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1908 postcard from the Elleanor "Nellie" Roberts Kreischer LaClair collection

Michelle's Links

Syracuse Links:

• Syracuse.com - http://www.syracuse.com/
  
• Stateguide: Syracuse - http://www.stateguide.com/ny/Syracuse/
  
• City of Syracuse - http://www.syracuse.ny.us/default.asp
  
• Uniquely Syracuse - http://www.syracuse.ny.us/uniquelySyracuse.asp
  
• Syracuse Then and Now - http://www.syracusethenandnow.net/
  
• City of Syracuse: Neighborhoods - http://www.syracuse.ny.us/neighborhoods.asp
  
• Syracuse Convention and Visitors Bureau - http://www.visitsyracuse.org/
  
• Syracuse sources GenWEB/Rootsweb - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/SYRACUSE/SYRACUSE.HTM
  
• Syracuse University Library - http://libwww.syr.edu/
  
• Syracuse & area online obituaries for previous six months - http://www.legacy.com/Syracuse/LegacyHome.asp
  
• The Syracuse Post-Standard News Archives online (free; limited years) - http://www.newslibrary.com/sites/sy/
  
• Brewing in Syracuse - http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/ensmingr/beer/syracuse.html
  
• The Erie Canal Museum - http://www.eriecanalmuseum.org/
  
• 1882-1899 Syracuse City Directories extracts - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/SYRACUSE/SYRCD1882-1899.htm
  
• 1900-1919 Syracuse City Directories extracts - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/SYRACUSE/SYRCD1900-1919.htm
  
• 1920-1935 Syracuse City Directories extracts - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/SYRACUSE/SYRCD1920-1935.html
  
• Galen R Frysinger's galley of Syracuse photos - http://www.galenfrysinger.com/syracuse_new_york.htm
  
• David Metraux's Syracuse & Central New York website - http://www.davidmetraux.com/centralny.html
  
• Clinton Square Cam (Live) - http://www.syracuse.com/clintoncam/index.ssf/still.ssf

Onondaga County / Central New York Sources:

• Rootsweb's Onondaga Co. NY USGenWeb (the place to start your online genealogy searches) - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/INDEX.HTM
  
• Rootsweb's Onondaga Co. NY USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/onondaga/onondaga.htm
  
• Onondaga Co., NY Rootsweb/Ancestry.com Message Board - http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.onondaga/mb.ashx
  
• Rootsweb's Onondaga County Mailing List - http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/NY/onondaga.html
  
• Onondaga Co. Books and Resources - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/BOOKS.HTM
  
• Other Onondaga County-related websites at Rootsweb - http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/USA/NY/Onondaga/
  
• Onondaga County Message Board at Genealogy.com's Genforum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/ny/onondaga/
  
• OCPL - Onondaga County Public Library (Syracuse) - http://www.onlib.org/
  
• OCPL - Local History and Genealogy Department - http://www.onlib.org/website/LH/lh.htm
  
• Onondaga County Library Postcard Collection - http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/postcards/index.html
  
• Onondaga County Library Postcard Collection, another view - http://www.syracusethenandnow.net/PostcardWeb/Start.html
  
• OHA - Onondaga Historical Association Online - http://www.cnyhistory.org/
  
• OHA - Onondaga Historical Association Blog - https://ohamakinghistory.wordpress.com/
  
• Onondaga County Clerk/Archives/Courthouse - http://www.ongov.net/Clerk/
  
• Onondaga County Estate Documents (County Courthouse in Syracuse) - http://surrogate5th.courts.state.ny.us/
  
• Searchable Syracuse cemeteries & other databases - http://nortonresearch.com/gen/index.php
  
• National Register of Historic Places, Onondaga County - http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Onondaga/state.html
  
• Central New York Genealogy Society - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycnygs
  
• Dick Hillenbrand's Upstate New York Genealogy - http://www.unyg.com/
  
• The 149th New York Volunteer Infantry (Fourth Onondaga) - http://web.cortland.edu/woosterk/genweb/149_inf.html
  
• The 149th New York State Volunteer Infantry (includes photos, bios) - http://www.149th-nysv.org/
  
• Company B, 149th Regiment New York State Volunteers ("The Salt Point Rangers") (re-enactment site, includes Archives) - http://www.149thnewyork.com/
  
• The Civil War in Central New York ("Ruggles' Rag") - http://www.rugglesrag.com/
  
• Northern Onondaga Public Library (Cicero, Brewerton, North Syracuse) - http://www.nopl.org/
  
• Liverpool Public Library - http://www.lpl.org/
  
• Local History Photographic Collection at Liverpool Public Library - http://cumulus.lpl.org/
  
