Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Stephen Morse's One-Step Webpages

When we first heard about Stephen Morse, he had devised a complicated search process that was to be used to help find persons in the immigration and passenger list databases. If you simply could not locate your ancestor via the usual websites: Ellis Island, U. S. Passenger lists, etc., you could try different pieces of your information in one of Morse's search fields.

He has now expanded the categories in his one-step webpages site. Besides passenger lists, he includes the U. S. census, Soundex/phonetic matching, a few Canadian and British censuses, New York census records, vital records, calendar calculations, and foreign alphabets--to name just a few! The site also contains reprints of articles and interviews with Steve.

I used the English to Russian section foreign alphabet database, typed in my grandfather's name in English and the Russian characters appeared as I typed. His Lithuanian records would be in Russian; this would be helpful if I could ever find the right microfilm!

If you have an hour (or more) to spare, you might try the one-step webpage for some of your ancestors who seem to be hiding. Find Stephen Morse at www.stevemorse.org. Read about the site first, of course.

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