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This is the site a beginner should try first. It should give you a ton of info.

http://www.familysearch.org

This is another site suitable for beginners.

http://sites.google.com/site/beginninggenealogy/internettips

These sites are divided into eight categories:

Nationality, Geographical, Cemetery, Libraries, Newspaper/obituaries, Ports of Arrival,

US Military Records, Miscellaneous

Nationality

The following web address will take you to a new web site containing marriage records

from within the former Prussian Province of Posen, now part of Poznan, Poland. The

index is searchable by just a surname of either the bride or the groom. The period covered

is from 1820 through 1889. The site is in English. If you find a name of interest there is

even a link for requesting an original copy from Poland.

http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing a great deal of data on

Polish genealogy and research. Be sure to click on the database list on the right side of

the screen. If you are researching Polish genealogy this site is a great place to bookmark.

http://polishgeno.com/

Here is the web address for the site Norway Heritage:

http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/ships.asp?articleid=22&zoneid=5

The following web address will take you to a site that can be searched for the location of

towns in old eastern Germany.

All locations are EAST of the Oder and Neisse rivers and are based on the borders of the

eastern provinces in Spring 1918. Included in this database are the following provinces:

Eastprussia, including Memel, Westprussia, Brandenburg, Posen, Pomerania, and Silesia.

You have several ways or criteria to search.

1. German name

2. Older German name

3. Kreis/County

4. By the next larger town, (this is a proximity search.)

5. Today's Polish, Russian or Lithuanian name.

6. by Family Name

http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp

The following web address will take you to a web site containing a large amount of

Canadian data. The site includes Birth, Marriage and Death records, Census records,

Immigration records, Land records, Military records, and People records. The site is free

and easy to search.

http://genealogysearch.ca/

The following web address will take you to a web site that is great for Irish research.

Many of the Irish immigrants traveled through Boston. Many came in through Canada

and then to Boston and many came directly to Boston. When an immigrant lost touch

with another Irish immigrant that may have arrived earlier, they would often take out an

ad in the Boston Pilot newspaper seeking information on that earlier immigrant. This web

site contains 34,035 such ads from 1831-1921. You can search the archives by entering a

name.

http://infowanted.bc.edu/

The following web address will take you to the American Indian Genealogy web site

which contains many links to data. If you are researching American Indian ancestors, this

is a must visit web site.

http://www.amerindgen.com/

The following web address will take you to a web site for Hungarian research called

Hungary Exchange. The site is new and surnames are being added each day. There is a

Marriage Project, an Exchange Forum, a Census section, a Surname section and links to

related web sites.

The site is written in English so it is easy to research. I expect that this site will continue

to grow so you may want to bookmark it.

http://www.hungaryexchange.com/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing Online German

Emigration Records, Lists and Indexes. The site has been updated and thus contains

many new records.

http://www.germanroots.com/emigration.html

Great web site for German research. The site contains a very large number of links to

sites containing German research data. The records were from the late 1700s. If you have

German ancestors be sure to visit this site.

http://tinyurl.com/GermanResearch

The following web address will take you to a neat web site called GEOGEN that shows

the distribution of surnames in Germany and Austria on a map. You simply enter a

surname and the web page will tell you how many names are found in current phone

books. You can then click on an item to see a map of Germany with the number of

persons found in each County.

http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/Default.aspx

The following web address will take you to a web site containing Germans To America

1850-1897. This is a FREE site for looking up German immigrants who arrived in the

United States between 1850 and 1897. Note that the site contains transcribed data so be

sure to check alternate spelling of names.

http://stevemorse.org/ellis/aad.html?db=0

This is an interactive map of Germany from the Germanic Genealogy Journal of Spring 2006. A web site that is great for locating those small villages in Europe. While the site has a German address it covers all of Europe. Interactive means you click on stuff on the map and it shows you stuff. 1) If you hover over a town, it will show the German government levels - kind of like clicking on a town in Wisconsin and seeing the County governments and State governments for the town 2) There is a distance measuring icon on the tool bar that lets you measure stuff in detail - for example you can see how far your ancestors traveled to church - you can also see all the towns

within a selected number of kilometers. http://www.de.map24.com/

The following web address will take you to a site containing detailed maps of the German Empire published in 1883. Read the directions to learn how to find the village or town of interest. The index page is very good for locating a town if you are unsure of the exact spelling. Ravenstein Atlas des Deutschen Reichs The Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein is relatively rare in libraries of the United States. Besides Germany, the maps of this atlas also cover the bordering portions of present-day Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, and Switzerland. The map is in full color and was published in 1883. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/ravenstein

The following web address will take you to a web site containing Russians To America

1834-1897. This is a FREE site for looking up Russian immigrants who arrived in the

United States between 1834 and 1897. Note that the site contains transcribed data so be

sure to check alternate spelling of names. I understand that the site may include some

Polish immigrants.

http://stevemorse.org/ellis/aad.html?db=2

The following web address will take you to a web site containing Italians To America

1855-1890. This is a FREE site for looking up Italian immigrants who arrived in the

United States between 1855 and 1890. Note that the site contains transcribed data so be

sure to check alternate spelling of names.

http://stevemorse.org/ellis/aad.html?db=1

The following web address will take you to a site on Danish genealogy research. Some of the pages are in English and some in Danish. There are links on the left side of the starting page that contain many links to data, history and help on Danish research. http://kannegaard.info/ If you have ancestors from Finland, you should take a look at the Finland Family History Association web site by clicking on the address below. When you get to the site you will note on the left side of the screen there are two areas of interest in the free archives: Church Records and Census Records. Click on the one of interest and follow it to the scanned records. In the case of Church Records you will first be shown a list of parishes. You can select the parish of interest. You can also select the Province which will list all of the parishes within the province. After you zero in on a parish you will get a list of names with numbers to the left. Click on the number and you will get an image of the actual church record. Some of these records go back to the 1600's.

