Jean's Genealogy:

"Mad" Anne Bailey

Immigrants Europe Maps

James Lyle Family

Illinois Kentucky Ohio West Virginia

Rev. A. D. Dianiska

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG)
•    Transcription Aids and Immigration Information:
  • A Web of On-line Dictionaries, now yourDictionary.com
  • Deciphering Old Handwriting
  • German Handwritten Script ()
    • LDS Handwriting Guide: German Gothic
    • German Script Tutorial
    • Old German handwritten scripts
    • Here you can learn Suetterlin - the "German handwriting"
  • GERMAN NAMES
  • Emigration Port Hamburg
    (see an example from a Hamburg emigrant list)

    A Review of German Immigrants and Germans to America, Volumes 1-9 (1850-1855)

    A List of Occupations

    RANKS, PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS AND TRADES

    Immigrant Ship Information

    Guide to Immigration Records and Ship's Passenger Lists

    "Locating Information About Ships," by George G. Morgan
•    The ISTG has many more links: The Compass
  A Guide to Hundreds of Sites with Information on
  Passengers, Ship types, Stories, and Pictures!
• American Family Immigration History Center, Ellis Island records for 1892 - 1924
  Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step

  Illinois

  • The Illinois State Archives
    Illinois Statewide Marriage Index
    Illinois Death Index, 1916-1950

    Illinois USGenWeb Project - Genealogy and Family History Research in Illinois

    Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USGenWeb Project

    Carroll County Genealogical Society

    Cyndi's List for Illinois

  Kentucky

  • Vital Records Information - Kentucky
  • Kentucky Vital Records Index: marriage & divorce 1973-1993
  • Kentucky Death Records 1911 thru 2000
  • Kentucky Biography Project
  • My Great Grandfather McClintock's bio

  Ohio

  • The OHGenWeb Project
  • Ohio Historical Society Ohio Death Certificate Index: 1913 - 1944 (note added years)
  • Gallia County Ohio GenWeb
  • Gallia County (Ohio) Historical/Genealogical Society
  • Gallia County Genealogical Society, OGS Chapter, Inc.
  • Gallia History Web
  • Cleveland/Cuyahoga County:
    • Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy and History
    • Computer Assisted Genealogy Group, Cleveland Area CAGG, CA
    • Western Reserve Historical Society Collections Catalog
    • Historical Marriage License Index, 1810 - April 1998: Probate Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio
    • Cleveland Public Library Necrology File: newspaper obituaries through 1975
    • Cleveland News Index, including obituary index from 1976 to the present
    • current obituaries (full text) from The Plain Dealer

  • Jean's Project: Ohio's County Courthouses

  West Virginia

  • Mason County West Virginia Genealogy Website

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  Maps and Place Names

  • Using Maps in Genealogy
  • Get county and state for town names RootsWeb Town Search 1.0
  • The Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  • Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns
  • Historic 1828-1900 US Railroad Maps (Library of Congress)
  • USGS Mapping Information: GNIS United States and Territories Data Base Query Form
  • TopoZone - The Web's Topographic Map
  • State maps with county outlines and brief census data by state or county
  • Swisstopo: Swiss National Maps
  • 1883 German Empire atlas
  • MapQuest.com

  Europe

  • Switzerland
    • Swissgeo - mapping with zoom
    • SwitzerlandGenWeb
    • Schorey's pages in Swiss Genealogy on the Internet
    • Swiss Surname Directory
    • Welcome to Switzerland in Sight
    • Switzerland from Space
    • Oberglatt Online - a community of Canton Zürich
    • Community of Egg - Gateway to the Zürich Highlands
    • Willkommen in Oetwil am See, home page of another Zürich community
    • Stadtarchiv Schaffhausen - Schaffhausen municipal archives: history & genealogy
  • Cyndi's List - Germany / Deutschland
  • Bayern (Bavaria), Germany Genealogy
  • Slovakia
    • Guide to Slovak Roots
    • Slovak GenWeb
    • Eastern Slovakia: Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy
    • The Carpathian Connection
  • GENUKI: County Armagh (Northern Ireland)

  Rev. Albert D. Dianiska

  "Mad" Anne Bailey

  Emmet Lyle family photo