Links to Sites I Find Useful

BARLOW CLEARINGHOUSE 2

A genealogy database for everyone researching the surname Barlow, any spelling or variation, anywhere, anytime ...including... Barlow, Barlowe, Barlo, Barloe, Barler, Parler, Parlur, Barlage, and others yet to be discovered.

THE SHERMAN RESEARCH PAGE

Published by "The Shermans of Yaxley", this collection of information includes queries, gedcoms, information on famous Shermans, Sherman wills and parish records.

MICHIGAN IN THE CIVIL WAR

Created by Don Harvey, an avid historian of the war of the rebellion of 1861 to 1865, and in particular the Battle of Gettysburg. The information on this site is a result of many years of research, published as an aid to those whose quest for information may be less time consuming than mine. Information includes regiments, statistics and battles; Michigan rosters; Michigan soldier gravesites; soldiers photographs; 145 copies of woodcuts of "officers" from both North and South that appeared in harpers weekly during the war years; and photos of Michigan monuments at Gettysburg.

GENEALOGICAL DEATH INDEXING SYSTEM, MICHIGAN

Providing Internet access to information from archived death records. This system allows the user to search for records using key pieces of information such as the decedent's name, father's last name, and year of death. The data in this system were obtained from microfilmed death ledgers for Michigan. The current system contains information on 150,000 Michigan death records from 1867-1882.

BERK'S COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA SEARCHABLE RECORDS

Providing Internet access to information from archived records. Information available at this site includes: Marriage Index(County of Berks), 1885-present; ButtonEstate Records(County of Berks), 1752-present; ButtonMarriage Index (City of Reading), 1876-1884;(County of Berks) 1894-1906; ButtonBirth Index (City of Reading), 1876-1905; ButtonDeath Index (County of Berks), 1894-1906; ButtonDeath Register (City of Reading), 1873-1905.

THE VIRTUAL NEW AMSTERDAM PROJECT

1660 Map of New Amsterdam with a table listing Owners and/or Tenants.

IMMIGRANT SHIPS TRANSCRIBERS GUILD

A group of volunteers dedicated to making the search for our ancestors easier. They grew out of a need to find ships’ passenger lists right here, on-line. Many people who are searching do not have the strength of body to leave their homes and find this information. Many do not have the eyesight to search microfilms. Many with small children need to be at home with them while others do the leg work and some of us, to be sure, just want to do it the easy way.

THE TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT

A collaboration done by volunteers to transcribe tombstone inscriptions and have that work archived for the future for easy accessibility by all.

DIRECTORY OF ROYAL GENEALOGICAL DATA

At this site is a database containing the genealogy of the British Royal family and those linked to it via blood or marriage relationships. It contains, in fact, the genealogy of almost every ruling house in the western world because of the intermarriage that took place between them at some time or another. There are in excess of 30,000 individuals from the earliest times to the present in the database.

>THE USGENWEB PROJECT

Volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone. Includes State Pages, Digital Library offering actual transcriptions of public domain records, transcribed census information, and the tombstone project, to name a few of this immense project.

LATTER DAY SAINTS FAMILY SEARCH

An enormous database compiled by the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Search through Ancestral Files, International Genealogical Index, or registered web sites. A lot of names, but not always documented.

PROVIDENCE CHAPTER NSDAR

Homepage for my chapter of the National Society of the Daughter's of the American Revolution. Besides chapter information, you will also find information on our Patriots, and lots of links to internet sites and research facilities in the D.C. area.

THE MAYFLOWER WEB PAGES

A very informative site about the Mayflower. Includes historical information about the ship, the crew, her passengers (including passenger lists), the voyage, and her sister ships. Also gives educational material about the culture and traditions of the time. The author, Caleb Johnson has had several scholarly articles published in leading genealogical journals, including my most significant to date, "The True Origins of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower" in The American Genealogist, 73(1998):161-171.

THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS HOMEPAGE

Homepage of The General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Information on how to become a member, listing of known Mayflower passengers with descendants, as well as some Pilgrim information.

THE WINTHROP SOCIETY

The Society means to document the lives and family histories of all these first settlers and their descendants to the fourth generation (to about the year 1700). Their scope of study is the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Site includes original documents by and about the Puritan settlers, lists and vital data about the first planters of the Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth, and some passenger lists from the Great Migration era (1634-1638).

BEHIND THE NAME

The etymology and history of first names. A good site for linking a proper first name with a nick name.

COLONIAL OCCUPATIONS

An extensive listing of Colonial occupational titles, many of which are now obsolete, written by Sam Behling.

GLOSSARY OF GENEALOGICAL TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

A glossary consisting of both terms and commonly used abbreviations for use in understanding exactly what is stated in any record.

COMMON NICKNAMES & THEIR GIVEN NAME EQUIVALENTS

It is common in many genealogical records, especially more informal records such as census records and obituaries, to find your ancestors listed under names you might not expect. In many cases these names may have been the nicknames that they were known by to their family and friends. Learn which nicknames may have been used by your ancestors in this list of common nicknames in genealogy.

DECIPHERING OLD HANDWRITING

From a course taught by Sabina J. Murray, this on-line tutorial will help you understand old records better. Not only have our words and their meanings changed throughout the years, the way letters are formed has too. In order to get the most information from the records that are available, this site will help you to decipher records and put meaning into the symbols seen on the old documents or papers, such as old Bible, census, courthouse, archive and Church records when we are trying to obtain names, places and dates.

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