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ONLINE TOOLS also try PEOPLE FINDERS | RESEARCH | SEARCH Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Has death dates of US citizens who died since the middle 1960s. Posted on many gen sites Rootsweb | Ancestry | | FTM | | lineages.com | | familytree legends SSA's SS-5 order form Steve Morse finding aids to various database sites Worldcat portal to library catalogs OBIT/CEMETERY LINKS Obituary Daily Times Voluteer-maintained database. Carries citations (not actual text) of obits. legacy.com archive of newspaper obit sections Obit links Obit links at DMOZ Links to newspapers at | newspapers.com | Internet Public Library | daddezio Death indexes online (by state) findagrave.com Cemetery Records Online political graveyard cemetery preservation Blog of death Soundex Converters at Rootsweb | Dick Eastman | converts list Cousin calculator Use the eBay Search page to locate photos, postcards, maps, city directories and other memorabilia for your locality. PEOPLE FINDERS zabasearch.com/ peoplefinders.com usa-people-search.com find.intelius.com ussearch.com old phone exchanges wikipedia online encyclopedia Making of America project posts scanned historical journals and books for view and search. U Mich site | Cornell site Online language translators (hilarious) Babelfish | altavista | www.freetranslation.com | faganfinder Language tools inflation $ conversion Unclaimed funds links USPS Zip lookup getzips.com find counties/cities Rootsweb regional databases including Calif. 1940-97 deaths MD State Archives Free BMD project (UK indexes) Scottish records (see "about" for paymt details) Early American Manual Therapy old handbooks of disease and treatment	GENEALOGY DIRECTORIES/ LINKS Cyndi's List Huge, well organized and maintained directory. The center of the internet genealogical universe. | No-frills front page linkpendium.com Google's genealogy search engine Links at LDS familysearch site Genealogy Home Page - North Am. data online by state Genealogy.com links passrant sites (Nation Digital Library) cimorelli.com has a finder for ships 1890 and later. A few earlier. Helms Genealogy Toolbox Genealogy Gateway [Obit links] Interment Net GENEALOGY DIRECTORIES Google | Yahoo | DMOZ | About.com genealogy.com state selection] publiclibraries.com home pages by state Official city sites Digital Librarian SURNAME SEARCH SITES (also, see "The Big Sites", and commercial sites on the right) LDS's familysearch.org Family History Catalog lists resources available through Family History Centers. Research Guides to localities, and subjects Surname popularity Ellis Island Records (records from 1892) This front end by Steve Morse aids in searching the Ellis Is. database Surname and locality forums FTM's Genforum boards.ancestry.com Rootsweb's forums familytreemagazine.com FTM's genealogy.com but with common interface. Search of volunteer postings to databases. GenealogyLibrary.com subscription service good Irish bbs, with search Local.ie - Irish name search Blogs Dick Eastman genealogyblog.com (Heritage Creations) History news	THE BIG SITES Rootsweb Volunteer run. Sponsors surname and locality mailing lists, postings, projects and archives. Surname search Archive and database searches WorldConnect Project surname search of gedcoms List archive [prompts for name of list] New Rootsweb archive Global archive search Roots-L resource lists: US State selection Roots-L mailing lists US State selection surnames Surname List: Data Submission Form Surname Helper WorldGenweb World Genweb project USGenweb project huge site. Links to individual countries US States link page each state page features individual county pages UKGenWeb Project portal to British Isles COMMERCIAL SITES All have some free searches, help files or functions. Premium services vary. Ancestry.com Subscription service. [database catalog] [new databases] And Ancestry associates [myfamily.com] and [familyhistory.com] [message boards] genealogy.com (FTM) also has subscription databases Everton's Magazine publisher Heritage Quest/AGLL Amer. Gen. Lending Library is a major publisher of microfilm and CD-ROMS familytreemaker.com has a simple mass-market genealogy program and a great searching Web site. Kindred Konnections Genserve
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LISTS Old occupations best I've found occupations Abbreviations several more old occupation links yet another list and yet another Cyndi's list Old diseases archaic med terms Epidemics in US 1918 Influenza page Cyndi's list medical quackery neonatology.org Antiquus Morbus Obsolete skills relationship chart behindthename.com etymology of names Inflation calculator 1800 to 2001 A page of census links census-online.com censuslinks.com Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names placesnamed.com USGS geog. names Canadian geog. names allrefer.com Geographical names (including pronunciations) Links to US newspaper archive projects American Immigrant Wall of Honor animation projects (maps) 1913 Webster's Dictionary Glossaries Genealogy Terms Genealogy abbreviations Acronyms & Jargon American Colonist's Library A treasury of primary documents Calendar and Clock links calendarzone.com	THE BASICS Genealogy programs comparison report Family History SourceGuides LDS publications summarizing material available for localities. National Archives Genealogy page NARA census publications Microfilm numbers Access to Archival Databases (AAD) Rootsweb home page RootsComputing sponsored by Compuserve US Vital Records by state informational