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Friday, April 29, 2011
Kip Sperry's favorite internet sites
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Internet Toolbox
I recently watched an Webinar and Mr MacEntee shared this research Toolbox and the idea of putting it in a blog so it can be used from any computer.
Research Toolbox
[Editor's Note: most, if not all of these resources are free and can be easily accessed without having to create a login and password. Some sites, such as Ancestry offer some free content but also charges users for premium content. These sites display ($) next to the link.]
General Research
Ancestry http://www.ancestry.com/ ($)
Bing http://www.bing.com/
DAR http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/
Ellis Island http://www.ellisisland.org/
Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/
Footnote http://www.footnote.com/ ($)
Google http://www.google.com/
Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Groups http://groups.google.com/
Google News Archive http://news.google.com/archivesearch
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
Internet Archive http://www.archive.org
NARA http://www.archives.gov
Roots Web Search Thingy
http://sitesearch.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search
US Gen Web http://www.usgenweb.org
US Gen Web Archives http://usgwarchives.org/index.htm
World Gen Web http://www.worldgenweb.org
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Other Research Toolboxes
Cyndi’s List http://www.cyndislist.com
Diigo Gen Res Resources http://groups.diigo.com/group/gensource
English Family History and Genealogy
http://www.pricegen.com/english_genealogy.html
Ireland Genealogy Links http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/
Steve Morse One Step http://www.stevenmorse.org
Books and Libraries
250 Killer Archives
http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives
ALPL http://www.alplm.org/library/library.html
Allen County Public Library http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx
Ancestry Card Catalog
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx
Family Search Historical Books
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php
Google Books http://books.google.com
Hathi Trust http://www.hathitrust.org
Internet Archive Texts http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org
Open Library http://openlibrary.org
PERSI http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/persi.html
The Online Books Page http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html
WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org
Calculators and Tools
Document Hyperlink Checker
http://www.ablebits.com/word-hyperlink-manager-addins/index.php
Atlas Hist County Boundaries
http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/
Birth Date Calculators http://www.cyndislist.com/births.htm#Birthdate
Calendar Converters http://www.cyndislist.com/calendar.htm#Converters
Cousins and Relationships http://www.cyndislist.com/cousins.htm#Charts
Geographical Names http://geonames.usgs.gov/
Inflation Calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
TypeIt (accents and other characters) http://typeit.org/
US Dollar Historical Value http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/
Weather History http://www.weatherbase.com
Cemeteries and Death Records
Ancestors at Rest http://ancestorsatrest.com/
Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com
Internment http://www.interment.net
Midwest Obits
http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/current-obituaries-by-state.html
Obit Daily Times http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi
Obits Links http://www.obitlinkspage.com
Online Searchable Death Ind http://www.deathindexes.com
SSDI
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693
Tributes http://www.tributes.com
US Military Grave Locator http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
Census
Census Finder http://www.censusfinder.com/index.htm
City Directories
City Directories of the US http://www.uscitydirectories.com/
Eve and Don's City Directories http://www.evendon.net/PGHLookups/DirM.htm
Online Historical Directories
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home
Courts
CA Superior Court http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/find.htm
SF Superior Court http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/index.aspx?page=467
Education
Legacy Family Tree Webinars http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Webinars.asp
Genealogical Societies
Austin Family Assoc http://www.afaoa.org
CGSL http://californiaancestors.org
Crandall Family Assoc http://www.cfa.net/cfa/contents.html
FGS http://www.fgs.org
Freer Low Family Assoc http://www.freerfamily.org
German Genealogy Group http://www.germangenealogygroup.com
GSG http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org
Huguenot Hist Society http://www.huguenotstreet.org
ISFHWE http://www.isfhwe.org
ISGS http://www.ilgensoc.org
NEHGS http://www.newenglandancestors.org
NGS http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
SCGS http://www.scgsgenealogy.com
Schenectady Hist Society http://www.schist.org
Society Hill http://www.daddezio.com/society/
State Historical Societies http://www.stenseth.org/us/statehs.html
Illinois
ALPL http://www.alplm.org/library/library.html
Diigo Illinois Genealogy http://groups.diigo.com/group/illinois-genealogy
Illinois State Archives
http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/archives.html
Illinois State Gen Soc http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilsgs/
Illinois State Hist Soc http://www.historyillinois.org
