Another newsletter from same source as American State Papers. It's loaded with great information. Karen -----Original Message----- From: Jeannette H. Austin [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 7:39 AM To: Expert Genealogy Subject: Research Online Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Research Techniques Subject: Online Research Date: May 3, 1999 Last week, a lot of these links were reported not working - here they are again. http://www.gov.ns.ca/bacs/vstat/cdnoffices.htm Addresses, fees, phone number of Vital Statistics Office for births, deaths, marriage certificates - Canadian Vital Statistics Offices - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Alberta http://www.theultimates.com/white/ Addresses, finding - The Ultimate White Pages http://www.birthquest.org/Adoptees A searchable international database for adoptees. How to contribute information, etc. http://www.vitalrec.com/links.html Adoption and Vital Records - Adoption - Lots of Information here http://web.ukonline.co.uk/graham.pitt/bdm/ Births, Deaths, Marriages Exchange - The aim of this site is to provide a free resource to genealogists who wish to share information about details contained on birth, death or marriage certificates registered in the United Kingdom - A downloads page http://genweb.net/~blackwell/books.html Books to read online - Mostly New England local history and genealogy and a few others in England,particularly Derbyshire. The New England books include the histories of Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, North Bridgewater (renamed http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/toc.htm Bureau of Land Management - You can download copies of actual certificates, but you must have a viewer, which you can download from the BLM site to view and print copies of the certificates. Available States include - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin http://www.wdbj.net/~wdbj/gen/birthyear/cenindx.html Calculating birth dates from census information http://www.interment.net Cemeteries - Steve Paul Johnson's Cemetery Interment Lists on the Internet. Internet directory to help other genealogists find the gravesites of their ancestors. Contains links to records in the States, US national cemeteries and veterans burials all other countries, misc cemetery links and a tour of cemeteries on the Net http://www.neep.demon.co.uk/mis/index.htm Cemeteries: Monuments Inscriptions for Genealogists by Rod Neep (UK) - A general site with information on archives and records; how to record monumental inscriptions; deciphering illegible inscriptions; how to present your records; how to let others know http://peacequest.com/Cemeteries A National Cemetery Database - search engine http://www.interment.net/us/index.htm Cemeteries - National Cemeteries and War Veterans http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/junction/index.html Cemetery Junction for USA. Browse by State. You can complete an online form if your cemetery is not listed http://www.genrecords.com/library/abbreviations.htm Census and Soundex Relationship Abbreviations - >From the Genealogy Record Service Library http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/microcen.html Census Microfilm - How to Use the National Archives Census Microfilm Catalogs http://www.primenet.com/~dlytton/wdc/ Charts - World Descendant Charts(GenWeb) - VA and WV Families posting descendant charts for those who do not have a web site http://ldsonline.com/family.htm Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Mormans - This is the site where you will be able to view the Ancestral File and IGI (International Genealogical Index) online - It is in beta testing now, and you need a password. Passwords are to become available to the general public in April http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com/ City Directories Online - Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco. A free search available - however, you must be a "subscriber" http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/ Coats of Arms site. Includes flow chart for identifying coats of arms, Heraldic Symbolism, Elizabethan Heraldry, International Heraldic Glossory, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry, Family Arms on the Web http://gldss7.cr.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/us_deaths.html Deaths of People due to Earth Quakes in the US http://www.pastconnect.comDiplomas, certificates,letters, etc., stuff found in flea markets, etc. http://www.ellisisland.org/ Ellis Island website http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html Handwriting - Deciphering Old Handwriting http://www.funeralnet.com/search.html Funeral Homes Online http://www.thepassword.com/Magazines/kids/activities/genealo gy/index.html Funeral Homes - US and Canadian Funeral Homes - 20,000 US and 1,200 Canadian. Searchable Database http://www.funeralnet.com/cgi-local/notfound.pl?/ Funeral Homes - US Directory of Funeral Homes http://www.Yourfamily.com/bulletin.cgi Genealogy Bulletin Board Searchable. Add your notices to the bulletin board http://www.mit.edu/geo/ Counties - Finds the counties for a known place and state ================== NEW RELEASES =================== See a new concept in doing genealogical research online Just came out - brand new ! Do research online ! INTERNET ANCESTORS-1999 by Jeannette Holland Austin - CD- $45.00 Over 50,000 links to genealogy sites. Tired of surfing? Now you can do your genealogical research on the internet. Simply go online, insert this cd, and click on the links. For more details, how to order, (and a sample of how this works), go to - http://www.genealogy-books.com/interne2.htm ------------------------------------- C1720. PENNSYLVANIA PLACE NAMES by A. Howry Espenshade. 375 pp., paper (1925), repr. 1998. $37.50 This is the standard reference work on Pennsylvania place names, an unusual feature of which is that it give brief biographical and genealogical information about many of the persons whose names are inseparably connected with the counties, boroughs, cities, etc. Includes an extensive list of county histories, a table of Pa counties' formation, and general index of persons, places and subjects. Reprint of the original edition of 1925 which was published as "Pennsylvania State College Studies in History and Political Science, No. 1, College Series, No. 1". C2955. PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN MARRIAGES. Marriages and Marriage Evidence in Pennnsylvania German Churches by Donna R. Irish, 817 pp., Indexed, paper (1982), repr. 1998. $60.00 Primarily a compilation of Reformed Church marriage records (including some records from Lutheran and Union churches), this work provides documentation on some 50,000 persons of German origin or descent, as found in the records of approximately 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania. The records of actual marriages, which form the basis of the work, generally give the names of the bride and groom, the date of marriage, names of parents, place of residence, and sometimes place of origin, date of birth, and previous martial status, while records of marriage deriving from baptismal entries, burial records, etc. variously give names of parents (usually the maiden name of the mother), names of grandparents and sponsors, place and date of birth and/or baptism, names of children, and date of death. C4569. PENNSYLVANIA VITAL RECORDS. >From the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. 3 vols. 2,491 pp., illus., indexed, paper (1983), repr. 1999. $155.00 Pa vital records comprises reprint of virtually every article on births, baptisms, marriages and deaths that ever appeared in the two most important Pa periodicals. As with similar compilations, this work was produced with the object of brining all such material within reach of the genealogist, for complete sets of these periodicals are almost impossible to find these days, and, in the case of the Pa Genealogical magazine - which lacks a comprehensive index - difficult to use. Our 3 volumes are complete indexed - a necessity in a work that contains references to over 100,000 persons! The vital records which appear here in a total of some 150 articles derive from a mixture of church registers, court records, records of local officials and justices, ministers' records, newspapers, and gravestone inscriptions. They cut evenly across civil and ecclesiastical lines and represent a cross-section of the population of early Pa, providing one of the largest bodies of published source materials ever seen. For the period prior to 1820, in fact, they offer the researcher perhaps his or her best chance of making ancestral connections in Pa. ORDER FROM - Jeannette H. 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