internet resources

Post deleted by Private User on Sep 7, 2010 at 8:28 PM

you're welcome too Pam!

@daniel dupree walton mentioned this wonderful resource on another discussion:

America's first
immigration center

CastleGarden.org is an educational project of The Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

http://www.castlegarden.org/searcher.php

Pilgrim Hall Museum maintains a website full of interesting entries. I had never heard of King Phillips's War and found more than I wanted to know about this very bloody Indian conflict in New England.

http://www.pilgrimhall.org

Pilgrim Hall was built in 1824. Their mission is to protect and foster the Pilgrim heritage as a dynamic national resource.

My curator colleague Erin Spiceland turned me on to:

Surname Database: Last Name Origins
A database of 50000 surname meanings, containing information on the last name origins and the surnames earliest recordings.

www.surnamedb.com/

Erica,
This adress is Wiki, but implies family trees definitely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_trees

Mihály

http://www.geni.com/people/FARKAS-Mih%C3%A1ly-L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3/6000...

I really like that list. As we know, Wikipedia is not a valid **genealogical** source, but it certainly is becoming a better and better **historical** reference. And the page you pinpointed is a really good overview.

Thank you!

This looks like a misspelling but I copy/pasted it:

http://www.genwed.com

Found family bible info on there so may be something rare there, too!

That looks like an interesting site, Marsha. It says it gets most of its info from people like us, entering our research. I would say cross-check the info whenever possible. Still, it might give us leads where we only have a partial ID on a spouse.

In building my tree, as soon as I hit the Civil War era, I went to look for my ancestors and their cousins in this essential database:

Civil War Soldiers and Sailor System
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

I got enough information to progress backwards in time to where I could use the Daughters of the American Revolution database:

http://www.dar.org/library/online_research.cfm

Still looking for a good one for the War of 1812, if anyone has a comprehensive site to suggest.

Here are some biographies from that War:

http://www.warof1812.ca/biographies.htm

This site isn't helpful but it is funny:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/War_of_1812

This site is new to me but I thought it might be helpful:

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/mil/1812/

Hope these sites weren't already mentioned. Too busy at work to read the whole thread just yet. Can't wait to retire!

Two years to go before retirement for me! Hang in there, Marsha!

Six years today, exactly. You lucky dog, Maria! <said with affection> Are you going to spend 24/7 here then? I probably will! LOL!

I got inspired by this discussion, so I made my own Geni toolbar for my browser.
This is just for my own personal use, but maybe gives a idea to the Geni staff
Here is video of it in action
http://www.screencast.com/t/OTJkZDgzZ

Glenn, that is totally cool. Can you make it work on Chrome as the browser?

Post deleted by Private User on Sep 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM

Private User
After retirement I hope to spend more time in old graveyards, musty courthouses and library microfilm collections. The web is such a fastastic tool but occasionally the answer can only be found the old-fashioned way.

@Maria Unfortunately Chrome does not support toolbar so far I know

Private User there is an extension function in Chrome too (.crx files), but you can't simply copy a Firefox extension over to Chrome - you have to write it again. Never tried to write one myself, even though I use several on a daily basis.

Post deleted by Private User on Sep 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM

Don't want this thread to be off topic, so I have deleted my previous posts

Here is few that has not been mention

Iceland Census Database (English Language option):
http://www.manntal.is/

Släktsdata : Swedish free family resource databse (Swedish language only)
http://www.slaktdata.org/

Danish Archives (Most in danish):
http://www.sa.dk/content/us/genealogy/online_services

British census (do search and you will get census reports with image of the page):
http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/

I have been working on the Brockett line for a couple of days. The Brocketts were one of the original settlers of New Haven, CT. I have two excellent resources for those also working on this line.

http://www.wheathampstead.net/brockett/index.htm -- Proves the lineage of John Brockett of New Haven back to 1363.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Qz42AAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA227&amp;lpg=... -- This is a Google Book which can be converted to a PDF file for ease of use. It fills in gaps and fleshes out siblings from the first source. Wonderful old illustrations of the ancestral homes.

http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj
Biographies of Federal judges, going back to beginning of Federal System.

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

We provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. We also provide image access to more than three million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Currently, we are adding images of Military Land Warrants. These land patents were issued to individuals as a reward for their military service. Images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810, are added to the site state-by-state as each state's documents are completed.

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Just as an explanation: if you have an ancestor who took advantage of the Homestead Act, you have a good chance of easily finding that information in this wonderful US govt resource.

http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php

The Family History Archive is a collection of published genealogy and family history books. The archive includes histories of families, county and local histories, how-to books on genealogy, genealogy magazines and periodicals (including some international), medieval books (including histories and pedigrees), and gazetteers. It also includes some specialized collections such as the Filipino card collection and the “Liahona Elders Journal.”

http://sussexweald.org/home.asp
History, maps, genealogy and more for Kent, Surrey and Sussex,England.
Their motto is The Weald is "the place where London ends and England can begin" Has alphabetical list of prominent or historical families, with sources for their data. Their portrait collection is gorgeous!

Glenn, thank you for your posts re: Scandinavian resources.
However, I went to Swedish site and there is mention of 195 Kr., and another place considerably more krona. Is there a "way around this"?

Bob.
On swedish page, just go to Sökning tab and use that
http://www.slaktdata.org/index.php/regsearch

Here is some translation of the options on the search page:

Förnamn = First name
Far = Father
Efternamn = Surname
Församling = Church District/County
Titel = Title
Årtal = Year

checkbox options:
Född = Born
Vigd = Marriage
Död = Dead
Husf = Census
Flytt = Moved

Glen - that is Excellent!
Thank you so much!