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Posted Sun, 14 Mar 1999.
Revised
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Genealogy
Connections
El Duane Whatley
Web Service
ROOTSWEB SEARCH ENGINE - ANY SURNAME OR LISTING
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
http://lists.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/findlist.pl
Trying to find a Rootsweb surname list? Don't know which of 8,000 possible variant
spellings it might be listed under? This tool finds sound- alike matches for a given
surname from among RootsWeb's thousands of surname lists. Give it a try!
find any (Find any Rootsweb genealogy
mailing list)
FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINES:
(Ask Jeeves)
(Alta Vista)
<http://www.aol.com/netfind>
(AOL Searcher)
(Excite)
(Galaxy)
(Hot Bot)
(Info Seek)
(Lycos)
(Google)
SEARCH FOR PEOPLE - SEARCH ENGINES:
Anywho
infospace
Yahoo People Search
infospace
(reverse finder)
switchboard
whowhere
ICQ (Search the ICQ email directory -
Millions of users)
United Kingdom
Certificates This is a business site that
provides birth, marriage, and death certificates for people born n
the British Isles, or the UK.
REAL-TIME COMPUTER TRANSLATIONS
(All European languages)
babelfish.altavista
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
calle.com/world/index (Global
Gazatteer - Foreign)
USGS
(United State Geological Service - finds exact location of place names,
cemeteries, churches, streams, etc. Excellent !!)
indo.com/distance(Distance between two
locations. Enter
geographic coordinates or placenames)
geographic name
server (finds county for known place and state)
getty.edu (geographic thesaurus)
proximus.com/lycos (Lycos road map)
MapquestMapquest)
usgs(geographic name locator)
expediamaps(Microsoft worldwide
info)
oldmaps(Historical Ink; old maps,
NY&NE)
land range(township
and range system)
multimap(United Kingdom)
livgenmi(US Atlas, 1895)
peabody.yale(Yale geographic name
locator)
findaspot
(One meter resolution aerial and satellite photography of the USA
and select foreign
locations. Enter geographic coordinates only)
terraserver
(One meter resolution aerial and satellite photography of the USA
and select foreign
locations. Select location from a map or enter a place name)
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GENERAL REFERENCE SITE - ALL IN ONE -
refdesk Includes
items such as:
*Atlas Maps,
Encarta Maps
*Anthropology,
UDEL; GSU;
Fordham;
*Beginner's Guides;
Heritage
Quest; Genealogy
Beginner; All About
it;
Genealogy Tips
*Biographies & Who's Who;
Library Spot;
Biography Channel;
Multnomah
County
*Databases;
Genealinks;
Ancestor Info;
Family Tree
Connection;
Genealogy Today
*Dictionaries;
Max Pages
*Electronic Texts
*Encyclopedias
*Genealogy Whatley
*Government
*Grammar & Style
*History
*Internet Resources
*Law
*Libraries
*Miscellaneous
*Phone Book
*Population
*Postal
*Science
*Thesaurus
*Time & Date
*Weights & Measures
*World Religions
*WWW Virtual Library
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VITAL RECORDS:
health status(center for
health stats)
medaccess.com(where to write)
vitalrecords(Naomi's list)
census (online census
materials)
more census (alternate, census
online)
search south (searchable south)
CHECK AND CLEAN VIRUSES FROM YOU COMPUTER - free !
