Helpful Links
From Zalewski Family Genealogy Wiki
Here are a few links I've kept in my bookmarks over the years.
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General
- The Association of Graveyard Rabbits - useful cemetery information from around the world
- 1930 Census Occupation Codes - covert the codes in the census to useful information
- Tips for deciphering old scripts
- Examples of German Scripts
- German Script Tutorial
Genetic Genealogy
Surnames
Locations
Belgium
- Nétradyle - search for Belgian vital records. May need to run it through Google Translate since it looks to only be in local language.
Poland/Germany
- Online Interactive Polish/English dictionary
- Online Slownik Geograficzny - very helpful in finding info on Polish towns. Much more info here on a post I wrote.
- German Emigration Search
- 1883 Atlas of the German Empire - find historic towns and download high-quality versions of the maps.
- Kartenmeister - extremely helpful site to find historic names of newer cities, local churches, other researchers, and much more info from Germany/Poland.
- List of placenames in the former Province of Pomerania
- Helpful translations for German and Polish records.
Wisconsin
- Cedarburg, Wisconsin Cemetery Records - contains burial information for all of Cedarburg's city cemeteries
- Detailed County Maps - large PDFs of each county
- Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries - search most of Milwaukee's Catholic Cemetery burial information (including graves located near and around other graves.)
- Milwaukee County Genealogical Society
- Milwaukee Journal Archives on Google News
- Milwaukee Sentinel Archives on Google News
- Milwaukee Neighborhoods Photos and Maps 1885-1992
- Online Wisconsin Death Indexes and Records
- Wisconsin Public Land Survey Township Indexes - helpful in finding township info for land records, etc
- Wisconsin Vital Records search at Wisconsin Historical Society for ordering, etc
- Original Field Notes and Plat Maps for Wisconsin Townships
- Wisconsin Death Record Application [PDF]
Misc
- The Rainwater Collection - the site that inspired me to start my Zalewski Project website.
