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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Ancestry adds Florida State Censuses for Years 1935 and 1945
Finally!! The Florida state censuses of 1935 and 1945 have been scanned and indexed and are on Ancestry.
The database is called: Florida State Census, 1867-1945.
This database contains Florida State Censuses for 1867, 1875, 1885, 1935, and 1945. Information listed may include: name, age, gender, race, relationship to head of household, birthplace, birth date, marital status, and parents' birthplaces.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Surname Frequency in the US Census
The New York Times online has done an article about the recent US Census Bureau's analysis of surnames in America. You can visit the article and search a database of the 5000 most common last names.
"The number of Hispanics living in the United States grew by 58 percent in the 1990s to nearly 13 percent of the total population, and cracking the list of top 10 names suggests just how pervasively the Latino migration has permeated everyday American culture.
Garcia moved to No. 8 in 2000, up from No. 18, and Rodriguez jumped to No. 9 from 22nd place. The number of Hispanic surnames among the top 25 doubled, to 6.
Compiling the rankings is a cumbersome task, in part because of confidentiality and accuracy issues, according to the Census Bureau, and it is only the second time it has prepared such a list. While the historical record is sketchy, several demographers said it was probably the first time that any non-Anglo name was among the 10 most common in the nation. "
"The number of Hispanics living in the United States grew by 58 percent in the 1990s to nearly 13 percent of the total population, and cracking the list of top 10 names suggests just how pervasively the Latino migration has permeated everyday American culture.
Garcia moved to No. 8 in 2000, up from No. 18, and Rodriguez jumped to No. 9 from 22nd place. The number of Hispanic surnames among the top 25 doubled, to 6.
Compiling the rankings is a cumbersome task, in part because of confidentiality and accuracy issues, according to the Census Bureau, and it is only the second time it has prepared such a list. While the historical record is sketchy, several demographers said it was probably the first time that any non-Anglo name was among the 10 most common in the nation. "
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Genealogy Records are Given to Library
Below is an article that appeared in the New York Times on July 19, 2008
Author: SAM ROBERTS
Anyone interested in Genealogy will find this of interest!
Wolfert Van Couwenhoven visited New Amsterdam in 1625 but apparently was unimpressed. He left town and went home to the Netherlands, only to return five years later and purchase a large tract of land on Long Island. He probably never imagined that his odyssey would be immortalized, but there it is, nearly 400 years later, at the New York Public Library.
The library's extensive genealogical collection has just been enormously enhanced by the gift of 75,000 volumes, 30,000 manuscripts and 22,000 reels of microfilm from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
Faced with a dwindling endowment, the members-only G & B, as it is known, sold its four-story building on East 58th Street in Midtown Manhattan last year for $24 million. It bought an office condominium in Midtown where it will now focus on grant-giving, tours, lectures and other means of encouraging genealogical research. One of the first grants was about $1 million to the library for a four-person staff to process and catalog the G & B collection within two years.
"The G & B wanted a place where the members would have access and where the collection would be taken care of," said David S. Ferriero, the Andrew W. Mellon director of the New York Public Libraries.
"Combining the two collections will result in an extraordinary resource for people nationwide seeking to learn about family members who were born in New York, lived in New York or passed through New York on the way to becoming citizens."
Merging the collections will create what Waddell W. Stillman, the society's chairman, described as "one of the world's largest and most accessible genealogical libraries."
The society was founded in 1869 and moved into its building at 122 East 58th Street in 1929. Its earliest members were primarily interested in delving into their 17th- and 18th-century Dutch and English roots, and records of their ancestors in censuses, deeds, baptisms, births, deaths and wills constitute the bulk of the collection.
After World War II, "the G & B had almost disappeared," said William P. Johns, its president. The society was real estate rich, cash poor, and peppered with debate about its direction.
