Passport applications are often a valuable source of genealogical information. Some immigrants applied for passports to return home to visit family or friends. These records usually give a place of birth or at least the destination (which is often the home town)
Passports and passport applications can provide the following genealogy information:
* family, marital status
* birth place and date
* name of wife
* residence
* father's name and place of birth
* naturalization year
* name of ship, port and date of entry (after 1900)
* photograph of ancestor
Olive Tree Genealogy's sister site NaturalizationRecords.com has the following free passport records online at http://www.naturalizationrecords.com/usa/passports.shtml
* Register of Passports from 14 November 1834 to 1843 an Index for all states in USA
* Index to Special Passports 1829-1887 an Index for all states in USA
* Index to Special Passports 1887-1894 an Index for all states in USA
* Register of Passport Applications 1809-1817
* Index to Emergency & Special Passport Applications 1830-1831
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Showing posts with label Weekly Featured Database. Show all posts
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November 27, 2010
November 13, 2010
Featured Genealogy: Past Voices - Letters Home
This week's featured Genealogy website is Past Voices: Letters Home
Discover your origins in letters as ancestors tell their stories and reveal family relationships, past events, moments in time and details of family history. Find your ancestors through their own letters sent to loved ones far from home.
Past Voices gives our ancestors a voice - and these voices from the past come alive in their letters. Many letters on Past Voices are from soldiers far from home. Nothing tells the true reality of war more than the simple writings of the common soldier. These poignant letters from lonely men to their mothers, wives or sweethearts will touch your heart. Some letters will leave you bewildered by their unemotional telling of horrors almost beyond our comprehension.
Past Voices also contains letters and memoirs from ordinary individuals going about their everyday lives. These letters provide us with a sense of history, of being there and experiencing life with the people who write about the times they live in.
Choose from Ancestor Letters USA, Ancestor Letters Canada or Ancestor Letters UK
Discover your origins in letters as ancestors tell their stories and reveal family relationships, past events, moments in time and details of family history. Find your ancestors through their own letters sent to loved ones far from home.
Past Voices gives our ancestors a voice - and these voices from the past come alive in their letters. Many letters on Past Voices are from soldiers far from home. Nothing tells the true reality of war more than the simple writings of the common soldier. These poignant letters from lonely men to their mothers, wives or sweethearts will touch your heart. Some letters will leave you bewildered by their unemotional telling of horrors almost beyond our comprehension.
Past Voices also contains letters and memoirs from ordinary individuals going about their everyday lives. These letters provide us with a sense of history, of being there and experiencing life with the people who write about the times they live in.
Choose from Ancestor Letters USA, Ancestor Letters Canada or Ancestor Letters UK
May 19, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: Irish Famine Migration to New Brunswick, 1845-1852
Announcing a new website that is chock full of incredible Irish records. This is my Featured Weekly Database for this week.
In the Wake of Dark Passage: Irish Famine Migration to New Brunswick, 1845-1852
Don't be misled by the title! There are records here that pertain to other geographic locations.
The website includes the following searchable records. I have just spent an enjoyable half hour searching the Passenger Lists and Almshouse Records. I was amazed to find that in the ships passenger lists, each individual entry is linked to the actual images of the original manifest.
When I glanced at the Immigrant Letters database I was struck by the geographic locations - many in the USA as well as of course Ireland and New Brunswick.
* Saint John Almshouse Records
* Brenan Funeral Home Records: Traces of Ireland
* Fitzwilliam Estate Emigration Books 1847-1856
* RS555 Provincial Secretary: Immigration Administration Records
* Immigrant Letters
* Newspapers
* Passenger Lists
* Teachers Petition Database
* Irish Immigrants in the New Brunswick Census of 1851 and 1861
In the Wake of Dark Passage: Irish Famine Migration to New Brunswick, 1845-1852
Don't be misled by the title! There are records here that pertain to other geographic locations.