Where to write for vital records forms available online A page of links to forms and charts Repositories of Primary Sources University of Idaho's massive list of worldwide archives Library of Congress, Genealogy Division LEARNING Rootsweb's Newbie page [interactive lessons] Cyndi's list of starting points and newcomer resources Beginner's tutorial at Heritage Quest Everton's online classes FTM's How-To articles Ancestry.com's learning center NIH's medical history page Deciphering old handwriting IMMIGRATION ISTG: Immigrant Ship Transcriber's Guild [ship links] Kinship's page on ships US Imm & Nat Service US National Archives on [immigration] [naturalization] CITY DIRECTORIES uscitydirectories.com (an attempt to catalog US city directories) Cyndi's list City Directories on microfilm at the Library of Congress (note: does not include fiche and hard-copy directories). Two essays on using City Directories SCAMS Gen. Web Site Watchdog NGS consumer protection Cyndi's list on hoaxes & scams	PHOTOGRAPHY City Gallery Old photo info, forum, list Conservation OnLine (Stanford) Cyndi's List of photo genealogy sites dating 19th c. photos - overview Dating Photos (Andrew J. Morris) Photo genealogy forum at FTM Arcadia Publishes the "Images of America" books of photos drawn from local 19th century archives More photo and material conservation sites on my Graphics Links page BOOK/ OLD MAP VENDORS, DOWNLOADS, COLLECTIONS Genweb LC downloadable maps Genealogical bookstore links Cyndi's List of Maps Jonathan Sheppard Books Slocum Historical maps sells inexpensive repros of US city maps repro city maps from Generations Press Historical town maps of New England at Saco Valley Printing in Maine Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT) American Library Association heritageantiquemaps.com generationspress.com repro maps Genealogy Unlimited, Inc. repro maps davidrumsey.com familyhistoryland.com carries Jonathan Sheppard's line of city map repros. MapTrade Mailing List Home Page and archives Yale old map collection LC Maps Division [Reading Room] Omnimap OS/USGS/international. Some historical Omnimap map links INTERACTIVE MAPS Map Blast finds businesses in vicinity of a given address or town. Use to find existing churches, cemeteries, town records, etc. Topographical maps SPECIALTIES entertainer-genealogy.org Circus Folk Genealogy Circus World Museum
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NYC vital record indexes (under construction): Deaths 1891-1919 | Alternate front-end Grooms 1908-1936 | Alternate front-end A Brooklyn information page includes table of 1880 Brooklyn/ Manhattan ED boundaries and much other valuable information Brooklyn Eagle digitized A personal Brooklyn page The owner has been transcribing background articles from 19th century Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. funeralnet.com NY funeral home search Westchester Co. Nat Index, 1808-1927 IRELAND Irish phone directory good sel of Irish maps Irish maps, US distributor Irish surname search Irish Names Research Directory Irish National Archives [online databases] Indexes to Griffith's Valuation 1848-64: all counties | Ulster only | current day Placenames database IreAtlas searchable townlands database Index of towns/maps A personal Irish genealogy page Links page-Irish first names FreeBMD England, Wales BMD indexes	NEW YORK CITY My Queensborough page Records, links, repositories in Queens Co., NY (under construction) NYPL genealogic resources Libraries carrying the ESB records Brooklyn Info Page Overview of LDS collection of NYC BDM films NYCGenWeb Yale: old city maps incl. Boston, NYC, New Haven 1928+ NYC maps online NYC History Web site NYC Neighbornood maps Forgotten NY (City) NYU guide to NYC research NYC church links Borough history in maps NYC Building Info System Historical Districts Digital atlas of NYC History, Hudson Riv. ferries gothamcenter.org hist. discussion board Familysearch N.Y. City wiki nycnuts.net Municipal Archives Online Gallery NEW YORK STATE NYS DOH on vital records LDS on N.Y. State [research guide] [browse] fultonhistory.com Scanned NY State newspapers Counties for which NYS census survives NY State Library New York GenWeb Project NYS/Catholic Genealogy site NYS USGS maps (NYSL) Historic USGS maps of NYS & New England (UNH) Obsolete place names in NYS ROOTS-L New York resources page nyhistory.com unclaimed funds Genforum NY postings Upstate NY blogspot UNYG.com (Upstate NY Gen) | blog NYS vital recs overview Familysearch N.Y. State wiki LINK PAGES Cyndi's List New York State page Archives in Eastern United States U. Idaho's linklist links to New York State record sites U. Michigan Open Directory of NYS genealogy.com's NY links My virtual ref desk: NY a personal NYC resources page NYS Cemeteries	NEW ENGLAND BPL's genealogy resources New England Historic Genealogical Society Rootsweb Mass. Resources Boston family history Web site A collaborative web effort of local historical societies Boston genealogy links (Boston-online) My Boston links page has several more local historical and genealogical resources LDS Massachusetts Research Outline search Boston passenger lists IRELAND CyndisList Irish links Local Ireland genealogy NY Irish Network Galway Advertiser good sel of Irish maps irelandgenweb.com TIARA The Irish Ancestral Research Association [link page] Irish National Archives names.local.ie has a good surname board [local.ie links] ireland.com/ (Irish Times) [ancestry page] ENGLAND FreeUKGen Volunteer transcribed census/ BMD

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