31 March 2021
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Ahnenforschung Klatt - Recherchen in Berlin und Brandenburg / Research in Berlin and Brandenburg
Professional genealogical research by Heiko Klatt, Berlin. Recherchen in Berlin, Brandenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, ehem. deutsche Ostgebiete.
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A book by Armin Weist. Baptist archives from the areas east of Oder and Neisse in genealogical and state archives.
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Ancestry.com - California, U.S., Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950 $
Original source: California Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950. 579 volumes. California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento, California. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - Early Illinois railroads $
Original source: Ackerman, Wm. K.. Early Illinois railroads : a paper. Chicago: Fergus Print. Co., 1989. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - England, Great Western Railway Magazine: 1838-1943 $
Original source: Rubie, Bob, comp.. Great Western Railway Magazine. England: Great Western Railway Company. Great Western Railway Company, Jul 1938, March 1941, March 1943, Public Records Office Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, U.K. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - England, Southern Railway Magazine: Jan 1840 - Feb 1942 $
Original source: Southern Railway Magazine. England: Southern Railway Company. Southern Railway Company, January 1840 - February 1820. Public Records Office Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, U.K. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - Kansas, U.S., Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Prior Service Records, 1859-1935 $
Original source: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company Records. Topeka Kansas: Kansas State Historical Society. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Colorado, Wyoming Territory, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Texas, Louisana. Original source: Southwestern business directory : including principal towns on Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway, Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad, Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Railway, Texas and Pacific Railway, Union Pacific Railway, Denver and Rio Grande Railway, Colorado Midland Railway, and Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.. Denver, Colo.: McKenney Directory Co., 1889. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - The Ohio Railroad $
Original source: Leland, C. P.. The Ohio Railroad : that famous structure built on stilts. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1892. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - The Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales 1907 $
Original source: The Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1907 (sixteenth edition). Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records, 1935-1970 $
Original source: Chicago and North Western Railroad Employee Records. Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Berwyn, Illinois. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Employee Records. Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Berwyn, Illinois. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., Northern Pacific Railway Company Personnel Files, 1890-1963 $
Original source: Personnel Files, circa 1909–1960s. Personnel Dept. records. Northern Pacific Railway Company records. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., Railroad Retirement Pension Index, 1934-1987 $
Original source: Records of the Railroad Retirement Board, 1934-1987. Record Group 184. The National Archives at Atlanta, Morrow, Georgia. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1956 $
Original source: Railway Employment Records. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Angelina and Neches River Railroad Company Records
Collection held at the Stephen F. Austin State University.
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Bartholomäus – Kirche in Giebichenstein
Bartholomew Church in Giebichenstein. Johann Friedrich REICHARDT, TAUST, OCHSENSTEIN, 'Halle/Saale Giebichenstein Cemetery', Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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Evangelisches Zentral Archiv in Berlin
Founded as a result of the joining of the Archive of the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) and the Archive of the Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU). The Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) is itself a union of all the Protestant churches in the several German states, creating an alliance of independent churches of the various Protestant denominations. The Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU) is the successor organization of the Prussian State Church.
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The library has holdings of about 70,000 volumes.
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Provides an example of how to research the church records.
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FamilySearch - Auswandererlisten, 1850-1934
Title Also Known As: The Hamburg passenger lists.
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Findmypast - Canada- Railways, Steamships & Steamboats In Canada $
Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.
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Findmypast - Ontario, Canada- The Great Western Railway $
Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.
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Genealogical research in Schleswig-Holstein
I research in old church registers of Schleswig-Holstein for your ancestors and make transcriptions or, if possible, photocopies of the documents I found. You will get the German version plus the translation into English and finally a genealogical table and family lists.
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Genealogy in Schleswig-Holstein / Genealogie in Schleswig-Holstein
Hans Peter Voss, Steenfeld, Germany.
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Guide to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Archives
University of Connecticut, Archives & Special Collections.
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The Heritage Railway Association represents the majority of Heritage and Tourist railways and Railway Preservation Groups within both the U.K., and Ireland.
