Updating

Doing a little updating to the site. Just added an Immigration page. Been really busy but still trying to dedicate at least a few hours a week to this site. Weather has been terrible so we haven't went around to the local cemeteries.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Immigration Ancestors Project ( FREE )

Immigration Ancestors Project is a free database to search for your immigrant ancestors. Students from Brigham Young University are hired as part of the project team to supervise the volunteers and edit their work before adding it to the database. Images of emigrant papers are transmitted over the web to volunteers to transcribe. You can read more here

United States Databases Updated

Today updates of our United States databases including churches. The churches are just a list of the church itself per state. Will be adding more states and Canada churches. These links are not complete but they may help you in the name of a church for the town you are researching.

United States

Louisiana Troops 1720-1770

Here is a book you can look through on Ancestry of a list of Louisiana Troops. This is not transcribed but you can actually look through the digitized version free.

Louisiana Troops 1720-1770

Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens New York Database

As I sit here ready to post on our blog it is snowing. We weren't supposed to get snow here in New York. It's even supposed to be 50 today. Crazy weather. 

Mount Zion Cemetery is located in Maspeth, Queens, New York. They have an online interment database on their site. I absolutely love when cemeteries do this. I wish more did. 

Mount Zion Cemetery

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Historical Markers

Historical markers may be another source of information. Your ancestor might have lived in a historical place. They might have fought on a battle field. Maybe they were involved in a plane crash.

Most markers have dates which can be quite helpful. We have found a historical marker database where you can look up markers. There may be a picture and the coordinates of where the marker is listed. You can also add markers too.

Historical Marker Database

Hart Island New York City Database

Did you know....New York City purchased Hart Island in 1868 to serve as its Potter’s Field—a place of burial for unknown or indigent people. It is the tenth Potter’s Field in the City’s history. Previous New York City Potter’s Fields were located at the current sites of Washington Square, Bellevue Hospital, Madison Square, the New York City Public Library, Wards Island and Randall’s Island. 

Harts Island also has a searchable database of people buried there but only as far back as 1977. 

Here is the link:

Harts Island Database

And don't forget to check out the FAQ also as there are restrictions on visiting the island if you do find out you have a relative buried there.

FAQ

Here are the 2 maps of the island and where the graves are.

Map 1

Map 2