The Census Records start in 1700 and go through 1723 but seem to be limited in the area that they cover. These records are being added to all the time. http://www.digiarkisto.org/sshy/index_eng.htm The following web address will take you to the Institute Of Migration for Finland. The Institure has over half a million records indexed which you can search for free. If you find someone of interest you can then request the documents for a small fee. The index search may be all that you need since it generally gives the date of migration. Here is what the records include: The emigrant register serves genealogists in Finland and abroad. The information can also be used for scientific research. The main databases are the passport records of the provinces and magistrates and the passenger lists of the Finland Steamship Company, the references to books and newspapers and the data on Finns deceased abroad from the Foreign ministry. http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/sinst/emigrantregister.php

If you are interested in research of Norway records, you will want to check out the web site from the National Archives of Norway by clicking on the address below. Of special interest is the Digitized Parish Registers on the left side of the screen. The Parish Registers go back to the early 1800's for the most part but some go back to 1733. Clicking on a record will display a digitized image of the parish record. http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e

The following web address will take you to the Digital Archives of the National Archives of Finland. The site can be searched for free and document images can be viewed, saved and printed. The site should come up in English. If not, click on the British Flag at upper right. Here is the web address: http://digi.narc.fi/digi/?lang=en_US Here is a two page list of Internet Research Sites For Mexican and Mexican-American Genealogy. The list also includes several links to research sites for Spain. I placed a link on our Member-Only web site. You can reach the site at http://mpafug.org . After you log in click on newsletters and handouts on the left side of the page. You will find the link to the list near the top of the page. You will probably need to zoom in on the page in order to read the list of 33 links. When you click on a link it will take you to that site. You can also print the list if you wish. Here is the direct link: http://mpafug.org/mexican.pdf The following web address will take you to a web site which is a little difficult to use but is a GOLD MINE for researchers of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in general. When you get to the site click on English at upper right. Next select the area of interest on the left by clicking on Internet. That will take you to a long list of data and links. On some of the links you may have to scroll down to find a link to the data. Here is the web address: http://geneaknowhow.net/digi/bronnen.html The following web address will take you to a web site containing 1.2 million names of people living in Copenhagen, Denmark between 1890 and 1923. When you get to the site click on the British flag to get an English version of the site. There is a registration on the left but it does not

appear that registration is required. Next click on SEARCH up at the top and you will get a search screen. That screen is not in English. Enter a surname or a first and last name and click on the button below. That will give you a list of names. If you click on a name it will give you an image of the actual civil registration document. That can then be printed. Here is the web address: http://www.politietsregisterblade.dk/ The following group of web addresses will connect you with free web sites containing lists of Germans who came to America from the 1850s through the 1890s. Here are the web addresses: http://www.germanimmigrants1850s.com/ http://www.germanimmigrants1860s.com/ http://www.germanimmigrants1870s.com/ http://www.germanimmigrants1880s.com/ http://www.germanimmigrants1890s.com/ The following web site address will take you to a free web site containing lists of German Immigrants arriving in the United States during the period 1850 to 1859. The site gives quite a bit of information about the passenger but it also lists others on the same ship that may be related. That is a great feature. If you select the surname starting letter you can then select the surname using two or three letters. Here is the web address: http://www.germanimmigrants1850s.com/ Here are web addresses with the National Archives of several Scandinavian country. Norway: http://www.arkivverket.no/eng/The-National-Archives Sweden: http://www.riksarkivet.se Finland: http://www.arkisto.fi/en Denmark: http://www.sa.dk/content/us Iceland: http://www.archives.is The following web address will take you to a web site containing over 25,000 Slovak names with the Village name associated with that name. This can be a big help in finding the home village of your Slovak ancestors. Here is the web address: http://slovakpride.homestead.com/Index.html

The following web address will take you to a site containing links to African American records on the internet. One of the sites is Ancestry.com which is commercial. The others are free and are arranged mostly by State. Here is the web address: http://www.genealogybranches.com/africanamerican.html The following will take you to a web site for German Immigration to the United States. The site is a joint project between Bremerhaven and Castle Garden and others. You can search the site but if you find someone and want more details, there is a hefty fee to get the additional information. The site is great for finding a potential individual or family and the year of immigration. That part is free. Here is the web address: http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/index.html Czech Republic info. The problem with Czech research is that very little information is available. When the Slovak Republic broke away from the Czech Republic the Slovak government allowed church and civil records to be microfilmed by LDSFamily History Center. Not so with the Czech Republic. The Czech government required that you hire a local researcher to do the research for you. Here is a web site that has church register images of birth, marriage, and death from the Archives at Pilsen, Prague, Brno, and St. Polten Diocease of Austria records. The site is in Czech and in German. If you use Google Translate to convert it to English it slows down the searching a bit. You may want to search the site in Czech. The site contains 31,385 files with each file containing between 20 and 400 images. The earliest images date back to the late 1500 period. The site is a little tricky to use but it contains a ton of information. Knowing a few of the words should help you out. Vyhledavani = search Obec = Community Hledat = search also. Narozeni = birth Oddani = Marriage Zemreli = death Start out by clicking on Vyhledavani and select the Archive near your town or village. Enter a community (Obec) and select the range of records by clicking on the magnifying glass. You can then browse through the records page by page. Some even have an index. Here is the web address: http://actapublica.eu/

The following web address will take you to a new web site containing 2,030,140 Irish church records of Baptism, Marriage and Death from Catholic and the Church of Ireland records. The areas covered include County Carlow, County Cork, County Kerry, and Dublin City. You can search all of the records just by entering a name or even just a surname. If you get results you can then click on the name and you will get a copy of the original hand written record The site is completely free. Here is the web address: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ The following web site contains lists of Irish passengers during the Famine period. This site contains an extensive searchable database of records on over half a million passengers who arrived at the United States between 1846 through 1851 and identified their country of origin as Ireland or ethnicity as Irish. Here is the web address: http://www.famineships.info/

Geographical The following web address will take you to a web site that lists naturalizations for New York State by County. The information usually lists the name, date of arrival, date of naturalization request, and the name of the place of origin. Here is the web address: http://www.germanroots.com/newyork.html The following address will take you to a web site for Western Michigan Genealogical Society. The site contains many links to data pertaining to Michigan. You can generally search all of the sites however some may charge a small fee for copies of documents. Many are free. Even those that charge can be searched and enough information obtained without paying a fee. Here is the web address: http://data.wmgs.org/ The following web address will take you to a web site containing information on passenger departure records from Europe to the United States and Canada. Most researchers only look at passenger arrival lists and overlook the departure lists. Often the departure lists were maintained by the local police. While most of the site concentrates on history of the ports, some contain some great links to actual data. It should be worth while to check it out. The Departure points include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, British Isles, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Portugal. Here is the web address: http://www.italygen.com/ships/departure-records.html

