Helpful URLs
The following URL's, provided by members, may help with spelling words from another country, such as names & occupations. There are also examples of script that may have been used during this time period and URL's for different ports that also may help with spelling. You may find places that are on the list, are no longer in the atlas.
CATEGORIES:Dutch Names and their English equivalent
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3374/dutchname1.htm
More Greek Surnames from the Dimitris Surname Database
http://www.dimitri.8m.com/surnames.html
A Lot of Genealogy Links
http://www.nedsite.nl/search/people.htm#genealogy
An Onomastikon (Dictionary of Names)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~scoconee/names.html
Surnames What's in a Name - Name Origins & Meanings
http://clanhuston.com/name/name.htm
Finnish Names
http://www.open.org/rumcd/genweb/finn.html
Index of Surnames-Experiment with one of the nationality search engines to see if your name
has already been researched for its coat of arms. Of course, you can buy it
here. The page also offers a huge collection of related resources as well as
the surname index itself.
http://www.infokey.com/hon/serial7.htm
Ancient Irish Surnames
http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/surname/old.html
All Irish Clans & Surnames
http://www.clansandnames.org/
British Surnames: First-names, Localities, Occupations, Nicknames
http://www.familychronicle.com/british.htm
Chinese Surnames
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/
The Hundred Families Surnames
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/hundred.html
Alphabetical Index of Chinese Surnames
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/atoz.html
Italian Names
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~torchia/names/italiannames.htm
19th century Italian (Calabrian) male names
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~torchia/names/mensersale.htm
19th century Italian (Calabrian) female names
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~torchia/names/womensersale.htm
Italian (Florentine) male names
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~torchia/names/firenznames.htm
German Names
http://www.unc.edu/~murphy/rabenstein/german_names.html
Russian Names
http://www.unc.edu/~murphy/rabenstein/russian_names.html
The Names and Naming Webring - many links
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=onomastics&id=1&list
Surname Table of North Moravia
http://www.bawue.de/~hanacek/egene/ensurnov.htm
16th-century Spanish Women's Names
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/spanish.html
Additional Czech Surname Database 5
http://www.unc.edu/~murphy/rabenstein/czech_names.html
A Dictionary of Period Russian Names
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/
Notes on Cuban Surnames
http://www.cubagenweb.org/names.htm
Polish Given Names
http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/walraven/polish/
Irish Names : The Whole Nine Yards (given names)
http://www.namenerds.com
The Afrocentric Experience: Your African Name
http://www.swl.net/patepluma/latindir/names.html
Tim's Terrific Tips on German Names
http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/tttgrnm1.htm
Nova Scotia Surnames - may help with spelling.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pictou/names.htm
Go Ireland: Surname Definition / Search
http://www.goireland.com/Genealogy/
German Names in America
Identifying German Names
Spelling
Prefixes, Suffixes
Meanings
Names derived from profession of first bearer
Names derived from location of homestead
The place a person came from
First names of first bearer
Names derived from a physical or other characteristic of first bearer
Dating back to the old Germanic world
Names of saints
After days of the week
Relating to objects/materials
Regional differences
http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/surnames.htm
Name Variations "Dit" Names
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lwjones/dit.htm
Naming Traditions and Surname Search
What a DETAILED name history! Well worth a link for those searching names.
http://members.aol.com/Tuffsearch/nametraditions.html
Translation of first names
http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/wwp/engl/entr/trans.html
Surname Origin List
http://www.familychronicle.com/surname.htm
This and That Genealogy Tips on Naming Patterns
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/naming.htm
Surnames Origins List
http://www.familychronicle.com/surname.ht
The Surname Web - may help with spelling.
http://www.surnameweb.org/
Index of Surnames - may help with spelling.
http://www.ee.gannon.edu/~king/genealogy/surnames.html
Surname Springboard- may help with spelling.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2154/spring.htm
Family Naming Traditions
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/naming.htm
Name and Word Spellings
http://www.familytreemaker.com/00000015.html
Medieval And Obsolete English Trade And Professional Terms
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/occs.htm
Italian Occupations
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3374/italoccup.htm
A List of Occupations of Days Gone By
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3374/occupation.htm
Old Occupations - Go to OCCUPATIONS then scroll down list until you
come to Occupations and their descriptions (from Langhams) -that site has a
fairly extensive list of old occupations.
http://www.cyndislist.com/nofrills.htm
Thirty-one pages of occupations -some of them really reaching back in time
but handy in case the other site is busy.
http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html
DOT Dictionary of Occupational Titles Index
http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/dot_index.html
Italian Occupations
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8783/italjobs.html
French Occupations
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/french_occupations1873.html
German Occupations
Old German Occupations
Norfolk Occupations (English)
http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/norfolk/occup/
BELGIUM-ROOTS Project
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin
http://belgium.rootsweb.com/sci/genealogy/occupations_00.html
Colonial Occupations
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/occupations1.html
Colonial Occupations
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/occupations2.html
Colonial Occupations
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/jobs.htm
Obsolete Occupations - several links
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/oldoccupations/
Old German Professions, Occupations and Illnesses
http://www.worldroots.com/brigitte/occupat.htm
Occupations Chart
http://maley.net/dauphin/reference/occupations_chart.htm
How To Read A 200-Year-Old Document and Other FAQs
http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/howto.html
Examples of Letters of the 17th Century Found in Parish Registers
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oldalpha.htm
German Script, Documents etc. ~ Tutorial
http://www.mun.ca/rels/morav/script.html
Old Handwriting Examples-This is WONDERFUL For those of you who have trouble getting into this. Go
to: http://www.firstct.com/fv then go down the list and find "oldhand" and
click on that, it will take you to samples and lesson.
http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html
OLD-WORDS. A mailing list for the discussion of old words, phrases, names,
abbreviations, and antique jargon useful to genealogy. You must be a
subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe"
(without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to
old-words-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or
old-words-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
OLD-ENGLISH. A mailing list for anyone who is deciphering old English
documents to discuss interpretations of handwriting and word meanings. You
must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word
"subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to
old-english-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or
old-english-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
The Written Word
For Book Lovers and those interested in Early Printing, Manuscripts,
Woodcuts, Latin, Calligraphy and Paleography.
http://members.aol.com/ottoxxx/script.htm
German Script Alphabet
http://www.mun.ca/rels/morav/pics/tutor/mscript2.html
Searching Old Records --
Reading Old Handwriting and Looking for Names - tips
http://members.aol.com/AdamCo9991/genealogytips9.html
Old Handwriting Styles
Examples of different handwriting styles:
16th Century Letters
17th Century Letters
18th Century Letters
19th Century and Beginning of 20th Century Letters
Lower Case Letters (1583-1775)
Capital Letters (1583-1794)
Lower Case Letters (1615-1757)
Capital Letters (1615-1757)
Combinations of Letters (1615-1757)
http://www.genealogia.fi/faq/faq031e.htm
Faded Writing - tip
FADED WRITINGS
If the writing is too faded to read, use a 75 watt black light bulb in
any lamp that casts light directly on the written message.
The writing will appear miraculously!
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System
http://geography.usgs.gov/index.html
Geogaphic Names Information System (GNIS):
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq
ExpediaMaps
Select a region. Enter all or part of an address, or click Place Name to
search for other kinds of locations.
http://www.expediamaps.com
Worldwide directory of cities and towns
http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
Ancestors' Attic: MAPS & LAND INFORMATION
http://members.aol.com/Tuffsearch/maps.html
Place Names
http://www.placenames.com/
The (international) Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Prince Edward Island Placenames, Past and Present
http://www.isn.net/~dhunter/peiplace.html
Hutterite Place Names in Eastern Europe
http://feefhs.org/hut/h-eplace.html
New Jersey Place Names
A table showing the changes to place names in the present state of New Jersey
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/njplace.html
Maps and References - HUGE, HUGE, HUGE
http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html#mapmisc
Perry-Castaeda Library Map Collection - one of the best
Maps of The World
Maps of Africa
Maps of The Americas
Maps of Asia
Maps of Australia and the Pacific
Maps of Europe
Maps of The Middle East
Maps of Polar Regions and Oceans
Maps of Russia and the Former Soviet Republics
Maps of The United States More than 700 maps
Maps of Texas
Maps of Texas Counties
Historical Maps
Maps on Other Web Sites including:
Country Maps, City Maps and State Maps
Electronic Cartographic Reference Resources
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html or
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Maps/
The Territorial Evolution of Canada
20 changes between 1867 and 1949
http://www-nais.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/schoolnet/issues/terrevol/english/eTerrEvol.html
Rare Map Collection - Colonial America
Categories:
New World
Colonial America
Revolutionary America
Revolutionary Georgia
Union & Expansion
American Civil War
Frontier to New South
Savannah & the Coast
Transportation
TIP:
Trouble Printing?
These maps were scanned from microfilm negatives at 2400dpi. They are very
large files, and the average JPEG size is 400k. If you have trouble printing
these files, you may need to use a graphics program to reduce the file size
before printing
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html
Don't forget the MARITIME LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES in The Compass
AGI-Internet Genealogical Dictionary
http://www.chez.com/agi/intro2.htm
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
A Web of On-Line dictionaries. Many languages...
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
On-Line free translation..by Transparent Language
http://www.freetranslation.com/
Alta Vista free on-line translation
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
Some Common Abbreviations:
January was commonly written Jany
February was commonly written Feby
If you get a real old list, you may find:
January written as Hartung
February written as Hornung
March written as Lenzig
April written as Ostermond
May written as Maien
June written as Brachet
July written as Heuert
August written as Ernting
September written as Scheidling
October written as Gilbhard
November written as Nebelung
December written as Christmond