Arizona Research Tips and Strategies

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Arizona Research Strategies
Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Arizona:


 * Arizona Online Genealogy Records
 * How to find Arizona Birth Records
 * How to find Arizona Marriage Records
 * How to find Arizona Death Records

Arizona Research Tips
These tips will help you as you research your ancestors in Arizona.


 * Birth information: Birth records in Arizona start on the county level in 1909 - although not all counties complied with the law. A helpful substitute record to find birth information is a death record. However, date and place of birth on a death record is considered secondary information, as it was not recorded at the time of the birth event. The birth information should be corroborated with other substitute records to improve accuracy.
 * Finding Parents: The State of Arizona began recording deaths in 1844. They often will list the parents of the deceased and their birth information. Search Arizona death records
 * Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search U.S. Censuses.

Record Finder Table for [STATE]
The following Record Finder table assists researchers in determining record types that may list the information they are looking for.

Order of Records
The typically most reliable sources are listed at the top of the list. However, depending on the time period of the record and location, multiple records in the list may need to be searched to achieve the objective. Alternative records are listed as well in case traditional records do not provide the desired information.

List of Topics
This Record Finder table links to the [STATE] topic Wiki pages, containing databases and other information about accessing the records.

Adoption
For information about adoptees and their biological families, please refer to: United States Adoption Research.

Search all of the Arizona record collections at FamilySearch.