Navigating Helpful Tools:stevemorse.com

Susan Weinberg familyfinds@studio409art.com MNJGS Meeting December 13, 2015

Stevemorse.org■ Who is Steve Morse?

■ Architect of Intel 8086 microprocessor

■ Created a better search engine for existing sites

■ Started One-Step pages in 1997 and continues to grow them

What It Includes

■ Immigration * ■ Census – US, Canadian, British, NY ■ Soundex codes ■ Vital Records (B-M-D, Naturalization)* ■ Calendars & Maps * ■ Transliterating in Foreign Alphabets * ■ Holocaust ■ Genetic Genealogy

Puzzle # 1 Immigration: Where’s Alex?■ Family story says grandmother came to US

with younger brother, but he wasn’t on her ship. Where was he?

■ Her immigration record was in 1921 from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Rotterdam to US

■ Originally from Hotin, Roumania

Search Ellis Island libertyellisfoundation.org/

■ Assume they came close to the same time ■ Seached Kishlansky- alternative spellings ■ Need to have a name input for Ellis Island ■ From Hotin ■ Arrival 1921 ■ Left from Rotterdam

Search stevemorse.org

■ Apply same criteria

■ Now take away the name

■ Elia Richlanski and Golda Richlanski

Stevemorse.org Result

Came one week later

Puzzle #2 – Missing Manifest

■ Cannot find a manifest for Morris Kishlansky

■ Know he came from London to New York

Naturalization Record Info

Ellis Island Ship Lists

■ Naturalization Petition gives the following: Ship – St. Louis Dates of Arrival – Nov 25 – Dec 3, 1898

Output from Ship List Search

Select Role and Frame nearest day of arrival T715 Roll 42, Frame 198

Input into Missing Manifests

Missing Manifests

■ T715 Roll 42 Frame 204

Puzzle #3 Finding a Marriage Record

■ Searching for grandparents’ marriage record

■ Grandfather arrived in 1913 and oldest child was born in 1918 so looking 1913-18

■ Go to Groom or Bride Index

■ Searches Italiangen

Search Results

Marriage Record

Puzzle #4 –Confirming a Russian record is the correct one

English to Russian: Transliterating names from English to Russian in One Step

Shia Leib Lehman becomes шая лаиб легман

Russian Print to Cursive: Converting from Russian Print to Cursive in One Step

Puzzle #5 - Did great-grandfather leave Europe just after his father’s death?Jewish On-line Worldwide Burial Registry

■ Pesach Mordechai ■ Dunilovitchi ■ Belarus

■ 23 Elul 5664

Conversion from Jewish Calendar

Translating Dates from Hebrew