Here are some new sites I have discovered this past
month. Hope some of them will prove useful to you.
GOOD NEWS!!! -- We can now search on ancestry.com without having to put in three characters for the name. Up until now, if you entered a partial first name or a partial last name, you had to enter at least three characters. But Steve Morse has written some new code that gets around this limitation by searching on all combinations of the letters that we left out.
For example, suppose you want to search for all people with first initial J and last name Smith. Steve's software will automatically search for all Smiths with first names starting with Jaa, then Jab, then Jac, etc. up to Jzz. It might take as much as 5 minutes to get all the results, but it's automatic -- you submit one search and Steve does 676 searches for you. And if you search for all Smiths with first name starting with Ja, Steve can do that faster (less than ten seconds) because he only has to do 26 searches in that case.
To use this feature, go to Steve's website at http://stevemorse.org and select any of his search forms that use ancestry (e.g., any of his passenger search forms other than Ellis Island, and his census search-by-name form for any census year). Then enter less than three characters for either the first or last name, and Steve's new software will kick in, doing repeated searches on your behalf.
This is a simple database of map images, covering the 16th through 20th century map images. The specialise in maps aimed at genealogists, who are seeking their roots. Many land ownership maps displayed covering hundreds of county maps.
Philadelphia Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1800-1948
A list of research material for locating Philadelphia passenger records. Included are microfilmed records and indexes, CD-Roms, books, and online indexes.
The Virginia Center for Digital History promotes the teaching and learning of history using digital technologies. The Center has many useful projects, of which "Virtual Jamestown" and "Valley of the Shadow" are only two.
As the title suggests, this is a text version of the descendants of William the Conqueror. After 25 years of research I have about 400,000 of them plus spouses.
