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One-Step Webpages
<www.stevemorse.org>
Steve Morse’s plain-looking but powerful site
contains tools for fi nding immigration records,
census records and vital records with a single
click, plus tools for dealing with calendars,
maps, foreign alphabets and more.RootsTech
<www.rootstech.org>
Cheaper than a trip to Salt Lake City or London
(where a second conference will be held in Octo-
ber 2019), this video-packed site lets you view
highlights of past sessions of the premiere high-
tech genealogy confab.Tw i l e
<www.twile.com>
Winner of a RootsTech innovation award, this
site has been acquired by fellow Best Websites
honoree Findmypast. The new partnership
enables users to turn their trees into interactive
timelines incorporating world events. Twile
continues as a standout standalone site, how-
ever—worth a visit to put your family’s stories
in context.SEEING DEAD PEOPLE
American Battle Monuments Commission
<www.abmc.gov>
If you have ancestors buried in or memorial-
ized in overseas American military cemeteries,
search for them in this database of more than
220,000 names.BillionGraves
<www.billiongraves.com>
Adding searchable GPS data to cemetery
records, BillionGraves puts a high-tech spin on
tombstone transcriptions, including a smart-
phone app that lets you contribute your own
grave records.Find A Grave
<www.findagrave.com>
Boasting “the world’s largest gravesite collec-
tion,” Find A Grave has been uploading ceme-
tery records since 1995 and now is home to more
than 170 million.*Interment.net
<www.interment.net>
Though dating to 2000, Interment.net is not
as well known as some other cemetery sites. It
takes a slightly diff erent approach—sourcing
records not only from genealogy volunteers but
also from government offi ces, historical orga-
nizations and fraternal societies, such as the
Woodmen of the World. Its powerful search
tools let you fi nd partial matches and even
search by region.Nationwide Gravesite Locator
<gravelocator.cem.va.gov>
This domestic equivalent of the American Bat-
tle Monuments Commission fi nds veterans and
their family members in Veterans Aff airs’ (VA)
National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries,
and other locations.VOYAGE VIEWS
Bremen Passenger Lists
<www.passengerlists.de>
The 690,000 database entries here mostly span
1920 to 1939, but it’s worth a look even for earlier
emigrant ancestors.Castle Garden
<www.castlegarden.org>
Search among the 8 million arrivals at the port of
New York in the years before Ellis Island—1820
through 1892.Digital Danish Emigration Archives
<www.udvandrerarkivet.dk/soegeside>
Worried about emigrants being defrauded,
the Copenhagen police kept records of nearly
400,000 departing Danes and others, from 1868
to 1908. You can search them here, along with
more than a half-million digitized emigrant let-
ters and photos.Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island
<www.libertyellisfoundation.org>
Thanks to a partnership with FamilySearch, you
can now also fi nd your pre-Ellis Island arriving
ancestors here, with Port of New York records
dating as far back as 1820. That brings the total
number of passenger records searchable here to
65 million.