The following web address will take you to a web site containing a listing of various death indexes and death records for each State. While some of the links are commercial, many are free. The list has been updated and many new links are included. Here is the web address: http://www.deathindexes.com/ If you have family that lived in the Alberta Canada area near Edmonton and Calgary, the following web site may be of interest to you. The site lists marriages and deaths in an index from about 1902 through 2011. While this is just an index, you can order the article for a fee. The index generally lists the name, age at death, year of publication and size of article L for Large, M for medium, and S for small. Here is the web address: http://www.albertagenealogy-research.ca/Admin/Menus/Calgary/Calgary%20Index%20Menu.htm The following web address has information about Arizona birth and death certificates. Enter the name of the person to find the certificate that can be copied and printed. Here is the web address: http://genealogy.az.gov/ The following TinyURL will take you to a neat web site for the Czech Republic street views. The site starts in Uhersky Brod, a small city. In the upper right corner of the picture you will find a small icon with four arrows pointing outward. Click on it and you will get a full screen of the image. Click escape ESC on your keyboard to return to the smaller size. When you are viewing the full image place your cursor on the road and left click. That will move you in that direction. If you place the cursor on a building you can rotate in any direction by holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse. When in the smaller view if you click on HOME you can enter the town name and after clicking on STREET VIEW you will be taken to that town. I entered places in Germany for a town and found that the site will take you there. I would suspect that you could view other countries also. The resolution of the images is outstanding. Here is the address: http://tinyurl.com/CZREPSTREET The following web address will take you to a web site for a research guide for Minnesota genealogy. The nice thing about this site is that on the left side of the starting page are links to research guides for all the other States. You will find hundreds of links including a lot of maps and atlases. Here is the web address: http://barbsnow.net/Minnesota.htm

The following web address will take you to a web site containing a large collection of maps from Nebraska 1850-1901. Since many people left Wisconsin and migrated west to Nebraska, this should be of interest to many of you. While most of the maps are of Nebraska, other territories or States are included such as Kansas, Dakota Territory, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Iowa. If you are using dial-up, you should click on low resolution maps. If you are using high speed internet you can click on low or high resolution. I looked at several of the high resolution maps and they were about 5 Meg in size. The detail of these maps is outstanding. They can be viewed and printed for free. Here is the web address: http://www.hcgi.org/content.lasso?page=7427 The following web address will take you to a site of British Military Records for over 2 million people. If your ancestors served in the British Military you should check this site out. Here is the web address: http://military-genealogy.forcesreunited.org.uk/ The following web address will take you to a web site containing thousands of pictures of Great Britain and Ireland. On the right side of the screen you will see a map of the countries. Click on an area of interest and you will see a grid of the area. Keep on clicking and you will then see thumbnail photographs of the specific area of interest. Click the thumbnail and you will get a full size photo for viewing or printing. You can also enter the name of the village or town and you will see the photos. This site can be a good way to see where your ancestors lived. I especially liked the many pictures of old churches where some of my ancestors attended services hundreds of years ago. Here is the web address: http://www.geograph.org.uk/ Here is a link for the Indiana Archives. It contains several million items. Mostly it appears to be an index but it is very well done. Items included are Death Records, Institution Records (Prisons), Military Records, Misc Historical Records, and Naturalization Records. By an Indiana judge ruling in the 1990s all Naturalization done in the county court systems were ordered to be sent down to Indianapolis to the State Archives. You will need to contact the State Archives for the one you are looking for. For your birth you can contact the State Board of Health. Marlene Petty Polster Lake County, IN Genealogist IGS Corresponding Secretary Here is a new website for Indiana Archives look ups: http://www.indianadigitalarchives.org/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing the actual page images of city directories for Colorado Springs, Colorado. The years include 1879, 1882, 1886. 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921, and 1922. The system will download the entire directory so that you can view it or print it. You can print one page or the entire book. Here is the web address: http://ppgs.org/content/colorado-springs-city-directories The following web address will take you to a web site containing Wisconsin vital records and cemetery records by County. Some of the sites are on Ancestry which is a fee based web site. However, some of the same records appear on non fee based sites so be sure to look over the entire list. Here is the web address: http://www.deathindexes.com/wisconsin/ The following web address will take you to a web site containing a Naturalization Index for most of the States. Some of the data is on Ancestry which is a pay site but a lot of it is on free web sites. Here is the web address: http://www.germanroots.com/naturalization.html The following web address will take you to an outstanding web site for Manitowoc County, Wisconsin genealogy. Impressive is the biography section in which full bios are included and many include pictures. If every county was like this it sure would make it easy for us genealogists. At the bottom of the page you will find links to neighboring counties. Here is the web address: http://www.2manitowoc.com/ The following long web address will take you to a free web site containing the 1906-1961 death index for Pennsylvania. The site lists each year which can then be browsed manually. Here is the web address: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1085804&mode=2 If you have Chicago ancestors, the following web address will take you to a web site with Chicago street guides for 1866, 1870, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1892, 1900, 1910, and 1923. The site also has City Directories which lists the names, addresses and occupation of people. This can be most useful in finding ancestors. The City Directories cover the following years: 1866, 1870, 1871, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1892, 1900, 1910, and 1923. Here is the web address:

http://www.chicagoancestors.org/#tab-tools The following web address will take you to three databases for research in Massachusetts. The first database is for the Massachusetts Archives Collection Database 1629-1799. This is a descriptive index for document. The second is an Index to Passenger Manifests 1848-1891 for Boston. The third is for Massachusetts Vital Records Index of birth, marriage and death for 1841-1910. Here is the web address: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcsrch/SearchWelcome.html The following web address will take you to a Massachusetts Vital Records web site for the period 1600-1850. The free site is searchable by town name or by surname. If you have ancestors from that area you will find this site to be a great aid to your research. There are over 1,500,000 records indexed on the site. Here is the web address: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/ The following web address will take you to a web site for Illinois Genealogy. Each County is listed and each contain a lot of data. Be aware that some links are commercial but a lot of them are free. Here is the web address: http://www.illinois-genealogy.com/ The following web address will take you to a web site for Kentucky Vital Records Index. The records include deaths from 1911 to 1992, marriages from 1973 to 1993 and divorces from 1973 to 1993. Here is the web address: http://ukcc.uky.edu/vitalrec/ The following web address will take you to a rich resource of St. Louis Genealogy on-line. Some of the links are to Ancestry.com but many are to free sites. Here is the web address: http://www.germanroots.com/stlouis.html One of the links is to the Missouri Death Index. In this site you can find the actual death certificate which can be saved and printed for free. I sure wish all States did it that way. Here is that Missouri Death Index address: http://www.deathindexes.com/missouri/ The following web address will take you to a web site maintained by the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society. The site contains an index of marriages in Milwaukee County from 1822 to