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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 | Harvard Library
From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program.
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Katholische Kirchenbücher: Zweitschriften / Ludwigsburg, Catholic Church Record Duplicates 1806-1878
From the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg.
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A German portal for church information. An easy to use site (only in German) which allows you to enter the name of the village and quickly learn the history of the church there, along with helpful contact information for the parish.
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Klöster Baden-Württemberg / Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg
From its beginnings to its dissolution in 1803, more than 700 monasteries. From the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg.
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Koellner Researching Family History
Manfred Koellner (BA), historian and professional genealogist in Westphalia and Lippe, Germany. Researching family history in German archives.
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Register books, Duration: (1691-) 1775-1875 (-1958), Core duration: 1810-1870.
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History of the Malta Railway, 1883-1931.
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Nacogdoches and Southeastern Railroad Company Records
Collection held at the Stephen F. Austin State University.
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Oldenburger Auswanderer / Oldenburg Emigrants
In addition to emigrants from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, this database also partially contains their parents and siblings who have not emigrated, as far as they are known.
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Palatine Ships Passenger Lists from Germany to Pennsylvania 1727 to 1808
Search ships passenger lists carrying Palatines from Germany to Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Read an explanation of Palatines and their ordeal.
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Pennsylvania German Pioneers Online Passenger Lists | Palatine Ships
Passenger lists of the ships carrying German immigrants to Philadelphia 1727-1808.
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Pro Heraldica - Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft für Heraldik und Genealogie mbH
German firm for heraldic and genealogical research.
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Railroad Industry, Union & Other External Links
From the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board.
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A not-for-profit online project which provides access to electronic copies of original documents, together with supporting data, which have played a key role in driving and reflecting change on the railways of the United Kingdom. Includes railway Law, safety, economics, and politics.
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Cheshire, England. From the Cheshire West and Chester Council, Cheshire Record Office web site. The Archives holds 17 staff registers of 4 former railway companies: Cambrian Railway, Great Western Railway, London and North Western Railway, London and North Western & Great Western Joint Railway. The registers cover staff working over a large area of the North West including western Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and nine counties in North and mid Wales. They do not include stations in the east of Cheshire (eg Crewe). The registers provide a summary of an employee
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Railwaywomen in the Second World War
The history of women railway workers in the United Kingdom.
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Rootdigger - Emigrants Database - Genealogy Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost state in Germany. Before the referendum in 1920, it was bigger. Now a large portion of it is part of the Kingdom Denmark. Plenty of free info about history, people, archives, regions, and names. Historical maps. A collection of over 90,000 emigrants from Schleswig-Holstein is still being expanded in irregular intervals. And professional genealogical research in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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The St. Louis San Francisco Railroad did not make it to California like the name implies. Missouri was its center point. It was better known as The Frisco. Information relating to employment on the line from 1895 to the 1940s.
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The National Map - Printable Maps
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
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The Newberry Library - Pullman Employee Records
The employee records of the Pullman Company at the Newberry are primarily for operating company workers–porters, maids, commissary attendants, conductors, shop workers, yard force workers, clerks, managers–not manufacturing or town employees. Although some 19th-century personnel records are available, the bulk of the records are post-1920.
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The Newberry Library - Railroad Archives
The collecting of large corporate archives at the Newberry was initiated in 1943 by Librarian Stanley Pargellis, who advocated the acquisition of records of Midwestern enterprises that contained materials for social and intellectual history as well as business history. Pargellis’s vision was realized with the deposit of several large and important archives of Midwestern railroad companies: the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and the Pullman Company. Smaller railroad-related collections have also been added.
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The Workers of the Central Pacific
The Chinese in California; The Chinese Join the Central Pacific; Daily Life; The California Public's; Response to Chinese Labor.
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Showing major lines in the Western U.S. from 1827 to 1850.
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Workers of the Central and Union Pacific Railroad
From the American Experience on PBS.
