Ellis Island Database Name Permutations |
The Ellis Island Passenger Manifest database, located at http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ is a great resource to genealogists. It contains information on over 22 million immigrants that came through Ellis Island between the years 1892 and 1924. However, there are serious problems in trying to search the database. These problems have to do with the inconsistent spelling of surnames. Many passenger ship manifests are hand written, and can be hard to read. Add to this the fact that ethnic names may not translate into English, and you get a great database where it can be next to impossible to find your ancestors. That is where this program can help. Simply enter the surname you are researching, and a list of possible alternate spellings will appear. Click on a button, and you can get a custom web page with links to the Ellis Island database for each possible spelling, and a research log to help you keep track of what you have done so far. Read more about this program
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Hamburg Emigration List Name Permutations |
The Emigration Lists of Hamburg website will allow
genealogists to search for people who emigrated through the port of
Hamburg, Germany. By entering a last name, and optionally the
first initial or name, and gender, you will be able to freely view some
of the information from the Hamburg Emigration database. The
Hamburg site then offers you the ability to view the fully extracted
information for a fee. Eventually this database will contain data
for the years 1850 and 1934.
Searching the Hamburg site requires you to know how your ancestor spelled their name. The Hamburg Emigration List Name Permutations program will show you
By simply clicking on the list of possible spellings of the surname you are interested in, you can quickly search the Hamburg database. Read more about this program
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The Multi-lingual Translator
is a unique product
that will allow you to translate words between many different languages, even if
the languages do not use standard Latin characters. All you need to do is
transliterate the foreign letters into the appropriate Latin characters, and
watch the translations appear. Translate between Russian and English,
English and German, or whatever language that you want.
Even if you do not know how to transliterate foreign letters, this program will help. Read more about this program
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Name Permutation Generator |
The internet has many sites where you can search for your ancestors.
Places like Ancestry.com have millions (and sometimes even billions) of names.
However, for most of these sites, you need to know how your ancestor spelled
their name. If you don't know the exact spelling of their name at the time
a specific record was created, you may never find them. Even if you know
how the name was spelled, it may have been entered into some databases
incorrectly, making it virtually impossible to find.
Searching these internet sites requires you to know how your ancestor spelled their name. The Name Permutation Generator program will show you
By simply selecting the website that you want to search, and clicking on the list of possible spellings of the surname you are interested in, you can quickly search any number of websites. The Name Permutation Generator program can search any number of websites. The program comes standard with two website 'plug-ins', which will enable you to access Genseeker.com and the FamilyHistory.com surname message boards. Additional website 'plug-ins' may be purchased at any time. These additional 'plug-ins' will allow you to access additional websites without having to install additional software. Read more about this program
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Shortcut
to the Ancestry.com United States Federal Census images
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Ancestry.com has put images of the United
States federal census's for 1790-1920 online. To access this data, you
need to know the enumeration district that your ancestors lived in.
If you do not have this information, you can purchase various census indexes from HeritageQuest. The HeritageQuest index will tell you the microfilm roll number, part, page, and sub page to look at. However, this information will not help you in using the Ancestry.com site. That is where this program comes in. By simply filling in the microfilm roll number, part, page, and sub page that the HeritageQuest software reports, this program will display the Ancestry.com census image in your browser. Read more about this program |
Web to DiscCopy web pages to disc, downloading all linked pages, or only downloading pages linked by the 'next page' button |
Web-to-Disc, a companion program to Web-to-Excel,
will allow you to quickly and easily download pages linked to any web page.
The program gives you the ability to download ALL pages that your starting web
page points to, or to download pages following the "Next Page" link.
In addition, you can enter the maximum number of pages to download, and can
indicate text that must appear on the pages. Once the pages have been
downloaded to your computer, use Web-to-Excel
to put the data into Excel.
Read more about this program |
Web
to Excel
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Have you ever visited a web site that contained lots of useful information, and
then were faced with the challenge of trying to save the data. You may
have printed out the web page, or maybe you copied the information to a piece of
paper. Later on, when you wanted to find that information, you would look
through the piles of paper, hoping to find what you had printed.
The Web-to-Excel program hopes to make your life easier, by allowing you to import the data on these web pages, and from Gedcom files, directly into Excel. Now you do not need to spend your time looking through sheets of paper. Instead, retrieve the data in Excel, sort and manipulate the data any way that you want, and find everything quickly and easily. Read more about this program |