Special Discount on Footnote.com Membership!

Footnote.com website and I have been talking about offering genealogists a special discount for memberships. I'm happy to announce that from today through til August 14th you can get $10.00 off a year's membership by using a special link on OliveTreeGenealogy.com websites.

Footnote is digitizing NARA records and they have a lot of great data online. There is much more to Footnote than just NARA records, so if you haven't visited, you really should.
The first time I explored their website I found an ancestor's brother in the NARA naturalization records so I was pretty thrilled.

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This promotion will run from midnight mountain time August 8 thru 11:59 pm Mountain time on August 14

Footnote.com will digitize content from Allen County Public Library

FOOTNOTE.COM ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LARGEST PUBLIC GENEALOGY LIBRARY IN THE U.S.

Footnote.com announced a new partnership with Allen County Public Library (ACPL), the largest public genealogy library in the United States. This partnership will result in millions of historical records being digitized and made available online for the first time at Footnote.com. The Allen County Public Library collections feature unique American and International records including family histories, city directories, military records and historical newspapers.

All Allen County Public Library records digitized by Footnote.com will be made available at the library for free. For those that cannot travel to the library, they can access these records from the comfort of their own personal computers with a Footnote.com Membership.

NARA records are available now on Footnote.com. Search Revolutionary War Pension Files & Muster Rolls, Confederate Soldiers Service Records & Naturalization Records all on Footnote.com

History of New York Orphan Homes online

Olive Tree Genealogy has added History of Various Orphan Homes in Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of New York, 1870; Argus Company, Printers, Albany. transcribed & submitted by Linda Conpenelis Schmidt, July 2007

The following orphan homes have been added and more will be published online as they are transcribed

* Albany Orphan Asylum

* Davenport Female Orphan Asylum, Bath

* Society for the Relief of Half-Orphan and Destitute Children, New York

* St. Mary's German Orphan Asylum, Buffalo New York

* Asylum of Our Lady of Refuge, Buffalo

* Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn

* Home for Homeless Girls, New York

* Colored Orphan Asylum, New York

* Southern Tier Orphans' Home, Elmira

* Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, Erie county

* Five Points Mission, New York

* Five Points House of Industry, New York

* St Luke's Home, for Indigent Christian Females, New York

* Society for Destitute Children of Seamen, Snug Harbor

Creating Ancestor Cards for Children

A lot of people wrote to ask me what program I used to make the Ancestor Cards for my grandchildren. I tried a few different ones before settling on Excel. Each card that I created is 6x9 cm. (about 2.5x3.5 inches). I wanted to make sure the cards were not bigger than a baseball or hockey card so that I could buy a binder with plastic inserts and slots to hold the cards when complete.

I created 6 rectangle cells in Excel to the size I wanted, and saved 2 copies - one for the front (photos) and one for the back (text). Then I inserted the photos I wanted, cropped them if needed, and formatted them to the size I needed. I could have sized them first in something like Irfanview (a free graphic program) and then inserted them into Excel. Play with it, have fun, see what you can come up with!

I tried Picassa (a free download from Google) and Word, both printed beautifully but I had trouble lining up my back text with the photos on the front. Picassa prints beautifully, and you can automatically shrink the photos you use to fit the size card you want to make. It much easier and faster than Excel.

If you are more familiar with Word or Picassa than I am, perhaps you can make it work for you. You could also make each card slightly smaller so you get 9 cards on each sheet instead of 6. If you come up with a better method than I used, please let me know!

Ancestor Cards for Children

Recently I've been mulling over how to present the genealogy I've done on our family so that it would grab my 9 year old grandson's attention. My good friend Illya of Genealogy Today suggested I use a baseball or hockey card format with one ancestor per card.

I loved the idea and created cards 6 cm x 9 cm. Each card features one ancestor's picture or a picture representing that ancestor. The back of each card has ancestor stats - their relationship to my grandchildren, date and place of birth, date and place of death, spouse's name, parents' names and a tiny blurb about that person (hopefully something unique or of interest to an 9 year old!)

After laminating the cards, I presented them to my grandson and granddaughter (who is 7) when they came for their annual summer week long holiday with us. They loved them and not only read every bit of information about each ancestor, they began figuring out who was the oldest ancestor.... who died at the oldest age... who died at the youngest age... which parents went with which ancestor.. and so on.

Then they decided to play a game, which we called simply "Ancestor Game". They each chose an ancestor card and played it, with whoever had the furthest back ancestor winning both cards. The next day they begged me to make more cards!! I now have 48 cards made for them with many more to go. To add even more interest I also created cards that were not direct ancestors, but had some small claim to fame or something historical or interesting to a child. Thank goodness for my Family Tree Maker Genealogy Program which tells me if a person is a 3rd cousin 5x removed or something else!

We decided I should also make double cards wherever possible, that is, two cards for one ancestor but with different photos or representative pictures on each one. Then they can play "Go Fish for Ancestors".

It was a genealogist's dream come true - for 5 days they asked for "more ancestor stories please Grandma!" and "Can you make us more Ancestor Cards?" When their mom called to see how they were doing, the first words out of my grandson's mouth were "Mom, you won't believe about one of our ancestors!" and he proceeded to quote from the Ancestor Cards.

I thought I'd like to share this in case you are looking for something to capture your little one's interest, because it was fabulous and my grandchildren loved it!

Ancestor Birth Record Finder

Can't find your ancestor in Birth records?

Most genealogists search Birth records such as Church records and Vital Stats (Birth Registrations or Certificates). If we don't find our ancestor in one of those birth records, we're stuck! Where to search next? My ABF (Ancestor Birth Finder) can help. I am pleased to announce that the complete book Ancestor Birth Record Finder: Tips on Finding a Birth Record When You've Hit a Brick Wall is available on Amazon as  an E-Book for only $1.15

What happens when a child is born? When a woman becomes pregnant? What events take place around the birth of a child? What kind of birth record paper trail is created on the birth of an individual? The answers to these questions will lead you to other sources of birth records and hopefully end that brick-wall.

When an ancestor is born, many records leading up to and surrounding that birth might be created. Let's talk about records kept before an ancestor birth and those created after a birth.

1901 & 1911 Census of Ireland Coming Soon

The National Archives of Ireland has arranged for the digitisation, indexing and contextualisation of its most popular records, the census records for 1901 and 1911.

The resulting website will contain images of the forms for each household and institution, which will be indexed by name (all names), townland/street, age and sex.

The first phase of the project, Dublin City and County 1911, is to be launched in Autumn 2007.

For more census records for America, Canada and United Kingdom see AllCensusRecords.com

Dating Ancestor Photographs

A new Genealogy Section is now online on Olive Tree Genealogy. It is devoted to helping researchers identify Ancestor Photos.

It is a companion project to Lost Faces - Photo Albums, which is the rescue of old albums from the mid to late 1800s

You can read and see graphic examples online of

* Types of Early Photographs

* Hints for Dating Old Photographs

* Dating Old Photographs through Clothing & Hairstyle

* How Revenue Stamps Can Date Ancestor Photos

Feel free to pass this news on to anyone you think might be interested. Enjoy!

Lorine

Released Prisoners on the ship Erasmus van Rotterdam 1638

Source: Journal of the Ambassy of the Lord Anthonis de Liedekerke, Extracted entries from Adriaen Matham's Journal 1640-1641. translated and transcribed by Cor Snabel & Liz Johnson, published on Olive Tree Genealogy with permission May 2007.

Preface: On the 1st of September 1640, the ship Gelderlandt sailed from Texel on a diplomatic mission to the King of Morocco. On board were the Dutch Ambassador Anthonie de Liedekerke, Lijsbeth Jans with her brother-in-law Jacob Arissen, and the painter Adriaen Matham.

The 1640-41 diplomatic mission to Morocco was made in order to renew the Dutch alliance with Morocco, and to effect the release of some fifty men who had been employed aboard the ship Erasmus van Rotterdam. This ship had stranded off the coast of Morocco near Agadir in May 1638, and her crew had been enslaved there.

By 1640, funds had been raised for ransom, and Admiral Liedekerke was delegated to negotiate their ransom and release. Jan Janszoon assisted with this dual mission by making certain arrangements with his Moroccan associates for Liedekerke. Adriaen Matham, along with another artist, were sent along on this mission, possibly to make observations about the geography of countries they passed, and to record observations about the persons with whom they came in contact.

