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The immigrations records
include all Ellis Island records (1892-1957).
Other ports include:
--Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948
--Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1943
--California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957
--Galveston Passenger Lists, 1896-1948
--New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945
--New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
--Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1883-1945
This full collection
of more than 100 million immigrant names includes
all readily available U.S. passenger list records from 1820 to 1960.
To
access the free collection, go to http://www.ancestry.com/ and click on
the link to "the world's largest collection of passenger lists."
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Follow the
HISTORY, follow the RELIGIOUS HISTORY, then follow the WATER.
1. SOURCES
PLACES TO LQQK:
Archives –State, Federal
Cemetery Office
Church
County Courthouses
Daughters of the American
Revolution/Sons of the American Revolution
Fraternal Orders
Funeral Homes
Genealogical Societies
Historical Societies
Internet
Latter Day Saints
Libraries, -Local public,
State, Federal and University Libraries
Military Records
Museums
National Records
State Records
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
A.
PRIMARY SOURCES
(primary person/parents were present at time of record)
Bible Records
Birth Records
Church Records
Court Documents
-Land Deeds
(also look at “headrights” –grants in 1600’s from England;
After Revolution, new government gave payment to soldiers in “bounty lands”;
and “Homestead Act” -land given by government to help economy and settle new
areas.
-Lawsuits and divorces
-Probate Records (even in the 1700’s, inventories were included in probates)
-Wills
Emigration Records
Immigration Records
Marriage Licenses
Marriage Records
Military Records
Naturalization Records
Social Security Applications
Pension Records –applied
for by the veteran
Tax Records
B.
SECONDARY SOURCES
(primary person not originator
of the record)
Cemetery Records
Census Records
Death Records
Funeral Home/Mortuary Records
Internet information
Newspaper Records
Other genealogists shared
material
Pension Records –applied
for by the veteran’s spouse or child
Published Genealogies, County
histories and books
2. SCOTTISH NAMING PATTERNS
1st son
Father’s father
2nd son
Mother’s father
3rd son
Father /Father’s Father’s Father
4th son
Father’s brother /Mother’s Mother’s Father
5th son
Father’s Mother’s Father
6th son
Mother’s Father’s Father
1st daughter Mother’s mother
2nd daughter Father’s mother
3rd daughter Mother /Mother’s Father’s
Mother
4th daughter Mother’s sister /Father’s
Father’s Mother
5th daughter Mother’s Mother’s Mother
6th daughter Father’s Mother Mother
NOTE:
In some cases you will find that the order is reversed with the first and second
children, i.e. the First-born son being named after the Mother's father and the Second-born son after the Father's father.
If this is the case then the daughters are also usually reversed.
You will also find instances where a child is named
'out of pattern', after an Aunt or Uncle who has died, or after an admired other relative or friend of the parent.
These
are only general guidelines and were certainly not always followed.
3. WEBSITES
England & Wales
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All census records from 1841
to 1901 can be consulted online - either free or for very little cost.
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All indexes to births, deaths,
& marriages are available, many are free.
Start with the Mormon site:
familysearch.org - click on "Advanced Search" and then Census and then British Census. This should give you England
& Wales in April 1881. For a fee you can consult ancestry.co.uk or
1837online.com
To check state records in Britain you might try freebmd.org.uk.
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SIX DECADES OF SCOTLAND'S CENSUS RECORDS
The project to make available online the handwritten census records in Scotland from 1841 to 1901 has
just been completed, with the addition of the very first census in 1841 - when the population of the country was only 2,620,184.
The five-year Scotlands People project was launched in 2002 and claims to contain the most comprehensive online set of family
history information for any country in the world. It is currently one of the largest single information resources on the web.
In addition to the census records, the material includes the indexes to the Old Parish Registers from 1553, indexed digital
images of the statutory registers of births for Scotland, 1855-1905, the statutory registers of deaths for Scotland, 1855-1955
, the statutory registers of marriages for Scotland, 1855-1930.
Wills and Testaments from 1513 to 1901 from the National
Archives of Scotland are also available. There are 50 million historical records accessible from around the world. Their website
has over 400,000 registered users paying to download information. See
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFORMATION ON WORLD WAR I AND II DRAFT/ENLISTMENT REGISTRATION CARDS
Ancestry has completed indexing and digitizing nearly 24 million World War
I and II Draft/Enlilstment
Registration Cards.
To celebrate they are offering free access to the WWI database with registration
(your name and email address) from November 12-25, 2005.
To take advantage of this offer you must go to the webpage below and click on the
WWI Draft Cards link near the top...
[NOTE-if you link along and find yourself in Ancestry.com, Ancestry will probably junk email you
now, but if anyone wants to dodge that, or want WWII, they can email me and I'll lookup and send if they prefer.
I get the genealogy junk email ads already.]
for the
Nov12-25, 2005 free lookup for WWI:
http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/--In Ancestry, I found my Dad's and one Uncle's WWII enlistment, I'm still wondering why my other Uncle was not there.
I kept cutting things from the search until all I had was a name and still didn't turn the one Uncle up. Interesting
to see their occupations at time of enlistment, and trim weight listings.
Also, Latter Day Saints (mormons) are digitizing their collection of family books,
more and more are coming online every day:
HOLOCAUST ERA DOCUMENTS
The first set of digitized records of Holocaust era documents has been transferred to the Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington,DC.
http://www.ushmm.
org/
International Tracing Service Archive http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/its/faq/
