My Links

Bluenose launching, March 26, 1921

Picture (postcard) courtesy of Alfred Vogler

Links to Friends & Relatives

• Information on Hattie A. Perry's latest book, "Ordeals at Sea" can be viewed at http://www3.telus.net/norma/ , the main site of Norma Vogler McGuire.

• Hattie is an: “Author, historian, school teacher, genealogist, publisher, environmentalist and community worker; sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, but all the time willing to learn and to accept a challenge.” - Coast Guard Magazine. She has written eight books pertaining to the life and times around Barrington, Nova Scotia. Such titles as “Through a Hole In The Fog”, “Finest Kind”, “This was Barrington”... all containing genealogical and historical records for future generations.

• http://www3.telus.net/norma/ "My tree of life" by Norma (Vogler) McGuire of Langley, B.C. Wonderful site with information on the Vogler, Lantz, Phalen, Andrews & White families. My cousin Norma provided endless help with my site.

• http://www.trooper.bc.ca Ra McGuire

• http://www.davidvogler.com David Vogler

Other Vogler (and variations) Family Sites (Not related at this point)

• http://www.fmoran.com/vogler.html From the Jarvis Family Home Page, covers the Descendants of Philip Christoph Vogler.

• http://www.voglerfoundation.org The Philip Christoph Vogler Foundation Inc.

Vogler's in history and the news. (Not related at this point)

• https://sites.rootsweb.com./~neresour/OLLibrary/hwnep/voliii/hwnp513.htm Henry Vogler, He was born in Baden, Germany, October 8, 1864. There is a great picture of Henry and his wife as well as a brief life story.

• http://www.akip.org/joe.html Joe Vogler was the founding father of the Alaskan Independence Party.

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15501a.htm George Joseph Vogler, Theorist, composer and organist, b. at Würzburg, 15 June 1749, d. at Darmstadt, 6 May, 1814.

Ships, Fishing and "Lost At Sea"

• http://www.lostatsea.ca/ Fishing? - It was "A WAY OF LIFE" and Lost At Sea, By S. Nelson.

• Out of Gloucester Covers the story of the "Avalon". Very nice site! By R. Sheedy

• http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8010/basisbwdocs/sid/e_main.html Search data base for vessels, masters, owners, builders and voyages.

• http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fma/ Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

• http://www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm Cindy's List.

• http://www.istg.rootsweb.com/ The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• http://www.theshipslist.com/ The Ship's List.

• http://olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml Olive Tree's ship's passeneger lists index by year.

Nova Scotian Genealogy

• http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~tancook/ Tancook Island Homepage, by M. Farrar.

• http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/8785/L250.html LUNENBURG's 250th ANNIVERSARY GENEALOGICAL ASPECTS

• Anecdotal Histories of Life in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia The Diary of Johann Michael Schmitt

• Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia GenWeb Project A must see for anyone researching Lunenburg families, years worth of research for you to view. I also like the music Gail Facini has in the background.

• http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/8785/ Wizard's Cove By Chris Young, another must see for research on Lunenburg families as well as the Vogler's.

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/ Don Shankle's site "Down east".

• https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nslssgs// South Shore Genealogical Society, Great information on Lunenburg & Queens Counties.

• http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/cghl.html Canadian Genealogy & History. A listing of Genealogical and Historical Web sites from East to Western Sea. A great site by Jessica Veinot.

• http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7843/poll.html LUNENBURG COUNTY'S CANADIAN CENSUS CAMPAIGN. Make sure you take time to visit this site.

• http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Recreation/GANS/ The Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia.

• http://nsgna.ednet.ns.ca/ The Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association.

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~easternpassage/ Eastern Passage & Cow Bay NS GenWeb.

• http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bryanfkeddy/index.html Halifax County surname registry and more, by Bryan Keddy.

• https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nshalifa/ Welcome to the Halifax County Site of the Nova Scotia GenWeb Project.

• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~downhome/ Flat Rocks, Nova Scotia. "DOWN HOME", by Muriel M. Davidson

• http://www.nsarm.ednet.ns.ca/index.htm Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management

Research Tools for Canada, U.K., & the USA

• http://canada411.sympatico.ca/ The phone book for Canada. Now with over 10 million listings, including postal codes!

• http://www.canadapost.ca/CPC2/addrm/pclookup/pclookup.shtml Canadian Postal Code look up.

• http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ Social Security Death Index Interactive Search

• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/canada.html Canadian libraries on the Web.

• http://www.ecola.com/ A Guide to English-Language Media Online. Links to Nova Scotian newspapers.

• http://members.home.net/dneylan/index.html Canadian History On The Web.

• http://www.lookupuk.com/ The Resource Centre for finding that Lost Friend or Relative in the UK.

• http://www.cwgc.org/ The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Canadian Military (current & historical)

• http://www.canada.gc.ca/ Government of Canada.

• http://www.dnd.ca/ National Defence.

• http://www.army.dnd.ca/ The Canadian Army.

• http://www.airforce.dnd.ca/ The Canadian Airforce.

• http://www.navy.dnd.ca/cdnnavy.html The Canadian Navy.

