Tracing your European Ancestors - UK & Ireland
 Ben's links to useful sites on the internet
Worksheets for Genealogy and Family History
 
 
 
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Useful links from Ben Franklin's Classroom Notes and References

A. Writing Quality Citations and Sources
B. Using Maps and Gazetters
C. US Census
D. US Immigration
E. Naturalization Records

F. Soundex

Writing Quality Citations and Sources

Creating Worthwhile Genealogies for our Families and Descendants
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson12.htm

Quality Citations for Electronic Genealogy Sources By Mark Howells
http://www.oz.net/~markhow/writing/cite.htm

How To Cite Sources by John Wylie
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/19_wylie.html

Skillbuilding - Citing Your Sources
http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/skbld959.html

The Value of Documentation in Family History
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/19_kory.html

Maps and Gazetteers

The Gazetteer of British Place … articles about place names for genealogists.
http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/

A UK Gazetteer, associated with the Ordinance Survey
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/

The Ordinance Survey … has a free map section called “Get A Map”
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/

The NARA’s genealogy page is found at:
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html

Many records … may be found by … by visiting:
http://www.census-online.com/

The three main vendors of the US Census records are:
http://ancestry.com
http://Genealogy.com
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/

 US Immigration

Pre-1820

One of the most comprehensive lists for that period.
http://www.english-america.com

RootsWeb Passenger Lists:.
http://userdb.rootsweb.com/passenger/

The Olive Tree Genealogy - Ship’s Passenger Lists:
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_index.shtml

Ships’ Passenger Lists: by Donna Speer Ristenbatt:
http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/shipind1.htm

Cyndi’s Immigration and Ship’s List:.
http://www.CyndisList.com/ships.htm

Irish Passenger Lists
http://freespace.virgin.net/alan.tupman/sites/irish.htm

Ports from Europe, a bibliography … by Joe Beine:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/1820.html

1820-1891 - the middle years

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild:
http://www.immigrantships.net/

Shelia’s Links to Passenger Lists on the Net:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3575/Ships.html

Passenger Lists on the Internet:
http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html

Addie’s Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html

Passenger Lists; Ships; Ship Museums:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/pass.html - [Not allowing entry]

Immigrants to Canada:.
http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html

Directory of Passenger Ship Arrivals.
http://www.daddezio.com/genealogy/ships/index.html

TheShipsList:
http://theshipslist.com/index.html

National Archives web site for Record Group
http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm_catalogs/immigrant/customs_records_1820_1891.html

Joe Beine … on-line catalog … includes the LDS microfilm numbers
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengerlists.html

Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online.
http://www.cimorelli.com/safe/shipmenu.htm

The Immigration Experience
http://members.tripod.com/~L_Alfano/immig.htm

1891 to 1957

“Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations” by Marian L. Smith
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Manifests/

What Records are Available - National Archives for Record Group 85 http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm_catalogs/immigrant/immigration_records_1891_1957.html

Joe Beine website.
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengerlists.html

Tony Cimorelli’s Passenger List/Manifest web site.:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengerlists.html

Steve Morse’s web site: “Searching the Morton Allan Directory in One Step” at
http://www.stevemorse.org/ellis/cimorelli.html

Ellis Island Passenger List Database
http://www.ellisisland.org/

Louis Alfano’s web page - The Immigration Experience
http://members.tripod.com/~L_Alfano/immig.htm

 

Naturalization Records

Federal Court Records:
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/research_topics/naturalization_records.html

On-line:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalization.html

 
Soundex - calculate a soundex for a name.
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/soundex/soundex.html
 

 

 

   
© John L. Haynes 2000-2004
 
Rev 1.2 07-Nov-2004