View the names of the slaves (ordinary Dutchmen) who sailed with the ship Erasmus van Rotterdam on 17th April 1638 in the service of the West India Company

Black Sheep, Good Sheep

On June 19, 2007 the Globe and Mail "Family and Relationship" section featured the genealogy website of Tyler Schulze. Tyler is a communications specialist for the Department of Defence and has served in Afghanistan. You can find his website Blacksheep Ancestors here.

Tyler is the son of Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy so it seems that love of genealogy is a genetic trait

BLACK SHEEP, GOOD SHEEP
by Patrick White in Tuesday's Globe and Mail June 19, 2007 at 9:20 AM EDT

He may have killed two wives, but your great-great-great-grandfather is no longer a pariah. Amateur genealogists are tapping into online databases to shine a light on the less desirable ancestors from our pasts. Finding an outlaw in the family is much cooler than discovering your great-uncle was a farmer

Even by criminal standards, Albert Bradt, a 17th-century outlaw who lived in present-day New York, was a genuine scoundrel. Marking his lengthy rap sheet are charges for knifing a neighbour and burning down a house with his two sons inside.

Read the rest of this article Black Sheep, Good Sheep

Passenger Lists Scotland to New York 1823-1829 online

More Scottish Passengers Lists have been added to Olive Tree Genealogy.

These are partial lists, gathered from the names of those admitted to the New York Almshouse before 1830. The New York Almshouse records give details of the ship name, port of departure and place of origin of each individual (as well as the standard date of admission, age and so on)

This is part of an ongoing project to extract the names of passengers on board ships sailing from Canada, Scotland, Ireland, England, Germany and France, to New York. See Ships to New York 1800-1824


The following ships are now online:

* Ships Passenger List of Ship Comet Sailing from Greenock Scotland for New York before September 1823
* Ships Passenger List of ship Friends sailing from Greenock Scotland arriving New York before May 1824
* Ships Passenger List of Ship Camillus Sailing for New York from Greenock Scotland before February 1826
* Ships Passenger List of Ship Richmond Sailing from Greenock Scotland for New York before September 1826
* Ships Passenger List of Ship Franklin sailing from Greenock Scotland arriving New York 15 April 1826
* Passenger List of Ship Eliza Sailing from Dundee Scotland for New York before December 1827
* Ships Passenger List of ship Tom sailing from Greenock Scotland arriving New York 2 July 1827
* Ships Passenger List of Ship Hero sailing from Greenock Scotland arriving New York 19 May 1828
* Ships Passenger List of ship Roger Stewart sailing from Greenock Scotland arriving New York 9 June 1828
* Ships Passenger List of Ship Superior sailing from Greenock Scotland arriving New York 25 September 1828
* Ships Passenger List of Brok or Brooke sailing from Greenock Scotland arriving New York 29 August 1829

NEW passenger lists ships Ireland to New York online

27 Ships Passenger Lists Sailing from Ireland to New York have been added to the current ships passenger lists online at Olive Tree Genealogy.

These are partial lists, gathered from the names of those admitted to the New York Almshouse before 1830. The New York Almshouse records give details of the ship name, port of departure and place of origin of each individual (as well as the standard date of admission, age and so on)

This is part of an ongoing project to extract the names of passengers on board ships sailing from Canada, Scotland,Ireland, England, Germany and France, to New York. See Ships to New York 1800-1824 and 1825-1849
or choose Ships From Ireland 1825-1830

The following ships lists were added today:

* Ship Otis from Dublin Ireland before November 1819

* Ship Ontario from Dublin Ireland before Oct. 1819

* Ship Prince from Dublin Ireland before July 1821

* Ship John & Adam from Cork Ireland before July 1823

* Ship Schuykill from Cork Ireland before August 1825

* Ship William from Cork Ireland 21 May 1825

* Ship Laurel from Dublin Ireland before March 1826

* Ship Lord Strangford from Dublin Ireland before August 1826

* Ship Louisa from Belfast Ireland 20 July 1826

* Ship Wilson from Cork Ireland before March 1826

* Ship Ganges from Cork Ireland before September 1826

* Ship Henry from Cork Ireland before November 1826

* Ship Dianna from Cork Ireland 1 May 1826

* Ship Liverpool from Cork Ireland before January 1827

* Ship Union from Cork Ireland before September 1827

* Ship Trio from Cork Ireland before October 1827

* Ship Hope from Galway Ireland before April 1827

* Ship Marcella from Galway Ireland 18 May 1827

* Amanda from Galway Ireland 23 May 1827

* Ship Jubilee from Galway Ireland before October 1827

* Ship Newry from Newry Ireland 11 July 1827

* Ship Mary from Dublin Ireland before June 1827

* Ship New England from Dublin Ireland before September 1827

* Ship Thomas from Dublin Ireland before January 1828

* Ship Hibernia from Dublin Ireland January 25, 1828

* Ship Dublin Packet from Cork Ireland before October 1828

* Ship Othello from Dublin, Ireland before 1829

Ships Passenger Lists From Canada to New York 1819-1855

There are no archived Ships Passenger Lists for ships sailing from ports in Canada to USA. However some partial lists do exist. These can be found in the Almshouse Records of New York City from 1819-1855.

These records indicate for each person admitted to the Almshouse the name of the ship they sailed on, the port of departure and a year of admission. Sometimes an exact date of arrival is noted. The Almshouse records from 1819-1855 include Age, Place of Birth, Ship Name, Where From, Captain's Name and Owner's Name.

For individuals recorded in Almshouse Records 1855-1858 the information includes ship name, date of sailing, and ports of departure and arrival.

Ships From Canada to New York Project is underway to organize the names by ship name and port of departure. Check back often as this project is updated frequently.

Filling in the Gaps: Partial Ships Passenger Lists 1850-1857

Olive Tree Genealogy added more free data in June to help you find your ancestors:

* Added Filling in the Gaps: Partial Ships Passenger Lists 1850-1857 with Names of Individuals in the New York Almshouse who arrived in Canada before going on to New York (includes name of ship, date of arrival and more)

51 ships arriving in Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were added today. The individuals listed were admitted to the New York Almshouse where they gave details of their immigration. Most were from Ireland, some were from England.

Canadian Ships Passenger Lists 1865-1935 to be Digitized & Indexed

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Ancestry.ca will focus on indexing the Quebec City passenger lists from 1870 - 1900, which comprise more than 750,000 names. The digital images of these and other Canadian ships passenger lists are already available on the LAC website but can only be searched by ship name or date of arrival. There is currently no nominal index

The index for Quebec City will be available free of charge on LAC as well as on Ancestry.ca. LAC and Ancestry.ca will continue to work together to ensure that eventually the entire Canadian passenger list collection from 1865 to 1935, which includes ports in Halifax, St. John, Vancouver, Victoria and North Sydney, is digitized and indexed.

Canada has a rich heritage of immigration and ethnicities such as French, English, Irish, Scottish, Russian, Italian and Chinese. Passenger list records reveal significant information such as the name, age, country of origin, occupation and destination of each passenger, retelling remarkable stories of sacrifice and success that embody Canada's immigrant ancestors. The records also account for other travelers such as crew members, vacationers, business people and more.

In addition to the Canadian passenger list collection, later this year Ancestry.ca and LAC will also make available border crossings records from the United States to Canada that took place between 1908 and 1935, and other Canadian immigration forms later this year.

These additions will add to Ancestry.ca's current online Canadian Border Crossing Collection, which already includes more than 4 million names of individuals who crossed the Canadian-U.S. border between 1895 and 1956.

For more Canadian Passenger List Resources, visit Olive Tree Genealogyand Ships Lists Online

Civil War NARA Records Available online

Through its partnership with the National Archives (NARA) Footnote.com has been able to digitize and index records including Confederate Soldiers Service Records, the Southern Claims Commission Records, and the Lincoln Assassination Trial Papers. Each of these titles features information and details that few have had the opportunity to view.

Footnote.com brings to life these stories within millions of original Civil War documents, most of which have never been available before on the internet.

Footnote plans to eventually create the largest Civil War community on the web with additional options. Visitors to Footnote.com are encouraged to highlight and discuss what they’ve found. Members are also able to upload their own photos and documents and create their own footnotes by annotating and commenting on the records.