• Liverpool Willow Museum - http://willow.lpl.org/
  
• Solvay-Geddes Historical Society - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysghs/
  
• NEW! -- Fergerson Funeral Home, Main Street, North Syracuse webcam (Live) - http://fergersonfuneralhome.com/

New York State Links:

• NEW! -- New York GenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygenweb/
  
• NEW! -- New York State U.S.GenWeb Archives - http://usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm
• Welcome to Upstate New York - http://www.rawood.com/upstateny/
  
• New York State Library - http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
  
• New York State Historical Association and the Farmers Museum (Cooperstown) - http://www.nysha.org/index.htm
  
• New York Vital Records Information - http://www.vitalrec.com/ny.html
  
• New York Obituary Links - http://www.obitlinkspage.com/obit/ny.htm
  
• New York State Newspaper Project - http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/index.html
  
• New York State & Federal Censuses online - http://www.census-online.com/links/NY/
  
• NEW! -- New York Ancestors - http://www.newyorkancestors.org/
  
• Ray's Place: New York State Town Histories, etc. - http://history.rays-place.com/ny/index.htm
  
• Vintage Views of New York (postcard archives) - http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/index.html
  
• New York Central [Railroad] Historical Society - http://www.nycshs.org/
  
• New York State Military Forts - http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/forts/fortsindex.htm
  
• NYC area Death and Naturalization Indexes (seem to include as many Germans as Italians) - http://www.italiangen.org/
  
• New York City Dept. of Correction History - http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/nycdoc.htm
  
• Finding New York Passenger Arrival Records 1820-1957 - http://germanroots.home.att.net/ellisisland/nypassengers.html
  
• NEW! -- New York Genealogy on GeneaSearch - http://geneasearch.com/states/newyork.htm
  
• A History of the Jefferson County Region - http://marcmny.tripod.com/jeffco.htm
  
• Ogdensburg, New York - http://www.ogdensburg.info/
  
• Northern New York Library Network: Northern New York Historical Newspapers - http://news.nnyln.net/
  
• NEW! -- Fulton History/search free upstate New York historical newspapers - http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
  
• From Germany to Buffalo (New York) - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine/
  
• German-Rochester (New York) Webring - http://goethenet.net/
  
• Rochester History Index - http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/~rochhist/mainlist.html
  
• Dan Weiskotten's Cazenovia, Fenner & Nelson History Pages (Madison Co., NY) - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyccazen/#award

German/Deutsche links:

• U.S.-Infos.de Städt Syracuse (info on Syracuse for the German-speaking traveler) - http://www.us-infos.de/ny-syracuse.html
  
• Detailed, scalable maps of Germany - http://www.cometogermany.com/
  
• Multimap (includes Germany and Poland) - http://www.multimap.com
  
• Maps and more for German cities - http://www.meinestadt.de/
  
• Cyndi's List for Germany/Deutschland - http://www.cyndislist.com/germany.htm
  
• Genealogy.net (Resources for German-related genealogy) - http://www.genealogienetz.de/gene/genealogy.html
  
• Information on Germany from soc.culture.german - http://www.watzmann.net/scg/index.html
  
• German Regional Research, 1871 borders - http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ger1871.html
  
• 1883 Atlas of the German Empire/Atlas des Deutschen Reichs - http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/
  
• Germany GenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wggerman/
  
• Find International Genealogical Index (IGI) entries at Familysearch.org by German Town Names (Batch Numbers) - http://www.igi-index.de/
  
• German Maps and Town Search - http://maxpages.com/poland/Maps_and_Towns_Germany
  
• JewishGEN Shetlseeker (find old villages) - http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp
  
• German town name meanings (article) - http://www.genealogyandhow.com/lib/germany/german-town-name-meanings.htm
  
• Web.de Routenplaner (Maps of Germany, Austria, Switzerland) - http://route.web.de/
  
• Das Telefonbuch (Online German Telephone book) - http://www.telefonbuch.de/
  
• Mapping surnames throughout Germany - http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen.aspx
  
• German military graves search - http://www.volksbund.de/
  
• Tracing fallen Wehrmacht soldiers - http://www.dd-wast.de/
  
• Order German Antiquarian/Used Books online (in English) - http://www.zvab.com/
  
• More German books available for purchase online - http://www.abebooks.de
  
• German Historical Research Society - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~deutg/
  
• German Roots - http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/
  
• Historisches Museum Bremerhaven/German Emigrant Databank - http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/
  
• DALSA Research Center for German Emigration, Univ. Oldenburg - http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/nausa/nausae.htm
  