The website includes the following searchable records. I have just spent an enjoyable half hour searching the Passenger Lists and Almshouse Records. I was amazed to find that in the ships passenger lists, each individual entry is linked to the actual images of the original manifest.
When I glanced at the Immigrant Letters database I was struck by the geographic locations - many in the USA as well as of course Ireland and New Brunswick.
* Saint John Almshouse Records
* Brenan Funeral Home Records: Traces of Ireland
* Fitzwilliam Estate Emigration Books 1847-1856
* RS555 Provincial Secretary: Immigration Administration Records
* Immigrant Letters
* Newspapers
* Passenger Lists
* Teachers Petition Database
* Irish Immigrants in the New Brunswick Census of 1851 and 1861
May 12, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: Missing Friends Project
The featured genealogy database this week is the Missing Friends Project
The Missing Friends Project on OliveTreeGenealogy.com is extracting the names of those who immigrated from UK to America or Canada and who were inquired about by family in various 19th Century newspapers.
Missing Friends Project starts with Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, published in London England and their weekly column (1886-1900) called "Long Lost Relatives". We also have begun extracting names of those in the Boston Pilot, published in Boston Massachusetts (1831-1921).
Our Boston Pilot project is only extracting the names of missing Irish individuals who sailed to Canada. It is important to note that many who sailed first to Canada went on to USA and are so noted in the extracts. Many of the relatives and friends seeking them were based in USA and their location is also given.
The Missing Friends Project on OliveTreeGenealogy.com is extracting the names of those who immigrated from UK to America or Canada and who were inquired about by family in various 19th Century newspapers.
Missing Friends Project starts with Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, published in London England and their weekly column (1886-1900) called "Long Lost Relatives". We also have begun extracting names of those in the Boston Pilot, published in Boston Massachusetts (1831-1921).
Our Boston Pilot project is only extracting the names of missing Irish individuals who sailed to Canada. It is important to note that many who sailed first to Canada went on to USA and are so noted in the extracts. Many of the relatives and friends seeking them were based in USA and their location is also given.
May 5, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: Outbound Ships Passenger Lists
Neither U.S. A. nor Canada maintained outbound ships passenger lists. There are no archived Ships Passenger Lists for ships sailing from ports in Canada to USA. However, some partial lists do exist.
ShipsListsOnline is pleased to announce a new project to transcribe ships passenger lists leaving USA, bound for Europe and United Kingdom.
ShipsListsOnline is pleased to announce a new project to transcribe ships passenger lists leaving USA, bound for Europe and United Kingdom.
April 28, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (New York) Baptisms 1639 - 1801
The featured genealogy database this week is the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (New York) Baptisms 1639 to 1801
Other New York genealogy databases can be viewed at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
Other New York genealogy databases can be viewed at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
April 22, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: Baptisms Reformed Church at Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County New York 1716-1827
The featured genealogy database this week is the Records of Baptisms of the Reformed Church at Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County New York 1716-1827
Researchers have been led to believe that church records for the Minisink aka Machackemeck (Deerpark) Dutch Reformed Church were lost for the years 1720- 1736. Histories of the Dutch Reform Churches in America reveal the following: The Deerpark Dutch Reformed Church was not established until 1737. Until that time, Dominies from the established Kingston Dutch Reformed Church travelled to the remote areas to perform baptisms which were later entered into the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church records.
The first Dominie at the Deerpark Dutch Reformed Church found notes on baptisms performed in 1716-1719 in Minisink that had never been recorded in Kingston. He appended them to the Deerpark records which actually began in 1737. Thus the appearance of missing records for 1720-1736.
Other New York genealogy databases can be viewed at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
Researchers have been led to believe that church records for the Minisink aka Machackemeck (Deerpark) Dutch Reformed Church were lost for the years 1720- 1736. Histories of the Dutch Reform Churches in America reveal the following: The Deerpark Dutch Reformed Church was not established until 1737. Until that time, Dominies from the established Kingston Dutch Reformed Church travelled to the remote areas to perform baptisms which were later entered into the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church records.
