Resourceful Links
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ISTG Ship Lists	Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. 1,000's of Searchable passenger lists.
German Telephone Book	Search Germany White Pages Telephone Book. (Select English.)
Ellis Island	Search the Immigration Records at Ellis Island, NY. Try name variations.
IRAD	IRAD records for Cook County, IL
Lake County Library	Lake County, IN Public Library. Genealogy Room.
FT. WAYNE LIBRARY	The well-renowned ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 2nd largest genealogy resources in the USA.
WORLD CONNECT	Start Here with some tips on using World Connect, then follow the links to perform a database search for ancestor surnames.
CENSUS TABLE	Table showing which states were part of each census during 1790-1920.
TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES	List of telephone directories on the WWW. Find your country and do a name search.
LDS SITE	Church of Latter Day Saints. Tremendous on-line data, the NEW SITE provides original birth, death, marriage documents.
GERMAN ARCHIVES	List of Archives in Germany.
MESSAGE BOARDS	Main directory to ROOTS Message Boards. See if anyone else has posted an inquiry about your family name. Locate a board, (international, state, county, topic) and post your own message. (No subscription needed.)
MAILING LISTS	Main directory to ROOTS Mailing Lists. Anyone can browse or search the mailing lists to find a discussion on your surname, a location, or other specific topic. You must subscribe to participate/post messages.
FREE WEB ACCOUNT	Request a Free Web Account at Rootsweb.  Personal sites, groups, or localities are welcome to create and share genealogy data on their own FREE web sites.
HAMBURG EMIGRATION SITE	The Official Hamburg Emmigration web site will eventually have all passenger records on-line. Initial name search to identify a passenger is free, you will need to pay a fee if you want complete details. On-line database is growing.
INDIANA GENEALOGY	Genealogy Research in Indiana
www.google.com	Getting to be my favorite search tool. Click HERE for a quick tip to get better search results.
NEWBERRY LIBRARY	The Newberry Library in Chicago. Hit the "Genealogy" link.
SSGHS	South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society, Hazel Crest, IL. South Chicago, IL area (Cook County, IL). "Pullman Town" data, and more.
FEHMARN ISLAND, GERMANY	Nice site about Genealogy on the Fehmarn Island, Germany. Over 140,000 names, searchable. Family genealogy reports on request. Photos, links, and more.
OSTEUROPA INSTITUTE	The Osteuropa Institute, Muenich. In German, but easy to search for names.
PASSENGER MICROFILMS	Numerical list of the 675 rolls of microfilm at NARA, indicating passenger lists at the PORT OF NEW YORK (not Ellis) from 1820-1897. Sorry, the films can be viewed ONLY at a NARA office. (LDS & Allen County Library have the films too.) There is no index for this period.
CYNDIS LIST	The biggest reference, now with over 140,000 links to Genealogy resources.
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BREMEN PASSENGER LISTS	How to investigate the Bremen Passenger Lists. This is not an on-line database.
SEARCH BREMEN 1920-1939	The English page to search select years of the Bremen Passenger Lists.
BLM SITE	Search records at the Bureau of Land management.
NECROLOGY DATABASE	St. Joseph County Public Library, South Bend, IN. Search Obit database of the South Bend Tribune, 1920-1969.
MILITARY NOTES	St. Joseph County Public Library. Search Military notes for names during WWll, or VietNam & Korean era. (1941-1979) 38,000 total entries.
Illinois Land Sales	Search the Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database. Also a link to a nice PDF map of Illinois counties and townships, showing Principle Meridians and Base Lines to help locate land areas once you have the description.
TUTORIAL	A tutorial to help locate land tracts in Illinois via tract maps.
GERMANY FAMILY GENEALOGY	Search some private Family Genealogy sites in Germany, by letter of surname (nachnamen). In German, but you may recognize a name.
ON LINE CENSUS	Well organized access to SOME of the census data that is available on-line. Don't let "some" fool you, there are 70,000+ links here.