antivirus (Trend Microsystems)
Excellent - highly recommended on-line service - no charge)
GIANT GENEALOGY SITES:
Ancestry.com (Subscription
highly recommended by El Duane Whatley)
hamrick find names (U.S. Surname Distribution
from
the U.S. Census during various period in history)
barrels(barrell of links)
CyndisList(Cyndi's List)
Ford Genealogy(Ford Genealogy Club)
genforum discussions(genealogy discussions)
genealogy gate(genealogy gateway)
helplist(genealogy helplist)
mostwanted(genealogy's most wanted)
emcee(genealogy online)
tbox(genealogy tool box)
gensource(genealogy search engine)
genhomepage(genealogical
societies)
Family
History Centers (Mormon FHCs)
ngsgenealogy (National Genealogical Society)
nehgs (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Rand (Rand genealogy club)
rootsweb(Roots Web Searches)
search (searchable genealogy
links)
ukans(UofKS sourcelist)
usgenweb (US Genealogy web)
usigs (US Internet Genealogical Society)
rootsweb
Whatley Family Records
(genealoical and historical societies of Missouri; to change states, delete
"mo" and substitute the postal abbreviation of the state of our choice)
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CHURCH HISTORY:
http://www.ncccusa.org (National Council of
Churches)
http://www.ats.edu/members/denom.htm
(theological
seminaries)
http://www.rrlc.org/guide/arc02.shtml
(American Baptist)
http://www.cob-net.org/ (Church of the Brethren)
http://www.catholic.net/ (Roman Catholic Church)
http://www.cin.org/ (Catholic information network)
http://www.catholic.org/colweb/direct.html
(Catholis web directory)
http://www.disciples.org/historc.htm
(Disciples of Christ)
http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/ (Episcopal
Church, USA)
http://www.elca.org/ (Evangelical Lutheran)
http://www.fum.org/ (Friends United/Quaker)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/index.htm
(Quaker genealogy)
http://www.mercer.edu/mainlib/SpColl.html
(Georgia Baptist)
http://www.depauw.edu/lib/services/Desc/dept.htm#archives
(Indiana UMC)
http://www.lcms.org/ (Lutheran, Missouri Synod)
http://www.jewell.edu/academia/currylibrary/partee/partee.html
(MO Baptist)
http://cmc2.cmc.edu/arc.html (Missouri United Methodist) (Password required)
http://cc.owu.edu/~librweb/spuma.htm
(Ohio
United Methodist)
http://www.libertynet.org/~pacscl/phs/index.
html (Presbyterian)
http://www.rca.org/
(Reformed Church in America)
http://carolus.furman.edu/library/welcome/specpage.htm
(SC Baptist)
http://www.ucc.org/ (United Church of Christ)
http://www.gcah.org/center.htm
(United
Methodist archives)
http://www.gcah.org/Conference/umcdirectory.htm
(UMC state archives)
ETHNIC RESEARCH:
islandnet (searchable
Canada)
German (emigration from
Germany)
Palatine (Palatines to America)
Dutch (Dutch in New
Amsterdam)
German (German Genealogy)
Ireland (Irelands national
archives)
Irish
Genealogy
Irish (Irish Genealogical Society)
Morie Irish (Irish Genealogy)
Scots (Scots birth, death, marriage
indices)
More Scots (Scot Clans)
And More Scots (Scots genealogy)
Scotland (Scotland General Register Office)
Tartan (tartans
& clans)
Tarans again (tartans)
British Isles (UK genealogy)
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ARCHIVES FOR MILITARY HISTORY & WARS:
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/
(Canada war timeline)
http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/unit1.html
(Civil War fighting units)
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
(CW Dakota State)
ttp://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
(Civil
War, U of KY)
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm (Civil War, LSU)
http://www.usgenweb.com/military/index.htm
(military history for genealogy)
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/
(Military History Institute)
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/millib/index.html
(military libraries)
