Don
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 |  Subject: North American Links - Genealogy Resources  Sat 10 Nov 2007 - 22:23 | |
| Following is a list of links that may prove useful in finding your ancestors. I will continue to add to this list. Criteria for new links are two fold. First, the link should be such that it will have broad interest and second, it should be useful in identifying “Smith’s” who immigrated to North America. If you have an interesting link, please post it as a reply and I will add it to this list.
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British Homes Children Registry. 100,000 British Home Children (alleged orphans) were sent to Canada by over 50 British Child Care organizations.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren/
castlegarden.org
Between 1830 and 1892, 73 million immigrants came through Castle Garden in New York City. In 1892, Ellis Island replace Castle Garden and immigration port of entry. This site provides access to ship manifests dating from 1820. (Digitizing the 2 million records is ongoing and appears to be about half-complete.)
http://www.castlegarden.org/
The Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800 by Lyman Chalkley.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/
Ellis Island
http://www.ellisisland.org/
footnote.com This site appears to provide several features but the main one is access to digitized copies of original documents. There is a small membership fee required to access the digitized copies. http://www.footnote.com/
Heritage Quest Online
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/.
Massachusetts Index of early assorted records
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ma/0_ma-index.htm
Massachusetts Vital Records 1600-1849
http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org/TownIndices.html
NewspaperARCHIVE.com It is the mission of Heritage Microfilm to be the world's leading provider of historical newspaper content, focusing on individual people and the events that impacted their lives. Note: There is a charge for access to the database.
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx
Olive Tree Genealogy Ships' Passenger lists, Naturalization Records, Palatine Genealogy, Canadian Genealogy, American Genealogy, Native American Genealogy, Huguenots, Mennonites, Almshouse Records, Orphan Records, church records, military muster rolls, census records, land records and more.
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_index.shtml
Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Planters. A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before may, 1692, on the basis of farmer's register.
http://puritanism.online.fr/puritanism/Savage/savage.html
Smith Brick Walls by D.A. Smith: Smith Surname State indexes; extractions of Smiths from census, marriage records, land patents, and other resources.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dasr/smithhome.html
Smith Surname Resource Center: Smith Genealogy research can be facilitated by use of this page. It links to the majority of the Smith surname data on the web, as well as to individual Smith family trees, Smith origin and Smith meaning if known, and many other Smith genealogy resources.
http://www.surnameweb.org/Smith/surnames.htm
The Winthrop Society Descendants of the Great Migration. One of the goals of the Winthrop Society is to freely distribute the texts of original documents by and about the first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth.
http://www.winthropsociety.org/
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Carole
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| | Subject: Re: North American Links - Genealogy Resources Fri 4 Jul 2008 - 12:20 | |
| Hi Don, this is the resources site that I mentioned.........
Northern Neck of Virginia Genealogy Page
http://www.ragerlaw.com/lawlibrarypage6.htm#GENEALOGY
and the following appears to be a useful reference page.........
USA Immigration Bibliography
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/migrate/sources.html
Lists sources that are compiled in the first three volumes of
"The New York and Philadelphia Passenger Lists"
that are available at most USA major libraries
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