using the Stephen P. Morse One-Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy,
where he creates the following record using his well-known
One-Step Webpages for Genealogy
(some of which use sources that are not cost-free, look for the $ sign):
"Albert Einstein
Suppose we wanted to find Albert Einstein’s ship record....Using the White Form, we enter his name and nothing more and submit the request.We get the following results:The one from Berlin seems the most promising so let’s bring up his manifest...We’ll need some additional information about the well-known Einstein before we can draw any conclusions about whether this is the correct ship record. If we do a google search for biographical information on Albert Einstein, we find the following:Below are some of the highlights of this chronology. For simplicity I removed a lot of unnecessary items....Date of birth looks good and matches the record that we found.More confirmation. That’s good.That’s bad. The ship record says his wife’s name is ElsaOk, this is looking promising and it’s good news (bad news for Mileva but good news for us).Bingo. That’s the ship record that we found. And apparently it was the first of several of his visits to the U.S.And in 1933 he came to live permanently in the U.S. This confirms that we found the correct record....
The Gold Form allows us to search on a traveling companion, so we can enter Elsa....Now we get the following match:... now let’s search for Einstein using the All-New-York-Passengers Form, which accesses data that goes up to 1957. Although we can’t enter Elsa on this form, we now know Albert’s year of birth so we will use that information to narrow the search.And when we do the search we get the following results.There’s the 1921 arrival that we’ve seen and the 1933 arrival that we were hoping to find. There’s also a 1930 arrival, and further research shows that he had spent a year teaching at Stanford from 1930 to 1932....
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