Milwaukee County Wisconsin Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries List of Burials

The Milwaukee County Farm Cemetery (a.k.a. Potter's Field) was used during the years 1872-1974. This cemetery was used for the poorhouse inmates and also for burial of other indigent people and transients for whom no funds were available for burial.

There are nearly 6,400 names in the burial register book the names of the deceased and these are now online starting in 1872 at Milwaukee County Wisconsin Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries List of Burials

Search other Almshouse records for Canada, USA & England on Olive Tree Genealogy

Getting Real with Naming Patterns

I've been following some genealogy discussions on mailing lists recently and noticed that many genealogists fall into the trap of taking sides on a question - sides that are emphatically one way or another, with no middle ground or room for a "Maybe...."

One of the discussions started over a seemingly simple question -- were there naming patterns for children in the 1800s in [fill in blank with any country].

Subscribers began to jump in with their opinions - all either YES or NO with reasons or rationale or examples to support their YES or NO stance.

But no one jumped in with "MAYBE.... SOMETIMES... YES BUT...."

Let's get real! Naming patterns existed.

Were they identical in all cultures? No

Were they identical in all centuries? No.

Were they always used? No.

It's easy to forget that our ancestors were living breathing people, just as we are. They fought, they loved, they cried, they laughed, they had good days, they had bad days, and so on.

Even if there are established naming patterns that are used 99.9% of the time (as is the case with the Dutch who settled New Netherland, now New York in 1600s) --- as researchers we must keep an open mind as to whether or not the customs might not have been followed

Maybe *your* ancestor fought with his father or mother and vowed to never name a child after him or her.

Maybe *your* ancestor was a free spirit and loved the name Lancelot even though the first born male in her family had been called James for the last 10 generations

Maybe your ancestor wanted to cozy up to his rich great uncle so he named his first born son after that person instead of his father.... and gave his second born his father's name.

If you find 7 children in a family and 6 are named after known family members (paternal grandparents, maternal grandparents, aunts, uncles...) then there is a good chance that the 7th was also named after a family member - but it's not guaranteed, they might have named that child after a good friend - or an important contemporary person or a benefector.

On the opposite side of the fence, you may be trying to find parents' names. You spot what looks like a naming pattern of children which fits with the parents you are fairly confident are the correct parents. But one parent's name is missing from the pattern... That's not the time to toss out your theory! There may be a missing child, one whose existence you aren't aware of, or who died. And that child may be the missing link, named after that one parent who is missing from the pattern.

So, use Naming Patterns as a guide. That's all it is, it is not a set of rules set in stone

Revolutionary War Pension Files To be Released by Footnote.com Teaming with FamilySearch

Today, Footnote.com announced an agreement with FamilySearch, historically known as the Genealogical Society of Utah, a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch is the world’s largest repository of genealogical information.

This new partnership brings together two organizations that will utilize their combined resources to digitize and make available many large historical collections. The first project will be the three million U.S. Revolutionary War Pension files which will be published for the first time online in their entirety.

The Revolutionary War Pension Files feature original records that include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns and other miscellaneous personnel pay and supply records of American Army Units from 1775-1783. They provide a wealth of new information for historians and genealogists which they can share with other colleagues and family members.

Declarations of Intent, New York, Justice's Court, Albany, New York Index to Books 4-6 1837-1843

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've completed the transcription project for Declarations of Intent, New York 1827-1895, Justice's Court, Albany, New York Index to Book 4, 5 & 6 (1837-1843)

This adds just over 2,800 new names to the original set of records previously online. Surnames A-Z are now complete, except for B which is missing

http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/nyintentbk4-6_a.shtml starts Surname A, just scroll down to choose another surname letter

Naturalization Indexes and Images for NARA records online

Naturalization Indexes and Images for NARA records are now available online.

You can find links to these online NARA records for Naturalization at

California Naturalizations

Massachusetts Naturalizations

Maryland Naturalizations

New York Naturalizations

Pennsylvania Naturalizations

Louisiana Naturalizations

Ships Passenger Lists to Canada Before 1865

© Lorine McGinnis Schulze of http://olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml (Article may be republished or distributed in its entirety providing this header, all URLs and copyright notice are left intact)

There are no comprehensive lists of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies were not required by the government to keep their passenger manifests.

There are individual projects and databases online that may be of help in your search

Shipping Company & Customs Agents Records

There are a few surviving passenger lists which were kept by shipping agents in the originating country. The Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents gives sailings from Londonderry to Quebec and St. John New Brunswick from 1847 to 1871. These are online at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml

St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819-1836 at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_20index.htm

The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent Anthony B. Hawke are also available at the Archives of Ontario. They cover the years 1831 to 1892. See the
searchable database for years 1865 - 1883 at http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/db/hawke.htm

Names of Emigrants from the 1845-1847 Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal is online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/emigrants-montreal1845-1847a.htm. This an index only but if you find a name of interest you can consult the published book

There is also the Return of Emigrants Landed at the Port of Kingston Ontario, Canada 1861-1882 which gives the final
destination of the individuals, their date of arrival at Kingston and more. It is found at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/kingston1861oct-1862may.shtml

Immigration Projects Online

Ships passenger lists for Peter Robinson Settlers sailing 1825 Ireland to Canada are online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/
Petworth Immigrants 1832-1837 at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/petworth.html

Emigrants from England in New York City Almshouse 1818-1830
- 254 names of English immigrants to Canada & USA including the name of the ship they sailed on at http://www.allenglishrecords.com/almshouse-a-f.shtml

If you are looking for Irish ancestors, you may want to search the online database Irish Immigrants at Grosse-Île at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-504-e.html This database has information on 33,026 immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.

Search Engines

There are search engines to search multiple websites for
ships going to Canada at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml
They include most ships lists on the Internet going to Canada and the online InGeneas databases for immigration to Canada 1800s

New Brunswick Arrivals

The Saint John Customs House Passenger Lists 1815, 1832,1833-1834 & 1837-1838 are the only known surviving listsfrom this time period. Some can be found online at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/saintjohnindex.htm Most of the Customs House records were lost in 1877 in the Great Fire of Saint John. Famine lists from 1845-1850 appear also to have been lost.

Mailing Lists

There is a mailing list called CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865-L for queries and discussion involving immigration to Canada before 1865. You can subscribe from this page
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865.html

Newspaper Arrivals

TheShipsList website has Quebec ship arrivals extracted from contemporary newspapers.
See
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/index.htm

Library & Archives Canada Holdings

There are a few ship passengerlists pertaining to British-subsidized immigration schemes for the period 1817-1831 and these are available from the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.

The Miscellaneous Immigration Index is a nominal card index to some of those records and it is available for consultation in the NAC Reference Room. It relates mostly to immigrants from the British Isles to Quebec and Ontario between the years 1801 and 1849. The Miscellaneous Immigration Index has been put into a database, which you can consult on the InGeneas web site.

For immigrants from France, the NAC holds scattered records for the years 1732 and 1749 to 1760. Microfilm copies of these lists are available through ILL - ask your local library for help. You can also consult the NAC microfilm shelf-list for reel numbers.

Miscellaneous Websites with Immigration Information on Shipsto Canada

Immigrants to Canada
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html

The Ships List
http://www.theshipslist.com/

Ships Passenger Lists Online
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

Finding Ships Passenger Lists to Canada
http://shipslists-online.rootschat.net/canada/

Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1400-1930
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tocan1400-1800.shtml

Lists Of Stockholders Canada & USA 1890

"Report of the Superintendent of Insurance of the Dominion of Canada for the Year Ending 31st December 1890" was published in 1891 and included are approximately 60 pages of names of shareholders and guarantors for various Insurance and Assurance Companies across Canada & USA.

The date for the list of names is 1890 and ncludes people from all over Canada, USA and Europe.

Each individual has a residence listed, in some cases, an actual street address. The shareholders' residences include such places as:

Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Scotland, New York, Quebec, Vermont, Pennsylvania, NWT, England, Illinois, India, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Cape Breton, Jamaica, Ireland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Massachussets, Minnesota, Ohio, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Channel Islands, France and Wales.

These lists can be used simply to verify that an individual lived in a certain place in 1890. They also contain quite a bit of detail for some entries, which are terrific clues for further research. Here's a few examples:

One listing is for

"Edward Rawlings, Montreal" and under his name, labelled as "in trust" are the names Miss A L Rawlings, Miss E M Rawlings, Miss KNB Rawlings, George W Rawlings, HEA Rawlings, and WT Rawlings

Beside Edward's name is his number of shares in the Guarantee Company of North America - 4645, amount subscribed for 232,250, paid in cash 52,610. His children are noted as to their number of shares, amount subscribed for and amount paid up in cash - each child except Miss AL has 5 shares, 250 subscribed for and 250 paid in cash. Miss AL has 6 shares, 300 subscribed for and 300 paid in cash.

It occurred to me that this entry meant that Edward had died, and the rest of the names were his heirs, most likely his children, given the words "in trust". So I checked the online 1881 census at http://familysearch.org/ and found Edward and his family living in Montreal (Ste Antoine Ward)

This gives you some idea of the usefulness of this book. It can be consulted online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/canada/shareholders.htm

Death Record Finder - Finding an Ancestor in Death Records

Most genealogists search death records such as Cemetery records, Obituaries and Vital Stats (Death Registrations or Certificates). If we don't find our ancestor in one of those death records, we're stuck! Where to search next? The ADF (Ancestor Death Finder) can help. You can purchase my E-Book Ancestor Death Record Finder: Tips on Finding a Death Record When You've Hit a Brick Wall at Amazon for only $1.15
What happens when a loved one dies? What events take place around the death of a family member? What kind of death record paper trail is created on the death of an individual? The answers to these questions will lead you to other sources of death records and hopefully end that brick-wall.

When an ancestor dies, many records of that death might be created. Let's talk about records kept before an ancestor death and those created after a death. Get the full list of suggestions in my E-Book


Purchase the Kindle E-Book full version on Amazon

New One-Step Search Engine from Steve Morse

Steve Morse has created another one-step search form for family researchers on his website.

Steve's latest One Step is for the Montreal City Directories . . . "Annuaires Lovell de Montreal et sa banlieue" a free online database located at the National Library of Quebec "Bibliothèque National du Québec," containing digitized copies of Montreal city directories from 1842 to 1977, and criss-cross directories from 1974-1992.

Go to the "Births, Deaths, and other Vital Records" section of Steve's website and scroll down to the fourth entry from the end.

The advantage of the One-Step is that you can search for your ancestors name,
year by year, without having to do all the navigating and clicking that you have to do when doing such a search from the website directly.

Dating Ancestor Photographs Before 1900

If you are lucky enough to have an ancestor photograph or family photograph album, you can date it according to the type of photograph.

Daguerreotypes (ca 1839)
Photography in USA began circa 1839 but not many are found before 1854.

Ambrotypes (circa 1854)
The ambrotype was a glass negative backed with black material so it appeared as a positive image

Tintypes (ca 1855)
The Ferrotype process (tintypes) was introduced in the United States in 1855. It substituted an iron plate for glass and is one of a kind. No copies could be made from a tintype.

Carte de Visite or CDVs (ca 1859)
CDV stands for carte de visite. CDVs replaced ambrotypes, producing a card 2.5 by 4" CDVs arrived in the United States around 1859, on the eve of the Civil War (1861- 1865). On June 30, 1864 a tax on photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and other "sun-pictures" went into effect. Tax Revenue Stamps had to be placed on the backs of photographs from that date (1864) until August 1, 1866. This helps date CDVs taken in this time period.

Cabinet Cards (circa 1870)
CDV´s were replaced in the 1870s by Cabinet Cards which were on a larger 4 by 6" card.

Lost Faces - Ancestor Photos
I am pleased to now offer individual quality photographic reproductions for sale! You can purchase a photographic reproduction of any ancestor photo from my Civil War era photo albums. I have rescued over 3000 one-of-a-kind identified family photos taken 1850 to 1900. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/faces/

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1819 - 1820 U.S. Passenger Lists Now Online

GenealogyBank.com has put a FREE digital copy of the complete 1819 to 1820 U.S . Passenger Lists online

Search other records on GenealogyBank such as Historical Newspapers 1690 - 1977, Historical Books 1801 - 1900, Historical Documents 1789 - 1980, America's Obituaries 1977 to current, and Social Security Death Index 1937 to current

This is an exact digital copy of the original document that was published by the Federal Government in 1821. It covers the arrivals in 35 ports in 14 states and the District of Columbia.

A typical entry gives the passenger's name, age, where they were coming from, and their destination, the name of the ship, ship's captain and the port. Some entries also include additional notes.

This published passenger list gives the names of all passengers arriving in the US between October 1819 and September 1820. It includes not only immigrants coming to
the U.S. but also a large number of U.S. citizens who were traveling by ship from one part of the country to another.

Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 Through 1732 online

See Census News for details on how to search the online Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 Through 1732

This is a compilation of the twenty-eight earliest census records of Louisiana. These census records cover Fort Maurepas, Biloxi, Mobile, Natchez, New Orleans, and other locations. The records are both civilian and military and they cover from 1699 through 1732.

Besides census records, there are lists of 1,704 marriageable girls, a 1726 list of persons requesting negroes, landowner lists, and a list of persons massacred at Fort Rosalie in 1729.

Other features include a synopsis of Louisiana's colonial history, tips on French colonial naming practices, and a comprehensive index of 5,000 names.

Also find ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists to Louisiana in this early period.

Free Credits for ScotlandsPeople Site

The Scottish Sunday Mail is giving away to their readers 20 free credits for the ScotlandsPeople site.

1. Go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and click on the register button if you're a new user, or log in using your username and password if you already have an account.


2. New users will be required to complete a registration form before they can access the ScotlandsPeople site.


3. Once logged in, click on NEED MORE? on the top right hand side of the page.


4. You will be taken to a page where you should enter the voucher code sundaymail to access the great genealogy giveaway.

Free Search of Titantic Images of Passenger List

Titanic Passenger List Online and Free


Free and Online for the First Time to Mark 95th Anniversary


Fully digitised images of the RMS Titanic's original 34-page passenger list are now available for the very first time online.

Its addition completes the set of passengers lists for the ships leaving the UK furing the decade 1910-1919, recently added to the ancestorsonboard.com collection. These images are available only at Find My Past dot com, and are presented in association with The National Archives.

The original Titanic passenger list records the names, port of departure, occupation, nationality, age, class of travel, destination and country of intended future permanent residence of all who sailed on its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912. For a limited time only visitors will be available to view, print, save and download the Titanic passenger list free of charge.

Marking the 95th anniversary of the ship's tragic loss, the online release brings the original documents together for the first time online and in print, as there are no images of the originals published in any media elsewhere. Read more and start searching More passenger lists are found on Olive Tree Genealogy pages

Scotland Census Collection, 1841-1901 online

Americans and Canadians with Scottish ancestry can now search for their Scottish ancestors among the more than 24 million names in the complete Scotland Census Collection, 1841-1901, on Ancestry.com.

These censuses include names, occupations, places of birth and residence of our Scottish ancestors. U.S. passenger list records also include Scottish immigration during this period, making it easier for individuals to trace their ancestors

The complete Scotland Census Collection adds to Ancestry.com's growing international census collection, which already includes the only complete online collections of fully-indexed and digitized U.S. Federal Censuses from 1790 to 1930, England and Wales censuses from 1841 to 1901, and the 1851, 1901, 1906 and 1911 Canadian census.

Use census links at CENSUS RECORDS and passenger lists at SHIPS PASSENGER RECORDS

FREE Access to Ancestry's Immigration Collection!

To celebrate the 100 anniversary of 1907 - the largest year of immigration through Ellis Island - Ancestry is giving all researchers FREE ACCESS to their Immigration Collection until April 30, 2007

Discover your ancestors in the largest collection of passenger lists available online. Search more than 100 million names from more than 100 U.S. ports.

See details and link to Ancestry's FREE Immigration Records Collection (Free Until April 30, 2007) Includes arrivals in New York (Castle Garden, Ellis Island), Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and more

Utah Death Certificates Now Online

FamilySearch, in conjunction with the Genealogical Society of Utah and the Utah State Archives and Records Service, announced that the state's free online index to death certificates is now linked to original images of the historic documents.