• http://www.rcaf.com/ Royal Canadian Air Force.

• http://www.airforce.ca/ Airforce Association of Canada. There is a great section on awards and citations. Pre WWII - Post WWII.

• http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milorg/canada.html Armed Forces Canada.

• http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/ Veterans Affairs Canada.

• http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&020106&e&top&0 Soldiers of the First World War — Canadian Expeditionary Force. From the National Archives of Canada site.

• http://www.nucleus.com/~amacleo/air.htm Canadian Air Force Brats Association Home Page. Of which I am a proud member :-).

• http://www.baden-baden.com/eng/index_e.html Baden-Baden Germany is the place I was born.

• http://www.4wing.coldlake.dnd.ca/ Cold lake Alberta. Another base our family was stationed at (before I was born).

• http://www.slemonpark.com/ This is Slemon Park PEI. It was closed by the Airforce in the 1990's and is now a site of commercial activity. We lived there in the 1960's.

• http://www.14wing.dnd.ca/ C.F.B. Greenwood (now called 14 Wing Greenwood). We lived there in the late 50's to the early 60's and again in the early to late 70's.

Nova Scotian and Canadian Related Information Sites

• http://atlas.gc.ca/english/index.html The National Atlas of Canada Online.

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sburns/ CLIPS AND SNIPS Genealogical Information from The Acadian Recorder

• http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/epb/sfish/maps/ns/ns.html Very detailed map of Nova Scotia.

• http://www.gov.ns.ca/homa/muns/info/counties/counties.htm Nova Scotian Counties.

• http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/mapping/default.asp?section=mappingcanada Mapping Canada.

• http://nsonline.com/main/nsmap.htm Map of Nova Scotia - (Vogler's Cove is between Lunenburg & Liverpool).

• http://service.iotek.ns.ca/eagles/eaglepage.html Eagles In the Annapolis Valley.

• http://www.gov.ns.ca/ Nova Scotia Home Page.

• http://destination-ns.com/ Coming to Nova Scotia? Destination Nova Scotia.

• http://www.canadiana.org/ Early Canadiana

• http://www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/museum/ Nova Scotia Museums (25).

• http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/danksta/ Photography of Terry Danks. Two of the pictures on my site were taken by Terry.

• http://www.archives.ca/index.html National Archives of Canada.

• http://www.town.lunenburg.ns.ca/ Town of Lunenburg.

• http://www.gov.pe.ca/ Official site of the Government of Prince Edward Island. There are some excellent aerial photographs of various spots in PEI on this site.

• http://www.letterstoleaders.com/ E-mail addresses for all the Federal and Provincial Government Leaders.

• http://alts.net/ns1625/index.html Specializing in on-line information about Nova Scotia.

During the last year or so, I have attempted to find the birthplace of my ancestor Johann Heinrich Vogler. All that is known is he originated from Prussia (ships list from the Sally). Over the course of this search I have accumulated a list of name, map, and location links. The following is a small list of some of my favourite links. I hope by posting this information it may be of use to people researching other surnames.

Maps & Flags

• http://www.iag.net/~jsiebold/carto.html Cartographic Images. A fantastic site for any map, any time period.

• http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm ShtetlSeeker - Town Search. The best place I have found for locating just about any German town, village, city etc.

• http://www.calle.com/world/index.html This is a directory of 2880532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town.

• http://www.mapquest.com/ Another great source of maps.

• http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/ National Imagery and Mapping Agency. NIMA

• http://home.t-online.de/home/hans-peter.voss/maps/map01.htm The German empire around 1530.

• http://uk8.multimap.com/map/places.cgi Great for the UK.

• http://vassun.vassar.edu/~medisque/german/maps.html Here are some maps that will be useful when trying to get a better idea of what was happening to the shape of Germany during the 19th century.

• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/germany.html Germany maps. The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. The University of Texas at Austin.

• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/map_sites/hist_sites.html Historical Map Web Sites. The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. The University of Texas at Austin

• http://www.multimap.com/index/CZ.htm Germany Map & Place name Index.

• http://members.xoom.com/BW_List/maps/maps.htm Beautiful large coloured maps of Germany through the ages.

• http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/cgndb.html Querying Canadian Geographical Names. Complete with maps.

• http://www.expediamaps.com/ From Microsoft. With Expedia Maps you can locate businesses and other addresses, as well as places and points of interest.

• http://www.falk-online.de/citymap/index.html Lists around 80 German cities.

• http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html FEEFHS MAP ROOM - Background and MAP INDEX-

• http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/ An atlas of the German Empire.

• http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/index.html "Flags of the World" website

General Information (mostly Germany)

• http://www.postag.de/ This is the German Post Office.

• http://www.anancyweb.com/german_search.html #1 source to Germany & German Search Engine Links

• http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/ Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world.

• http://www.entry.de/english/germany.html The directory of German WWW. Servers

• http://www.katholische-kirche.de/ Catholic Church in Germany

• http://www.worldroots.com/brigitte/occupat.htm Old German Occupations. This page loads slow, bit it is worth the wait.

