Turks in the United States

Sites and information specifically American including American Turk family websites at the bottom.  If you know of a link that would be helpful to people researching American Turks or have a website with Turks listed please send us the link

Ellis Island Records  www.EllisIslandRecords.org
Note:  Nancy has set up a Turk folder on the Ellis Island site - which already contains some of the searches.  To access the folder use ID NTURK and password NTURK

Search the U.S. Social Security Death Index of Turks ssdi.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&gsi=-1&db=ssdi&prox=-1&f3=TURK&f4=&f15=&sx=n

Date: 1/7/2005 2:12:31 PM > Subject: A Turk in America before Columbus > > Dear Nancy and Tony. I found interesting information about a man who > found America. He was a Turk called Tyrker or Tyrkir. Some in old Europa  believe that he was a German, some say he was a Pole, even Serbs say that he  was a slav. Our Hungarian brothers believe that he was Hungarian. Everybody tries to promote it for their nation.  Poor Turks have nothing to say. Ours was a huge empire ruled the world 2000  years. Please read the following web pages for more information   http://users.cwnet.com/millenia/leiferic.htm  but here is the article  A Hungarian (named Tyrker) in America before Columbus!

The Navajo Turkey clan is "Tashíí Diné é" . When I was a high school principal, the Navajo kids called me Dr. Tashíí. This wasn't disrespectful, but rather was simply a play on my name. Given the fact that "Tashíí" is a Navajo clan name, it actually occurs within their culture as a name. The Turkey was the last animal to escape from the flood. That is why the tip of its tail feathers are white. They were dipped in the flood.  It was a Navajo, who when hearing of the Taj Mahal, made the observation that it was where the Tashíí lived. "Diné é" means "clan". Toni Turk

Oct, 2004 - Last week Barbara and I were in Washington, DC. We went by the new World War II Memorial. I have since imported a number of veterans from their site. I have established that there were 25 American men with the surname TURK who were Killed in Action in the Second World War. I was surprised that there were so many. One of them was KIA at Pearl Harbor (TURK, Pete S2c USN USS CALIFORNIA) - Toni Turk

Graves in U.S. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=&GSmn=&GSln=Turk&GSbyrel=all&GSby=&GSdyrel=all&GSdy=&GSst=0&GSob=n

Ships Passenger Lists http://member.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html

The world's largest genealogy database www.genealogydatabase.com

Catholic Archives www.catholic-church.org/cid/usa.html

Did you know? In the U.S. Women twenty-one years of age or over were entitled to citizenship in 1922, and derivative citizenship was discontinued.

Locating your Family's Ancestral Town an article to learn from

You can look in the U.S. phonebook:
www.freemarket-phone.com/surname.html

Check the 1851 to 1905 Turks in New York City (Manhattan Directory)

Pierre Le Turcq (18th century)  http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/5213/turcq.htm

"List of Inhabitants of Colonial New York" by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Genealogical Publishing, 1999 FROM "Excerpted and reprinted from "The Documentary History of the State of New York Albany, NY 1849-1851"
Page 264 Captain Richards Company, 1738 (lists Cornelius Turk)
Page 196 Slaves in Ulster Co. 1755 (lists Jakop Turck)
Page 277 Ulster County - A list of the foot company of Militia of the Corporation Kinston Under the Command of Capt. Tjrck Van Keuren (lists Jacob Turck)
Page 224 A List of the Freeholders within the County of Ulster, 1729 (lists Johannis Turck)
Page 54 List of the Commissions issued by Lt. Gov. Leisler (lists #41 Paulus Turck)
Page 32 1703 Census of New York City (lists Powels Turck, Junr.)

Genealogymagazine.com contains a page for the surname Turk: www.genealogymagazine.com/turk.html

Are you related to yourself?  (interesting story that happens a lot!)

Turkey anyone? (story about the family mascot)

Planet Alumni and Military connections at www.linkcounter.com

www.Familysearch.com
www.pueblo.gsa.gov
National Archives and Records Administration www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html
Turk's who died while fighting for the United States: www.nara.cov/genealogy/
National Genealogy Society www.ngsgenealogy.org
www.ancestry.com
www.usgenweb.com
Language Translations: www.Babelfish.com

Post Your Hard To Find Surnames Here,
The Ancestral Library (Over 100,000 Books),
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Newspaper Obituaries and Cemetery Databases 
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AMERICAN TURK FAMILY SITES

Jacob Turk and Anna Chamberlain Descendants - 3 generations
www.lvcm.com/reuthers/turk.htm

Web site for the "Turkel Tribe"  (over 3000 names ) www.geocities.com/turkel.geo/GED2HTML/names/F.htm

McTurk and Mac Turk home.clara.net/iainkerr/kerr/McTurk.htm

The Francois Turcq Family (now Turk) a power point journey of discovery and photos entitled "Am I Related to These Turkeys?" is available from Nancy Turk