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  1. Stephen P. Morse's One-Step tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications.

    • Introduction
    • Ellis Island Search Forms and Ship Arrivals
    • Castle Garden (and earlier) Search Forms and Ship Arrivals
    • Other Ports of Immigration
    • U.S. Census and Soundex
    • Canadian and British Census
    • New York Census
    • Births, Deaths, and Other Vital Records

    I’m often asked why I created the One-Step tools when theability to search the data already exists on other websites.I can best answer that with an example.Suppose we wanted to find the Ellis Islandrecord for Irving Berlin.If Irvingwere a member of our family, we would have information about him from familyfolklore that would help in our search.Sin...

    One of the most valuable websites for genealogists is theEllis Island database, which went online in April of 2001.It includes passenger records of 25 millionimmigrants who came to the United States between 1892 and 1924.This section deals with the Ellis Islanddatabase and various ways of searching for passengers in it.

    The Ellis Island processing center was not always there, andprior to it there were other facilities in New York for processingimmigrants.Here is a synopsis of whathappened when. prior to 1820: No record keepingwas required starting in 1820: All passengers’names were recorded on the ship’s passenger lists prior to 1855: No processing,passengers just...

    Although a vast majority of the immigrants arrived throughthe Port of New York, many entered through other ports.Here is a list of some other popular portsduring the peak immigration years, and the years for which the records areonline: Baltimore 1820 to 1948 Boston 1820 to 1943 Galveston 1844 to 1954 New Orleans 1820 to 1945 Philadelphia 1800 to 1...

    Two things genealogists always want to know is how theirancestors got to this country and what they did while they were here.The previous sections of the One-Stepwebsite dealt with how they got here.The census gives a snapshot of what they did while they were here. The United States Census is conducted every ten years.The census records are sealed ...

    There are several websites that host Canadian and Britishcensus data.Below are some that I’vefound and created One-Step tools for. Free: 1881 Canada (Library and ArchivesCanada) 1901 Canada(automatedgenealogy.com) 1901 British (1901censusonline.com) Subscription (ancestry.com): 1901 Canada 1906 Canada 1911 Canada 1841 British 1851 British 1861 Brit...

    New York State conducted its own census many times, usuallymidway between two federal censuses.The best preserved are the 1905, 1915, and 1925 censuses.These are of great value to genealogistsbecause of the large influx of immigrants during those years, and because somany of those immigrants settled in New York even if only for a brief period. A na...

    Vital records (birth, marriage, death) and naturalizationrecords are another very important resource for genealogists.For privacy reasons, you can’t simply fetcha copy of anyone’s birth certificate.But there is a surprisingly vast amount of this supposed privateinformation available online.

  2. These are all collected together under what I call the One-Step website (http://stevemorse.org). The One-Step website consists of about 200 tools ranging from Ellis Island searches to astronomical calculations to bidding on eBay. They are organized into sixteen different sections.

  3. Sep 18, 2021 · Stephen Morse is the creator of the One-Step Website for which he has received both the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Outstanding Contribution Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Award of Merit from the National Genealogical Society, first-ever Excellence Award from the Association of Professional ...

  4. Mar 9, 2022 · One-Step Webpages by Steve Morse helps genealogists find relatives faster in the U.S. federal census. Steve Morse explains how to use his one-step tools for the 1950 census.

  5. Mar 10, 2017 · One-Step Webpages. by. Stephen P. Morse. This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications.

  6. If you’re having trouble with an awkward or poorly designed search interface for a critical database, your first stop should be to check out Dr. Morses One-Step pages. At his site, you can find new ways to search genealogical databases with the data you need.

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