The integration of the index with free digital pictures of the death certificates issued from 1905 to 1954 by the state will open doors to additional information for family historians and genealogists with Utah ties.

The online index to 250,000+ Utah deaths was created by the State Office of Vital Records and Statistics and has searchable information limited to the name of the deceased person, their date of death, sex, and where they died.

Ellis Island Immigration Hearings

From 1892 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island. Last Friday, March 30, the processing station once again opened its doors to immigrants .

Over 150 immigrants, including 30 members of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR), attended a hearing organized by the House immigration subcommittee to discuss the issue of 12 million undocumented immigrants presently in the USA.

The statue of Annie Moore, the 15-year old from Cork Ireland who was the first immigrant through Ellis Island in 1892, stands nearby.

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, the California Democrat who is chairperson of the subcommittee, thought it apt to hold the first of several planned hearings at Ellis Island, where over 40 percent of Americans can trace their roots.

Finding American Naturalization Records

Many Declarations (not the Petitions) have an exact date of immigration. Be careful to look for all records in the Naturalization Process: Declarations of Intent, Petitions and so on... for each contains different information.

There is an explanation and Resource Guide to Naturalization
Records at Naturalization Records

Before 1906, the declaration of intent generally contains more genealogically useful information than the petition. Petitions before 1906 usually show only a name, former
allegiance, and date of naturalization. The declaration may include the alien's exact date of immigration into the United States

An immigrant who arrived after June 29, 1906 could not naturalize until the government located their immigration record (a passenger list). Petitions (not the Declarations) after 1906 have information that has been verified and matched to an immigration record. In fact a a certification of the immigrant's arrival record was a required part of the process

The easy way to remember is to think of opposites: BEFORE 1906, the Declaration has more useful genealogical info than the Petition (usually) and AFTER 1906 it's the opposite - the Petition is more useful and accurate than the Declaration

For a Resource Guide to the records, what you can expect to find, where to find them, and alternate sources of finding those important years (immigration and naturalization) at USA Naturalization Records Read the intro then choose your state of interest.

There are also many online records and links to searchable online records at Naturalization Records

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Finding Ancestors in American Passport Applications

Passport applications are often a valuable source of genealogical information. NARA has passport applications from October 1795 to March 1925. The U. S. Department of State has passport applications from April 1925 to the present. You can also consult passports online at Naturalization Records. There are some large projects as well as individual passport records on the site.

Passport Records on Naturalization Records Website

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

American Ancestor Passports

(Includes passports on the Naturalization Records Website as well as other sites)

William Clinton Jessup of Connecticut 14 May 1920 Passport & Photo

Josef Spolek Passport 1883

Passport for Anna Epping (late Cole) and son William from Germany to United States 1923 - Cuyahoga Ohio

Passport of Robert Spanton Benfell Washington USA

Passports issued from Sep 1918-Jan 1919 in Philadelphia, PA

Italian passport of Andrea DeJana, 1927 one of the group of Italian immigrants and workers who settled in Port Washington New York

Italian Passport of Al Marino’s mother Maria, 1916 one of the group of Italian immigrants and workers who settled in Port Washington New York

1920 Italian passport of Angelina Giordano wife of Philip Lovetere of New Jersey including photo of Angelina born 1895 in Italy

1927 Italian passport of Leonardo Giordano father of Angelina Giordano including photo of Leonardo born 1864 in Italy

Dutch Passport of Johanna Bosselaar issued 24-05-1955. Johanna Bosselaar Kloosterman born 1892 Holland immigrated to America

Passport of Herbert B. Khaury aka Tiny Tim of New York

Peter Robinson Settlers Ireland to Canada 1825 online

Peter Robinson Settlers sailing in 1825 from Ireland to Canada are online

Scroll down near the bottom of the page - there are links to 8 ships passenger lists with the names of settlers brought over by Peter Robinson. These immigrants settled near Peterborough Ontario

• Ship Fortitude May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  
• Ship Resolution May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  
• Ship Star May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  
• Ship Elizabeth May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  
• Ship Albion May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  
• Ship Brunswick May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  
• Ship Amity May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  
• Ship Regulus May 1825 Cork Ireland to Peterborough Ontario
  

Irish Ships to N. America

Between the years 1847 and 1851 over 5,000 people left County Down, to escape the ravages of the Famine and to seek out a better life for themselves and their family.

Brigitte Marmion has transcribed and donated Passenger Lists for ships sailing out of Newry. These provide a census substitute for the time period.

For more Irish Ships to USA and Canada see the J. J. Cooke Shipping Records This set of records are passenger sailings from Londonderry to Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Quebec, St. John New Brunswick and New Orleans Lousisiana from 1847 to 1871

Steve Morse One Step for Canada USA Border Crossing Records

Steve Morse has added a one Step Search engine for Ancestry's new Canada - US Border Crossing Records 1895-1956.

See the next-to-last entry called Canadian Passengers (1895-1956) Searching the Canadian Border Crossings Lists in One Step in the Other Ports of Immigration section of Steve's website

For an explanation of the US Canada Border Crossing Records, and how to find ancestors in these records, see Sue Swiggum's article published on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Understanding & Using the US-Canada St Albans Border Crossing Records

My friend Sue Swiggum of TheShipsList wrote out this explanation which she gave permission to publish on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

The different types of border records require a different approach, so researchers will be learning as they go. These will also be a great asset for finding US destined passengers on the recently uploaded "Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1922" which are unindexed.

Using the CANADA-US border records (St. Albans Lists) researchers will find ship name and date of Canadian sea-port arrival, so they'll have the records kept by two
countries, however, remember the border records only begin with 1895.

M1461 and M1463 are the Soundexed cards, card manifests,most commonly used. And from about 1927 to 1954 those cards are the actual border record. In those years, if the immigrant was coming directly across the border from a steamship arrival, the card relates to a ship list. The actual ship lists are on M1464 (Atlantic ports). So for the years ca. 1927 to 1954 there are two cards for those transiting Canada--a ship list and a border card manifest. For those coming from Canada in those years there is just the card manifest.

But for the earlier years, 1895 to 1927, the Soundex card manifest from M1461 is an abstract of information taken from a Border port list. The cards were made in the early 1940's by INS to make reference easier (searching by name rather than by year, month, port). The original border port record was a land border port list. These are inter-filed with the ship lists on M1464.

The point is that for the earlier years, 1895 to 1927, there can be three records for a transmigrant.
1. The Soundex manifest card.
2. The border port list from which the card was later made.
3. The ship list showing their arrival at the Canadian port.

If the immigrant is coming from Canada then there are just 2 records--the port list and the corresponding card.

I won't delve in to some of the confusing aspects which some people might encounter, but will attempt to answer queries to the TheShipsList@rootsweb.com mailing list on a case by case basis.

US Canada Border Crossing records online!

Ancestry.com has added more than 4 million names of individuals who crossed the U.S.-Canadian border between 1895 and 1956. These records add to their Immigration Records Collection, which also includes more than 100 million names from the largest online collection of U.S. passenger lists, from 1820 to 1960.

An Explanation of the St. Albans Border Crossing Records

by Lorine of Olive Tree Genealogy

Many immigrants came to US via Canada as fares were generally much cheaper that way.

In 1895 Canada and USA established a joint inspection system. Passengers arriving in Canada who intended to go on to United States were inspected by US Officials at the
Canadian Port of Arrival, then enumerated on US immigration lists. Immigrants were also given inspection cards which they turned in to US Officials once they were on board trains going to United States. Two sets of records were created - passenger lists and compiled inspection cards.

These CANADIAN BORDER CROSSING records were microfilmed by INS. They cover 1895-1954 and are indexed. They do NOT include Canadians before 1906. After September 30, 1906 both Canadians and non-Canadians are included on these lists.

More information on the St Albans (Canadian Border Crossing) Lists including film numbers is found on Olive Tree Genealogy

Finding Ancestors in Medical Records in Ontario

Medical Records in Ontario are held in various places - some are at the Ontario Archives, others are with the original institution.

To obtain these records, you should begin with the Ontario Archives. Find out what they have, and then how to request it. For example, Queen Street Hospital in Toronto has records that go back to 1839. There are nineteenth century records for institutions in London, Hamilton, and Kingston and from Penetanguishene from 1904.

