Genealogy HowTo - Was Your US Ancestor Indexed with the Ellis Island Immigrants?    It may surprise you to know that many US Citizens were indexed in the Ellis Island online database. If your ancestor happened to visit another country between 1892 and 1924, and used the Port of New York to return to the US, he would be listed on the ship's passenger list -- called a ship's manifest -- and therefore indexed in the Ellis Island Online database.

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Site FAQs - Click here to read about The 1880 Census Soundex, by Cindy Carman   

Shortly after the creation of the Social Security Administration in 1935, the Works Progress Administration(WPA) were employed to make an index to the 1880 Federal Census. The indexes were handwritten on 3 by 5 index cards, each card listed the head of household by full name followed by a list of all other persons residing in the household. The 1880 Census Soundex was incomplete in that only families with children of age ten and younger were indexed. If there was a person living in the household with a d ifferent last name than the head of household they would not only be listed as part of the household but would also be listed on a separate card under their own surname. This card would include a notation about the head of household with whom the person had been listed and the relationship to the head of household.
This article answers these questions.

• What information can I find on the Soundex cards?
• How can I use the Soundex to find my ancestor in Census images online?
• Will I find Native American Indians listed in the Soundex?
• What is the Soundex indexing method?
• What do the abbreviations mean that are in the relationship field?
• How does Soundex Coding work?

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