Welcome to the Main Turk Database!

Enter the Main Turk Database

About this database:   This database is a guild of one name studies work by Dr. Toni Richard Turk. It details separate individuals within one degree of relationship to this surname and its’ identified variant spellings. We maintain the online database record on Root Web's World Connect site at: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=turk-guild . The website for our project is located at: http://www.turkgenealogy.com/ . We are also maintaining a parallel supporting Y-DNA Surname Project. The public record of that effort is found at: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/turk%2Dguild/.  

The Main Turk database is made of a GEDCOM file (Genealogical Electronic Data Communications.) Content of the GEDCOMs is uploaded through the World Connect Program. If you have a problem with a particular entry, please contact the submitter of said entry. Dr. Toni Richard Turk has full control over the database and your GEDCOM and can change or remove it at any time.

This database is updated at the beginning of every month (or when ever Toni gets to it.)  If you want to see the notes on the entries contact Toni Turk via e-mail at trturk@frontiernet.net.  If you want to see the sources for the records or how the individuals in this database are distributed across the world go to segmented by country.  It will show you the count of both individuals and families in each country or state.

Note: Due to privacy issues only deceased people are viewable but the database does contain and accept live Turks.  Please search to your heart's content.  You are using a read-only version so you can not mess up anything.  

The online record does not include the sources, but these are readily available upon request from trturk@frontiernet.net.

Most recently, the extraction of all entries (surname, location & topic) have been completed from Rootsweb.com. Previously, all IGI entries, excluding Scandinavia, have been extracted. All identified published TURK surname books filed with the Family History Library in Salt Lake City have been extracted. Other completed extraction efforts have included the 1880 US census, the US Social Security Death Index, Find-a-Grave, and archive records from Gorzow Wielkopolski (Landsberg an der Warthe). Additionally, numerous online vital records such as marriage and obituaries have been added. Major contributions have also been made by individual researchers who have graciously submitted their records for inclusion.

This Guild effort includes all records regardless of the race, the ethnicity or the religion of the subject. Contributions and corrections are most appreciated. They may be submitted in any format; however GEDCOMs are the easiest to incorporate. Custom reports and responses are made to all individual inquiries.

To Submit or Change Data in The Main Turk Database:

If you would like to submit or change data in The Main Turk Database there at two ways to do this.  The first and preferred method is to send your data in a GEDCOM file format.  What is a GEDCOM?

1)  Open a GEDCOM file (available free on the www) it will first ask to be saved on your local computer - fill out the fields, attach it to an e-mail and send to Toni Turk trturk@frontiernet.net. 

OR: go to www.familysearch.com and get the free download of PAF (Personal Ancestral File).  You can then enter all the data and forward the file to trturk@frontiernet.net.

2)  If that is to much too deal with, please complete the submit or change data form and at the bottom of the form it automatically sends it to Toni Turk trturk@frontiernet.net. 

What information should you send in to the database? 

Details such as the date and place of birth/christening, marriage and death/burial for each TURK. Then for each TURK we would find that same information for their spouse and children, including the children of female TURKs.  If you're using the submit or change data form - put these details in the "comments" section at the bottom of the form. If you have a lot of data to submit (great!) you would be better off talking with Toni on the best way to submit it (maybe creating your own GEDCOM file and sending that to Toni.) We can then merge that into the main Turk database for all to see.  

Thanks for sharing,

Toni Turk