-----Original Message----- From: Diana Davis <ddavis@logicsouth.com> To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 11:47 AM Subject: [HODGES-L] Websites to help us Research our Families (part 1) >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. >/////////////////////////////////////////// > > > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm > > > >