Useful Books and Webpages

BOOKS

• Book – Basic Genealogy by Stephen Szabados
•  Book – How to Do Everything Genealogy 3rd Edition by George G. Morgan
•  Book – Index of Chicago Czech obituaries – The Denni Hlasatel obituary index, 1971-1995 by Joe Novak
• Book – The Family Tree Polish, Czech And Slovak Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Family Tree in Eastern Europe by  Lisa Alzo
• Book – The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe by James Beidler
• Book – Dictionary of German Names by Hans Bahlow
• Book – Polish Genealogy: Four steps to success by Stephen Szabados
• Book- Following the paper trail: a multilingual translation guide by Jonathan D. Shea & William F. Hoffman
• Book- In Their Words: a genealogist’s translation guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian documents by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman
• Book- Going Home – A Guide to Polish American Family Research by Jonathan D. Shea
• Book- A translation guide to 19th-century Polish-language civil registration documents: including birth, marriage and death records by Judith R. Frazin
• Book– First Names of the Polish Commonwealth: Origins & Meanings by William F. Hoffman and George Wiesław Helon
• Book- Polish surnames: origins and meanings by William F. Hoffman
• Book – Polish Roots. Second Edition 2nd Edition by Rosemary a. Chorzempa
• Book – Daily Life in Immigrant America 1820-1870 by James M. Bergquist
• Book – Daily Life in Immigrant America 1870-1920 by June Granatir Alexander
• Book – Jadwiga’s Crossing: A Story of the Great Migration by Aloysius A. Lutz , Richard J. Lutz
• Book – “Our Daily Bread: German Village Life, 1500-1850”, by Teva J. Sheer
• Book – God’s Playground: A History Of Poland: In Two Volumes by Norman Davies
• Book – The Study Of Obituaries As A Source For Polish Genealogical Research by Thomas E Golembiewski
• Book – Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
• Book – A Guide To Chicago And Midwestern Polish-American Genealogy by Jason Kruski
• Book – Haller’s Polish Army in France by Paul S Valasek
• Book – Creating Kashubia, History, Memory, and Identity in Canada’s First Polish Community by Joshua C. Blank
• Book – Polish Immigrants And Industrial Chicago: Workers On The South Side, 1880-1922 (1991) by Dominic A Pacyga
• Book – Chicago’s Southeast Side by Ron Sellers and Dominic  A. Pacyga
• Book – Chicago’s Polish Downtown (Images of America) by Victoria Granacki 
• Book – Forgotten Doors, The Other Ports of Entry to the United States edited by M. Mark Stolarik
• Book – Slownik Geograficzny by Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski and others, Warsaw, multiple volumes published between 1880 and 1902 – available on DVD from Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA.org)
• Book – Ellis Island  by Loreto Dennis Szucs
• Book – Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World Through Ellis Island- In Their Own Words Hardcover – January 1, 2000, by David M. Brownstone,  Irene M. Franck,‎ and Douglass Brownstone
• Book – Sto Lat: A Modern Guide to Polish Genealogy by Cecile Wendt Jensen
• Book – A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History by Benzion C. Kaganoff
• Book – Tracing Your Irish & British Roots, 2nd edition by W. Daniel Quillen
• Book – The Old Germanic principles of name-giving by Henry Bosley Woolf
• Book –  German-English Genealogical Dictionary by Ernest  Thode
• Book – Understanding Meyers Orts : Translating Guide For The Directory Of Towns And Places In The German Empire by Dearden, Fay.
• Book – A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire by Alexander Beider
• Book – Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants by Alexander Beider
• Book – A Dictionary Of Jewish Surnames From Galicia by Alexander Beider
• Book – A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland by Alexander Beider
• Book – A Dictionary of English Surnames by P. H. Reaney and R. M. Wilson
• Book – Slovak Personal Names by unknown
• Book – Welsh Surnames by T.J Morgan and Prys Morgan
• Book – British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning, With Lists of Scandinavian, Frisian, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Names by Henry Barber
• Book – A Handbook of Scandinavian Names by Nancy L. Coleman  and Olav Veka

WEBSITES

General

• Cindi’s list – http://www.cyndislist.com/
• NARA – http://www.archives.gov/
• Family History Centers – http://www.familysearch.org
• Footnote – http://www.footnote.com/
• Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System – https://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/IRAD/iradregn.html
• Download Illinois Local Governmental Records Listings (PDF)
  https://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/IRAD/iradholdings.html
• Bureau of Land Management – http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
• Sanborn maps – http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/sanborn/
• Genealogy Trails History Group – http://genealogytrails.com/
• Language translation – http://mylanguageexchange.com/
• Austrian Maps – http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm
• Interviewing tips – http://genealogy.about.com/cs/oralhistory/a/interview.htm
• Google News – http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
• Family search tech tips – https://www.familysearch.org/techtips/
• MyHeritage Education page – https://education.myheritage.com/

