June's Favorite Sites: Page 2

Page Two features, Census problems, Immigration Problems, Old Maps, Military Records, Sites on the origin of names and naming patterns, plus a group of little known sites with very interesting records and lookup sources.

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Census:

Transcribed Censuses online http://www.census-online.com/links/index.html

Census-1930 problems- Locating people in 1930 when they are not indexed but you know where they lived.
http://stevemorse.org/census

http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/ma.html Free PDF file of Measuring America.  This includes the instructions given to each of the census takers as to date etc, how to ask questions. 

Census Maps These maps show the divisions of the state into counties for each of the censuses from 1790 on to 1930 and how those counties changed. At the bottom of the page for your state there is also a discussion of existing federal, teriitorial, and state censuses for each state. So before you spend hours looking for something, make sure it exists. http://www.negenealogy.com/ngo03.htm

The maps are free although there are links to paid sites. There are also free printable forms on this page.


Immigration Problems:

Ellis Island Between 1892 and 1924, 22 million emigrants and crew came through the port of New York.  The ship manifests are online at: www.Ellisisland.org You have to join to use it but joining is free.  Copies can be ordered for a fee.  Or you can order the microfilm at your local Family History Center and print it out from the film.

However, the search feature is not as good as it might be.  If you have trouble finding someone, try the following search on Jewishgen.  It is useful for all emigrants, Jewish or not.    http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/

The ever popular myth that people's surnames were changed at Ellis Island.  See this great article on the subject. 
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/3893.asp?rc=locale%7E&us=0

Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild Records 
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalizationrecords.html

Guide to naturalization records. http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalizationrecords.html
 

Maps and Gazetteers:

1859 List of Post Offices in the United States This is one of the Making of America Books.  
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AHJ3101.0001.001;cc=moa

1895 Atlas on line.  This site also has links to many other maps. 1895 Atlas

Mapquest Great Current Maps

Historical interactive maps showing modern and historical boundaries sponsored by the Newberry Library in Chicago..  Access through Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.

http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp

Animated History of the United States http://www.animatedatlas.com/index.html

Census Maps These maps show the divisions of the state into counties for each of the censuses from 1790 on to 1930 and how those counties changed. At the bottom of the page for your state there is also a discussion of existing federal, teriitorial, and state censuses for each state. So before you spend hours looking for something, make sure it exists. http://www.negenealogy.com/ngo03.htm

This is a great site for finding out about an area.  Look up towns, counties, etc.  http://www.hometownlocator.com/
    Thanks to Darryl Sauer for sending this.  

Military Records:
The American Civil War Page, Links to hundreds of sites http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Civil War maps from the Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html

Civil War and other wars, searchable database of Illinois soldier. http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/databases.html
 
Civil War Rosters. This site may be closing in October 2009 which is a real shame. I hope he finds someone to take it over. http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw.html

Civil War Sites:  http://www.militaryindexes.com/civilwar/

Miscellaneous interesting Sites:

Documents: Looking for documents on your family that might have survived?  This is a searchable site.  It has old Bibles, funeral cards, slave papers, marriage certificate, picture postcards with names and dates, etc. Most are available free to a family member or postage or at a nominal fee.  http://www.pastconnect.com

Legal Terms: Dictionary of legal terms-1856 Version http://www.constitution.org/bouv/bouvier.htm

Lookups:
-----CD lookups http://loricase.com/CDs/cdlist.html

-----Research Volunteers by Geographical Area.  This site has many different types of lookups including CDs    http://geneasearch.com/research.htm

Poorhouse records from all over the country. http://www.poorhousestory.com/

America's First Families  This is an organization but it has a large database of thousands of early colonists.
http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/

Books On Line: The University of Michigan has over 12 thousand books on line and fully searchable. Best of all, they are free.
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Names

Irish and Scottish First Names with some other information http://www.namenerds.com/

18th Century PA German Naming Customs http://www.kerchner.com/germname.htm

English Naming Customs HTTP://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/naming.htm

Given Name Variant   http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1739/givennames.html

First Names and What They Mean http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/index.html

First Name Based Genealogy http://www.genealogytoday.com/names/first/index.html

Last updated 1 August 2009

Site is courtesy of June Byrne at junebyr@yahoo.com