Places Search Subject Subdivisions

The Family History Library Catalog includes the following main locality subject subdivisions.

The number in parentheses identifies the level at which a subject subdivision may be used:
1 = can only be used on the 1st level
2 = can be used anywhere (1st level and below)

Almanacs (1)
Annual publications, ususally containing a calendar, frequesntly accompanied by astronomical data, statistics, or other information.
Archives and libraries (1)
Descriptions of individual archives and libraries, museums, etc., or systems of archives and libraries.
Bible records (1)
Collected records of births, marriages, or deaths; family relationships; or genealogies transcribed or copied from family Bibles.
Bibliography (2)
Lists of printed books and periodicals which pertain to a specified subject.
Biography (2)
Collected biographies.
Buddhist history (1)
History of the Buddhist religion in particular places or among particular peoples.
Buddhist records (1)
Records, documents, registers, etc., created by Buddhist sects.
Business records and commerce (1)
Account books, ledgers, and other papers created in the course of business.
Cemeteries (1)
Works dealing with places of burial; transcripts, rubbings etc., of tombstones and monuments; sexton's records; landscaping and design of graveyards; and works explaining how to transcribe or take rubbings.
Census (1)
Official counts of the population of a place, generally including names, vital statistics, or other classified information relating to social and economic conditions or discussions of the same.
Centennial celebrations, etc. (1)
Celebrations of historic events, anniversaries, etc., including those 50 years or over 100 years.
Chronology (2)
Works discussing dates, calendars, measurement and recording of days, months, and years, etc.
Church directories (1)
Alphabetical or classified lists containing addresses, names of officials, etc., of Christian churches.
Church history (1)
The history of the Christian church in particular places or among particular peoples.
Church records (1)
Records, documents, registers, etc., created by Christian churches.
Civil registration (1)
Compilations of records of births, marriages, and deaths made by civil authorities.
Colonization (1)
Works about colonization; classes of persons, ethnic groups, and lists of person's names who are being transplanted to establish colonies in new lands.
Concentration camps (1)
Works pertaining to those institutions whose function it is to detain groups of people distinguished by their race, religion, national origin, etc.
Correctional institutions (1)
Court records (2)
Description and travel (1)
Directories (2)
Divorce records (1)
Dwellings (1)
Emigration and immigration (1)
Encyclopedias and dictionaries (1)
Ethnology (1)
Folklore (1)
Funeral homes (1)
Gazetteers (1)
Genealogy (2)
Guardianship (1)
Handwriting (1)
Heraldry (1)
Hindu history (1)
Hindu records (1)
Historical geography (1)
History (2)
Islamic history (1)
Islamic records (1)
Jewish history (1)
Jewish records (1)
Land and property (1)
Language and languages (1)
Law and legislation (1)
Manors (1)
Maps (2)
Medical records (1)
Merchant marine (1)
Migration, Internal (1)
Military history (1)
Military records (1)
Minorities (1)
Names, Geographical (1)
Names, Personal (1)
Native races (1)
Naturalization and citizenship (1)
Newspapers (2)
Nobility (1)
Notarial records (1)
Obituaries (1)
Occupations (1)
Officials and employees (1)
Orphans and orphanages (1)
Pensions (2)
Periodicals (2)
Politics and government (1)
Poor houses, poor law, etc. (1)
Population (1)
Postal and shipping guides (1)
Probate records (1)
Public records (1)
Religion and religious life (1)
Schools (1)
Shinto history (1)
Shinto records (1)
Slavery and bondage (1)
Social life and customs (1)
Societies (2)
Statistics (2)
Taxation (1)
Town records (1)
Visitations, heraldic (1)
Vital records (1)
Voting registers (1)
Yearbooks (2)