Files less than 100 years old are restricted under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Requests for access must be submitted in writing to the
Access Unit of the Archives of Ontario.

Files created in whole or in part on or after 6 April 1954 are restricted under the Mental Health Act. Requests for access to records in Archives' custody must be submitted in writing to the Administrator of the appropriate psychiatric hospital.

See a partial list of the Ontario Archives psychiatric files and holdings

Finding Ships Passenger Lists to Louisiana after 1820

The WPA (Works Project Administration) indexed names for New Orleans Louisiana passengers. Vols. 1, 2 and 3 of the 6 volumes they prepared are found on microfilm M2009 from NARA. It covers the years 1813-1849. Vol. 5 is missing; Vol. 4 & 6
have not been filmed.

You can also consult CD#358 New Orleans Passenger & Immigration Lists, 1820-1850

See Ships Passenger Lists to Louisiana for information on these resources.

You can also search OR browse 281 ships and their passengers to New Orleans Louisiana from Jan to July 1851

See a complete list of NARA and FHC microfilm numbers for ships arriving in Louisiana

Search for ancestors at Ships to Louisiana after 1820

To use custom search engines to search multiple websites at once, see the page Search FREE Ships Passenger Lists to Louisiana (over 528 ships)

Photographs Online on Lost Faces

I've just added the following photographs to Lost Faces:

Album #56 Fiske Family Album in New England

Civil War Era Fiske Family Album in New England Family Photo Album with CDVs (Cartes de Visites), circa 1860s. All family photographs available to view and save to your computer

Surnames: Fiske, Andrews, Clark, Seymour, Foster, Hart, Smead

Locations: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Italy
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Album #57 Photo Album of the Stone & Sherman Families of Castleton Vermont

This is a photo album of the Stone, Sherman and Hoyt Families (and others) of Castleton Vermont. Descendants of these families will enjoy these wonderful Cabinet Cards, taken circa 1870-1890. All family photographs available to view and save to your computer

Surnames: Stone, Sherman, Hoyt, Hope, Childs, Armstrong, Hutchinson
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Family Bible of Hailey Family in Texas

Not a true photo album but there are several CDVs in this Family Bible. See the Hailey Bible Family Register of Births and Deaths plus photos
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Marriage Certificate Welsh & Waldorf in Ohio

Not a photo album but the photos of William Welsh and Clara Waldorf appear on this Marriage Certificate in Ohio 1880

Start at the index to LOST FACES

Scroll down until you see Album #56, and use the links to view all the photographs. Enjoy!

Canadian USA Border Crossing Records

Many immigrants came to US via Canada as fares were generally much cheaper that way.

In 1895 Canada and USA established a joint inspection system. Passengers arriving in Canada who intended to go on to United States were inspected by US Officials at the Canadian Port of Arrival, then enumerated on US immigration lists. Immigrants were also given inspection cards which they turned in to US Officials once they were on board trains going to United States. Two sets of records were created - passenger lists and compiled inspection cards.

These CANADIAN BORDER CROSSING records were microfilmed by INS. They cover 1895-1954 and are indexed. They do not include Canadians before 1906. After September 30, 1906 both Canadians and non-Canadians are included on these lists.

See more information on the St Albans (Canadian Border
Crossing) Lists (including film numbers)

Shame on Viewpoint!

I still haven't heard back from Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics website re incorrect images being linked to their searchable index, but it's only been 5 days since I reported the problems.

However I want to warn everyone about the Image Viewer you must download and use to view the images of the records. It's Viewpoint Media Player and you must install it to see the online images. I installed it on Tuesday when I first went to the site. It works great, that's not a problem. BUT two days later, I turned on my computer and a popup window informed me that Viewpoint had an "update" and asked if I wanted to install it. I thought the update would result in even clearer images so I clicked on OKAY.

Imagine my surprise a few minutes later to be informed that Viewpoint TASKBAR was now installed on my browser. I didn't want their Taskbar, I use the Google Taskbar. I had refused it once already. But here it was and I was also sitting on the Viewpoint home page (not my choice).

I tried opening a second browser window but it flashed on my monitor and closed. I tried going to another website and could not. The so-called "update" was nothing more than a sneaky way to get me to take the Viewpoint Taskbar.

I was annoyed but immediately went to my Windows Add/Remove Programs icon, found Viewpoint and removed it. Gone. Next surprise -- I opened a second browser window and the Viewpoint Taskbar was back! I went back to Add/remove -- the Viewpoint files were back. I removed them again. The same thing happened. This went on several times until I was finally able to remove the unwanted Viewpoint Taskbar permanently.

I wasted a lot of time getting rid of something I didn't want in the first place. And to the skeptics, no, the popup did not advise me that the Taskbar was going to be installed. At no time did I get an opt-in or opt-out choice.

Shame on Viewpoint! That's very underhanded!

Ships Passenger Lists to New Netherland (New York) 1624 to 1664 online

All "passenger lists" for travel from The Netherlands to New Netherland 1654-1664 came from information on the debit side of the West India Company Account Book. They show who owed money when they arrived. This account book is found in New Netherland Colonial Mss, vol. 14, Book KK. The lists of Passengers to New Netherland in the Year Book of the Holland Society of New Netherland 1902:1-37 were taken from this Account Book ...continue reading

Olive Tree Genealogy is reconstructing ships' passenger lists from various source and will provide these passenger lists online as I complete them. In some cases, I've been able to reconstruct names for a ship list that has never been published before! In other cases, I've been able to add names to previously published lists.

The 81 Ships Passenger Lists 1624 to 1664 below can be viewed freely at Ships to New Netherland (New York)

• De Eendracht Sailed from Amsterdam January 25, 1624 to New


• Nieuw Nederland (New Netherland Sailed from Amsterdam March 30, 1624


• Drie Koning (Three Kings) Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 1628


• de Eendracht Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands May 1630


• de Eendracht Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands after July 1631


• Soutberg Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands after July 1632


• de Eendracht Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands after May 1634


• Rensselaerswyck Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands March 1637


• Dolphyn Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 28 March 1638


• Den Harinck Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 28 March 1638


• Calmer Sleutel Arrived Delaware from Netherlands early 1638


• Wapen van Noorwegian (Arms of Norway) Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands August 1638


• De Liefde (The Love) Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 27 Dec. 1638


• De Nassau Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 1638


• Brant van Troyen (Fire of Troy) Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands June 1639


• Den Harinck Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands July 1639


• Den Waterhondt Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands Oct. 1640


• Eyckenboom Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands Aug. 1641


• Brandaris Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 1641/42


• Den Houten Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands Aug. 1642


• Coninck David Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 1642


• Wapen van Rensselaerswyck Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands March 1644


• St. Peter Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands Dec. 1644


• Mautirius Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands 1644


• Jager (Hunter) Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands Sept. 1646


• Prinses Amelia Arrived New Amsterdam May 1647 from Netherlands . Voyage from Netherlands , and a return voyage when she sank with a great loss of life.


• Groote Gerrit Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands May 1647


• Valckenier Arrived New Amsterdam from Netherlands July 1649


• Hoff van Cleef 1651 from Netherlands


• Gelderse Blom 1651/52 from Netherlands


• Waterhondt 1651 from Netherlands


• Groote Christoffel 1654 from Netherlands


• St. Charles 1654 from Recife Brazil


• Gelderse Blom (Gelderland Flower) 1654 from Netherlands


• Pereboom (Pear Tree) 1654 from Netherlands


• Bonte Koe (Spotted Cow) 1655 from Netherlands


• Waegh 1655 from Netherlands


• Blauwe Duiff (Blue Dove) Netherlands arrived 5 Sept. 1656 in New York


• Bever 1656 from Netherlands


• Bonte Koe 1656 from Netherlands


• den Otter 1656 from Netherlands


• De Vergulde Otter (The Gilded Otter)1657 from Netherlands


• De Vergulde Beer (The Gilded Bear)1657/1658 from Netherlands


• Draetvelt 1657 from Netherlands


• Jan Baptiste 1657 from Netherlands


• The Brownfish 1658 from Netherlands


• The Gilded Beaver (De Vergulde Bever) 1658 from Netherlands


• De Moesman (The Market Gardener) May 1658 from Netherlands


• Vergulde Meulen (Golden Mill) 1658 from Netherlands


• Otter 1659 from Netherlands


• Beaver 1659 from Netherlands


• De Moesman (The Market Gardener) April 1659 from Netherlands


• The Faith (De Trouw)Feb. 1659


• The Love 1660


• De Moesman (The Market Gardener) March 1660


• De Bonte Koe April 1660 from Netherlands


• The Gilded Beaver (De Vergulde Bever) 1660 from Netherlands


• De Trouw June 1660 from Netherlands


• The Faith (De Trouw) Dec. 1660 from Netherlands


• De Vergulde Otter (The Gilded Otter) 1660 from Netherlands


• Otter 1660 from Netherlands


• The Purmerland Church arrived 29 March 1661 New Amsterdam from Netherlands


• Purmerland Church (Purmerender Kerck) Texel to New Amstel, Delaware Nov 24, 1661