Chicago

• A Look at Cook – http://www.alookatcook.info/
• Online Chicago Information – Chicagogenealogy.com
• IRAD Inventory – https://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/IRAD/irad.pdf
• Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Courts Naturalization Index – http://www.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org/NR/about.aspx
• Newberry Library Online – ChicagoAncestors.org

Czech

• Czech & Slovak American Genealogy Society of Illinois – http://www.csagsi.org/
• Family Search Wiki for the Czech Republic – https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Czech_Republic
• Czech State Regional Digital Archives
• Trebon – http://digi.ceskearchivy.cz/index_main.php?lang=en
• Prague – http://www.ahmp.cz
• Plzeň – http://www.soaplzen.cz/
• Litoměřice – http://www.soalitomerice.cz
• Zámrsk – http://www.vychodoceskearchivy.cz –
• Brno – http://www.mza.cz
• Opava – http://www.archives.cz
• Czech Genealogy – http://www.iarelative.com/czech/
• FEEFHS (The Federation of East European Family History Societies) – http://www.feefhs.org/
• Obtain copies of Chicago Czech obituaries – http://www.mollx.com (Springfield, Illinois researcher)

France

• French Archives – http://en.geneanet.org/explore/french-ancestors/

England & Scotland

• UK and Scottish online database – Find My Past – findmypast.co.uk
• Scotland’s People – scotlandspeople.gov.uk
• Gens Reunited – http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/
• Lists of UK and Scottishgenealogy websites – genuki.org.uk
• National Archives of Scotland – nas.gov.uk
• The National Archives of UK – nationalarchives.gov.uk
• National Library of Scotland – nls.uk

Irish

• Find My Past Ireland – http://www.findmypast.ie
• Catholic Church Register – http://registers.nli.ie/
• Irish National Archives – http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
• Irish Genealogy – http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/
• Chicago Jewish Archives – http://www.spertus.edu/
• Chicago Jewish Historical Society – http://www.chicagojewishhistory.org/
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois (JGSI)    – http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsi/
• Irish Ancestors – http://www.irishancestors.net/
• The Irish Genealogical Society (IGSI) – http://www.irishgenealogical.org/
• Ireland genealogy projects – http://irelandgenealogyprojects.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

German

• International Tracing Service (ITS) – https://www.its-arolsen.org/en/
• German Genealogy Group – http://www.germangenealogygroup.com/
• German Genealogy Internet Portal – http://www.genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html
• Cindi’s List German links – http://www.cyndislist.com/germany.htm
• German Roots – http://www.germanroots.com/
• German Gazetteer – Meyer Ort – (find at Familysearch.org on German wiki) or http://www.meyersgaz.com
• Kartenmeister (www.kartenmeister.com) – excellent website for finding modern names of towns of the Oder and Neisse Rivers
• ShtetlSeeker Town Searchhttp://www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp
• Ahnenforschung – ahnenforschung.net
• Matrikula – icar-us.eu and http://icar-us.eu/cooperation/online-portals/monasterium-net
• German Genealogy Girl Blog – http://germangenealogygirl.com/
• The German Genealogy Internet Portal (http://www.genealogy.net/genealogy – English version and www. compgen.de – German version)
• Lower Saxony – Emigration from the Delmenhorst County 1830 – 1930 – http://routes.de/tinc?key=aDbVINBZ&formname=Delaus
• AGGSH Databases for Schleswig-Holstein – http://www.aggsh.de/engl/index.html
• Emigration from Southwest Germany – http://www.auswanderer-bw.de/
• Auswanderer aus dem GroBherzogtum Oldenburg – http://www.auswanderer-oldenburg.de/
• Baden Registry Books, 1810–1870 – https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=10028
• Church Book of the Bayreuth, Bavaria, Lutheran Archive – http://www.kirchenbuch-virtuell.de/
• Matrikelbücher (Matricula) – http://icar-us.eu/cooperation/online-portals/matricula
• Kirchenbuchportal – http://www.kirchenbuchportal.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3708.
• Civil Registers of Jewish Communities in Württemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern – https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=5632
• Die Maus: http://die-maus-bremen.de
• Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde – http://prfk.org
• Pommerscher Greif – http://www.pommerscher-greif.de/
• Gazetteer of historic and modern place names (Geographisches Ortsverzeichnis) at gov.genealogy.net
• Reymann’s Special Topographical Map 1832-1870 on the Max Kade Institute Website: http://mki.wisc.edu/Resources/Links/Reymann_maps/Reymann_home.html
• List of German names for towns in Poland – https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Bezeichnungen_polnischer_Orte
• List of German names for towns in the Czech Republic – https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Bezeichnungen_tschechischer_Orte
• List of German names of towns in the Ukraine (Galicia, Carpathia, Bessarabia, etc.) – https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Bezeichnungen_ukrainischer_Orte
• List of German and Polish names of the former Prussian province of Pomerania – https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Orte_in_der_Provinz_Pommern/I%E2%80%93P