Genealogy grew more popular after the nation's bicentennial, the publication of Alex Haley's "Roots," and the restoration of Ellis Island. In recent years, do-it-yourself programs for amateur genealogists have proliferated, along with commercial ancestry Web sites. Mr. Johns invoked the author Louis Auchincloss, who once acknowledged that in the old days the eminence of one's pedigree might depend "on how much you pay the genealogist."
The society's library closed last month. Now, Mr. Johns said, the society hopes to evolve into more of an umbrella group to encourage and coordinate research.
"The New York Public became far and away the best place to take care of a collection that should stay in New York and stay together," he said. The future of the society's portrait collection, which includes those of prominent New Yorkers and paintings by the British artist Frank O. Salisbury, is being negotiated with the New-York Historical Society.
Last year, the New York Public Library's local history and genealogy division recorded 56,000 visitors and 1,200 mail inquiries, said the division's chief, Ruth Carr.
The collection is mined not only by professional and amateur genealogists, but also by art historians seeking to establish the provenance of paintings or to identify the subjects of centuries-old portraits. Ms. Carr tapped the library's records to trace her father's roots to the 18th century. With the acquisition of the society's collection, including Suffolk County deeds from 1660, she will be able to delve even further back.
The society's collection of 1725-to-1850 cemetery and church records from Hempstead, N.Y., complements the library's holdings of 6,000 photographs of churches, gravestones and old houses on Long Island, Ms. Carr said, and the combined collections will help historians and people "who want to understand the world their ancestors lived in."
William Stingone, the library's Charles J. Liebman curator of manuscripts, pointed to a 19th-century book from the Emigrant Savings Bank in the library's collection, which included the birthdates, occupations and other information on depositors. It was called a "test book" and, the bank used it much the way Web sites do today when they ask security questions about a visitor's favorite color or first pet's name, to verify identities when money was being withdrawn.
The book "ended up being a source of information, though that was never intended," Mr. Stingone said
Author: SAM ROBERTS
Anyone interested in Genealogy will find this of interest!
Wolfert Van Couwenhoven visited New Amsterdam in 1625 but apparently was unimpressed. He left town and went home to the Netherlands, only to return five years later and purchase a large tract of land on Long Island. He probably never imagined that his odyssey would be immortalized, but there it is, nearly 400 years later, at the New York Public Library.
The library's extensive genealogical collection has just been enormously enhanced by the gift of 75,000 volumes, 30,000 manuscripts and 22,000 reels of microfilm from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
Faced with a dwindling endowment, the members-only G & B, as it is known, sold its four-story building on East 58th Street in Midtown Manhattan last year for $24 million. It bought an office condominium in Midtown where it will now focus on grant-giving, tours, lectures and other means of encouraging genealogical research. One of the first grants was about $1 million to the library for a four-person staff to process and catalog the G & B collection within two years.
"The G & B wanted a place where the members would have access and where the collection would be taken care of," said David S. Ferriero, the Andrew W. Mellon director of the New York Public Libraries.
"Combining the two collections will result in an extraordinary resource for people nationwide seeking to learn about family members who were born in New York, lived in New York or passed through New York on the way to becoming citizens."
Merging the collections will create what Waddell W. Stillman, the society's chairman, described as "one of the world's largest and most accessible genealogical libraries."
The society was founded in 1869 and moved into its building at 122 East 58th Street in 1929. Its earliest members were primarily interested in delving into their 17th- and 18th-century Dutch and English roots, and records of their ancestors in censuses, deeds, baptisms, births, deaths and wills constitute the bulk of the collection.
After World War II, "the G & B had almost disappeared," said William P. Johns, its president. The society was real estate rich, cash poor, and peppered with debate about its direction.
Genealogy grew more popular after the nation's bicentennial, the publication of Alex Haley's "Roots," and the restoration of Ellis Island. In recent years, do-it-yourself programs for amateur genealogists have proliferated, along with commercial ancestry Web sites. Mr. Johns invoked the author Louis Auchincloss, who once acknowledged that in the old days the eminence of one's pedigree might depend "on how much you pay the genealogist."