• The Beaver 1661 from Netherlands


• The St. Jan Baptist 1661 from Netherlands


• The Hope 1661 from Netherlands


• The Golden Eagle 1661 from Netherlands


• The Golden Eagle Jan. 1662 from Netherlands


• The Hope Apr. 1662 from Netherlands


• The Faith (De Trouw) Mar. 1662 from Netherlands


• The Fox 1662 from Netherlands


• Purmerland Kerk 1662 from Netherlands


• De Sint Pieter 1663 from Netherlands


• Stetin 1663 from Netherlands


• The Star 1663 from Netherlands


• The St. Jacob, June 1663 from Netherlands


• De Arent (The Eagle) March 1663 from Netherlands


• The Roseboom 1663 from Netherlands


• De Bonte Koe April 1663 from Netherlands


• The Faith (De Trouw) Jan. 1664 from Netherlands


• The Eendracht Jan. 1664 from Netherlands


• Beaver 1664 from Netherlands


• Gekruyste Hart (Broken Heart) 1664 from Netherlands

Finding ancestors on Pennsylvania Ships Passenger Lists

Pennsylvania ships lists have been kept, and are on microfilm, as far back as 1800 (1820 was the first year it was a requirement that they be kept)

There are indexes you can use to search for an ancestor. See a complete list of film numbers for ships going to Pennsylvania after 1820 Find the film you need and write down the
NARA or Family History Centre film number you need. Then you can order the film in to your nearest FHC or have NARA do the lookup for you.

If you want to try your luck ONline, there is a custom search engine that will search most Internet sites with ships going to Pennsylvania. Choose PENNSYLVANIA from the state choices. Scroll down to the yellow search engine.

The Philadelphia Baggage Lists for 1809 are also online. They include images of the actual manifest and a
transcription of the names of the passengers on board. These are the names of passengers with luggage! If your ancestor had no stored luggage, his name will not be found.

Other Helpful Sites:

Passenger Lists to Pennsylvania

Custom Search Engines Internet-wide for Ships to Pennsylvania

Nova Scotia Vital Records Online

The Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management has a new website.

Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics

It includes a fully searchable database containing one million names. Every name is linked to its original record from the following options:

Births 1864-1877
Marriages 1864-1930
Deaths 1864-1877 and 1908-1955

I spent a few hours on the website looking for my daughter-in-law's family. There were problems which I'm sure will be fixed as the weeks progress. But I did find quite a few incorrect images linked to the index record. There is no way to scroll forward or backward through the images displayed, which I consider a major drawback. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy these are online! But it's very frustrating to not be able to get to the correct image once you've found your ancestor.

The website was excrutiatingly slow (yes, I'm on dialup but even for dialup it was bad) and intermittently would glitch when I clicked to go back or to do a new search - dumping me back to the start page or displaying previously searched for names. So, patience is required! But I did find some terrific records for my daughter-in-law.

I wrote to the Support Desk to report all the glitches I found. They promise a response within 10 days so I'll post here to let everyone know what happens.

CEF Soldiers of the Great War Database

Soldiers of the Great War (WW1) is an online searchable database for members of the CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force)

Scanned Attestation papers (front and back) are available but it is important to realize that the Attestation papers are not the full record.

You should send for the full records of soldiers. Just provide the index entry or write to LAC with the names, dates and places of birth, parents'names and where they lived (which would hopefully be near where they signed up)

You can mail or fax your request plus your credit card number for the charges (very reasonable) I always fax as it is much quicker.

See FIND YOUR MILITARY ANCESTOR for links to the spot to request this from Library & Archives Canada

Searching Land Records - Township Papers

Township Papers in Ontario are a miscellaneous group of land-related records have been arranged by township name, then by concession and lot or by town name and lot number. They're a mixed bag - they may contain correspondence re land, some
petitions, copies of orders-in-council, etc

Read more about finding ancestors in Township Papers

Be sure to read the posts here on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog about UCLP (Upper Canada Land Petitions), CLRI (Ontario Land Record Index) and Land Books

Finding Ancestors in Land Books in Ontario

Land Books in Ontario are basically a summary of land grants. They rarely contain more info than name, date and location. Sometimes they have little gems in the comment section.

But they're helpful because if you can't find a petition in the Upper Canada Land Petitions (UCLP) it may be in the Land Book so at least you have some record of the event.

The Upper Canada Land Record Books record the minutes of the meetings of the Executive Council of the Land Board which were held between the years 1791 and 1847. Petitioners for land were settlers, military claimants, and Loyalists. Land Books are the Orders-in-Council issued by the Lieutenant Governor, authorizing the sale, lease or free grant of crown lands to petitioners

Read more about Land Books

Free Irish Records Access

New England Ancestors is offering free access for a limited time to their Irish databases.

These include Atlases, Maps and Reference Materials; Census, Tax and Voter Lists; Church Records; Newspapers and Periodicals and Societies and Organizations.

Upper Canada Land Petitions - Finding an Ancestor

 Upper Canada Land Petitions are the actual Petitions for land which were submitted in Upper Canada (Ontario).

Here is an actual 1797 UCLP (Upper Canada Land Petition) for one of my ancestors. In the petition, the petitioner gives his father's name, the date he (and his father) arrived in Upper Canada (Ontario) and specifics of his family (wife and children). He requests land, and the outside of the folded petition reveals if that request was granted (a land grant) and under what terms.

These land petitions frequently contain information about the petitioner and his or her family. Loyalists and discharged soldiers often mentioned the regiment in which they served. To find an ancestor you must first consult an index, then convert your findings to a microfilm reel with the full petitions. See Upper Canada Land Petition for more help with this important genealogical research tool.

You should also consult Finding a Loyalist Ancestor for help if you have a Loyalist or two in your tree

I have already discussed CLRI (Ontario Land Record Index) and will be explaining other land records such as Township Papers, Land Books etc in future Blog Posts.

Land Records in Ontario - Using the CLRI

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Land records are very useful. Originally all land in Ontario belonged to the Crown. Although there were small areas of settlement in 1763 after the British took over, major settlement of Upper Canada began in 1783 and utilized Crown Grants. See Ontario Land Records for more help

The CLRI (aka Ontario Land Record Index) is an index which summarizes land grants from sales of of Crown Land in Ontario, from Canada Company sales and leases, and from Peter Robinson settlers' grants. It provides invaluable clues for further research!

The CLRI only shows the first time owner of Crown Land so if your ancestor purchased land from someone else his/her name will not show on this index but it is still a very useful tool. Not only does it provide you with exact location (township, lot #, conc. #) it provides you with a date of transaction, whether or not there were special circumstances surrounding the transaction (a free grant, a hardship grant, a military grant, etc), and it provides you with an Archival Reference number. This AR number can provide more detail; often it does not but it is still a stone that should be turned.

With a date of transaction you have narrowed the field for immigration.

Beyond that the value of the CLRI is in the interpretation of the one line index entry -- which can lead you to other avenues of research.

Find out how to obtain the CLRI and how to interpret your findings at Olive Tree Genealogy CLRI Section

I will discuss Township Papers, Upper Canada Land Petitions and Land Books over the next few days so stay tuned

Fiske Family Civil War era Photo Album

One of my hobbies is buying old (Civil War era) Photo Albums and photos. I like to figure out who the family members are, do some genealogy research on them and then put the albums online. It's an expensive hobby but I love it.