The first Dominie at the Deerpark Dutch Reformed Church found notes on baptisms performed in 1716-1719 in Minisink that had never been recorded in Kingston. He appended them to the Deerpark records which actually began in 1737. Thus the appearance of missing records for 1720-1736.
Other New York genealogy databases can be viewed at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
April 14, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: New York Military Records
The featured database this week is a list of men in the 8th Regiment Albany Militia 1898 There are over 1200 names
Other New York Military databases can be viewed at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/mil/
They are
* Palatines in New York 1710
* Volunteers Against Canada 1711
* Lt. Gov. Leisler's Commissions 1689 & 1690
* MERCHANT AND REDCOAT: THE PAPERS OF JOHN GORDON MACOMB, JULY 1757 TO JUNE 1760 (NEW YORK, BRITISH ARMY)
* Captn. Jonas Douw's Company Albany 1715
* Capt. Jacob Hallenback's Company of Militia 1757
* Capt. Marte Hallenback's Company of Militia 1757
* Muster Roll in Livingston Manor, 1715
Other New York Military databases can be viewed at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/mil/
They are
* Palatines in New York 1710
* Volunteers Against Canada 1711
* Lt. Gov. Leisler's Commissions 1689 & 1690
* MERCHANT AND REDCOAT: THE PAPERS OF JOHN GORDON MACOMB, JULY 1757 TO JUNE 1760 (NEW YORK, BRITISH ARMY)
* Captn. Jonas Douw's Company Albany 1715
* Capt. Jacob Hallenback's Company of Militia 1757
* Capt. Marte Hallenback's Company of Militia 1757
* Muster Roll in Livingston Manor, 1715
April 8, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: J & J Cooke Shipping Agents Records 1847 - 1871
This week's featured database is one I'm really excited about having online. It is the J & J Cooke Shipping Agents Records 1847 - 1871.
These lists can be found in D.2892/1/1-14 Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents. Sailings were from Londonderry to Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Quebec, and St. John New Brunswick between 1847-1871 in the PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND.
Luckily for researchers, Olive Tree Genealogy volunteers kindly began transcribing these lists. Many are now online and searchable at Ships' Lists Online
If you are looking for Irish ancestors, especially those coming to Canada, you may be in luck with the JJ Cooke Shipping Lists, because Canadian Ships Passenger Lists did not have to be archived until 1865. This gives researchers those important pre-1865 years.
These lists can be found in D.2892/1/1-14 Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents. Sailings were from Londonderry to Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Quebec, and St. John New Brunswick between 1847-1871 in the PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND.
Luckily for researchers, Olive Tree Genealogy volunteers kindly began transcribing these lists. Many are now online and searchable at Ships' Lists Online
If you are looking for Irish ancestors, especially those coming to Canada, you may be in luck with the JJ Cooke Shipping Lists, because Canadian Ships Passenger Lists did not have to be archived until 1865. This gives researchers those important pre-1865 years.
March 31, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: Arkansas Naturalization Records Index 1809-1906
In the 1930s and 1940s a statewide project was begun by the WPA (Work Projects Administration). This project was to find and photograph Naturalization Records before 27 September 1906. All copies were to be deposited with INS (Immigration & Naturalization Service) but when the WPA was disbanded in 1942, only a few states and districts were complete.
NaturalizationRecords.com has compiled and published an index (Surnames A to M) to Arkansas Naturalization Records 1809 to 1906. These are Orders Granting Citizenship.
If you find a name of interest in the online index, instructions are given for obtaining the full record.
NaturalizationRecords.com has compiled and published an index (Surnames A to M) to Arkansas Naturalization Records 1809 to 1906. These are Orders Granting Citizenship.
If you find a name of interest in the online index, instructions are given for obtaining the full record.
