Stephen Morse is pretty much a legend in the genealogy industry with his One Step Online Search website.
From the site:
In the “old days” genealogical research was done by traveling great distances and then going through dusty archives or using microfilm readers. But the advent of the World Wide Web has changed that. Today much of the data useful to genealogists has been put on websites and can be accessed from the comfort of home.
Unfortunately, many of these websites are not easy to use. And those that are don’t always offer all the versatility that is possible. For that reason I have created alternate ways of accessing some of these websites. In addition I have developed some of my own databases and programs to facilitate doing genealogical research. These are all collected together under what I call the One-Step website.
The name “One Step” was chosen when I developed my first search tool, which allowed for searches through the Ellis Island records. A search done from the ellisisland.org website involved many steps, whereas my search tool was able to do it all in one step. Hence I called that tool “Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step.”
The site has many features beyond the Ellis Island search capability. They include:
- Ellis Island & Castle Garden
- Other Ports
- US Census
- Phonetic Matching
- Canada/UK Census
- New York Census
- Vital Records
- Calendar, Maps, etc
- Foreign Alphabets
- Holoc & East. Europe
- Genetics (DNA)
It is a fantastic site, not to be missed.
To access the main site, go to One Step Webpages
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