CSAGSI Web Links   Featured Link The Hawthorne Works Museum maintains an interesting collection related to the Western Electric Hawthorne Works facility which employed 25,000 people, many of them Cicero residents of Czech or Polish descent.

 

Genealogical Computing Links

The Journal of Online Genealogy - October 1996 - Society News has a nice review of our web site and some others.

 

Chicago Genealogy and Historical Links

Read all about it! This year, the Chicago Tribune celebrates its 150th anniversary! Click Here to browse timelines, front pages, and other items of interest. As long as you're on the Tribune page, check their getting started in Chicago genealogy page. The Chicago Historical Society maintains a great Web site and we are proud to direct you towards it. If Chicago history is your thing, you'll spend hours at their site. If it's not your thing, spend a few minutes and we guarantee it'll soon "be your thing!" Explore Chicago! has a lot of great information on Chicago history, as well. Read about the Our Lady of the Angels School Fire, or general Chicago History events. Mary Bonevelle has put together a very comprehensive web page describing the Eastland disaster of 1915. For a virtual tour through the home of Robert C. McCormick, visit Cantigny. And, again, plan to spend the better part of the day there. If Chicago broadcasting history is your interest, visit The Museum of Broadcast Communications. And it just keeps getting better as the Newberry Library has information on: Bohemian Genealogy, Chicago Genealogy, or, Illinois Genealogy. Want to know how to get vital records from the Cook County Clerk's office? Perhaps you're interested in Illinois Vital Records, or maybe you're looking for just general Illinois information or general Chicago information Does digging around in old cemeteries interest you? Check out Graveyards of Chicago. The website of the Chicago Genealogical Society describes their charter, programs, and publications. Many links of interest to Chicago-area historians and genealogists can be found on the Chicago/LaGrange--1637-1910 and Beyond page. The Chicago Police Department's Homicide Record Index, 1870 - 1930 is available online. The Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Cemetery information www.FriendsofBNC.org The Hawthorne Works Museum maintains an interesting collection related to the Western Electric Hawthorne Works facility which employed 25,000 people, many of them Cicero residents of Czech or Polish descent.

 

Illinois Genealogy and Historical Links

Illinois State Archives Global Database Search Illinois Genealogy and History from USGenWeb Illinois Vital Records Information. This page contains information about where to obtain copies of Illinois vital records, such as birth & death certificates, marriage licenses & divorce decrees. ILGenExchange The Illinois State Genealogical Society has a page describing their Cemetery Location Project The United States Vital Records Information page (not a government site) has a page of information regarding Illinois vital records Inmate Search  -- State of Illinois Dept of Corrections

 

Great Chicago Links of the "Pretty Interesting" Kind

The Field Museum Michael Jordan's Restaurant Mike Ditka's Restaurant Bravo Restaurant's, Inc. Gino's East, Ed Debevics, etc... The University of Illinois at Chicago. The University of Chicago. WGN's Tribute to Bob Bell. WGN's Tribute to Harry Caray. The Library of Chicago Children's TV of the 60s and 70s Web site for street name changes in Chicago -- quite useful in knowing things like Evans Street was 18th Street: http://www.rootsweb.com/~itappcnc/pipcnstreet.htm

 

Here are some links that don't fit into any of the other categories

Czech Cultural Guide and Online Czech Marketplace: www.CzechEverything.com Even cheap Bohemians should consider having their ancestor's names engraved on the wall of honor at Ellis Island. Read about that and other goings on at The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. website. If maps are your thing, The Gold Bug might interest you. In addition to its map reproductions, they distribute a PC product called, Centennia which is a "complete software Historical Atlas of Europe and the Middle East from 1000 to 1993 A.D." If you think one of your ancestors was a Holocaust victim whose family assets were plundered, you can view some of the account names published by the Swiss government on their dormant accounts page. Online telephone books can help you find others who share a surname you're researching. Here are two of our favorites: Swtichboard (TM) is a free nationwide residential and business directory. Telephone directories on the WEB is an index of several national phone directories available on the WEB. Search CZ is CZ telephone search page. Try your luck...if you speak Czech. :-) InforSpace's Reverse Lookup can help you find someone for whom you have only a phone number. (However, when I tried the famous Chicago number, 588-two-three-hundred, it returned no matches!!!) The Family Tree Maker Family Finder Index is a little bit of a tease, but at least you can learn if specific records relating to a name you're researching exist before ordering one of their CDs. The Social Security Death Index (SSDI). Nothing more need be said! And when you're done searching the SSDI, go here to see what it all means and learn how to order a copy of the original SSN application! The USGenWeb Project is worth having a look. If you're looking for anything, there's always the Internet stand-by search engines like Yahoo! and HotBot. But have you heard of The Search Spaniel? It's one of the latest search engine which performs searches using several search engines. Like the old commercial says, try it, you'll like it! If pivo is to your liking (and if not, why not?) "pop open" the Czech Treasures Tour Featuring Breweries and Castles page! ourtimelines.com lets you enter dates for your ancestor (or you) and builds an individual timeline for events in that period. It even lets you enter personal events in your ancestor's life and those will be added into the time line. Print or copy it to use in your own genealogy Let's Learn Slovak" http://www.heartofeurope.co.uk/dictionary.htm Civil War Veterans - Death Rolls for IL, IA, IN, KS, NE: http://www.ngpublications.com Slovak Institute - Surname Database etc.: http://www.slovakinstitute.com

Here are some of our member's favorite sites

From John Hallman comes http://pages.prodigy.net/johnhhallman/f&fco.htm which "includes a list of Fuhrman and Forster Company employees that may be of interest to fellow members." Bill Rush has collected some information on the Slovak village of Sucany. "To spare others the considerable time and money it took me to collect this information," he says, "I put it on a website." The location is the Sucany home page. A CSAGSI member suggested The Windy City Collection of interest to anyone who grew up in the Chicago area in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Margaret Hermanek Peaslee has created In the Footsteps of Mendel a page devoted to Moravian Gregor Mendel. It is an interesting narrative and collection of photographs.   A "webmaster personal choice:" Karel Kysilka has put together a page on the Moravian town of Napajedla which is near Zlin. This is the area of the Miksaneks. If you have time, visit The Napajedla Home Page and read about the 100th Aniversary of Receiving the Town´s Rights. Right now, the page is in Czech, but English and German versions are on the way. For more broad genealogical interest, visit On Karel Kysilka´s homepage you will find information on the origin of Czech surnames and articles like, "The Development of Parochial Vital Registers in the Bohemian Lands with Special Emphasis on the East Bohemian Areas," and "Description of Records and Collections of the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno." The LDS website: http://www.familysearch.org About Genealogy ... links to almost every imaginable subject dear to a genealogist's heart: http://genealogy.about.com/mbody.htm genealogybuff.com Wisconsin Czechs Oxford Junction, Iowa, USA and the villages near Suchdol nad Luznici, South Bohemia, Czech Republic

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