These have been sent to me through various lists I belong to over the past 6 to 8 months. I am putting them together to save space. Maybe they will help some of the new people on the lists. Sorry for duplicate mailings. Diana ///////////////////////// A wonderful site to check out if you need a definition of a genealogical term is: http://www2.palladiumnet.com/UFT/Glossary/NEWGLO_1.HTM.htm Click on the "D" and scroll down to dower. enjoy. ////////////////// Another site for England/Wales information. http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ ///////////////// URL for 1775-1920 U.S. Maps http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/terr_hp.html /////////////////////////////////////// >Here is a searchable site at the University of Michigan that may be of >interest to some. It contains books and periodicals from the 19th >century that have been scanned - you don't see a transcription, you >see >the real thing. http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/index.html ///////////////////////////////////////// if you need to know more about uploading and downloading from the internet, FTM has a 'lesson' to help at: http://www.familytreemaker.com/201/lesson7/course7_02.html ///////////////////////////////////////////// For anyone doing research in Indiana http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/WWW/INDIANA/GENEALOGY/genmenu.HTML //////////////////////////////////////////// The ship passenger lists are located at <http://iigs.rootsweb.com/immships/> The Emigrant Ship Lists Transcribers Guild http://iigs.rootsweb.com/immships/index1.html ///////////////////////////////////////// Another URL that I have used is: http://www.ancestry.com //////////////////////////////////////// *Census Groundworks: http://members.aol.com/ssmadonna/census.htm *"Census Online" - Links to Census Sites: http://www.census- online.com/links/index.html *USGenWeb Archives - Census: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ *Want to help index your county for the USGenWeb Census project? http://www.usgenweb.com/census/ *US GenWeb Census Project: http://www.usgenweb.com/census/ *SOUNDEX MACHINE: http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/soundex/soundex.html *US Census Gazetteer-place lookups: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer *US Census maps: http://www.census.gov/datamap/www/index.html *Official US Census Bureau homepage: http://www.census.gov/ *Check the frequency of names in the 1990 Census: http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/genealogy/www/freqnames.html *Finding treasures in the US Census: http://www.firstct.com/fv/uscensus.html ///////////////////////////////////////// >> >> I heartily recommend visiting the "National Union Catalog of Manuscript >>Collections," also known as NUCMC, at: >><http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html> >> >> The print version, which we librarians call "nuck-muck," has been a >>reference standby for years. I didn't know it was available online, and >>boy, did I print out reams of records from it. >> >> So why should you be interested in NUCMC? First of all, let me explain >>what a "union catalog" is. A union catalog is what you call the result >>(whether in print, microform, or online) of recording and describing the >>holdings of multiple libraries, archives, or similar repositories. For >>example, I worked in a public library that had a county-wide union list of >>periodicals, which enabled us to refer patrons to another local institution >>(college, university, historical society, etc.) if our library happened not >>to subscribe to a certain periodical (magazine, journal, etc.) and someone >>else did. >> >> Now, most of you know that the colleges, universities, historical >>societies, archives, and libraries across this country have all sorts of >>one-of-a-kind items, usually from people, places, and things that aren't >>there anymore. People who are deceased, companies that are defunct, >>charities that folded, and so on. Items such as: >> >>* family bibles >>* family papers >>* business records >>* church records >>* charity records >>* ethnic organization records >>* arts & cultural organization records >>* photographs >>* political and advocacy organization records >>* maps, posters, charts >>* architectural plans >>* letters, correspondence, diaries >> >> What NUCMC did was survey these repositories large and small--across the >>entire US--and publish the results in many, many large volumes, which are >>still available in libraries. And now NUCMC is online, meaning that you can >>do a search on your family names, place names, and institutions connected >>with the people you are researching. You can search the companies they >>worked for, the clubs, societies, and fraternal organizations they belonged >>to, the churches they attended, and so on. >> >> Now, there's *never* any guarantee that the records you seek were given to >>a proper repository instead of going in the furnace or dumpster, or that an >>ancestor left important papers, but try a simple search on your (US) >>hometown and see if you were familiar with half of the stuff that turns up. >>Then try a search on "_______ family" (your surname). Those with Anglo >>names will probably have the most success. >> >> I did an easy word search on "Buffalo, New York" and got over 500 hits, >>several of which told me that some religious charities' records are now held >>by an archive elsewhere in the state; that the papers of a few prominent >>Buffalo citizens are likewise in out-of-town repositories. ///////////////////////////////////////////