March 24, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: New York Almshouse Records 1819-1840
This week's featured free database is the New York Almshouse Records 1819 to 1840
This set of records is extracted from a Ledger Book containing residents of the Almshouse, the names of the ship each person sailed on, plus dates of arrival. This database includes arrivals in Canadian ports.
In the early 1800s port cities in the USA bore the burden of immigration. By the time they arrived, so many immigrants were tired, hungry and poor they ended up in the City Almshouse. This meant the citizens had to take care of them.
Dating back to the colonial era, New York City assumed responsibility for its citizens who were destitute, sick, homeless, or otherwise unable to care for themselves. The city maintained an almshouse, various hospitals, and a workhouse on Blackwell's Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for the poor.
There are 2 pages for each name in this ledger. Only portions of the left hand page have been extracted. There is more information in the Ledger, including Captain's Name, Owner's Name, Date of Bond, Sureties, Date Discharged, Death Date, Remarks, Bonded, Commuted & Total.
For example, under date 1820 March 11 the full record shows Elizabeth Kennedy age 34 is listed as having died June 14, 1820; her daughter Mary Ann died Nov. 5, 1820
The extracted portions are
Date of Admission; Foreigner (Surname); Foreigner (First Name); Age; Place of Birth; Vessel Name; Where From
Thus Elizabeth Kennedy's extracted record online shows
1820 Mar. 11 Kennedy Elizabeth 34 ; Ireland; Grey Hound ; Halifax
The suggested way to use this online set of extracted records is to search for your ancestor then consult the microfilmed Ledger Book for the full details.
This set of records is extracted from a Ledger Book containing residents of the Almshouse, the names of the ship each person sailed on, plus dates of arrival. This database includes arrivals in Canadian ports.
In the early 1800s port cities in the USA bore the burden of immigration. By the time they arrived, so many immigrants were tired, hungry and poor they ended up in the City Almshouse. This meant the citizens had to take care of them.
Dating back to the colonial era, New York City assumed responsibility for its citizens who were destitute, sick, homeless, or otherwise unable to care for themselves. The city maintained an almshouse, various hospitals, and a workhouse on Blackwell's Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for the poor.
There are 2 pages for each name in this ledger. Only portions of the left hand page have been extracted. There is more information in the Ledger, including Captain's Name, Owner's Name, Date of Bond, Sureties, Date Discharged, Death Date, Remarks, Bonded, Commuted & Total.
For example, under date 1820 March 11 the full record shows Elizabeth Kennedy age 34 is listed as having died June 14, 1820; her daughter Mary Ann died Nov. 5, 1820
The extracted portions are
Date of Admission; Foreigner (Surname); Foreigner (First Name); Age; Place of Birth; Vessel Name; Where From
Thus Elizabeth Kennedy's extracted record online shows
1820 Mar. 11 Kennedy Elizabeth 34 ; Ireland; Grey Hound ; Halifax
The suggested way to use this online set of extracted records is to search for your ancestor then consult the microfilmed Ledger Book for the full details.
March 17, 2010
Weekly Featured Database: Missouri Newspapers
There are a couple of links for Missouri newspapers (free) online that you might want to add to your list of favorites!
Missouri Newspapers
Jefferson Leader 1866-1868
Jefferson Democrat 1870-1888
Jefferson Watchman 1883-1884
De Soto Weekly Facts 1895-1899
More Missouri Newspapers
Jefferson Democrat 1890
Jefferson County Record 1911
These are ongoing projects and more newspaper transcripts are being added as they become available
Missouri Newspapers
Jefferson Leader 1866-1868
Jefferson Democrat 1870-1888
Jefferson Watchman 1883-1884
De Soto Weekly Facts 1895-1899
More Missouri Newspapers
Jefferson Democrat 1890
Jefferson County Record 1911
These are ongoing projects and more newspaper transcripts are being added as they become available
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