The Computer Corner
By
Number 18, July 2002, republication of this article
requires prior approval from the author.
As we move into the fall season, many will be back at the
computers looking for new sites. Here
are a few I’ve found via suggestions from different places. They cover various topics as described.
Someone once requested directions on
finding family crests and coats of arms. I came across this but haven’t really
spent much time with it. I’m always
wondering if our German Russian Ancestors had a coat of arms before they
immigrated to
There is
a second site that might be more focused for Germans. International Civic
Arms or Civic Heraldry at: http://www.bng.nl/ngw/indexgb.htm
If you know your ancestor's Germanic
village or town of origin, you can find it's official Landeswappen or Gemeindewappen. I
understand these are still used in the publications and town halls of the
specific towns presently in
While
this site will not help anyone find their great-grandfather, it will allow us a
glimpse into the streets he walked. http://www.us-genealogy.com/ukraine/kpcs.html
and for
http://www.ingeneas.com/free/index.html
is a free database for the National Archives of Canada. It might be a good starting point if you have
Canadian Relatives. And after you’ve
finished with that one, try this Internet site (www.archives.ca) under ArchiviaNet. Earlier
records are not indexed but further information can be obtained on their
website under Genealogy: Immigration Records: Passenger Lists 1865 to
1935. They further note that passenger
lists constitute the official record of immigration in that period. http://www.archives.ca/
As
of May 2002, the US National Archives and Records Administration website became
www.archives.gov. It looks very good and might be worth a few
minutes of your time.
And, as an additional item, http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/index.html
will take you to the 1930 Federal Census.
This
may be of interest to some........For those few who have ante-bellum (before
the civil war) heritage; there is now on the Internet a list of the 5.3 million
soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War both for the Union and the
Confederacy. It is located at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/.
For each person, it shows the name, regiment, and rank at start/end of
enlistment (thanks to Allyn Brosz
for this input)
Here's a Internet site that I that might be
useful to some for searching the Ellis Island Database http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse/ellis/ellis.html
Rather than being restricted to First and Surname by the Ellis Island Database, Stephen P.Morse has created a search engine that allows you to use
first initial year of arrival, age at arrival, boat name, ethnicity, etc. as
search criteria.
Want
to try a German car map from 1938 site –
http://home.t-online.de/home/Dieter.Taube/opitz.htm
one test site -
http://home.t-online.de/home/Dieter.Taube/seite08b.jpg
And a genealogical collection with
historical maps -
http://home.t-online.de/home/Dieter.Taube/genatlas.htm
Revised 2-8-2003