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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => US Resources & Offers => Topic started by: sbk on Friday 01 July 05 09:05 BST (UK)
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Thought this might come in handy to someone, I found it searching for some people in Chicago
http://www.sos.state.il.us/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html
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Many thanks for that link as I have just discovered from a will that Georgiana Tunstall and Herbert Tunstall from Goldenhill, Stoke on Trent must have emigrated there (Chicago, Illinois) and I have used your link and there are two strong candidates whose DOB tally with the 1841 and 1851 census that look promising.
Another relative Thomas William Norton Tunstall also went to Belvedere, Illinois but I dont know any other details on their settlement in the USA yet.
Thanks again
regards Gareth
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Following are a couple of other helpful Illinois sites:
http://auroracemeteries.com/
and several helpful city directories and other illinois sites can be found by googling:
Aurora, Illinois + genealogy.
Had nothing but the address 79 N. Smith Street, Aurora, Ill. plus a signature of "Auntie Lill" from an 1908 letter. Traced person via Aurora City directory for that address finding the whole family and then found several of them via the cemetery site. ;)
Lauraine
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Try this site:
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/ya/bl8y.htm
Valerie
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Snap Val !! ;) ;)
Great minds and all that !!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,140803.new.html#new
Annie :)
Think of us tonight - 6-12 inches of snow expected overnight!! - I'll be thinking I'm in Alaska!!
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Hello Annie:
hope you don;t get all that snow!!!!!!! Have a nice spring day here, lots of blue sky and sunshine plus all the snow has gone. !!
But Central Alberta got a bid dump of snow on the week end. Glad it was them and not us.
Cheers
Anne
Canada
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Alaska State Library
http://library.state.ak.us/pub/online/akgene.html
Yukon & Alaska Genealogy Centre
http://www.yukonalaska.com/pathfinder/gen/
Alaska History & Genealogy
http://www.alaskagenealogy.com/
Valdez Museum - (Gold Rush)
http://www.valdezmuseum.org/names/
Alaska Mining Links
http://www.akmining.com/mine/minelink.htm
Matanuska Susitna Valley, Alaska
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coleen/south_central_alaska.html
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Hello all:
I noticed a big interest in the Chicago newspaper link. Thought this might complement it. Lots of fun stuff if you have relatives who were there in the 1800s and 1900s.
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html
John
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Great sites for anyone searching for ancestors who were pioneers in Utah
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer.htm
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/
http://www.dupinternational.org/
Elaine
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Some good ship lists coming to the US. And some Canada.
http://www.immigrantships.net/
http://www.theshipslist.com/
How to get ciopies from the National Archives-
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/
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If you have relatives in Brooklyn, it might be worth your while to search this site:
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
I searched for my ggg-grandfather Robert HAWE, a butcher who came to Brooklyn from Ireland c.1845/46, and found a nice if ghastly article about his attempted murder of a co-worker with a meat cleaver.
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Thank you for posting this. I have been to this site before and never found anything, but today you reminded me of it and I was playing around and found the article regarding my ggg grandfather and his gruesome death on the LIRR. the article is wrong, but it was so great to see at least some report of it.
Kath
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My pleasure - I keep stumbling onto sites that I've already visited (and exited empty-handed) and I'll "dumb it down" and be less rigid over spelling and suddenly I'll find all sorts of new things. I recently found my ggg-grandmother in the Emigrant Savings Bank records under HOWE rather than HAW(E) and it gave me her place of birth in Ireland, the name of her parents, her address, name and profession of her husnband, number of children, and date she arrived in the US and the name of ship she sailed on. It just whets my appetite for more.
(PS - I replied to your PM, but hit the wrong key and couldn't correct my error, so thought I'd just post my reply here.)
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Thought I'd post a link to "A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations," which decodes those cryptic letters, numbers, and other assorted scribbles on U.S. passenger manifests. The guide, which is part of the JewishGen webpage, was written by a historian with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which administered the ports of entry into the U.S. Here's the url:
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Manifests/
Scroll down the page and you can click on links that explain individual columns on the passenger list.
John
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http://www.cpclerk.co.summit.oh.us/
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Interesting site, Susan, thanks!
For info - records for the following counties included:
Akron Municipal Clerk of Court
Barberton Municipal Clerk of Court
Cuyahoga Falls Clerk of Court
Summit County Clerk of Courts
A ;)
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Here is a link for free maps and directories in the US. Good until January 2007 then a fee. Really fun!
https://www.historicmapworks.com/index.php
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The above named "counties" are actually cities within Summit County, Ohio
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These sites have been submitted by our wonderful Rootschatters in an attempt to make your search easier.
Grub :)