Web Links

Listing of useful links to various genealogy related sites.

Bremen Passenger Lists

Bremen Passenger Lists (the Original) A Project with the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and the Bremen Staatsarchiv. This database contains 736,064 entries. German database with some pages where language can be change. Website easy to get around.
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Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Information regarding immigration into Canada.
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Castle Garden-New York Immigration

This free site a much overlooked site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. More than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.
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Cimorelli Ship Search

This is an online collection of databases comprised of the Morton Allan Directory, M1066 Microfilm series from NARA, various newspaper articles, Internet sources.
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Ellis Island-New York

From 1892 to 1924, more than 25 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. The ship companies that transported these passengers kept detailed passenger lists, called "ship manifests."
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Federation of East European Societies

The Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) was organized in 1992 to promote family research in eastern and central Europe. It provides a forum for individuals and organizations focused on a single country or group of people to exchange information and be updated on developments in the field.
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Find My Past

At findmypast.co.uk you can search over 1.5 billion records for free, but you will need to pay to view the original images and transcriptions. Records collections available are: Births and baptisms, churches and religion, deaths and burials, census, land & surveys, education & work, institutions & organizations, military, armed forces & conflict, newspapers, directories and social history. Additionally the special collections, and travel & migrations could be very useful to the researcher.
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Hamburg-Germans to America

Lists of passengers on of vessels sailing from Hamburg between 1850 and 1934 survive in the Hamburg State Archive [Staatsarchiv], Bestand Auswandereramt. The passenger lists consist of two series: Direct and Indirect Lists. The direct list contains the names of those passengers on vessels that sailed from Hamburg directly to an overseas port. The indirect list containing the names of those passengers who proceded from Hamburg to an intermediate British or other European port, where they boarded other vessels for their ultimate destination.
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Immigrant Ancestors Project

The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, uses emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries.
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Immigrant Ships; ISTG

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. 4,000+ Passenger Manifests in 14 Volumes plus numerous other passengers listed in Special Projects. Searches can be made by ship, departure, arrival, or year.
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Cyndi's List

A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online. Your genealogy starting point for more than 15 years!
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Family Search

FamilySearch is a nonprofit family history organization dedicated to connecting families across generations. Search the catalog of genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) made available by FamilySearch. Many items can be loaned to local Family History Centers around the world for your review.
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Michigan Census Records

Michigan Census Finder is a tool designed to help you find sites which offer free Michigan census records online.
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Multilingual Keyboard

This site will come in handy for those who want to use Polish diacriticals. Browse the link for other language helps.
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Poland Family History Research

Listing of the data collections to help trace your Polish Ancestors. Linked through the Ancestry.com site, the list shows some collections that are FREE to view.
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