http://www.toast.net/~beau/gs1812.htm
(Society of the War of 1812)
SOURCES FOR BOOKS:
http://www.clark.net/pub/rmharris/netdlrs.html
(antiquarian books)
http://www.appletons.com/homepage.html
(Appleton's)
http://www.glbco.com/ (Blair's)
http://www.esva.net/ghotes/biblio/bkdealer.htm#dealer
(dealers and
publishers)
http://www.hearthstonebooks.com/
(Hearthstone)
Hig (Higginson genealogy)
Hope Farm (Hope Farm, NY books)
Picton (Picton Press)
Scott (Willow Bend)
YOGS (Ye Olde Gen Shop, Indianapolis)
LOOKUP SERVICES:
Books we own (books we own)
southern (mostly southern
Books)
census look (census lookups)
DAR (DAR patriot index)
helplist (genealogy
helplist)
spring (surname
springboard)
GENEALOGY MAILING LISTS - "HOW TO GUIDES":
AOL
gresinet
maillist
Indiana ownlists
lists
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STATE & REGIONAL GENEALOGY SOCIETIES:
mid (midwest gen
society)
AL gen (Alabama genealogy)
CO gen (Colorado gen society)
Conn gen (Connecticut library)
Flo Gen (Florida gen society)
GA help (Georgia
helplist)
IL Secy (Illinois Secretary of State)
Indilibr (Indiana library)
IA Hist (Iowa historical society)
IA Pion (Iowa pioneers)
KN Libr (Kansas library)
KY Lib (Kentucky library
and archives)
Mass Libr (Massachusettes Library and Information
Network)
Minn Hist (Minnesota historical society)
MO Arch (Missouri archives)
MO Hist (Missouri historical society)
NEngHist (New England Historic Genealogical Society,
Boston)
NJ Lib (New Jersey library)
NY Arch (New York archives)
NY Libr (New York library)
NY Rec (New York vital
records)
NC Arch (North Carolina archives)
NC Libr (NC
library)
OH Hist (Ohio historical society)
OK Muse (Oklahoma museum of history)
OR Arch (Oregon archives)
PA Arch
(Pennsylvania archives)
PA Libr (Penn. Commonwealth
library)
SC Arch (South Carolina archives)
Old SC (old
SC papers)
SC Hist (South Carolina historical society)
USC's SC (USC's South
Carolina library)
TN Libr (Tennessee library
& archives)Remember: Big AL Gore invented this Internet!!
;>) Tippacanoe and Big Al, too.
VA Libr (Virginia Library)
WV Online (West Virginia online)
WI Hist (Wisconsin historical society)
WI Libr (online Wisconsin
libraries)
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SURNAMES:
One name studies (Guild of One Name Studies)
surname (suname helper)
surname mail (surname mailing
lists)
surname search(surname search engine)
surname registry (surname web's registry)
SEARCH FOR LAND TITLES AND LAND PATENTS:
all (all states)
BLM (BLM eastern states land records)
PA links (PA lands, with links)
VA Land (Virginia land office
records)
NEWSPAPERS:
Kidon (Kidon US Dailies)
(I haven't tried this, but if it doesn't work, note that the next two say
Media-link and try that)
Kidon 2 (Kidon US Weeklies)
CAN Kidon (Kidon Canada)
news (state newspaper
projects)
state (state
projects
list)
Assoc (state associations, dailies by
state)
CEMETERY RECORDS:
Cem List (cemetery listings)
Cem lists (cemetery listings)
fune home (funeral home
listings)
goldlinks
Ontaria com (Ontario cemetery listings)
US cem(US cemeteries)
US cems (US cemeteries)
OTHER RELATED GENEALOGY SITES:
break (breaking down the wall)
ALA (American Library Association)
Cert (Board for Certification of
Genealogists)
handwriting (deciphering old
handwriting)
fed rec (fed personnel records)
Hugoes(low CountryHuguenots)
loc sites(index of local government sites)
UMich (UMich literature
search)
misc (misc. online databases)
MCPL(Mid-Continent Public Library)
libr (libraries everywhere)
Philly
(Philadelphia)
American ZIP (Zip Codes)
Government Certificate Links
Directory (2007)
Official UK Birth, Marriage &
Death certificates
This reference information was submitted to El Duane Whatley by:
John K. Brown, Jr.
jkbrown@mindspring.com
who is
Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts
The Tune is
"Cold Cold Heart," by Hank Williams
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