I am researching all instances of the surnames: AHNS, FRANTZROB, KAUTH, WANDERER, VORHERR / VORHER, MANGOT, LAUTMAN, MERSLANOVICH / MERZLANOVICH, PROVISOR, PELLINGER / POELLINGER / PÖLLINGER, and WEESHAPPLE / WEISHAPEL / WEISHAPPLE / WEISHAPLE / WEISHAPL / WEISHAUPL / WEISHÄUPL / WEISHEIPL / WEISSHEUPEL. I am researching all instances of "Loius ARKIN" and "Edith ARKIN". Yes, I am obsessed with genealogy. If you are researching any of these names, you can contact me by e-mailing: rachel "at" reinyday.com
I am also interested in any information on:
- Arkin Advertising Service of Chicago (1920's)
- Arkin Gowns Inc of Chicago (1920's)
- the Women's Clothing store at 528 E Colorado in Pasadena, CA (1931-3)
- the Women's Clothing store at 630 E Colorado in Pasadena, CA (1936-40)
The program I am using collects the following information:
For everyone:
- Name
- Birthdate
- Birthplace
- Mother
- Father
- Gender
For marriages:
- Names
- Date
- Place
- Minister/Judge
- Date of Divorce
For deaths:
- Name
- Date
- Place
- Cause
- Widow/er
Useful links:
- Social Security Death Index:
(contains deaths after 1951 for which a death benefit was paid)
- http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
(preferred beacuse it allows you to post a message with contact info attached to a listing)- http://ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm
(more recent material, faster)- http://www.familytreemaker.com/fto_ssdisearch.html
(allows wildcards, slower)- http://www.mytrees.com/cgi-bin/genealogy/ssdi?-1+0+English
(requires a year range, which I put as 1700-3000)- census stuff:
- obit stuff:
- cemetary stuff:
- other stuff:
- town - county locator
- American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island
- ShtetlSeeker Town Search -- Brezerky / Bilizerky, Russia
- Using Burial Permits as Resources
- How to Read a Hebrew Tombstone
- Genealogy page of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Search USGenWeb
- Family Tree Maker's Internet FamilyFinder
- GenServ Sample Search Request Form
- Soundex Converter by RootsWeb
- Vital Records for each state
- Freedom of Information Guyide
- ORPHAN ARCHIVES: RECORDS & HOLDINGS
- Orphan search links
- Orphan Trains article
- Herb Arkin's tree
- Family History Center Locator
- AnyWho and Switchboard and InfoSpace
- New York:
- New York Genforum posts -- NY County, Bronx County, Queens County
- NY GenWeb
- Vital Records:
- NYC application for death certificate: post-1948 ($15) and pre-1949 ($15)
- NY Dept of Health [vital records ($11)]
- VitalCheck: Vital Record Providers for NY ($15 + $5 mail)
- New York State Archives [Genealogy Information & Genealogical Sources]
- NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)
- New York City GenWeb
- Census Online - NY
- NY cemetaries:
- NY towns that have changed names
- The NY Genealogical and Biographical Society
- NARA Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals in NY, NY (Ellis Island) [what NARA has]
- New York Family History
- Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page
- New York City buildings as they existed in 1939-41
- California:
- California Genforum posts -- Los Angeles
- CA GenWeb
- Vital Records:
- California Births 1905-1995
- California Deaths 1940-1997 & here
- CA Dept of Health: How to order vital records
- County of Los Angeles Vital Records
- VitalCheck: Vital Record Providers for CA
- VitalCheck: CA Vital Statistics
(faster but more expensive, online and fax orders)- How to Order a Certified Copy from the California Office of Vital Records
(cheaper but slower, fax only)- The CA Genealogical Society
- The Guide for the CA History Section of the CA State Library
- Wisconsin:
- Wisconsin Genforum posts -- Winnebago
- WI GenWeb
- Vital Records:
- WI vital records ($12 birth, $7 marriage/divorce/death)
- Milwaukee Vital Statistics
- VitalCheck: WI VITAL STATISTICS
- VitalCheck: Vital Record Providers for WI
- Census Online - Wisconsin
- WI Land Record Interactive Search
- WI Historical Societies
- The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Marshfield, WI:
- Minnesota:
- Galacia:
- a map of Galacia, 1882
- Gesher Galacia - a JewishGen SIG
- Austrian Genealogy - Galicia
- Galacian research
- Galizien German Descendants
- Galizien German Descendants
- Galicia Administrative Districts (1906-1914)
- Galacia Research List - GALRL
- Austro-Hungarian Empire:
- Austria, Hungary, Poland & Ukraine:
- Germany:
- Other locations:
- Avotaynu Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
- Chicago Streets
- Texas births
- WorldGenWeb Project
- International Jewish Cemetery Project - Israel
- Safed/Safad Israel forums
- Ireland GenWeb
- Lithuania Genforum Posts
- "All Lithuania Database" (ALD) at JewishGen
- Russia Genforum Posts
- Galizien / Galacia links
- Florida Vital Records & officially & here
- A Geographic Name Server
- Geographic Names Information System for U.S. and Territories
- The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- 1895 Atlas of US
- a person's naturalization status: "Al" for alien, "Pa" for "first papers," and "Na" for naturalized
- Jews As A Nation
- GenForum:
- topics on the tree: Jewish,
- paternal surnames on the tree: Cantor (2/19/99), Marks (2/7/99), Gottesman, Rein (1/29/99), Scharf, Silverman, Simon
- maternal surnames on the tree: Brubaker (1/30/99), Dake (12/18/98 + 1/25/99), Dolan (1/25/99), Frank, Marsh, Potter (1/02/99), Weber (12/05/98)
- others: Abbott, Bader, Barksdale, Baron, Bitner, Brower, Burger, Close, Costa, Daum, Franklin, Freeman, Friedrich, Gilbert, Gordon, Horn, Johnson, Levine, Levy, Lewin, Lewis, Marcus, Montana, Parker, Post, Rosenbaum, Ryan, Stern, Stine, Stone, Taylor, Weiland, Wyatt, Zimmerman
- GedHTree GEDCOM to HTML converter
- Herb Arkin
- Unclaimed Persons
- Marks-Cantor obit ||| Marks in Town of Perth Cemetary ||| professional Jewish genealogists
- placesnamed.com: Arkin, Cantor, Gottesman, Rehrer, Rein, Weber, no Mangot, no Pellinger, no Poellinger, no Weishapple or variations