A few days ago I had a nice surprise. A gentleman from New Hampshire (unknown to me) sent me a gift of an old Civl War album of the Fiske family in New England. There were only 13 pictures and the photo pages were torn but the photos themselves were in good condition and labelled with names.

I spent a few hours doing some research and discovered that the photos all have some relationship to the children of David Fiske and Laura Severington. My research and the photos (not thumbnails, the full size photos) are all online now for descendants to enjoy.

See Fiske Family Photo Album

Surnames: Fiske, Andrews, Clark, Seymour, Foster, Hart, Smead

Locations: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Italy

Should Unsourced Data Be Put Online?

My friend Illya D'Addezio and I were recently discussing whether or not data that has no source has any place online on websites.

Back in 1996 when I started Olive Tree Genealogy, I didn't think about the importance of sources for data I found and brought online. So if I found a ships passenger list, I typed it up and put it online. I didn't worry about including the reference or citation for the original source.

In later years I became fussier and started documenting all data brought to Olive Tree and any of its sister sites. For example my New York Almshouse Records 1819-1840 on Olive Tree Genealogy include full details of

• the source I used (Source: Alms House Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records (New York; City, NY) Item 5 LDS Film 1304647 Bond Registers 1819-1840. Original records in the Municipal Archives, New York, New York)
  
• my introduction to the records
  
• my notes about the records (that there are 2 pages but my transcribers and I only transcribed one)
  

The question Illya posed was "Does this mean that unsourced material has no place online?"

My response, after some serious deliberation, is that unsourced material, while not the pick of the litter so to speak, does deserve a place online. Yes, fully sourced material is always the optimum. But if one has the opportunity to obtain unsourced data, it can still be useful to genealogists, if for nothing more than a clue. A tiny clue from a page ripped from an old bible (unsourced, origin unknown) might be the clue that leads us to facts, to sources that will either verify or disprove the original clue.

So my vote is YES. I'd love to hear from others on this topic.

Do you think unsourced data has any value on websites?

Leave a comment on this post with YES or NO and your reasons why. I'll be reading your opinions with interest!

Lorine

Passenger List of Ship Federico from Genova Italy to Buenos Aires, Argentina 30 March 1961

Just letting everyone know that I have images of the Passenger List of Ship Federico from Genova Italy to Buenos Aires, Argentina 30 March 1961 online

Please pass this message on to any Italian lists or to folks who might be interested.

Russian Immigrants to Canada 1898-1922

The Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers collection (LI-RA-MA) contains documents created between 1898 and 1922 by the consular offices of the Russian Empire in Canada.

The series on passports and identity papers contains about 11,400 files of Jewish, Ukrainian and Finnish immigrants who came to Canada from the Russian Empire.

The series includes passport applications and questionnaires containing general information and is searchable online.

Illinois Documents online

Here is a list of ILLINOIS documents that are online on various blogs. Just look for the Blog Archives under the date shown beside each document title, or use the Blogger Search Engine (top left) to search each blog by keyword

Feel free to share this list with others!

http://familybibles.blogspot.com/ If you can't find the photo album on this blog, go directly to http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/faces/

Civil War Burtch Family Photo Album England, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island

Clarke Family of New York Photo Album Illinois, New York, Wisconsin

Cardiff Harrold Family Photo Album Connecticut, Illinois, Italy, New York, Pennsylvania

Civil War Kelley Family Photo Album Germany, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas

Civil War Era Fobes Family Album Massachusetts, Ne... Civil War, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York

HALLADAY Bible 1840s Illinois, New York, Vermont 12/29/04

Family Bible of Funk, Ritchie and Lynch Families Illinois, Missouri, Virginia

http://paper-trail.blogspot.com/

Obituary Hattie Wilson 1888 Illinois Illinois, Obituary 2/9/07

1865 INTERNAL REVENUE TAX COLLECTION NOTICE Chicag... Illinois

http://ancestorsatrest.blogspot.com/

Obit Hattie Wilson Illinois 1888 Illinois

OBIT: Valeria Carattinia, Illinois Illinois

http://pastvoices.blogspot.com/

Civil War: Charlotte Couch, Illinois 1865 Illinois 7/30/04

Emma Wadsworth Letter, 1865 Illinois 6/27/04

Civil War: H. M. Parker, Illinois 1862 Illinois

Obtaining Copies of 1871 Ontario Census

Canadian Census records for 1871 are available to the public. They give information on all household members - name, age, gender, country of birth, religion, ethnic origin, occupation, marital status and education.

There are 9 returns for the 1871 census but there are 3 that are of the most help genealogically:

Schedule 1: Return of the Living
Schedule 2: Return of the Dead
Schedule 4: Agricultural Return

Census records are available on microfilm from the Archives of Ontario, National Archives of Canada, on ILL (InterLibraryLoan) through a local library, or from your
local FHC (Family History Center).

You can search the free 1871 Ontario census index to heads of household at Library & Archives Canada

If you find a name of interest, you can order a copy of the census page from the National Archives. Requests for copies must include complete references

See AllCensusRecords.com for help and a link to the order form

Deaths in Staten Island Quarantine 1849 - 1850

I just uploaded a list of names (almost 300) of those who died while in Staten Island Quarantine May 1849 - Dec. 1850

It's at Staten Island Quarantine Hospital

Feel free to pass this on to anyone or any lists you think would be interested. Thanks goes to Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, Inc. Staten Island, who gave me the list from their research to put online

Enjoy!
Lorine

Connecticut Data online

List of Connecticut Data online on various blogs:

Family Bibles

Fowler Merchant Family Photo Album Connecticut, District of Columbia, New York coming soon, for now see Lost Faces

Pratt Morse Family Photo Albums, New York Connecticut coming soon! for now see Lost Faces

Cardiff Harrold Family Photo Album Connecticut, Illinois, Italy, New York, Pennsylvania coming soon! for now see Lost Faces

Civil War Photo Album Connecticut HAWLEY, SHERWOOD. Connecticut 2/9/07

Eggleston Family Bible Connecticut 1/4/06

CARPENTER Family Bible (CARPENTER, GROVER, GRAVES.. Connecticut, New York 5/31/05

MORGAN HUMASON ROOTS Family Bible, Connecticut Connecticut 11/19/04

Paper Trails

1918 BRISTOL CONNECTICUT GRAMMAR SCHOOL DIPLOMA -... Connecticut 11/26/04

Revolutionary War Document 1778 - Private Edward B. Connecticut

Past Voices: Letters Home

Annie Curley, 1864, Connecticut 10/6/04

F. W. Pitkin to Mary Ann Lewis, c/o Lewis Hotchkis... Connecticut 3/27/04

E F Alling to Seth Keney, Connecticut 1848

Descendants of Signers of Flushing Remonstrance 1657 New Netherland (New York)

The historical Bowne House in Flushing, Queens New York is looking for descendants of Peter Stuyvesant, his sheriff Resolved Waldron, and signers of the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657.

Dec. 27, 2007 will be the 350th anniversary of this famous signing. The Flushing Remonstrance is recognized as the foundation of freedom of religion in America. Though there were only 30 signers, there are thousands of descendants living today. Though he was not there to sign the document, John Bowne was the first to "test" it when he allowed Quakers to worship in his house. Because of this, he was arrested and imprisoned by Governor Peter Stuyvesant, and sent back to Holland for trial. There he won his case for religious liberty, and returned to New York in 1663, with a ruling for Peter Stuyvesant to extend tolerance to all religious sects.

The 30 signers were: Nicolas BLACKFORD, George CLERE, Elias DOUGHTIE, Edward FARRINGTON, Tobias FEAKE, Antonie FIELD, Robert FIELD, Sr, ROBERT field, Jr. , John FOARD, Edward GRIFFINE, Edward HART, Nathaniel HEFFERD, Benjamin HUBBARD, John MASTINE, Michael MILNER, William NOBLE, Nich Colas PARSELL, William PIDGION, Henry SEMTELL, Richard STOCTON, John STORE, Edward TARNE, William THORNE Sr., William THORNE, Jr. John TOWNSEND, Nathaniel TUE, Micah TUE, Phillip UDALL, George WRIGHT.

Please contact Donna Cartelli, Executive Director BHHS, dcartelli@bownehouse.org

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For New Netherland history and genealogy data visit the New Netherland Genealogy Resources at Olive Tree Genealogy website