GENEOLOGY NOTES:                              *Go To List of Useful Web Sites*

SOUNDEX CODES:

 [The Soundex Machine from the National Archives: http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/soundex/soundex.html


Ship that Christian F. Muller escaped from (survived):
Ship's  Name: City of  Chester
Type: Steamship
Year Built: 1875
Year Sunk: 1888
Cause: Collision
Owner: Oregon Railroad Co. (charter PCSS)
Captain: Wallace, Thomas
Length: 205 feet
Beam: 33 feet
Tonnage: 1106
County: San Francisco

Hmm.. Now we are getting different dates.  One site said it sank in 1888
and this one (about a ship called the Oceanic which collided with the city
of chester) says it sank in 1882...

"With no major mishaps in her history, the Oceanic continued her service
into the 1880s. Unfortunately, no ship seems to escape accidents, and this
went for the Oceanic as well. On August 22, 1882, the ship collided just
off the Golden Gate Bridge with the coastal liner City of Chester, which
sank with a loss of sixteen lives."

SHIPS THAT MAY HAVE HAD CATHERINE AND ALBERT ON IT:  New York to San Francisco 1870:

Arrived in SF:
July 6, 1870--SS Rising Star
July 21, 1870--SS Arizona
August 5, 1870--SS Ocean Queen


San Francisco newspaper reports of Theodora's suicide:

/Suicide.html

USEFUL WEB SITES!!!

 

 

 

 

*PASSENGER LISTS*

*SHIP PHOTOS*

*NARA*

 

*HAMBURG/ GERMANY*

*CALIFORNIA*

*Info abt Ship Lists*

 

*SSDI & other helpful sites*

*MAPS*

 

SHIPLISTS:

  For the Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild:
  http://istg.rootsweb.com/

  New York City to California via Central America (Passenger Lists published in the NEW YORK DAILY TIMES)
  http://www.pt5dome.com/PassHome.html

  Passenger Lists on the Internet: Links to other web sites of lists, etc. (like OLIVE TREE and CYNDI's
  LIST and CIMORELLI to name a few):
  http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html

  "What passenger lists are online?":
  http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

  SHIPSLIST Archives to see what people have already asked and written
  about here, which can lead you in some good directions:
  http://www.oulton.org/cwa/newsships.nsf/Search/$searchform?searchView
  (or http://www.oulton.org/cwa/newsships.nsf/by+date)

  SHIPSLIST home page is: http://www.theshipslist.com/

Olive Tree Passenger lists:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/

Specifically to USA:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/tousa.htm


I just looked at this site below and it has repeated much of what I have here in my website along
with a bunch of other links:
http://www.maxpages.com/ourlostfamily/ships

Lists Penn Ship Lists and Many links for others:
http://www.netmender.net/genelogy/passlist.html

Lists many many links and searchable lists:
http://members.tripod.com/~KHuish/ships.htm

Here's Cimorelli's site, which is popular, though it hasn't actually ever been useful for me:
http://www.cimorelli.com/safe/shipmenu.htm

Also you can try search engines such as http://www.google.com and type the name of
your ship if you know it.
 
 

HAMBURG:

  For Hamburg Searches: You can search HAMBURG Passenger Lists
  (1890-1893) at:
  http://www.hamburg.de/LinkToYourRoots/english/start.htm

You can order the HAMBURG Passenger lists from your local FAMILY
  HISTORY CENTER:

This webpage explains the difference between the Indexes and Lists and what to expect from them:
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=Hamburg_Pass_List.ASP

This webpage explains how to search these records and has the microfilm roll numbers for the
Latter Day Saints (LDS) Family History Library in Salt Lake City:
http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/misc/emig/ham_pass.html

This is an information site describing the port of Hamburg for emmigration (why popular, what conditions like, etc.):
http://www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Pressestelle/emigration/englisch/welcome.htm
 

LIST OF ALL GERMANY TOWNS:
http://www.calle.com/world/germany/index.html

Online German Emigration Databases:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/emigration.html

Here is a web site to look up the occupation of specific German SURNAMES:
http://worldroots.com/brigitte/occupat.htm
 

CALIFORNIA:

BIRTH records from 1905 thru 1995: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/birth/search.cgi
DEATH records from 1940 thru 1997: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi

  New York City to California via Central America (Passenger Lists published in the NEW YORK DAILY TIMES)
  http://www.pt5dome.com/PassHome.html
 
 

SSDI & Other Useful Geneology Sites:

SSDI (Social Security Death Index):
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

VITAL RECORDS FOR U.S. STATES:
http://www.vitalrec.com/usmap.html

WEB SITE WITH CENSUS FORMS TO PRINT UP:
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/00000061.html

Links to lots of Ship Lists and Ship info etc:
http://www.CyndisList.com/ships.htm

ROOTWEB for all sorts of tools helpful in your search:
http://www.rootsweb.com/

Geneology Source Material (as well as ship lists)
http://freespace.virgin.net/alan.tupman/sites/us.htm

Search here for names listed on various CD's:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/

And here:
http://seidata.com/~genealogy/cdlist.html

Deciphering old handwriting:
http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html

The Soundex Machine from the National Archives:
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/soundex/soundex.html

Figuring out NARA and FHL Passenger list records:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html
 

NARA-- National Archives:

  The National Archives, with links to information available on all ports
  and the appropriate microfilm series.
http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/immigrant/immpass.html#portindex

  While we are at it, for info about Passports and Naturalization records
  you can go to
  http://www.nara.gov

  Or more specifically:
  http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/passport.html
  http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/immigration/immigrat.html

 Figuring out NARA and FHL Passenger list records:
 http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html

SHIP PHOTOS:

  For photos of ships you can try these four places.  There are
  others listed at the IMMIGRANT SHIP TRANSCRIBERS GUILD, but these three
  are all I've used so far.

http://www.kinshipsprints.com

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

http://www.sshsa.net/

Go here for a DESCRIPTION of the ship your ancestor came over on. There are no
      photographs on this site, but you'll find a lot of great information about ships here:
http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/ships.htm
 
 

MAPS:

Rare Maps:
http://www.raremaps.com/

Rare Maps (many of Georgia but also some of elsewhere):
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html

Germany Maps:  Find any town:
http://www.calle.com/world/germany/index.html
 
 

INFO (ABOUT Passenger Lists):

  Deciphering old handwriting:
  http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html

  Figuring out NARA and FHL Passenger list records:
  http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html

  Helpful info and leads to places:
  http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/8_mgpal.html

  For Frequently Asked Questions about passenger lists.
  http://www.buffnet.net/~mewexler/shipsfaq.txt
  http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/faq.html#Passenger

  Research Guide to Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists at:
  http://home.att.net/~arnielang
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwat/hist.htm

  Searching Passenger Lists Using the LDS Family History Library
  Catalog Go to:  http://globalgazette.net/backtop.htm

  This talks about LDS resources:
   http://www.firstct.com/fv/lds3.html