1876. Remember that in the earlier years there were only four Counties in the Territory of Wisconsin. It should be well worth your while to search this site even if your ancestors lived outside of what is known as Milwaukee County today. Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, Waukesha, Washington and other counties could be in the index. Search both the bride index and groom index. Here is the web address: http://www.milwaukeegenealogy.org/marriage_index.html The following web address will take you to a web site with free links to birth and christening records in 32 European countries. The information is free and well worth looking at if you have European ancestors. Here is the web address: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~thecohens/birthindexes-eur.html The following web address will take you to a web site containing on-line and free, the Sanborn fire insurance maps of Pennsylvania. Here is the web address: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/sanborn.html If you are researching records from a foreign country then the following web site is a must for you. If your ancestors were Catholic then you should be sure to print the section for LATIN. Even if you are looking at Catholic church records in the United States or Canada, those records are written in Latin and you will need the word list for Latin. In my own research of early Lutheran church records in Germany, I found that many of them were written in Latin. Genealogical Word Lists give English meanings for about 900 key terms for different languages. Word lists also discuss spelling and contain a list of key words in alphabetical order, calendar terms, numbers, as well as the vocabulary from genealogical documents. The areas or languages covered include: Afrikaans, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungary, Icelandic, Italian, LATIN, Netherlands, Norwegian, Poland, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Thailand. Here is the web address: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Category:Word_List The following web address will take you to a web site listing the mailing address for Catholic churches throughout the United States. The starting page shows a map of the United States. Select a State and then select a city, town or village. Many of the churches also have e-mail addresses and a web address and if you click on the web address you will generally find more information on the church. Some even have archives and data. Here is the web address: http://www.thecatholicdirectory.com/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing Registered Voters in Michigan as of 1 June 2013. The list includes each person by full name, the year of their birth, the date that they registered to vote (Some go back many years), and their address when they registered. Select a letter for the surname. Select a range from the list. Scroll to the name. Here is the web address: http://michiganvoters.info/ Following are two web addresses which list the Repositories of Primary Sources for European Research. The links are generally written in the foreign language so you may want to use Google Translate to help you understand what you are looking at. Many of the archives listed will lead you to on-line data. This is the most complete list that I have ever seen for Europe. The first address covers countries from A-M: http://webpages.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html The second address covers countries from N-Z: http://webpages.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro2.html The lists were put together by the University of Idaho. The following web address will take you to the Illinois State Archives which contains 59 links to their on-line databases. If you have Illinois ancestors this is a must visit web site. Here is the web address: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/ The following web address will take you to an index listing of biographical sketches of people in Wisconsin. The listing will show you the full name of the subject, the County, the publication and the date. This can be a great help if your ancestor moved around in Wisconsin or if you were uncertain of where he or she lived. Here is the web address: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wibiog/

The following web address will take you to a site that lists when a State Census was

taken in each of the States.

http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/census-locator.htm

The following web address will take you to a web site which has State Vital Records,

birth, marriage, death, for several States. Some will contain images of the vital record

while others will contain an index of the record.

http://freegenealogytools.blogspot.com/2009/09/state-vital-record-lookups.html

The following web address will take you to a web site for the Chicago area set up by the

Newberry Library.

From their introduction:

Welcome to ChicagoAncestors.org, a free website where you can find and share

historical information about Chicago. Are you researching the history of a neighborhood?

Looking for the church where your great-grandparents got married? Interested in

mapping the places where your ancestors lived? We might be able to help.

Type in an address, intersection, or click on the map to get started.

http://chicagoancestors.org/#tab-home

The following web address will take you to a web site containing Wisconsin Public Land

Survey Records, Original Field Notes and Plat Maps. When you get to the site you can

click on SEARCH on the left to begin your search.

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotesHome.html

The following web address will take you to a site called Wisconsin Blacksheep Ancestors. If you had a relative who served time in a Wisconsin prison or State Reformatory you might find him or her on this page. At the bottom of the page you will find links to all other states for similar records. http://blacksheepancestors.com/usa/wisconsin.shtml

The following web address will take you to a web site containing an index of Minnesota

marriages. The system allows you to search by name and County. If you find a marriage

it will generally list the date of the marriage, County of the marriage, Certificate number,

full names of the bride and groom. If you wish you can order a copy of the certificate

which is usually a transcription rather than a copy of the original for $9.00 on-line.

Records are available from 87 Counties in Minnesota.

http://www.mncounty.com/Modules/Certificates/Marriage/Default.aspx

The following web address will take you to a web site containing New York State

census records and some vital records, tax records, and other records. The census records

include a mixture of State Census and Federal Census listed by County.

http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/ny-census.htm

The following web address will take you to a web site for Peoria County, Illinois

genealogy. The site is rich with data. Toward the bottom of the page you will see a drop

down box for other Illinois Counties in the system. The counties include Boone, Bureau,

Henderson, Henry, Knox, McDonough, Mason, Menard, Mercer, Rock Island, Stark,

Stephenson, Tazewell, Warren, Winnebago, and Woodford. Hmmm, there could be a

question there for our next meeting.

http://www.peoriacountyillinois.info/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing the Vermont Military,

Colonial, and State Census Records. On the left side of the screen you will find many

links to other data from most States. Included are links to cemetery data, vital records,

Mortality records, census records, and much more. This is one of those web sites that you

may want to mark or save.

http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/vt-census.htm

The following web address will take you to a web site called Seeking Michigan. The site

contains Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 with the actual death certificate,

Naturalizations, Maps, Civil War manuscripts, service records and photos. Just enter a

surname next to All Of The Word to begin a search. Note that there are two underscores

in the address.

http://seekingmichigan.cdmhost.com/seeking_michigan/seek_advanced.php

The following web address will take you to a web site containing city directories for

Cincinnati from 1819 through 1898. There are about 53 directories included in the

collection and all are in PDF format. You can download them and even print them if you

wish. In the earlier years it appears that a directory was published every year. In later

years they were published every other year. Note that there is an underscore _ between v1

and CityDir.

http://virtuallibrary.cincinnatilibrary.org/VirtualLibrary/vl_CityDir.aspx

The labs.FamilySearch site now includes the Wisconsin State Census for 1855, 1875,

1885, 1895, and 1905. All include images of the census which can be printed. Scroll to

RECORD SEARCH and click on it. Click on BROWSE OUR RECORD COLLECTION.

