Posted on May 17, 2012
More than five million Europeans left for the New World via the port of Hamburg between 1850 and 1939. This site gives you a peek at what it was like for them. The BallinStadt — Port of Dreams Museum will be located on the grounds of the former "Emigrants' Halls", which began operating in 1901 and were continually expanded up until 1907 to form a sizeable settlement. View photographs, historical details about the facility, timelines, background information on Europe's emigration wave and more.
URL: www.ballinstadt.com/en/index.php
Category: Family History
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Posted on May 16, 2012
Description provided by the author: My blog is about different resources to use that will help in researching ancestors, showing fellow family history researchers what I did in locating my own family history and showing readers real life experiences that I have had while researching my family history so they can learn from my mistakes.
URL: www.thefamilyhistoryresearcher.com
Written By: Tracy Collins
Blog Category: Genealogy Education
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Posted on May 15, 2012
Includes information about websites and print references about the Empire as a whole, as well as, details by individual countries and areas.
URL: http://www.jgsgb.org/pdfs/Wellisch handout.pdf
Category: Austro-Hungarian Genealogy
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Posted on May 13, 2012
Description provided by the author: Genealogy/Family History blogs, "Echo Hill Ancestors Weblog" for my family lines and "The Family File" for my husband's lines. In the beginning I had just one that included both lines, but it simply became too complicated (for the user) to find what they were looking for, so I split them out and provided an index for each family name.
URL: http://susaned3.wordpress.com/
Written By: Sue Edminster
Blog Category: Family Genealogy
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Posted on May 12, 2012
The aim of this site is to document the organizational history of the land forces of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from just prior to the outbreak of World War 1 until the collapse of the monarchy in 1918. Has extensive information on units, battles, uniforms, and some biographical information; good reference point for general military information.
URL: http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk
Category: Austro-Hungarian Genealogy
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Posted on May 11, 2012
Description provided by the author: It became my primary means for telling our family story. I attempt to tie an ancestor to a historical event, visit the area, and bring it all together in a blog post. My blog is titled Chasing the Family Ghosts .
Written By: Sam Askew
Blog Category: Family Genealogy
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Posted on May 10, 2012
Informative site with numerous links for Austrian genealogy, including an Austrian genealogy forum, Austrian mailing lists, phonebooks, a large surname list, Austrian genealogy queries and much more.
URL: www.distantcousin.com/Links/Ethnic/Austria
Category: Austro-Hungarian Genealogy
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Posted on May 09, 2012
Description provided by the author: Notes about my research and writings as a professional historical researcher and writer. A unique feature is an mystery researcher profile of archives I have visited.
URL: http://the-historyman.blogspot.com/
Written By: Simon Fowler
Blog Category: Genealogy Education
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Posted on May 08, 2012
The Associated Catholic Cemeteries is comprised of four cemeteries owned and managed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle.
URL: http://www.acc-seattle.com/
Category: Name Data Bases-Washington
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Free cookbooks and recipes from the past 200 years. The first offering is a cookbook.
Posted on May 06, 2012
Description provided by the author: Branch Out Genealogy was started to pass along my years of research experience in order to help people learn how to research their family histories. All kinds of genealogical topics are covered with an emphasis on different documents and places genealogical information can be found as well as correctly interpreting data .
URL: www.branchoutgen.com
Written By: Shannon
Blog Category: Genealogy Education
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Posted on May 05, 2012
The Works Project Administration (WPA) put many people to work interviewing early pioneers in Arizona. This collection covers the names, birth dates, birth locations and other genealogy-specific data, as well as the stories of hardship, Indian raids, outlaws and courage.
URL: http://www.getnet.com
Category: Name Data Bases-Arizona
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Posted on May 04, 2012
Description provided by the author: While MyHeritage.com has several blogs in English and other languages, the GenBlog generally focuses on more advanced topics for those with more than beginner skills.
URL: http://genblog.myheritage.com
Written By: Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Blog Category: Genealogy Education
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