Morse's Coding: A Genealogical Case Study Highlighting Steve Morse's One-Step Webpages

Steve Morse is the creator of an impressive set of genealogy utilities that he makes available without charge on his One-Step Webpages website. He has developed tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. This lecture presents a case study that demonstrates use of the One Step tools to develop a family history. It illustrates how, with a minimal amount of initial information, an entire genealogy can be compiled. It also shows how to obtain records in spite of name misspellings, and how to avoid accepting wrong information.

Steve Morse

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, the Award of Merit from the National Genealogical Society, the first ever Excellence Award from the Association of Professional Genealogists, and two awards that he cannot pronounce from Polish Genealogical Societies.

In his other life, Morse is a world renowned computer professional with a doctorate degree in electrical engineering. He has held various research, development, and teaching positions, authored numerous technical papers, written four textbooks, and holds four patents. He is best known as the architect of the Intel 8086 (the granddaddy of today's Pentium processor), which enabled the PC revolution 35 years ago.