The society's library closed last month. Now, Mr. Johns said, the society hopes to evolve into more of an umbrella group to encourage and coordinate research.
"The New York Public became far and away the best place to take care of a collection that should stay in New York and stay together," he said. The future of the society's portrait collection, which includes those of prominent New Yorkers and paintings by the British artist Frank O. Salisbury, is being negotiated with the New-York Historical Society.
Last year, the New York Public Library's local history and genealogy division recorded 56,000 visitors and 1,200 mail inquiries, said the division's chief, Ruth Carr.
The collection is mined not only by professional and amateur genealogists, but also by art historians seeking to establish the provenance of paintings or to identify the subjects of centuries-old portraits. Ms. Carr tapped the library's records to trace her father's roots to the 18th century. With the acquisition of the society's collection, including Suffolk County deeds from 1660, she will be able to delve even further back.
The society's collection of 1725-to-1850 cemetery and church records from Hempstead, N.Y., complements the library's holdings of 6,000 photographs of churches, gravestones and old houses on Long Island, Ms. Carr said, and the combined collections will help historians and people "who want to understand the world their ancestors lived in."
William Stingone, the library's Charles J. Liebman curator of manuscripts, pointed to a 19th-century book from the Emigrant Savings Bank in the library's collection, which included the birthdates, occupations and other information on depositors. It was called a "test book" and, the bank used it much the way Web sites do today when they ask security questions about a visitor's favorite color or first pet's name, to verify identities when money was being withdrawn.
The book "ended up being a source of information, though that was never intended," Mr. Stingone said
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are a valuable resource for researching local history. They were designed to indicate the potential risk of fire for metropolitan area structures and edifices. The presentation of the maps is similar to a large format plat, showing a sections of municipal area that contain such information as, the outline of the buildings, the size, shape, height, construction materials, location of windows and doors, and what function the building serves. The street names of the particular view are noted as well as the address numbers, sidewalk widths, boundaries, and building use. More information is given in the textual information (such as building materials, reinforced walls, etc.)USING THE SANBORN MAPSFOUR VOLUME SET OF THE MAPS WITH INDEX
(Located at the John F. Germany Library, 2 West)We have some of the original, hardcopy, Sanborn Maps and an index to the four volume set, in the History and Genealogy Collection of the John F. Germany Library downtown. These maps date from 1931 – July 1951. The maps are colored coded in addition to many other notations. Also the hard copy shows the paste-overs that the company did when there was a change of structure or demolition of such. A key to the symbols on the maps appear at the beginning of each volume, on the page entitled "Graphic Map of Volumes" at the very beginning of each book.
ON-LINE DIGITAL SANBORN MAPS
(via Databases and Websites)The on-line maps do not contain paste-overs, but they do have the Sanborn Maps as far back as 1867 which enables the viewer to compare the areas of differing years. In order to access the Sanborn Maps on-line one needs to go to " Online Resources" from the "catalog" menu, then click on "Databases and Websites." Choose "Genealogy," from the left hand side of the page, and scroll down to "Digital Sanborn Maps." When one clicks on this site a page appears that says Digital Sanborn Maps 1867 – 1970. On the bottom you can click on the box that says "Browse Maps," "About The Sanborn Maps," or "Help With This Collection." Choose the one that is most appropriate to your needs.
SANBORN MAPS ON MICROFILM
(Located at John F. Germany Library)The Sanborn maps are on microfilm, as well, for major cities in the following states: Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia. Assistance with microfilm is offered in History and Genealogy.