Click on the US on the map. Select from 98 databases.

http://labs.familysearch.org/

The following web address will take you to a neat web page called Minnesota

Reflections. The site contains over 53,000 documents and images including some

historical Plat Maps. You can also capture the screen by pressing PRT SCR on your

keyboard. The site contains many photos of individuals and groups.

http://reflections.mndigital.org/ The following web address will take you to a site containg a fantastic map of the United States color coded to show when each County was created. The map has migration trails marked down with links to detailed information about that particular migration trail. For example, my ancestors migrated from upper eastern New York state to Wisconsin. Looking at the map I can see that they used trail 37 and 73. Trail 37 is called "Forbiden Path or Catskill Turnpike". Trail 73 is called the "Mihoaukee Trail". Clicking on Mihoaukee Trail I then get information telling me that the trail was first traveled by settlers between 1820 and 1835. The site includes links to each County that the trail passes through. In this case, Cook and Lake Counties in Illinois, and Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee, Washington and Fond du Lac Counties in Wisconsin. Click on "Migration Trails" to get to the map. Be sure to be patient as the map is very detailed and may take some time to display on a dial-up system. I made a copy of the map by doing a right mouse click on the map and saving the image to my hard drive. I set my printer to Landscape mode and printed a copy of the map. If you click on "Who Traveled the Trails" you will get a list of 15 Ethnic groups. Click on the group of interest and you will get a detailed look at that group's migration pattern. If you click on "Suffield, CT Vital Records" you will get Town Records from 1681-1916, Birth, Marriages and Deaths from 1760 to 1807. http://www.migrationtrails.com/

The following web address may be of interest to those of you interested in Wisconsin adoptions. When you get to the site, if you click on the down arrow on the box, you can select to search by birth date or by city. I would suggest that you select the city search. After you enter a city, you will get a table listing a lot of information including the birth date, place, Doctor, Hospital, Agency, and a lot more. While there are no names in the list, there is a lot of information that could help in your search. There is even a reference link to connect with other people searching for the same information. One tab shows if it is the parent or the adoptee seeking the information. Here is the web address: http://www.icareregistry.com/register/search.asp The following web address will take you to a nice web site for Waukesha County genealogy research. Be sure to check out each item on the right side of the page. Also if you scroll down you will find links to surrounding counties. I was able to find information in an 1860 mortality table, in land records, cemetery records, and in biographical sketches. This site is worth visiting. Here is the web address: http://www.linkstothepast.com/waukesha/index.php The following links will take you to the Wisconsin State Census on the Family Search web site. The site is FREE. Each address is long and ends in a seven character number. You should be able to click on any of the links to get to the collection. If you have any trouble getting to the census searches, just go to http://familysearch.org and select United States and then Wisconsin. You will find many links to Wisconsin data at this site. Wisconsin state population census taken in 1855. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1443825 Wisconsin state population census taken in 1875. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1443778 Wisconsin State Census taken on 20 June 1885. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1443713 Wisconsin State Census taken in 1895. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1443712 Wisconsin population schedule taken by that state in 1905. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1443899

The site is the Peabody Museum GNIS Geographic Names Information System. You can search the USGS Geographic Names Database by State. You can also limit the search to a specific county in this state and search for any of the following features: airport arch area arroyo bar basin bay beach bench bend bridge building canal cape cemetery channel church cliff crater crossing dam falls flat forest gap geyser glacier gut harbor hospital island isthmus lake lava levee locale mine oilfield other park pillar plain ppl range rapids reserve reservoir ridge school sea slope spring stream summit swamp tower trail tunnel valley well woods. Here is the Web Address: http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/search-collections?gnis The following web address will take you to a web site for the Bureau of Land Management BLM General Land Office Records. When you get to the site the home page does a good job in explaining the Federal Land description system. If you click on Search Documents, you will be able to start your search. While I have passed this site on to you several years ago, I am sending this to you now because the site has been significantly updated. Select a State and a County if you know it. Enter at least the last name and click on Search Patents. If you find a person of interest, click on the Accession in blue. That will give you three choices: 1. Select Patent Details for a detailed description of the land. 2. Select Patent Image to see a copy of the original image signed by the President of the United States or his cabinet member. 3. Select Related Documents to see the original survey notes and the Plat Image. You can print these documents. Here is the web address: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ The following web address will take you to a web site containing marriage records and/or the marriage index to 53 databases in 43 States. All of the data is in the FamilySearch web site. This is a growing system with millions of U.S. Marriages. Some of the records go back to the 1600-1650 time period. Most of the State records start in the mid 1800s. Here is the web address: http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=10216

Cemetery

The following web site is one of the best for cemetery research all over the Country. It

is a web site in which volunteers go out to cemeteries all over the country and document

via photograph or text, the markings on tombstones.

If you find a cemetery where your ancestors are buried but their tombstone is not

documented, you can enter a general request for any volunteer to go out and photograph

the tombstone for:

http://www.findagrave.com

This site is like findagrave but their app down loads to your smart phone which allows

you to take a photo of the tombstone with your phone. An email sends the photo along

with your phone GPS info to their web site which permits you to effortlessly record the

info.

http://www.billiongraves.com

The following web address will take you to a web site for the Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery. The cemetery was started in 1853 and contains over 10,000 children burials. There are many early African-American, Scandinavian, and German burials also. Here is the web address: http://www.friendsofthecemetery.org/ The following web address will take you to a web site for Milwaukee County Cemeteries. The site lists many cemeteries and many of them have transcripts of burials and interments. The site has been updated so there are new listings on many of the cemeteries. Here is the web address: http://www.linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/cems.php The following web address will take you to a neat web site that contains the cemeteries of Shawano County Wisconsin and a few from Marathon County Wisconsin. If you click on the swinging cemetery gates on the left side of the listing you will open that cemetery listings and photos. The owner of the site recently walked through all of the cemeteries and photographed every tombstone. Marathon County was once a part of Shawano County and that is why some cemeteries from Marathon are listed. Here is the web address: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wishawa4/Cemeteries/cemetery_index.htm

This web site lists cemetery data from all over.

http://www.interment.net/

The following web address will take you to a web site with Wisconsin Cemetery

information. The site is set up by County and then by Cemetery name.

http://www.usgwtombstones.org/wisconsin/wiscon.htm

Cemetery search site for New York State. The site will let you search by County or by

the entire State. The site has a lot of data and images and appears to be growing. Since

many New Yorkers migrated to Wisconsin, it is well worth reviewing.

http://www.newyorkgravestones.org/

The following web address will take you to a site called Links To The Past. The site

contains photographs of many tombstones in Waukesha and Milwaukee Counties. The

quality of the photos is outstanding. The photos may be copied by doing a right mouse

click on the photo.

http://www.linkingyourpast.com/gallery/main.php

The following web address will take you to a web site for Montgomery County, Illinois.

The site contains archives of cemetery data with names and in many cases with photos. If

you click on ARCHIVES you will also find a History and Book Archive that allows you

to download entire history books of the county. There is a listing of towns that contain

the history of that town. There is also a photo archive with many family group pictures.

Note that it is a long address ending in aspx.

http://history.montgomeryco.com/Research/CemeteryBurials/tabid/923/Default.aspx The following web address will take you to a web site containing transcribed cemetery records in New York State by County and then by cemetery. The records are mostly of small rural cemeteries so this can be a good source for those of you with New York ancestors. Remember that these are transcribed records and should not be considered primary records. Here is the web address: http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/cemetery-records-new-york.htm The following web address will take you to a web site containing the Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. The Hale collection contains inscriptions from 2,269 cemeteries in Connecticut. You can search the inscriptions for free. Other links on the page are for a commercial search of other records. Many of the early settlers of Wisconsin and the upper midwest migrated from Connecticut to New York and then on to the midwest. So if you have early New England ancestors, be sure to check out this web site. Here is the web address for the Hale Collection for all of Connecticut: http://www.hale-collection.com/

Newspapers/Obituaries Here is a web page that has links to Historical Canadian newspapers from the following regions: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon Territory. Many of the on-line newspapers go way back in time. The site is free. If you have any ancestors or relatives who lived in Canada this would be a good web site to research. Here is the web address: http://libguides.bgsu.edu/CanadianNewspapers

Here is information about the Google Newspaper web site. There are approximately 2,520 different newspapers on the web site. Some of the newspapers go back to the 1700 time period. You can view the actual newspapers and go through page by page. Here is the web address: http://news.google.com/newspapers Here is info for Ancestry Magazine on Google Books. The site contains 92 issues of Ancestry Magazine from Jan-Feb 1994 through Mar-Apr 2010. You can read the magazine for FREE on line. Select a decade and then an issue then select browse. Here is the web address: http://tinyurl.com/Ancestry1994-2010

The following web address will take you to a web site containing 17th - 21st century

newspaper archives from all over the world. Nordic newspapers starting in 1645,

French newspapers starting in 1605, Italian newspapers starting in 1674. The

newspapers are generally in the native language.

http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives7.aspx

The following web address will take you to a web site containing newspaper archives

around the United States. You can access each area by clicking on the left side of the

screen on National, North East, South, Mid West, Out West, and Special Collections.

Note that the Special Collections contain many interesting links. One of them was for a

Polish newspaper in Chicago.

http://freenewspaperarchives.us/default.aspx

I stumbled on this website by accident

http://www.legacy.com/NS/

The search engine might locate lost relatives. You can put in just a last name and search

a state or the whole United States. You can search by year span beginning in 1930 - or

put in the whole name and search all the records. The results will lead you to the Social

Security Death Index listings in alphabetical order that include full birth and death dates

or to a newspaper obituary. You can also search by newspaper or all newspapers.

The site contains over 11,266,000 pages of New York historical state newspapers.. The

site covers newspapers from all over the State from Buffalo to Brooklyn.

http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html The following web address will take you to a site containing transcripts of northern New York State newspapers. Some of them start as early as 1811 and as late as 2002. http://news.nnyln.net/ Chicago Tribune Archives. Included are

Obituaries and Death Notices (2.5 million) - very unique data covering 1860-1984, including front-page obituaries for notables from Chicago and worldwide.

Chicago Tribune Morgue clippings file (nearly 3 million) - major stories covering events and issues clipped and indexed by the Chicago Tribune staff at time of publication. Coverage is from the 1920's through 1984.

Front pages (16,614 pages containing over 155,000 articles) - image of entire front page as it appeared when published from the early 1900 through 1984.

The Chicago Tribune Historical Archive offers easy online searching of both death notices and obituaries. http://xrl.us/ChicagoTrib The following web address will take you to a web site containing FREE links to

newspaper archives in the United States.

http://freenewspaperarchives.us/default.aspx

Following are two web addresses for those of you doing research in Indiana. The first is

for an index of obituaries for Clark County, Indiana. Several newspapers in the County

are indexed into one large database. The time period is from 1872-1900. The second

address is for an index of obituaries for Scott County, Indiana. One newspaper in the

County is indexed into the database. The time period is from 1880-1978.

If you find an item of interest you can order a copy of the obituary for $1.50 each. Even if

you do not order an obituary at least you will know what newspaper, date of publication,

and page number that it appeared in.

Clark County, Indiana

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tashpage/Clark/clarkindex.htm

Scott County, Indiana

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tashpage The following web address will take you to a web site containing Door County, Wisconsin newspapers from 1862-1925. The site is free and you can search all of the newspapers through a single search. Here is the web address: http://doorcountynewspapers.org/ The following web address will take you to an index of 85,000 obituaries from the Shawano County Wisconsin area. Some are from surrounding counties. If you find one that you want you can request a mailed copy of it for 50 cents plus postage. While the addresses show ancestry.com in the address these sites are free. Here is the web address: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wishawa4/Obituaries/shawano_obituary_pages.htm I'm including a second web address for Shawano County Wisconsin which lists a huge collection of vital records and other information. Be sure to check out the list.

Here is the second web address: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wishawa4/

Libraries

In this section the Allen County Public Library's Genealogy Center will be posting full-

text searchable images of public-domain publications, soldiers' letters and diaries,

photographs, pension and service records, posters, military burial records,

commemorative works, military institutions' yearbooks, articles, postcards and links to

significant military websites. You can search by war, on the left side of the screen, or do

a general search on the right side.

http://www.genealogycenter.info/military/index.php

Free publication from the Allen County Library in Ft Wayne. It is published monthly,

and contains information about their collection, and other genealogy related material: for

example, each October they sponsor a month-long exploration with daily seminars and

special events. Past issues are housed on their website at:

http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/ezine/index.html

The following web address will take you to a web site called FILES OF LIBRARIES.

The site starts with a list of each State and Canada. Select a State and you will find

databases listed by Counties. Depending on which State you go to you may find a large

amount of data. Most data seemed to be obituaries but many go back quite a few years.

http://www.genealogybuff.com/library.htm

The following web address is for the Newberry Library in Chicago. If you click on "Collections & Catalogue" you can conduct a search of the library. Be aware that only 20% of the items are listed in the on-line catalog. That means that 80% of the items are still in a card catalog which can only be searched at the library. http://www.newberry.org/

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center and Library. The site has been greatly expanded

and now includes an index of 1,500,000 Ohio obituaries and death notices. The period

covered is from 1810 to the present. You can order the actual obituary on line at a

reasonable price from the library.

http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/

The following web address will take you to a search system that searches 150 libraries in

Europe for the name that you enter. You can find photos as well as genealogical items.

Generally you can view and print the photos. A lot of the information is from library card

catalogs. This could be a good source for you to check out. Eastern and western Europe is

included.

http://freegenealogytools.blogspot.com/2009/09/peek-through-european-history.html

The following web address is one that you will want to save in your bookmark or

favorites list. The site is called the Hathi Trust and it contains books and documents

from 25 universities and libraries including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and much

more. There are 4 million volumes with 1.5 billion pages that can be searched.

