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) 
  Used for collected biographies.
• Buddhist history (1) 
• Buddhist records (1)
• Business records and commerce (1)
• Cemeteries (1)
• Census (1)
• Centennial celebrations, etc. (1)
• Chronology (2)
• Church directories (1)
• Church history (1)
• Church records (1)
• Civil registration (1)
• Colonization (1)
• Concentration camps (1)
• 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)