• Leiden University's History of International Migration Site - http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/
  
• Germans to America: 50 Volumes That Are Not To Be Trusted - http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/nausa/pitfal.htm
  
• Max Kade German-American Research Institute - http://www3.la.psu.edu/histrlst/maxkade/maxkade.html
  
• German-American History & Heritage - http://www.germanheritage.com/
  
• Goethe Institut, Washington, D.C. - http://www.goethe.de/uk/was/enindex.htm
  
• Welcome to Germany Info / German Embassy, Washington, D.C. - http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/index.html
  
• U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Germany - http://usa.usembassy.de/index.htm
  
• German Life magazine (search the archives) - http://www.germanlife.com/
  
• Library of Congress / The Germans in America - http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germany.html
  
• Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde, Kaiserslautern - http://www.bv-pfalz.de/04.kultur/04.InstitutGV/
  
• Hessische (Hessen) Archives (surname search in the Schnellsuche box) - http://www.hadis.hessen.de/scripts/HADIS.DLL/home?SID=5895-337EC98-C2574&PID=66BD
  
• Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) - http://www.feefhs.org/
  and Map Room - http://feefhs.org/newest_map.html
  
• German and French naming customs - http://www.pantel-web.de/bw_mirror/text/t46.txt
  
• 18th Century Pennsylvania German Naming Customs - http://www.kerchner.com/germname.htm
  
• German Handwriting Guide - http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=German_Gothic99-36316.ASP
  
• Ralph Sobek's genealogy website - http://www.sobek.org/
  
• Fred Kreb's Pfalz page - http://www.krebs-onl.de/pfalz/units.htm
  
• Don Watson's Hessen Website - http://members.cox.net/hessen/index.htm or http://members.cox.net/hessen/index2.htm
  
• My Elisabetha: Jillaine Smith's Genealogy Adventures in the Pfalz - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine/pfalz/
  
• Friedrich Huettenberger's Kaiserslautern Homepage - http://www.huettenberger.homepage.t-online.de/
  
• Robert J. Shea's German Resources - http://www.mrshea.com/
  
• Ruediger Kemmler's Genealogy Homepage - http://home.arcor.de/r.kemmler/
  
• Ceil Jensen's Michigan Polonia (some of these West Prussians came to Syracuse, too; good research tools here) - http://mipolonia.net/

Translations:

Yahoo! Babel Fish online translations - http://babelfish.yahoo.com/


Systran, instant online translations of text and webpages - http://www.systransoft.com/Homepage.html


FreeTranslation.com, online "easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the 'gist' of foreign language text and web pages" - http://www.freetranslation.com/


Poltran: Polish-English online translations - http://www.poltran.com/


Free transcriptions of old German documents, German Historical Research Society (Transcribe Group, etc.) - http://germanresearch.org/cms/

"Temptation," 1910 postcard

Miscellaneous Research Help:

• Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Family Search site - http://www.familysearch.org/
  
• Castle Garden records online 1820-1913 - http://www.castlegarden.org
  
• Ellis Island Records (American Family Immigration History Center) - http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
  
• Searching Ellis Island Records Database in One Step, and other search tools by Stephen P. Morse - http://stevemorse.org/
  
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - http://www.immigrantships.net/
  
• The Immigration Experience - http://members.tripod.com/~L_Alfano/immig.htm
  
• The Center for Immigration Studies - http://www.cis.org/
  
• Linkpendium (awesome collection of genealogical links) - http://www.linkpendium.com
  
• Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
  
• Godfrey Memorial Library/Godfrey Scholar Online Resources subscription - http://www.godfrey.org/
  
• NewsLibrary (online newspaper resources) - http://nl.newsbank.com/nlsite/index.html
  
• NEW! -- World Catalog of Books held in libraries - http://www.worldcat.org/
  
• Paper of Record (newspapers search, free registration) - http://www.paperofrecord.com/
  
• Obit Finder - http://www.legacy.com/Syracuse/Obituaries.asp?Page=ObitFinder
  
• Free Obituaries Online - http://www3.sympatico.ca/bkinnon/obit_links1.htm
  
• Find A Grave - http://www.findagrave.com/
  
• Antique & Modern Commemorative Flagholders and Plaques Found in Cemeteries - http://www.joycetice.com/flaghold/flaghold.htm
  
• Bible Records Online - http://www.biblerecords.com/
  
• Family History Archive: a free digital repository of family histories (contribute your own) - http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/
  
• Genealogical CD's (lookups) - http://loricase.com/CDs/cdlist.html
  
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (worldwide lookups) - http://www.raogk.org/
  
