Revised: 29 Sep 2000

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CONTENTS: Maps | General Indexes | Books | Citations | Census |
Rootsweb | LDS Searches |
Utilities: Relationship chart, metaphone & soundex code.
| New York City Info | Detailed virus information | Soapbox: Sharing | Privacy

Monday, October 9

Item costs 1900-1998 at http://dmarie.com/timecap/. Another chart, back to 18c

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Monday, October 9

NE History Ray Brown's New England History mailing list page at http://www.history.rootsweb.com/~new-england-history/

Friday September 29

Technical link from The Tourbus newsletter:

and

Whatis.com

Thursday, September 14

Economic History Net has form for calculating the worth of money from 1720. http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/dollarq.php

Friday, September 8

Large, clear maps of the USA http://www.maptech.com/mapserver/index.cfm

For a Time Line of Boundary and Political Changes in Brooklyn see Walter Greenspan's post to NYBROOKLYN-L on September 8 entitled "St. Ann's on the Heights"

Thanks to Bill Cribbs of OHROOTS-L@rootsweb.com for these addresses:

States, counties and towns with maps http://hpi.www.com/us

Newspaper links http://www.usnewspaperlinks.com

The following urls are described fully in Eastman's Online Newsletter which is available at:

http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/d_p_1_archive.asp

Archaic disease names: http://www.gpiag-asthma.org/drpsmith/amt1.htm

Sierrahome/HeritageQuest announcment of online census project: http://genealogydatabase.com/

Preview of Ancestry Digital Images and Reconstruction of 1890 Census

http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/census.htm

and

http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/1890sub/main.htm

Information about lists of genealogy books online which has been published can be seen at http://www.scholarly.com/

David Rumsey collection of Old Maps at http://www.davidrumsey.com/. Printable, searchable, nicely presented.

Map of surname distribution changes from 1850 to 1990 Hamrick at http://www.hamrick.com/names/index.html

List of Census
Archiveshttp://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/index.htm
Directory of newspapers online.

Tue 11 Jul 2000

Calendar gives day of the week for 10,000 years.

Fri 7 Jul 2000

Collection of pictures of historic buildings all over the US Library of Congress

Anonymous article explaining different Colonial states' policies and actions on Bounty Land -- exchanged for military service. At Genealogy Today Archives at http://genealogytoday.com/news/archive/999news.htm

Another article explains PERSI holdings at http://genealogytoday.com/news/archive/899news.htm

Sat 1 Jul 2000

KY Death index 1920-2000 online and searchable at

http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ky/death/search.cgi

Online Dictionary

http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

Not new, but worth another look

Listing of Online books searchable by Author, by Title or both
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/new.html

Thur 29 June 2000

NYTimes article - 29 Jun 2000
Report by Media Metrix

Oct 1995 estimated 1.3 million web pages
Jan 2000 estimated l billion plus

Average time spent by Web users at search engine sites each month.
May 1998 45 min
May 1999 78 min
May 2000 124 min

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31.1 million men and 30.2 million women use web

mid-40s is usual age
women over 55 fastest growing group
biggest items- shopping and music

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Web Users

Usa 77.9 Millions
Japan 14.1
Britain 9.6

Article Free Today at www.nytimes.com/circuits
 later for $2.50 per article I think

Article on The UVA CW site on the Valley of the Shadow an 8 year project of Dr. Edward L. Ayers and his students documents the Civil War Sehandoah Valley and Franklin County in PA.

URL for study at

http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/choosepart.html

To see the NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/circuits which is probably free only today and then on a pay-per-article basis.

Sun 25 June 2000

Scorecard for Rootsweb/Ancestry merger

Mike Goad has great instructions for using search engines at http://www.cswnet.com/~sbooks/genealogy/html/search.html. Has detailed instructions -- particularly how to narrow down searches with Quotation Marks

Mon 19 June 2000

Savages New England Dictionary at http://genweb.net/~books/savage/savage.htm

Onegreatfamily Database In beta Free and subscription.

Heritage quest offers census index CDs. Phone 1- 800-760-2455

Sat 12 June 2000

Rootsweb Staff Answer about a Search Engine being down:
QUOTE
Basically what happens with Seeker is that people keep building more, and bigger, Web pages and Seeker runs out of memory indexing them. We patch it up from time to time, and at present it is running with a limited amount of data.
We plan to replace Seeker permanently but I can't give you a timeframe for a permanent fix.
UNQUOTE

Article on Boolean searches from NGS conferences http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/1497.asp

Tues 23 May 2000
Get Ben Blish's timelines http://www.ourtimelines.com

Barbara Jeffries' Early Renssalaer County Probate at http://members.tripod.com/~JeffriesB


Mon 15 May 2000 The Domesday Book is on line at http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/suffolk.html. Wed 13 Apr 2000

Patricia Law Hatcher has an excellent article on analyzing data at:
http://members.tripod.com/~Eric_Borreson/index.html

Online catalog of NJ State Archives
http://www.njstatelib.org/webclient.html

Search all Libraries
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/libweb/ Maps available at Ancestry
Check out the list for locations and possible names.
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/reference/maps/
Thanks to Gloria of IL-WESTERN list.