You should start with the catalog search box, then in the upper right hand corner you will

see a box that says TRY OUR EXPERIMENTAL FULL-TEXT SEARCH. That is the

best place to search from.

If you get a result that says FULL TEXT you can search and read the entire book on line.

Some books are still under copyright and in those cases you will be given the page

numbers where your text word appears along with a few lines of text. You will also be

given a location where the book is located.

I will give you two addresses. The first is the direct link to the web page. The second is a

link to a page that details instructions for searching.

http://www.hathitrust.org

Here is the instructional link.

http://freegenealogytools.blogspot.com/2009/10/hathi-trust-new-and-important-

genealogy.html Here is a site for searching through on-line books at FamilySearch. Enter a name or place or any keyword and this system will bring up books containing your keyword. If you are entering a name I would suggest that you enter it with quotation marks. You can click on a book and browse through the entire book on line. Many are in PDF format so you can download the entire book to your hard drive. When you open the book in PDF you can search the entire book using the find function. The books are from the following libraries: Allen County Public Library Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library Church History Library Family History Library Houston Public Library - Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research Mid-Continent Public Library - Midwest Genealogy Center Here is the address: http://books.familysearch.org

Ports of Arrival

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ is the site for New York arrivals between 1892 and

1924. More than 22 million passengers came through Ellis Island and the Port of New

York. Be sure to check alternate spelling of the surname you are researching.

http://www.castlegarden.org/ is the site for earlier New York arrivals between 1830 and

1892. More than 10 million passengers arrived at Castle Garden. Again, it is important

to check alternate spellings of surnames.

A good rule of thumb for searching these two sites is to start with just a surname. Given

names vary all over the map.

The following web address will take you to one of the nicest web sites for passenger list

research. The site contains a list and link to many free sites as well as to some

subscription sites containing data (Ancestry). Nearly every port of landing is listed.

Toward the end of the web page you will find a listing of data by country of departure.

This is a must visit site if you are researching passenger lists.

http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

Note that the address contains a ~ symbol before wee and a - follows wee. The ~ symbol

can be found on the left side of your keyboard next to the number 1 (one) key. The dash

or - key lies to the right of the 0 (Zero) key.

Someone posted this website (World Digital Library) in the Rootsweb mailing list. I

clicked on the Emigrants Map and Guide for Routes to North America on the first

page. It has an 1853 map from Europe to North America. I am sure other documents

would also be of interest.

http://www.wdl.org/en

Direct link to Map: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/41/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing information about US Ports of Arrival and Their Available Passenger Lists 1820-1957 which includes Canadian & Mexican Border Crossing Records. The information is from "US Ports of Entry & Their Immigration Records (Passenger Lists) - A Genealogy Guide" by Joe Beine. The web site states, "This is a list of nearly every port in the United States that has published immigration records (passenger arrival lists) 1820-1957, organized by state. Included are Canadian border crossing records, which are called "St. Albans Lists" and are listed here under the state of Vermont (even though the actual border crossing may have taken place elsewhere). Mexican border crossing records are also listed here for California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The rest are for ship passenger arrival records." http://www.genesearch.com/ports.html Many of you have ancestors who migrated "west" via the Erie Canal. The following web address will take you to a large list of images, maps and sketches of the Erie Canal. It includes historical images of the construction and use of the canal. http://www-fcms.syr.edu/showcase/SPClemence/ErieCnl/index.htm The following web page has been updated and expanded and should be of interest to you if you are researching how your ancestors arrived in the US and Canada. The site has passenger lists, fleet lists, ship descriptions, ship pictures and images, ship rigging, ship arrivals, marriage at sea, Famine Immigrants, ship wrecks, resource links (be sure to check it out), diaries and journals, immigration reports, and the Illustrated London News which often lists information about departures and arrivals. Be sure to check out each section as there are many links to other great web sites. There was even one to the Boston Globe Newspaper in which many Irish ran ads trying to locate their family members. Here is the web address: http://www.theshipslist.com/ The following web address will take you to a commercial web site containing pictures of passenger ships. You can view a thumbnail size view of the ship and if you are interested you can order a large size picture. The price varies from about $7 to $12 for most. If you have exhausted other free resources, you might want to take a look at this site to see if your ship is included.

Here is the web address: http://www.heritage-ships.com/

US Military Records

The following web address will take you to a web site by the National Sons of Union

Veterans of the Civil War. The site contains a national graves registration database. If

you find an ancestor on the database you will get quite a bit of information about that

individual. It even tells you what GAR unit he belonged to after the war. After you enter

the site click on SEARCH ENTRIES. You do not need to register to use the database.

You can conduct a search just by entering the surname.

http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php The following web site will take you to a National Park Service web site for the Civil War. The site has information on Soldiers, Sailors, Regiments, Cemeteries, Battles, Prisoners, Medals of Honor, and National Parks. If you click on Soldiers for example you can enter your ancestors name and a listing of matches will be shown with the regiment information. If you click on the name you will be given details of which unit he served in and more information. If you click on the regiment you will be given a detailed history of the unit including engagements. The site will search both Union and Confederate records. Here is the web address: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Here is a Civil War Soldier and Sailor web site for you. The nice thing about this site is that you can search all units by the name of your ancestor. It will check Union and Confederate units. You can also get the history of any unit which includes engagements, and more information. Here is the web address: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Did your ancestor serve during the Spanish American War? The following web address will take to a web site dedicated to the Spanish American War. Unit histories and Unit Rosters are included. Here is the web address: http://www.spanamwar.com/geneaol.htm The following web address will take you to a web site containing the 1813 Pension Lists for Revolutionary Pensioners by State. If you had anyone who served during the Revolutionary War and lived beyond 1813, you might find them here. In addion there are some great linls on the left side of the web page that you should find on interest. These include Adoption Records,

Barbour Collection, Cemetery Records, Census Records, Maps, Military Records, Mortality Schedules, and Vital Records. Here is the web address: http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/1813-pension-list.htm The following web address will take you to a list of over 160,000 death records of Union Veterans who died around the United States between 1879 and 1903. If you are having trouble finding your ancestor you might want to check out this list. Here is the web address: http://genealogytrails.com/cwstones/ Following is a link to a searchable web site for finding Vietnam Wall names listed by State and then by City. You can also search by name. First click on a State. When it opens, scroll down to the City and the names will appear. Then click on a name. It should show you a picture of the person, or at least their bio and medals. In some cases there is a memorial left by people who knew the deceased. The link below is a virtual wall of all those lost during the Vietnam War with the names, bios and other information on our lost heroes. Those who remember that time frame, or perhaps lost friends or family can look them up on this site. Here is the web address: http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm The following web addresses will take you to some of the Military Genealogy Trails sites for Wisconsin, and Illinois. The sites are FREE and contain a lot of good genealogy military data and links. Here are the web addresses: Wisconsin Military Genealogy Trails http://genealogytrails.com/wis/MilitaryIndex.html Illinois Military Genealogy Trails http://genealogytrails.com/ill/military.htm The following web address will take you to a web site containing Searchable Military Records and Databases. The site covers the Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Mexican War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Here is the web address: http://www.germanroots.com/military.html The following web site covers military documents, lists and books for the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Pre Civil War, Civil War, Spanish American War, WWI, and WWII. Use the search system on the upper left side of the web page.