• http://www.neuschwanstein.net/ Neuschwanstein Castles Net, Castle Pictures, German Road Maps, History Tours, Bavaria and Swabia Castle Hotels, Middle Rhine River Valley Cruises, Wine. Romantic medieval cities and towers in South and Southwest Germany. Map, Picture, Information.

• http://www.stadt-ravensburg.de/englisch/english.htm Hermann Vogler, Oberbürgermeister (Mayor), Ravensburg Germany.

• http://www.germany-tourism.de/ Excellent road maps and general information.

• http://www.tau.ac.il/GermanHistory/links.html German History WWW Links.

• http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/history/ghistbib.htm Yale University Library.

• http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/roman.html ROMAN NUMERAL AND DATE CONVERSION WITH ROMAN CALCULATOR & ROMAN NUMERALS TEST

Switzerland (general topics)

• http://www.admin.ch/ch/index.en.html CONFOEDERATIO HELVETICA, The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation.

• http://www.gov.ch/HomeE.HTM The Register of Helvetic Administration and Public Services.

• http://www.parlament.ch/ Federal Assembly.

• http://www.statistik.admin.ch/eindex.htm Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel.

• http://www.slmnet.ch/ Swiss National Museum.

• http://www-nmbe.unibe.ch/ Natural History Museum, Berne (NMBE).

• http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/ Swiss Genealogy on the Internet. Quite likely all you will need in one site.

• http://www.cyndislist.com/swiss.htm Cyndi's List - Switzerland. Unlimited supply of resources.

• http://www.yoodle.ch/en/ surfin' Switzerland.

• http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/reg/CH/history.html Swiss Genealogy on the Internet.

• http://www.unige.ch/biblio/ses/jla/gen/swiss-e.html Genealogy in French-Speaking Switzerland.

Genealogy Data

• http://www.german-way.com/german/gene.html#org Germanic Genealogy. Find your Germanic roots with our genealogy links!

• http://www.ezab.org/ Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland 

• http://www.dortmund.de/ The Heart of Westphalia. Strong on Europe.

• http://www.feefhs.org/masteri.html FEEFHS Web Site, Master IndexPage

• http://www.germanmigration.com/ German Migration Resource Center.

• http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/nausa/pitfal.htm GERMANS TO AMERICA -- 50 VOLUMES THAT ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED

• http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/geneal.htm Immigrants, German influence, Early settlers.

• http://distantcousin.com/Links/Ethnic/German.html German Genealogical Resources.

• http://www.rand.org/personal/Genea/ RAND Genealogy Club

• http://www3.adnc.com/~lynnd/gfaq.html Adalbert Goertz's Regional German FAQs.

• http://www.ahnenforschung.net/ German genealogical site

• http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/odessa.html ODESSA ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library

• http://www.zlb.de/linksammlungen/familienforschung.htm Familienforschung.

• http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/index.htm Lots of German research links.

• http://community-1.webtv.net/lhbuehler/FANTASTICSITESLINKS/ Lots of genealogy links.

• http://www.volksbund.de/ information about grave sites of german soldiers killed in WW1 & WW2. When the site comes up, click on grabersuche online (pic on upper right). Next, click on zur Onlinesuche. Fill in the first name, then the last name (or just the last name on the 2). At the bottom, click on suche beginnen.

• http://www.familysearch.org/ Family search, Internet genealogy service. British Isles, North America, and Finland regions.

• http://www.familytreemaker.com/ Search 325 million names.

• http://www.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/edatbase.htm Internet Sources of German Genealogy.

• http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/surnam-m.htm Swiss Genealogy on the Internet.

• http://www.ancestry.com/ Search 274 Million Names in 1770 Databases.

• http://www.surnameweb.org/ The Genealogy Web Portal

• http://www.cyndislist.com/ Mega site with many links. More than 53,300 links! 42,850 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over 100 categories. Another 11,450+ uncategorized new links in the works.

• https://sites.rootsweb.com/ The Internet's Oldest and Largest FREE Genealogy Community.

• http://www.gensource.com/ This site provides the online genealogist with three databases to assist them with their research online.

• http://www.german-genealogy.com/ The German genealogy web directory.

• http://www3.adnc.com/~lynnd/vudeu.html German Study Group--Genealogy Links and Items

German to English on-line translation

• http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/ Translation with SYSTRAN®, available from Alta Vista.

• http://dictionaries.travlang.com/GermanEnglish/ German-English On-line Dictionary

• http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/urz/netz/forms/dict.html German <-> English dictionary.

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

• http://www.t-mail.com/ T-Mail = Translate-Mail. Great for communicating in German and a few other languages.

• http://eurodic.echo.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl Look up words in twelve different languages.

Internet phone books & e-mail

• www.mediaglobe.de This is a general link to all telephone books in the world, among others the white and yellow pages of Germany. In the entry world map click on Europe, this will lead you on to the different countries.

• http://www.teldir.com Telephone Directories on the Web at teldir.com is the Internet's original and most detailed index of online phone books, with links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from all around the world.

• http://www.teleauskunft.de/ Click on English (top left corner). The telephone book for Germany.

• http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/ The largest email address book worldwide.

For my brother Mike and the penguins at Expo '67