Genealogy Tips and Links

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Comment by Linda Ann Metzger on July 12, 2009 at 12:25pm

My genealogy company: www.genealogyresource.info

Comment by Katrina Haney on July 12, 2009 at 8:53am

For anyone interested in scrapbooking their genealogy and family history data, I would like to invite you to my group Scrap Your Family History. We will discuss both paper and digital scrapping, tips and techniques, and also how to use the ancestry.com page designer app and adding your own designs to it. Thank you Debbie for allowing me to post this here.

Hope to see some of you join us here:
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/scraphistory

Kat

Comment by Gail Winstanley on July 12, 2009 at 6:11am

Old German and Czech records show a different last name for women. The father's last name is feminized by adding an "in" to the German surname and an ová at the end to signify daughter of.

Comment by Gail Winstanley on July 12, 2009 at 6:04am

If you are researching Czech ancestry, you might want to concentrate your entry research to the Galveston and Baltimore areas before hitting Ellis Island. Especially in the late 1800's up to about 1920 there were large Czech communities in both places, there is still a very large society in the Galveston area. Also, your Czech and Austrian ancestors will most likely have Bohemia listed as their birth place on the census rather than showing Austria, Moravia, Czech Provence or Solvakia.

Czech baptismal certificates at the turn of the century will also list the baby's full names grandfathers, but always the grandmothers. They will also list the child's kmotri or godparent as well as the doctor/midwife that delivered them as well as the father's occupation so they are a real wealth of information.

Comment by Mary Trogg on July 11, 2009 at 8:37am

Just an add-on to Debbie's tip about Ellis Island. Before Ellis Island, there was Castle Gardens, in operation from 1820 to 1892 when Ellis Island opened. The web site has a searchable database but not all passenger lists are digitzed yet.
http://www.castlegarden.org/

Comment by Catherine Theresa Lingenfelser on July 11, 2009 at 8:12am

Thank you Dae Powell.

Comment by Dae Powell on July 11, 2009 at 8:08am

Each email comes with instructions as to how to make them cease.

Comment by Catherine Theresa Lingenfelser on July 11, 2009 at 8:01am

I'm lost. How do I stop the email notificatioins?

Comment by Katrina Haney on July 10, 2009 at 11:27pm

Debbie that's hilarious, this person should go apply to the government to write their spin :)

I do hope that's tongue in cheek. I personally would tell the horse thief story. But I;d go looking for the reasons he was one. Maybe he was trying to feed a starving family.

Comment by Jessica Reed on July 9, 2009 at 4:08pm

When you need small bits of research, like someone to make copies at a courthouse in another state, check our the RAOGK web site.
raogk.com

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