INDEX TO ALL SANBORN MAPS
The Sanborn index is broken down by "Streets" i.e. 102 E. Seventh Avenue, "Specials" (which is the name of the structure) i.e. Tampa Public Library. Also there is an index for "Additions and Subdivisions." i.e. Parkland Estates. The index will direct you to a volume and/or sheet number. When you click on the appropriate sheet for your search you will see the address or building for which you had been looking.The Sanborn site has a thorough and detailed "Legend" screen containing explication of the notations on the maps. Also, there is a "Help" screen which enables you in your search. How to use this collection is explained in the section of that name.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
National Archives Makes Some Passenger Arrival Records Available Online
For the first time, the National Archives and Records Administration has made available online more than 5.2 million records of some passengers who arrived during the last half of the 19th century at the ports of Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The records were transcribed from original ship manifests into electronic databases by Temple University’s Center for Immigration Research at The Balch Institute. The Center donated the digital records to the National Archives. The records are known as Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Germans to the United States, 1850-1897; Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Italians to the United States, 1855-1900; and Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Russians to the United States, 1834-1897.
There are more than 100 unique “country” codes used in these records. In about 93 percent of them, passengers identified their country of origin or nationality as Germany, Italy, or Russia, or cities or regions of those countries. Passenger records typically include name, age, town of last residence, destination, and codes for the passenger’s sex, occupation, literacy, country of origin, transit and/or travel compartment, and the manifest identification number for the ship. Information on each ship is in a separate file and includes the ship manifest identification number, the name of the ship, the code for its port of departure, and date of arrival. The ship manifest identification number indicates the port of arrival.
Access to these new electronic records is available through the National Archives Access to Archival Databases (AAD) system, a research tool that makes a selection of the National Archives’ most popular electronic records available to the public over the Internet. The AAD system currently includes almost 80 million electronic records from 50 records series in 30 record groups, and four collections of donated historical materials. AAD highlights include records of passengers who arrived at the Port of New York during the Irish Famine, World War II Army enlistment and Prisoners of War, records of Japanese-American internment, and Central Foreign Policy Files from the Department of State.
Reposted from NARA Press Release [February 28, 2008].
There are more than 100 unique “country” codes used in these records. In about 93 percent of them, passengers identified their country of origin or nationality as Germany, Italy, or Russia, or cities or regions of those countries. Passenger records typically include name, age, town of last residence, destination, and codes for the passenger’s sex, occupation, literacy, country of origin, transit and/or travel compartment, and the manifest identification number for the ship. Information on each ship is in a separate file and includes the ship manifest identification number, the name of the ship, the code for its port of departure, and date of arrival. The ship manifest identification number indicates the port of arrival.
Access to these new electronic records is available through the National Archives Access to Archival Databases (AAD) system, a research tool that makes a selection of the National Archives’ most popular electronic records available to the public over the Internet. The AAD system currently includes almost 80 million electronic records from 50 records series in 30 record groups, and four collections of donated historical materials. AAD highlights include records of passengers who arrived at the Port of New York during the Irish Famine, World War II Army enlistment and Prisoners of War, records of Japanese-American internment, and Central Foreign Policy Files from the Department of State.
Reposted from NARA Press Release [February 28, 2008].
Friday, April 20, 2007
Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database
The Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls database is a transcription of each soldier's entry in the record series, Muster and Descriptive Rolls. The database contains information about over 285,000 soldiers from Illinois who served in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion. Each entry includes all of the information that was recorded by the Illinois Adjutant General in the original Muster and Descriptive Rolls. Entries for each roll include soldier's name; rank; age; height; colors of eyes, hair, and complexion; occupation; marital status; birthplace; residence; date, place, and term of enrollment; name
Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Civil War Veterans' Memorial at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield of individual who enrolled soldier; date and place of muster into service; name of mustering officer; date and place of muster out; name of mustering-out officer; and remarks concerning transfers, promotions, injuries, or special duty.
You can find this website - and other Illinois Civil War information - at the Illinois State Archives website.
Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Civil War Veterans' Memorial at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield of individual who enrolled soldier; date and place of muster into service; name of mustering officer; date and place of muster out; name of mustering-out officer; and remarks concerning transfers, promotions, injuries, or special duty.
You can find this website - and other Illinois Civil War information - at the Illinois State Archives website.
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