Slovenia

• Slovenian Genealogy Society – http://www.genealogy.si/index.html

Swedish

• Swedish Online records – http://www.Ancestry.com (World Edition or Library Edition)- Swedish church records 1500 to 1937 (originally Genline)
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• Arkivdigital – https://www.arkivdigital.net/
• Church Records – http://www.salldata.dk/sogne/

Dutch

• Dutch Archives  https://www.openarch.nl/?fbclid=IwAR0lGs8S7ZUE2Vhy6M1751YS-AzQELDUSdtJOQhND90eJPxo6SskLorK2q4

Jewish

• JewishGen- The Home of Jewish Genealog – http://www.jewishgen.org/
• Chicago Jewish Archives – http://www.spertus.edu/
• Chicago Jewish Historical Society – http://www.chicagojewishhistory.org/
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois (JGSI)    – http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsi/
• ShtetlSeeker Town Search (www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp)

Italian

• Italian affiliate for Ancestry.com – http://www.ancestry.it/ (note in Italian)
• Northwest suburban Italian chapter of Pointers in Person – http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~itappcnc/index.htm
• Italian Town database by Dan Niemiec – http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~itappcnc/pipcntown.htm

Austrian

• GenTeam (new website 2019) at http://www.GenTeam.eu

Hungarian

• Radix – http://www.bogardi.com/gen/
• Hungarian Schwabian search – http://www.dvhh.org/
• Donauschwaben in the Banat – http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ESE/dsbanat.html
• ·History of German Settlements in Southern Hungary – http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ESE/dshist.txt·
• 1882 gazetteer of Hungary – http://www.bogardi.com/gen/g104.shtml
• Maps http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/1910ind.htm
• The History of the Danube Swabians by Hans Kopp – http://www.donauschwaben-usa.org/history.htm

Railroad Employment Records

• Railroad Retirement Board – all railroad employees – http://www.rrb.gov/mep/genealogy.asp
• Newberry Library – Pullman Car service employees (porters, etc) – http://www.newberry.org/pullman-employee-records
• South Suburban Genealogy Society – employees records for Pullman Car works ( Chicago plant) – http://www.ssghs.org/pullman.htm
• Indiana Calumet Regional Archives – employees records for Pullman Car works ( Indiana plant) – http://www.iun.edu/~cra/cra_records/cra314.shtml
• Chicago and Northwestern Historical Society – employment records – http://www.cnwhs.org/archives_genealogy.htm

Ukranian Genealogy Websites

• Ukrainian records – https://pra.in.ua/en

International Tracing Service

• Search Page – https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/

Polish Genealogy Websites

• Metryki – metryki.genealodzy.pl
• Geneteka – https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?lang=pol
• Project Podlasie – https://projektpodlasie.pl
• Posen Marriage Project – http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/search.php
• Pomerania – http://www.ptg.gda.pl/
• The State Archives of Poland – szukajwarchiwach.pl
• Ksiegi Parafialne @ http://www.ksiegi-parafialne.pl
• Regional Archive and Branch Contact Information – http://jri-poland.org/psa/addresses.htm
• 1934 Town List – http;//www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=12786
• Slownik Geograficzny – http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/polszczyzna/SGKPi/
• Polish & German names for villages in Poland – http://prussianpoland.com/germanpolishnamespoland.html
• Polish Germany towns – http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp
• Family Search Polish Portal – https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Poland
• Polish Genealogy Society of America – http://pgsa.org/
• 1907 Kingdom of Poland maps at Internet Polish Genealogical Source (ipgs.us)
• Polish Translation – http://www.poltran.com
• Posen Genealogy – http://www.posen-l.com/
• Polish Roots – http://www.polishroots.org/
• Polish-German place names – http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html
• Old Maps of Germany – http://www.maxpages.com/poland/Maps_and_Towns_Germany
• PolandGenWeb @ http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polandgen.html
• PolishRoots @ http://www.polishroots.com
• Jewish Gen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy @ http://www.jewishgen.org
• BASIA @ http://basia.famula.pl
• Cadastral Maps of Galicia – https://fromshepherdsandshoemakers.com/2018/09/26/using-cadastral-maps-of-galicia/?fbclid=IwAR1jn5QiWu_gHxg-RzFY4y_-IX9JzvoMhAaCyuKD8t5u60FvQdGXhYGgwMs
• PGSA  Portal of Polish genealogy websites – http://pgsa.org/2014-polish-parish-records/
• Professional Polish Genealogical Services – https://sites.google.com/view/polishgenealogygroup/internet-tools/professional-services