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Census
Research

 

Blank Census Forms
Description of all US Census Rolls - Counties, EDs, etc. 1790-1930 - Dr. Steve Morris. To find your state, click on EDIT - FIND IN TOP WINDOW and type in the state or county and click FIND. Keep doing so until you get to the census year you are looking for. If using this with Ancestry, first tell search engine which version you are using Ancestry.com or AncestryLibraryEdition. You can use the search engine to go directly to the ED you want in Ancestry - Dr. Steve Morris
Unified ED Finder - Obtaining the Census Enumeration District for an 1880 to 1950
Location in One Step - Dr. Steve Morris
The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources
Creating Soundex and Daitch Motokoff Soundex in one step - Dr. Steve Morris
The Census Book - William Dollarhide - Complete book online at Heritage Quest Online. Check your local Library website.

Country
Research

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ARMENIA
Armenia Info - Tour Armenia - History, travel, maps, etc.
Armeniapedia - Armenian Encyclopedia on the web

GERMANY
Find German town names which have changed and are now in Poland
Osterholtz-Scharmbeck (in German)   (Fischer relatives)
Worpswede  (in German) (Murken relatives)
Stolpmuende (in German) (Peters)
Pomerania (in English) (Peters)
Places in Germany - Alphabetical order
German Genealogy Internet Portal
1883 Ravenstein Atlas des Deutschen Reichs - Extensive indexing down to village.
Identifying Place Names in German Documents - FamilySearch.org
FISCHERS in America Map 1880        FISCHERS in America Map 1920

LEBANON
Arabic Naming Conventions

IRELAND
Irish National Archives
Lindels Donegal Research - Researcher Carolyn from New Zealand is providing much information on the Gildeas and is involved in a one-name study on the family name.
Donegal - General history and information
Boston Pilot - Missing Friends - From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends” column with advertisements from people looking for “lost” friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 31,711 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot.

Civil War

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National Civil War Museum
War of the Rebellion records have been digitized by Cornell University
Documenting the South Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Passenger Lists

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Interpreting Marks, Lines, Notations on Passenger Lists
Cyndi's List - Ports of Entry    Cyndi's List - Ships
Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals
Searching Ellis Island in One Step - Dr. Morse's Search Engine
Passenger Arrival Form - from EllisIsland.org. Transcribe your records on this form so you can keep information handy.
BOOK: They Came In Ships by John P. Colletta
Family History Library - Search catalog for microfilm and borrow through local Family History Centers in your area
Castle Garden: America's First Immigration Center

Obits - Deaths
Cemeteries

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Funeral Cards Found - Search this online database
Social Security Death Index - FamilySearch.org. Search for United States databases.
FindaGrave.com

Search Bible Records, Coffin Plates, Funeral Cards, etc

Legacy.com Nationwide Resource for Obits and Guest Books

Florida


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Florida Heritage Collection: digitized books, documents, images

PALMM - Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials. Digitized collections including Sanborn Maps below.

Florida Office of Vital Statistics - Copies of vital records
Florida Resources: includes digitized images
Florida Map Collection - The Exploring Florida Maps collection contains approximately 6,000 historic and contemporary Florida maps.
Florida Historical Map Collection The Florida Historical Map Collection is one of the treasures of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History and contains more than 2300 images of Florida dating from the early 1500s to 1926.
Nassau County Florida - Callahan
Florida State Archives: Florida Memory
Florida Postcards - USGenWeb
Genealogy Today: Florida State Genealogy Links

Georgia

 

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Georgia Archives - Virtual Vault 

Digital Library of Georgia - University of Georgia

New Georgia Encyclopedia - The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state.

Georgia Place Names and Historical Maps

Georgia Vital Records Department

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Georgia Cities

Chatham County Property Appraiser: Use addresses found on SURNAME: Homes pages, City Directory pages and Census pages to see what the address looks like today. Remember, too, that addresses have changed through the years.