BUSINESS SEARCH	Indiana Business Search Database
CHURCH DATA	German Evangical Church. Click on the map to find churches in that area of Germany. Some in English, most in German. Some results produce church name, address, city, pastor, phone, fax, web site, and e-mail address.
EASTLAND	The official "Eastland Disaster Memorial" website, the cruise ship that sank at the dock in Chicago, IL., July 24, 1915. Compiled list of the 844 casualites. Names and burial locations.
LINKS TO RESOURCES or INFORMATION IN THE MICHIGAN CITY, LaPORTE COUNTY, INDIANA AREA LaPorte, Indiana is the County Seat of LaPorte County, for Courthouse & Health Dept. Records.
MC LIBRARY	Michigan City, IN Public Library. "Indiana Room" for genealogy.
LaPorte Library	LaPorte County, IN Public Library
LP Hist. Soc.	LaPorte County, IN Historical Society Museum. Provides Genealogy assistance.
COUNTY CEMETERIES	A searchable database of ALL the cemeteries in LaPorte County, Indiana. Many have photos and maps. Read / sign the guestbook. Great site.
MICHIGAN CITY	Does your research give you a need to know about, or come to, Michigan City, Indiana? (LaPorte County) NO GENEALOGY HERE, but a nice introduction to the community.
FUNERAL HOME RECORDS Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana Please limit your inquiry to a name and date that you know was handled by a specific Funeral Home, and they will check their records.
	Carlisle Funeral Home     (219) 874-6209
	Ott/Haverstock Funeral Chapel     (219) 872-7291
	Root Funeral Home     (219) 874-6209
	Coleman-Williams-Hicks Funeral Chapel     (219) 872-8412
LINKS TO UNUSUAL or FUN THINGS
www.missingmoney.com	Entering a Name search by state will return the last known address if there is a match. A silly way to find a possible location of a living or decesed person(?). Accuracy unknown. Good luck if you find some money too.
FREE TRANSLATIONS	Free language translation site at Google. On-line translators provide questionable accuracy, but can help.
FORMS	Print forms to record your family data. Print blanks, or PDF format lets you key in data with your computer.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS	If you've never been here, make a pot of coffee ..... and take your time. Millions of archives of American History. You may find something in an unusual category that relates to your family history. Practice digging into the many sub-categories. Photos, maps, scans, stories, MORE!
* The Library of Congress Link (above) produced these subjects within the topic of "advertising history".
SHIP LIST	Scanned documents showing the list of 1st Class Passengers aboard the RMS "VIRGINIAN", sailing from Liverpool to Quebec on 27 Aug 1913. Ship photo and other data of the voyage included. (Not a manifest list.)
FARES FOR VOYAGE	Scan of advertisement listing passenger fares for ALLAN LINE Ships, Liverpool to Virgina, October, 1872. Was your ancestor aboard?
RICKER'S SODA FOUNTAIN	Nice photo at Trenton, NJ, State and Broad St., Ricker's Drug Store/Soda Fountain, May 1923. Hope the family knows about this one.
BIZARRE PRODUCT	Advertisement for an unusual coffin from 1844.
FAMOUS PIX	The most famous picture in our research.
FRETTIN' POEM	For those approaching the "Golden Years", these few words may make your day.
MISC DATA TO SHARE (On this site) Information found and organized by your webmaster that may be of research interest. Hope it's useful, or share a familiar name with someone you know.
OBITS	74 Local Death Notices. (Transcribed, not scans) Earliest Birth shown - 1874, Poland. Latest Death - Apr. 2002. Friends of the family found in a shoe-box. Original copies available to interested families. Names range from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Iowa, California, and 1 Poland.
PASSENGER LISTS	Variations of passenger names with BLISSMER spelling "BLE - BLI", transcribed from the Germans to America Passenger records, Vol 1-67. Passenger names and age, Ship names, ports, and dates.
BLIESMER FAMILY(?)	A mysterious trail of name variations for a small family in LaPorte, Indiana. Leads from Germany, NY, Indiana, Illinois, California, Colorado and Arizona.. Resources cited, and a family tree guestimate. CAN YOU CONNECT TO THESE PEOPLE?

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