• SSDI - Rootsweb's Social Security Death Index - http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
  
• SSDI - FamilySearch.org's Social Security Death Index - http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ssdi/search_ssdi.asp&clear_form=true
  
• National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (includes WWII Army enlistment records) - http://aad.archives.gov/aad/
  
• Library of Congress: Chronicling America (historic newspapers free online) - http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
  
• U.S. Army Military History Institute / Heritage and Education Center - http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/MHI.htm#
  
• The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and Kindred Societies - http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/
• ePodunk ("The Power of Place" where America's small towns and cities are celebrated) - http://www.epodunk.com/
  
• U.S. Historical Census Data Browser - http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
  
• Surname Thesaurus - http://www.namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/
  
• Behind the Names (etymology and history of first names) - http://www.behindthename.com/usage.php
  
• Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - http://blog.eogn.com/
  
• Ancestorville (old photos & other items from CNY & elsewhere for sale) - http://ancestorville.com/
  
• The Food Timeline - http://www.foodtimeline.org/
  
• Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events - http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1880.htm
  
• The Inflation Calculator - http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
  
• The Universal Currency Converter - http://www.xe.net/ucc/
  
• Time and Date.com/Calendars and the World Clock - http://www.timeanddate.com/
  
• Tombstone Birthday Calculator at Ancestor Search - http://searchforancestors.com/utility/birthday.html
  
• Rootsweb's Soundex Converter - http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter
  
• Virtual Tourist (check out your hometown or your destination) - http://www.virtualtourist.com
  
• U.S. Surname Distribution - http://www.hamrick.com/names/
  
• Y Search / DNA Family Tree - http://www.ysearch.org/
  
• Early American Roads and Trails - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Egentutor/trails.html
  
• USGS GNIS Locator - http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/
  
• The Gold Bug SiteFinder Online (map even old historic U.S. places onto Google Maps) - http://www.goldbug.com/map/sitefinder.html
  
• GEOnet Nameserver (GNS) mapping information for the world - http://earth-info.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html
  
• Ten Big Myths About Copyright Explained - http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
  
• "New Rules for Using Public Domain Materials" by Attorney Lloyd J. Jassin - http://copylaw.com/new_articles/PublicDomain.html
  
• International Currency Express, Inc. (foreign exchange made easy) - http://www.foreignmoney.com/
  
• Cousin chart - http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/iss/gr/chart.htm
  
• Free blank online genealogy research forms from Ancestry.com - http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm
  
• W3Schools (online web design tutorial) - http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
  
• CG Labo Color Picker for html - http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~FX6M-FJMY/java09e.html
  
• Terrestratours.com (family heritage vacations in Germany; note: I am not familiar with this company so cannot endorse it, but I think it's an interesting idea) - http://www.terrestratours.com/

Just For Fun or Further Study:

The Legends of the Iroquois, Told by "The Cornplanter" (1902) - http://www.1st-hand-history.org/Iroquois/album1.html


Cornell University Library Digital Collections - http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/


Immigration 100 years later - "Do We Want Mexifornia?" by Victor Davis Hanson


The Farber Gravestone Collection - http://www.davidrumsey.com/farber/


Why U Can't Find Your Ancestors: Misspeld Knames - http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson8.htm


"The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain (Appendix D from Twain's 1880 book, A Tramp Abroad) - http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html


"The Horrors of the German Language" by Mark Twain (Address to the Vienna Press Club, October 31, 1897 --a literal translation) - http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=2909&kapitel=1#gb_found
Expatica: Living in, moving to, or working in Germany, plus German news in English - http://www.expatica.com/source/site_content_subchannel.asp?subchannel_id=26


Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - http://www.faz.net/s/homepage.html


Deutche Welle (English language, German newspaper) - http://www.dw-world.de/english


Beyond Academe - http://www.beyondacademe.com/index.htm


Great Books Online - http://www.bartleby.com/


Die Stoakogler Online (some of my favorite music) - http://www.stoakogler.at/


The Dull Men's Club - http://www.dullmen.com/


David's Boring Postcard Collection - http://home.comcast.net/~browkagi/cards/


The incredibly prolific James Lileks - http://www.lileks.com/


Forgotten New York - http://www.forgotten-ny.com/index.html


New York City Walk - http://www.newyorkcitywalk.com/


Singlespeeds Over New York - http://www.angelfire.com/goth/1x1nyc/


Extreme Ironing - http://www.extremeironing.com/


Live webcam of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota - http://www.cornpalace.org/newpages/webcam.html


Found photos - http://westfordcomp.com/updated/found.htm

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