Savannah Public Library - Live Oak Public Library

Chatham County Georgia Genealogy Links

Georgia Historical Society - Savannah Georgia. Includes online search.

City of Savannah Research Library - Information on all records available in the city

Chatham County USGenWeb page is exceptional - deeds, maps, photos, military, etc.

World
Wars

 

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The Veterans History Project relies on volunteers to collect and preserve stories of wartime service. The Veterans History Project is a project of the Library of Congress aimed at collecting oral history interviews, memoirs, letters, diaries, photographs, and other original materials from veterans of World Wars I and II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present).
World War I - Blank draft registration cards - blank forms help transcribe poor copies.
National World War II Memorial Site
Search the Registry for Fischer / Gildea / Russell / Gannam
Lone Sentry - Photos, articles & Research on European Theater
Aunt Honey - Florence Gildea served in England

Destroyer Escort Sailor's Association - Neil Fischer, Sr. was a 2nd Gunner's mate on the Richard S. Bull DE 402, (WGT) John C. Butler Class. Site has photos, history, technical data, etc.
History of the Richard S. Bull DE 402
Photos of Richard S. Bull DE 402 with brief history

Army Nurse Corps - Florence Gildea served in this Unit
Office of Medical History - The Army Nurse Corps

Military

 

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Georgia National Guards 118th Field Artillary - John Frederick Fischer was a member and so are his Russell descendants!
National Personel Records Center Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63132-5100.

Genealogy & History Societies

 

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Savannah Area Genealogical Association - PO Box 15385 Savannah, GA 31416
Central Florida Genealogical Society
Georgia Genealogical Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the Confederacy

Research
Aids

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Vital Records - Read the info at VitalRec.com on your state and then GO to the individual STATE's website to order the documents you need.
One Step Search Engines - Dr. Stephen Morse - Helpful in searching Castle Garden and Ellis Island databases, Jewish Research, People and Birthday finders, Change street names, etc.
Colonial Occupations
Charts and Forms from National Archives
Genealogy Abbreviations
WorldCat - Search for books in libraries across the country. If you need copies of pages, try to request book or copies via interlibrary loan from your home library (ILL). If your library does not perform this service, contact the library directly and inquire as to their charges. If they will not perform this service, search www.usgenweb.com or www.geneasearch.com for a "lookup angel" in that area who might be willing to copy and mail the copies to you. ALWAYS offer to send payment in advance and always send something, even if they tell you not to. You may need them again!
WeRelate.org - Put in your family name and see what happens
Latin Dictionary and Translation Aid

Land Research

 

 

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Bureau of Land Management - Actual patents and deeds 1820-1908
David Rumsey Map Collection - Thousands of digitized historical maps.

Maps: Historical County Lines - All States

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Black & White Map Key
      Map Key and Colors - Library of Congress
Changed Street Names - Another fantastic search engine by Dr. Steve Morris!
Maps: Historical & current; national & international - FANTASTIC COLLECTION at University of Texas

Postcards

 

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Penny Postcards - US GenWeb Site
Scanned images of postcards give snapshot of life in the towns where ancestors lived.

Georgia Archives Digital Postcard Collection
1, 666 postcards, dating from the early 1900s through the 1970s.

Florida Postcards - USGenWeb

Digitized Book Collections

 

 

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BYU Digitized Book Collection

PALMM - Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials. Digitized collections including Sanborn Maps below.

Georgia Archives

Digital Library of Georgia - University of Georgia 

Cornell University digitized collection including War of the Rebellion

FREE LOOKUPS
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US Gen Web - Go to your county and check for "look up angels" or "random acts of kindness" persons who do look ups in the area of information you need.
MEDICAL
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Name of old time illnesses

Colonial Diseases

IMAGES

Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive - Search for your surnames, submit photos of persons you know or don't know or send original photos you can no longer care for and they will post and maintain the originals.

NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
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Chronicling America Historic Newspapers - Free access to historic papers from 1900 forward. More added weekly.

Library of Congress - Search the largest collections in one search.
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