Jean Hoffman's Genealogy Links

RootsWeb List Search	(LDS) FamilySearch	Cyndi's List
BLM Land Records	Social Security Death Index	RootsWeb WorldConnect
USGenWeb	TMG User Group CAGG-Cleveland Area	Death Index list

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG)
Transcription Aids and Immigration Information:
- A Web of On-line Dictionaries, now yourDictionary.com
- Deciphering Old Handwriting
- German Handwritten Script ()
  - LDS Handwriting Guide: German Gothic
  - German Script Tutorial
  - Old German handwritten scripts
  - Here you can learn Suetterlin - the "German handwriting"
- GERMAN NAMES
- Emigration Port Hamburg
  (see an example from a Hamburg emigrant list)
  A Review of German Immigrants and Germans to America, Volumes 1-9 (1850-1855)
  A List of Occupations
  RANKS, PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS AND TRADES
  Immigrant Ship Information
  Guide to Immigration Records and Ship's Passenger Lists
  "Locating Information About Ships," by George G. Morgan
The ISTG has many more links: The Compass
A Guide to Hundreds of Sites with Information on
Passengers, Ship types, Stories, and Pictures!
American Family Immigration History Center, Ellis Island records for 1892 - 1924
Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step
Illinois
- The Illinois State Archives
  Illinois Statewide Marriage Index
  Illinois Death Index, 1916-1950
  Illinois USGenWeb Project - Genealogy and Family History Research in Illinois
  Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USGenWeb Project
  Carroll County Genealogical Society
  Cyndi's List for Illinois
Kentucky
- Vital Records Information - Kentucky
- Kentucky Vital Records Index: marriage & divorce 1973-1993
- Kentucky Death Records 1911 thru 2000
- Kentucky Biography Project
- My Great Grandfather McClintock's bio
Ohio
- The OHGenWeb Project
- Ohio Historical Society Ohio Death Certificate Index: 1913 - 1944 (note added years)
- Gallia County Ohio GenWeb
- Gallia County (Ohio) Historical/Genealogical Society
- Gallia County Genealogical Society, OGS Chapter, Inc.
- Gallia History Web
- Cleveland/Cuyahoga County:
  - Cuyahoga County, Ohio Genealogy and History
  - Computer Assisted Genealogy Group, Cleveland Area CAGG, CA
  - Western Reserve Historical Society Collections Catalog
  - Historical Marriage License Index, 1810 - April 1998: Probate Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio
  - Cleveland Public Library Necrology File: newspaper obituaries through 1975
  - Cleveland News Index, including obituary index from 1976 to the present
  - current obituaries (full text) from The Plain Dealer
- Jean's Project: Ohio's County Courthouses
West Virginia
- Mason County West Virginia Genealogy Website
Maps and Place Names
- Using Maps in Genealogy
- Get county and state for town names RootsWeb Town Search 1.0
- The Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns
- Historic 1828-1900 US Railroad Maps (Library of Congress)
- USGS Mapping Information: GNIS United States and Territories Data Base Query Form
- TopoZone - The Web's Topographic Map
- State maps with county outlines and brief census data by state or county
- Swisstopo: Swiss National Maps
- 1883 German Empire atlas
- MapQuest.com
Europe
- Switzerland
  - Swissgeo - mapping with zoom
  - SwitzerlandGenWeb
  - Schorey's pages in Swiss Genealogy on the Internet
  - Swiss Surname Directory
  - Welcome to Switzerland in Sight
  - Switzerland from Space
  - Oberglatt Online - a community of Canton Zürich
  - Community of Egg - Gateway to the Zürich Highlands
  - Willkommen in Oetwil am See, home page of another Zürich community
  - Stadtarchiv Schaffhausen - Schaffhausen municipal archives: history & genealogy
- Cyndi's List - Germany / Deutschland
- Bayern (Bavaria), Germany Genealogy
- Slovakia
- GENUKI: County Armagh (Northern Ireland)
Rev. Albert D. Dianiska
"Mad" Anne Bailey
Emmet Lyle family photo

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