Illinois Library System
Joining the index of Bounty Land Records and the index of Marriages is
http://vic.sos.state.il.us/
Internet Search Engine
http://www.cen.uiuc.edu//exploring.html
LDS Location List Index of Batch numbers
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/8333/index4.html
The Hargrett Library Special Collection at the University of Georgia has early maps of the New World, Colonial America and an 1850 RR Map
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett.html

Indexes

Digital Databases

Books More

Library Catalogs

Maps

Library of Congress Treasures
Manatus Map - 1639 Manhattan with Farms
This John Hopkins site offers a useful variety of maps
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/
Shaded relief map // County map // Black and white map Satellite image // 1895 map (Big: 1.70 Mb) // PostScript Map //
USGNIS
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html topozone
USgenmap project -- another project supporting free genealogy on the net.
http://incolor.inetnebr.com/leonard/usgenmap.shtml
Geographic Locations at Peabody Museum Yale University -- long. and lat. of populated areas, rivers, cemetaries and other features
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/gnis/
Perry Casteneda Library at U.Texas
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
1895 Atlas
Here at http://www.LivGenMI/1895
and
http://www.jgsny.org/kingsintro1.htm
US Census Maps
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl

http://www.census.gov/datamap/www/index.html

University of Georgia
1850 Roads
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/
Library of Congress American Memory Collection
Maps
1752 map of Philadelphia with farms
Map of Trenton to New Brunswick turnpike.
National Geographic Maps
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.htm

Land records


Bureau of Land Management-
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
California Land Patents
http://www.ca.blm.gov/landpatents/
ILLINOIS Bounty Land Records -- more complete than BLM GLO records
http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/data_lan.html
VIRGINIA Land Records
Township and Range System
http://www.outfitters.com/genealogy/land/twprange.html

Census

2000 Census form for Download http://www.census.gov/pub/dmd/www/infoquest.html
Census Indexes
A directory of free census indexes USGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwcens/help/ceninventory.html
US Census Maps
Maps
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl Sample distribution of surnames and first names in 1990 census
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/genealogy/www/freqnames.html
1870 Census Index Michigan U of Michigan Library
http://envoy.libofmich.lib.mi.us/1870_census/

Citations

In the mailing list, Genconnect Boards and Web Space it is enough to cite your sources informally but honestly.-- family legend, a brief title "The Source", tombstone, etc. or even a general statement covering a good deal of research, so that current and future researchers can examine and evaluate the source in their own research.

There are a good guides to more

  • Richard Pence's general guidelines List of NGS guidelines at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ giving standards for Sound Genealogical Research, Using Records Repositories And Libraries, Use Of Technology In Genealogical Research
    These are oriented toward professional publication in journals. Standards change, for instance, the preponderance of evidence methods have changed in the last two years, but they are interesting.

    Full academic citations are not necessary for the average genealogy hobbyist, but it is prudent to make enough notations so you can return to the sources to check and to compare new information, and can direct others to it.

    I do object to, and disagree with, suggesting any requirement for personal sourcing other than an email address. By this I mean including postal or street addresses, telephone numbers, etc. This is absolutely not a requirement for formal academic sourcing.
    Virus, Hoaxes, Spam

    Rootsweb

    Main Page
    www.rootsweb.com
    Free Gedcom page
    Upload your gedcoms
    http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/
    Free web pages - unlimited space
    http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/press/freepages.html
    GENCONNECT BOARDS
    Cluster Boards - gateway to all resources for a surname
    searches, mailing lists, boards. web sites

    BBS Boards - for both surnames and locations Query boards and Data boards for Wills, Bible Records, Deeds, Pensions

    http://resources.rootsweb.com

    Rootsweb Review Dec. 26 article gives more detailed information
    click here

    Utilities

    Relationship charts at
    a http://eric_borreson.tripod.com/
    Metaphone code finder (phonetic)
    http://www.lanw.com/java/phonetic/
    Soundex code translator
    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3916/soundex.html
    FamilyTreemaker [Broderbund/LearningCompany/Mattel/] site has a free glossary of genealogy terms.
    http://www.genealogy.com/Glossary/glossary.html
    Historical Money values 
    Dr Hans-J Finke in NYHIST list suggests this for history of money
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/northamerica.html
An another suggestion http://www.english.upenn.edu/~morgan/inflation/
    Information for Adoptees
    some considerations at http://www.genealogytoday.com/adoption/prep.html

    Birthdate calculator from Ben Bruckner
    http://enws347.eas.asu.edu:8000/~buckner/bdform.html

    Technical Articles

    Gary Bonham's Gedx site on transferring Gedcoms
    http://www.gedx.com/gedx/default.htmltransferring
    DearMyrtle gives detailed information on how to preserve old Civil War letters, how to research the information and prepare it for publication. And demonstrates anonimity for those who expect to publish


    Soapbox

    Privacy

    Norris Taylor has a page on privacy at

    http://members.tripod.com/~ntgen/bw/cutter_index.html

    Privacy Rights Organization http://www.privacyrights.org/

    Sharing

    Ardis Parshall has two excellent messages about sharing information which can be seen in the archives for the Genauthor mailing list

    Click here

    and November 29 with the topic "Sharing" will be appearing in the Threaded Archives at Rootsweb

    click here

    9 September 1999