Here is the web address: http://www.donslist.net/PGHLookups/MilitaryM.htm

Miscellaneous

Do you have a bunch of really old photos that you are trying to determine the time period

of when it was taken? The following web address will take you to a web site called

PHOTOTREE that should be able to help you. The site describes photos by type and sets

a span of years in which that type was used. Then there is a section on the site with 1,000

photographs. Each photo is identified by type and year. Many useful hints are also given.

Using a web site like this can really help you in determining the year or year range. That

in turn can help you identify the person on the photo. Often the photos will have a town

name on it and if you knew the date range you should be able to figure out which of your

relatives is likely on the photo.

http://www.phototree.com/ Occupations So you did some research and were really happy to find out that your ancestor was a Bank Manager. If you go to the web address shown below you will find out that instead of money in his hands it really was coal dust. According to the web site a Bank Manager was defined as a supervisor at a Coal Mine. On the other hand if you found that your ancestor was a Banker, you would find out that he was actually a surface worker in the coal mining industry, or a drainage ditch digger. Here is the web address: http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/glossary/Dictionary-of-Old-Occupations-Index.html

The following web address will take you to a web site containing a list of State Census

for the United States. This list contains the effective date of each Federal Census from

1790 through 1930. This information is vital in calculating a person's age or year of birth.

If a person died before the effective date or a baby was born after the effective date, they

were not included in the census. If a child was visiting a relative on the effective date

they would still have been listed with their original family, not with the relative. Begining

in 1850, the age of a person is supposed to be that person's age on the effective date

rather than on the enumeration date.

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/kcgs/census.htm

web sites where census enumeration districts can be obtained. This site covers the 1900

through the 1940 censuses

http://stevemorse.org/census/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing the Mortality

schedules for the United States for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. The mortality schedule

lists individuals who died within the 12 months preceding the census. The mortality

schedule usually includes the date and cause of death.

http://www.mortalityschedules.com/

Penny Post Cards. It includes post cards for every State. If you click on a State you can

then select a county and from there a town or city.

http://www.usgwarchives.org/special/ppcs/ppcs.html

The following web address will take you to a large collection of family bibles. The best

way to search the index is to click on EDIT in the upper left side of your browser screen

and select FIND ON THIS PAGE. Enter a surname and you should be taken to the first

entry with that name. If you click on NEXT you will go to the next bible with that name.

The nice thing about this site is that many of the bibles have been scanned and are

available for you to view and print. Generally only pages with names are shown.

http://www.biblerecords.com/bibles.html

Have you ever wondered what your ancestor might have looked like as a young adult or

as a teenager, or even as a child? Have you ever wondered what Uncle Harvey might

have looked like when he was much older? Do you have some old photos of a child that

you think could be Aunt Mary? If only you could age that person on the photo. Well now

you can.

Go to the following web address and upload a photo. Follow the directions and you can

make a person older or younger. The photo should be similar to a passport photo as you

need to set a few points on the photo such as location of the eyes and mouth. It really is

simple and it can be a lot of fun.

You do not need to download any software in order to use this on-line program.

http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Taking Care Of Your Personal Archives. The site and article contain some good tips

on handling documents and photos. There are also some good links to other sites for more

information on archive preservation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/11/taking-care-of-your-personal-

archives/66425/

The following web address will take you to a web site containing old yearbooks from

schools around the country. When you select a State you will see a list sorted by town or

city. You can find yearbooks, photos, class lists, and graduation programs on the site.

http://www3.old-yearbooks.com/

The following web address will take you to a web site with articles about the sinking of

the Titanic in 1912. What is nice about this site is that on the left side of the screen you

will find a list os States. Click on a State and you will find articles about disasters that

happened in that State.

http://www3.gendisasters.com/new-york/5413/titanic-sinking%2C-apr-1912

Are you organized? As a genealogist that is a silly question, right? Many genealogists have what they refer to as lateral files which means that their documents are spread all over the dinning room table. If you would like to view a web site that is titled, "Organize Your Research", just

click on the web address below. At the bottom of the web page you will find three links for more information. Be sure to check out the last one called, "Organizing Paper Genealogy Giles". http://hometown.aol.com/daepowell/myhomepage/article/organize.htm One of the skills that a family researcher needs is the ability to find clues in old documents. This web site contains a number of articles and audio recordings which will give you lots of ideas that will be helpful in doing your research and discovering clues in old documents. You can find detailed guides about reading maps, letters, diaries and photographs. You will also find how to make sense of advertisements and popular songs. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/

The following web address will take you to a web site that contains an on-line television

network for and by genealogists.The videos include many how-to demonstrations,

research tips, conference lectures, and many ethnic videos. Most of them are free but it is

recommended that you have high speed internet access to view them properly. I tried it

with high speed and with dial up. The High speed connection (Road Runner) resulted in

excellent video quality. It was just like watching a TV program. Dial up resulted in long

loading times and fragmented videos.

This is a great site for learning all about genealogy. I highly recommend it, especially if

you have a high speed connection. http://www.rootstelevision.com/ The following web address will take you to a web site containing photo archives. There are thousands of photos on the site. The site is called Dead Fred. Most of the photos have been identified and include a location or State. You can have a lot of fun searching this site and you just might find a relative or two by doing a surname search. Here is the web address: http://deadfred.com/ The following web address will take you to a web site containing detailed information about Finding Orphaned and Adopted Ancestors. Here is the web address: http://barbsnow.net/adoption.htm Here is information about a new web site involving the Social Security Death Index. What makes this site unique is that you can search for a person by entering their birth date only Here is the web address: http://ssdmf.info/ Here is a nice WIKI site that shows epidemics from 1650 BC up to the present time. This list can be very useful for determining the probable cause of death before death certificates were ever issued. Note that there are two underscore marks in the address. There are no spaces in the address.

Here is the web address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics