and comprehensive gazetteer of Virginia, and the District of Columbia : containing a copious collection of geographical, statistical, political, commercial, religious, moral and miscellaneous information, collected and compiled from the most respectable, and chiefly from original sources

Newspapers

• Alexandria, VA – Alexandria gazette, Alexandria, DC, 1834-1974
• Alexandria, VA – The Alexandria gazette, Alexandria [Va], 1822-1822
• Anacostia – The weekly news, Anacostia [ie Washington] DC, 1909-19??
• Barre, VT – Cronaca sovversiva, Barre, Vt, 1903-1920
• District of Columbia – American telegraph, Washington DC, 1851-1851
• District of Columbia – Daily American organ, Washington, DC, 1854-1856
• District of Columbia – Daily American telegraph, Washington DC, 1851-1852
• District of Columbia – Daily critic, Washington, DC, 1872-1881
• District of Columbia – Daily evening star, Washington DC, 1852-1854
• District of Columbia – Daily national era, Washington, DC, 1854-1854
• District of Columbia – Daily national Republican, Washington, DC, 1862-1866
• District of Columbia – Evening star, Washington, DC, 1854-1972
• District of Columbia – New era, Washington, DC, 1870-1870
• District of Columbia – New national era, Washington, DC, 1870-1874
• District of Columbia – Sunday morning globe, Washington, DC, 1901-1901
• District of Columbia – Sunday Washington globe, Washington, DC, 1901-????
• District of Columbia – The American, Washington DC, 1857-1857
• District of Columbia – The bee, Washington, DC, 1882-1884
• District of Columbia – The colored American, Washington, DC, 1893-19??
• District of Columbia – The Columbian fountain, Washington, DC, 1845-1846
• District of Columbia – The Critic and record, Washington, DC, 1891-1896
• District of Columbia – The critic, Washington, DC, 1890-1891
• District of Columbia – The daily national Whig, Washington, DC, 1847-1849
• District of Columbia – The daily republic, Washington, DC, 1853-1853
• District of Columbia – The daily union, Washington DC, 1845-1857
• District of Columbia – The Evening critic, Washington, DC, 1881-1885
• District of Columbia – The Evening post, Washington, DC, 1888-1889
• District of Columbia – The evening times, Washington, DC, 1895-1902
• District of Columbia – The hatchet, Washington, DC, 1883-19??
• District of Columbia – The morning times, Washington, DC, 1895-1897
• District of Columbia – The national era, Washington DC, 1847-1860
• District of Columbia – The national forum, Washington, DC, 1910-19??
• District of Columbia – The national Republican, Washington, DC, 1860-1862
• District of Columbia – The National Republican, Washington, DC, 1885-18??
• District of Columbia – The National tribune, Washington, DC, 1877-1917
• District of Columbia – The national whig, Washington, DC, 1847-1847
• District of Columbia – The republic, Washington DC, 1849-1853
• District of Columbia – The southern press, Washington DC, 1850-1852
• District of Columbia – The suburban citizen, Washington, DC, 1891-1902
• District of Columbia – The Sunday globe, Washington, DC, 1901-1901
• District of Columbia – The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer, Washington DC, 1887-1896
• District of Columbia – The Sunday herald, Washington DC, 1866-1887
• District of Columbia – The times, Washington DC, 1897-1901
• District of Columbia – The Washington bee, Washington, DC, 1884-1922
• District of Columbia – The Washington critic, Washington, DC, 1885-1888
• District of Columbia – The Washington critic, Washington, DC, 1889-1889
• District of Columbia – The Washington herald, Washington, DC, 1906-1939
• District of Columbia – The Washington times, Washington DC, 1901-1902
• District of Columbia – The Washington times, Washington DC, 1902-1939
• District of Columbia – The Washington times, Washington, DC, 1894-1895
• District of Columbia – The Washington weekly post, Washington, DC, 1878-1916
• District of Columbia – The Washingtonian, Washington, DC, 1845-1845
• District of Columbia – The Whig standard, Washington, DC, 1843-1844
• District of Columbia – Washington sentinel, Washington DC, 1853-1855
• District of Columbia – Weekly American, Washington, DC, 1858-1858
• District of Columbia – Weekly national intelligencer, Washington DC, 1841-1869
• Washington City – Daily national Republican, Washington City DC, 1870-1872
• Washington City – National Republican, Washington City (DC), 1872-1888
• Washington City – The daily critic, Washington City, DC, 1890-1890
• Washington City – The daily Madisonian, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1841-1845
• Washington City – The Madisonian, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1837-1845
• Washington City – The Madisonian, Washington City DC, 1837-1845
• Washington City – The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser, Washington City DC, 1800-1810
• Washington City – The national Republican, Washington City DC, 1866-1870
• Washington City – The native American, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1837-1840
• Washington City – The southern press, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1850-1852
• Washington City – The Washington critic, Washington City, DC, 1890-1890
• Washington City – The Washington union, City of Washington DC, 1857-1859
• Washington City – Washington sentinel, City of Washington DC, 1853-1856
• Washington City – Washington sentinel, Washington City DC, 1873-1910

Pensions

• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940, images

Taxes

• United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874, images
• Federal assessment, 1790-1805, Maryland, District of Columbia
• Internal Revenue assessment lists for the District of Columbia : 1862-1866
• Property tax records : 1800-20, 1862-79
• Records, 1791-1878

District of Columbia Military Records

Military history

• Civil War Washington
• The Grant memorial in Washington
• U.S. Soldiers’ Home, Washington, D.C. : indelible photographs

Military records

• History of the “Soldier’s home,” Washington, D.C. : with many facsimiles of official documents and letters
• Records of the assistant commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M1055
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1056
• Roll of Captain Francis Asbury Dickins’ Company of infantry in the 2nd and 3rd regiments, Militia of the District of Columbia, 1828-1832
• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
• United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
• United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images

Military records – Pensions

• Revolutionary, War of 1812 & Indian wars pensioner list of Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875, image
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
• Yearbook of the District of Columbia Society, Sons of the American Revolution
• United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875, image
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images

Mexican War

• United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images

Civil War, 1861-1865

• Civil War Washington
• United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index & images
• United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & images
• United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index & images
• United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index & images
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866, images
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866, images
• [District of Columbia] Aqueduct bridge duty register, THL 1352, 1863-1864
• Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate prisoners of war, 1861-1865 : NARA Record Group 109
• Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the District of Columbia, index
• Confederate pension applications, Virginia, acts of 1888, 1900, 1902 ; index, 1888-1934
• DC – Military history – Civil War, 1861-1865
• A journal of incidents connected with the travels of the Twenty-second Regiment Conn. Volunteers, for nine months, in verse
• DC – Military history – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Regimental histories
• History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861-1865
• United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865, images
• United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, images

Indian Wars

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images

World War I, 1914-1918

• United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
• United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index & images
• Washington, World War I Veteran’s Compensation Fund Application Records, 1921-1925, index & images
• District of Columbia, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
• District of Columbia, World War I Selective Service System draft cards, 1917-1918

World War II, 1939-1945

• District of Columbia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index & images
• United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
• District of Columbia, military records : World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942
• District of Columbia, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947

Washington DC Daily Life Records

Alumni, Schools & Yearbooks

• Memorial of the first centenary of Georgetown College, D.C. : comprising a history of Georgetown University
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1056
• The book of golden memories
• The cardinal : yearbook of the Catholic University of America
• The Cherry tree
• Corral
• Domesday booke
• The rough rider
• Syntropicon
• Technique
• The web
• Yearbook of the District of Columbia Society, Sons of the American Revolution

Biographies

DC – Biography

• American biographical directories, District of Columbia : concise biographies of its prominent and representative contemporary citizens, and valuable statistical data, 1908-1909
• The biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia
• The biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia
• Eminent and representative men of Virginia and the District of Columbia of the nineteenth century : with a concise historical sketch of Virginia by Hon. William Wirt Henry and of the District of Columbia by Ainsworth R. Spoffor
• Name index to the Library of Congress collection of Mormon diaries, index

Church

• The Archives of the Episcopal Church
• A Directory of churches and religious organizations in the District of Columbia, 1939
• Chronicles of Calvary Baptist Church in the city of Washington
• Church history
• Church history
• Church records, 1868-1918
• Church records, 1902-1987
• History of St. Paul’s English Lutheran Church and of the work of the Church and Sunday School : for the semicentennial year, including additional reports to June 30, 1893, with a synopsis of the Semi-centennial services of the Church and Sunday School, April 16 and 17, 1893
• Manual of the Assembly’s Presbyterian Church, corner of fifth and 1 streets, Washington, D.C.
• The Presbyterian Congregation in Georgetown, 1780-1970

Court 

• Court records, 1806-1830
• District of Columbia court and emancipation records, 1820-1863
• Habeas corpus case records : 1820-1863
• Hist. [Marriage] Court Rec. Wash. D.C.
• Liber A, 1801-1802
• Minutes of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, 1801-1863
• Order book, 1801-1827
• Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia relating to slaves, 1851-1863
• Historical court records of Washington, District of Columbia, marriages, images
• Historical court records of Washington, District of Columbia : death Records of Washington, D. C., 1801 to 1878
• Guardianship case index (District of Columbia), 1801-1997

Description and travel

• The Dobbs family in America
• A Few facts about the National Victory Memorial Building
• Handbook of Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C : revised to March 1, 1915
• Highways and byways from the St. Lawrence to Virginia
• The Most fitting memorial to the Boys of ’17
• The national character of the District of Columbia and some of its responsibilities
• Picturesque Washington : pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments
• The standard guide : Washington, a handbook for visitors
• Ten years in Washington : life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them
• The Washington sketch book : a society souvenir : containing over one hundred portraits of prominent people and fifty views of public buildings and statues
• Washington, the national capital
• Washington, D.C: a guide to the nation’s capital

Ethnic

African American

• Freedmen’s Bureau Records on Microfilm, Internet Archive, images
• Christine’s Genealogy Website
• Abolition and the relation of the races : speech of Hon. James A. Bayard, of Delaware. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 8, 1862
• District of Columbia court and emancipation records, 1820-1863
• District of Columbia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1863-1872
• Habeas corpus case records : 1820-1863
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Washington Headquarters : record group 105
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the field offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands : record group 105
• Records of the assistant commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M1055
• Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862-1863
• Records of the field offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1902
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1056
• Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia relating to slaves, 1851-1863
• Registers of signatures of depositors, 1865-1874
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images
• District of Columbia Court and Emancipation Records, 1820-1863, images
• United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878, images
• District of Columbia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images
• Blacks in the marriage records of the District of Columbia, Dec. 23, 1811 – June 16, 1870
• District of Columbia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1863-1872
• Records of the field offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1902
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1056
• Registers of signatures of depositors, 1865-1874
• Washington D.C., hospital records : Freedmen’s Hospital, 1872-1910
• District of Columbia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images

German

United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images

Japanese American

• United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
• United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images

Jewish

• Interment list, 1856-1911

Native American

• Washington, Applications for Enrollment and Adoption of Washington Indians, 1911-1919, index & images
• Washington, Native American, Census Records, 1880-1952, index & images
• Washington, Applications for Enrollment and Adoption of Washington Indians, 1911-1919, index & images
• Washington, Native American, Census Records, 1880-1952, index & images
• United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index & images
• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index & images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index & images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index & images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index & images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• Washington, Native American, Census Records, 1880-1952, index & images

 Employment | Business | Commerce 

• Registers of signatures of depositors, 1865-1874
• Washington D.C., business records : Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, 1870-1914
• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index

History

• Civil War Washington
• Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia
• Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the capital of the U.S. (1793-1893) with accounts of the laying of the original cornerstone, in 1793, and of the cornerstone extension, in 1851
• Centennial history of the city of Washington, D.C. : with full outline of the natural advantages, accounts of the Indian tribes, selection of the site founding of the city, pioneer life, municipal, military, mercantile, manufacturing, and transportation interest, the press, schools, churches, societies, public buildings, etc., etc., to the present time
• Early days of Washington
• Greenleaf and Law in the federal city
• Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government
• Historic views and reviews : empty Washington tomb
• Historic views and reviews : historic paintings in the capitol
• Maryland, Virginia, and Washington
• The nation’s capital
• Picturesque Washington : pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments
• The Washington sketch book : a society souvenir : containing over one hundred portraits of prominent people and fifty views of public buildings and statues
• A sketch of the events which preceded the capture of Washington, by the British, on the twenty-fourth of August, 1814
• “State” of the month…District of Columbia
• Ten years in Washington : life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them
• Washington : city and capital
• Washington, D.C. : a guide to the nation’s capital
• Washington, the capital city and its part in the history of the nation
• Washington, the national capital
• The white city : the historical, biographical and philanthropical record of Illinois ; to which is added a sketch of the District of Columbia, the Presidents of the United States, and Illinois at the World’s Columbian exposition …
• Centennial history of the city of Washington, D.C. : with full outline of the natural advantages, accounts of the Indian tribes, selection of the site founding of the city, pioneer life, municipal, military, mercantile, manufacturing, and transportation interest, the press, schools, churches, societies, public buildings, etc., etc., to the present time
• The city of Washington, its origin and administration, index
• Historical collections of Virginia : containing a collection of the most interesting facts, tradition, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc. relating to its history and antiquities, together with geographical and statistical description, to which is appended an historical and descriptive sketch of the District of Columbia, index
• Official program, inauguration ceremonies, March fourth, 1913, index
• Standard history of the city of Washington : from a study of the original sources, index
• The story of the White House and its home life, index
• The white city : the historical, biographical and philanthropical record of Illinois ; to which is added a sketch of the District of Columbia, the Presidents of the United States, and Illinois at the World’s Columbian exposition …
• The Dobbs family in America
• Etiquette at Washington : together with the customs adopted by polite society in the other cities of the United States : To which is added an appendix, containing a complete guide through the metropolis and its environs; with an accurate description of the public buildings
• Picturesque Washington : pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments
• Social life in the early Republic

Genealogies & Family Trees

• Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)]
• The General Society of Mayflower Descendants : meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants

Government & Legal

• Washington DC Official Website
• Records, 1791-1878
• Report of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion
• Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia
• The national character of the District of Columbia and some of its responsibilities
• Picturesque Washington : pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments
• United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
• United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images

Libraries, Museums & Archives

• Washington DC Archives (no online collections yet)
• Guide to genealogical records in the National Archives
• Guide to Washington National Records Center services
• James City County, Virginia, 1634-1904: abstracts of genealogical contents of Mss volumes in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., & Archives Division, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va
• A survey of German manuscripts pertaining to American history in the Library of Congress
• Library and reference facilities in the area of the District of Columbia
• History of the movement for a national archives building in Washington, D.C
• Calendar of the letters and documents of Peter Force and his son William Q. Force : on the Mecklenburg declaration of independence in the Loomis collection, Washington, D.C.
• Civil War maps in the National Archives
• Diplomatic records : a select catalog of National Archives microfilm publications
• East Germany: a selected bibliography
• Federal population censuses 1790-1890 : a catalog of microfilm copies of the schedules
• Federal population censuses 1790-1890 : a catalog of microfilm copies of the schedules
• Genealogical information from tables of contents of the Vosburgh Collection at the Library of Congress : indexed by (1) counties, (2) towns and villages, (3) towns and churches
• Genealogies cataloged by the Library of Congress since 1986 : with a list of established forms of family names and a list of genealogies converted to microform since 1983
• Guide to the holdings of the still picture branch of the National Archives
• Guides to genealogical research, a selected list
• The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress : calendar of Spanish manuscripts concerning Peru, 1531-1651
• A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress : with biographical notes
• Manuscript sources in the Library of Congress for research on the American Revolution
• National Archives records relating to the Korean War : reference information paper 103
• National Union catalog of manuscript collections
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Washington Headquarters : record group 105
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the field offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands : record group 105
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the government of the District of Columbia, record group 351
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War) (Record Group 110)

Medical

• History of the “Soldier’s home,” Washington, D.C. : with many facsimiles of official documents and letters
• Washington D.C., hospital records : Freedmen’s Hospital, 1872-1910

Newspapers

• Alexandria, VA – Alexandria gazette, Alexandria, DC, 1834-1974
• Alexandria, VA – The Alexandria gazette, Alexandria [Va], 1822-1822
• Anacostia – The weekly news, Anacostia [ie Washington] DC, 1909-19??
• Barre, VT – Cronaca sovversiva, Barre, Vt, 1903-1920
• District of Columbia – American telegraph, Washington DC, 1851-1851
• District of Columbia – Daily American organ, Washington, DC, 1854-1856
• District of Columbia – Daily American telegraph, Washington DC, 1851-1852
• District of Columbia – Daily critic, Washington, DC, 1872-1881
• District of Columbia – Daily Evening Star, 1852-1856
• District of Columbia – Daily evening star, Washington DC, 1852-1854
• District of Columbia – Daily national era, Washington, DC, 1854-1854
• District of Columbia – Daily National Intelligencer, 1842
• District of Columbia – Daily national Republican, Washington, DC, 1862-1866
• District of Columbia – Evening star, Washington, DC, 1854-1972
• District of Columbia – National Intelligencer, 1842
• District of Columbia – New era, Washington, DC, 1870-1870
• District of Columbia – New national era, Washington, DC, 1870-1874
• District of Columbia – Sunday morning globe, Washington, DC, 1901-1901
• District of Columbia – Sunday Washington globe, Washington, DC, 1901-????
• District of Columbia – The American, Washington DC, 1857-1857
• District of Columbia – The bee, Washington, DC, 1882-1884
• District of Columbia – The colored American, Washington, DC, 1893-19??
• District of Columbia – The Columbian fountain, Washington, DC, 1845-1846
• District of Columbia – The Critic and record, Washington, DC, 1891-1896
• District of Columbia – The critic, Washington, DC, 1890-1891
• District of Columbia – The daily national Whig, Washington, DC, 1847-1849
• District of Columbia – The daily republic, Washington, DC, 1853-1853
• District of Columbia – The daily union, Washington DC, 1845-1857
• District of Columbia – The Evening critic, Washington, DC, 1881-1885
• District of Columbia – The Evening post, Washington, DC, 1888-1889
• District of Columbia – The evening times, Washington, DC, 1895-1902
• District of Columbia – The hatchet, Washington, DC, 1883-19??
• District of Columbia – The Madisonian, Washington City DC, 1837-1845
• District of Columbia – The morning times, Washington, DC, 1895-1897
• District of Columbia – The National Era, 1847-1860
• District of Columbia – The national era, Washington DC, 1847-1860
• District of Columbia – The national forum, Washington, DC, 1910-19??
• District of Columbia – The national Republican, Washington, DC, 1860-1862
• District of Columbia – The National Republican, Washington, DC, 1885-18??
• District of Columbia – The National tribune, Washington, DC, 1877-1917
• District of Columbia – The national whig, Washington, DC, 1847-1847
• District of Columbia – The republic, Washington DC, 1849-1853
• District of Columbia – The southern press, Washington DC, 1850-1852
• District of Columbia – The suburban citizen, Washington, DC, 1891-1902
• District of Columbia – The Sunday globe, Washington, DC, 1901-1901
• District of Columbia – The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer, Washington DC, 1887-1896
• District of Columbia – The Sunday herald, Washington DC, 1866-1887
• District of Columbia – The times, Washington DC, 1897-1901
• District of Columbia – The Washington bee, Washington, DC, 1884-1922
• District of Columbia – The Washington critic, Washington, DC, 1885-1888
• District of Columbia – The Washington critic, Washington, DC, 1889-1889
• District of Columbia – The Washington herald, Washington, DC, 1906-1939
• District of Columbia – The Washington times, Washington DC, 1901-1902
• District of Columbia – The Washington times, Washington DC, 1902-1939
• District of Columbia – The Washington times, Washington, DC, 1894-1895
• District of Columbia – The Washington weekly post, Washington, DC, 1878-1916
• District of Columbia – The Washingtonian, Washington, DC, 1845-1845
• District of Columbia – The Whig standard, Washington, DC, 1843-1844
• District of Columbia – Washington Afro-American Red Star Edition, 1975
• District of Columbia – Washington Afro-American, intermittent years 1910-1980
• District of Columbia – Washington sentinel, Washington DC, 1853-1855
• District of Columbia – Weekly American, Washington, DC, 1858-1858
• District of Columbia – Weekly national intelligencer, Washington DC, 1841-1869
• Washington City – Daily national Republican, Washington City DC, 1870-1872
• Washington City – National Republican, Washington City (DC), 1872-1888
• Washington City – The daily critic, Washington City, DC, 1890-1890
• Washington City – The daily Madisonian, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1841-1845
• Washington City – The Madisonian, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1837-1845
• Washington City – The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser, Washington City DC, 1800-1810
• Washington City – The national Republican, Washington City DC, 1866-1870
• Washington City – The native American, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1837-1840
• Washington City – The southern press, Washington City [ie Washington, DC], 1850-1852
• Washington City – The Washington critic, Washington City, DC, 1890-1890
• Washington City – The Washington union, City of Washington DC, 1857-1859
• Washington City – Washington sentinel, City of Washington DC, 1853-1856
• Washington City – Washington sentinel, Washington City DC, 1873-1910

Slavery & Bondage (also see Ethnic, African-American, Japanese American, Native American)

• Abolition and the relation of the races : speech of Hon. James A. Bayard, of Delaware. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 8, 1862
• District of Columbia court and emancipation records, 1820-1863
• District of Columbia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1863-1872
• Habeas corpus case records : 1820-1863
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Washington Headquarters : record group 105
• Preliminary inventory of the records of the field offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands : record group 105
• Records of the assistant commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M1055
• Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862-1863
• Records of the field offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1902
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1056
• Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia relating to slaves, 1851-1863
• Registers of signatures of depositors, 1865-1874

Societies & Lineages

• Constitution and membership of the Guadalupe Club of 1848 : organized November 15, 1906
• History of the Grand Lodge and of freemasonry in the District of Columbia : with biographical appendix
• List of papers, 1946
• Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
• Register of the District of Columbia Society of the American Revolution, 1896
• Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia
• Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia, 1897
• Register of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the District of Columbia 1970
• Yearbook of the District of Columbia Society, Sons of the American Revolution

Washington DC Modern Helps

Blogs

• Christine’s Genealogy Website

Research

• General aids to genealogical research
• Lest we forget : a guide to genealogical research in the nation’s capital
• Lest we forget : a guide to genealogical research in the nation’s capital