Illinois State Library http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/
IRAD
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/iradhome.html
Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org
Land Records
Bureau of Land Management http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
Living People
123people http://www.123people.com
Alumni.net http://www.alumni.net
AnyWho http://www.anywho.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com
peoplefinders http://www.peoplefinders.com
pipl http://www.pipl.com
US Search http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp
Veromi http://www.veromi.net/processor.asp
White Pages http://www.whitepages.com
yasni.com http://www.yasni.com
Zaba Search http://www.zabasearch.com
Maps
David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com
Historic Map Works http://www.historicmapworks.com/
New York
Albany County Records http://www.albanycounty.com/achor/
Albany RDC Records http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/albany/
Early New Netherlands
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/
Huguenot Hist Society www.huguenotstreet.org
NY GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygenweb/county.htm
NYGBS http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org
NY Hist Soc https://www.nyhistory.org/web/
NY Hist Timeline http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/NYNY.html
NYS Archives http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml
NYS Library http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
NYS Offline Resources http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nysource/
Northern NY Hist Newspapers http://news.nnyln.net
Northern NY Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html
Old Fulton Postcards http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Olive Tree Genealogy NY http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
People of Colonial Albany
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/
PCA Bio Index
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/bioindex.html#v
Schenectady DHA http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/index.html
Schenectady Hist Society http://www.schist.org
Ulster County Families
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~luke/
Newspapers
Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Civil War Newspapers http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm
Genealogy Bank http://www.genealogybank.com ($)
NEH Historic Newspapers http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html
NY Times Article Archive
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
Newspaper Archive http://www.newspaperarchive.com ($)
Northern Cal Newspapers http://www.rainydayresearch.com/index.html
Northern NY Hist Newspapers http://news.nnyln.net
Old Fulton Postcards http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Online Historical News
http://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home
US News Archives on the Web
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
Photos
Dead Fred http://www.deadfred.com
LOC Flickr Photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
NARA Photos
http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/photos.html
tineye http://www.tineye.com
Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Search Engines
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com
Highbeam http://www.highbeam.com
iSeek http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page
Online Journal Search Engine http://www.ojose.com
Scirus http://www.scirus.com
Soople http://www.soople.com
Vadlo http://vadlo.com
Virtual Learning Resource Center http://www.virtuallrc.com
Vital Records
Avail of Vital Records by State
http://www.byub.org/ancestors/records/vital/extra2.html
CDC Vital Records Directory http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm
Volunteer Projects
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness http://www.raogk.org
Restore the Ancestors Project http://www.restoretheancestors.com
Unclaimed Persons http://www.unclaimedpersons.org
Read more:
http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/p/research-toolbox.html#ixzz1Iu9UA4zp
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Research Toolbox
[Editor's Note: most, if not all of these resources are free and can be easily accessed without having to create a login and password. Some sites, such as Ancestry offer some free content but also charges users for premium content. These sites display ($) next to the link.]
General Research
Ancestry http://www.ancestry.com/ ($)
Bing http://www.bing.com/
DAR http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/
Ellis Island http://www.ellisisland.org/
Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/
Footnote http://www.footnote.com/ ($)
Google http://www.google.com/
Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Groups http://groups.google.com/
Google News Archive http://news.google.com/archivesearch
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
Internet Archive http://www.archive.org
NARA http://www.archives.gov
Roots Web Search Thingy
http://sitesearch.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search
US Gen Web http://www.usgenweb.org
US Gen Web Archives http://usgwarchives.org/index.htm
World Gen Web http://www.worldgenweb.org
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Other Research Toolboxes
Cyndi’s List http://www.cyndislist.com
Diigo Gen Res Resources http://groups.diigo.com/group/gensource
English Family History and Genealogy
http://www.pricegen.com/english_genealogy.html
Ireland Genealogy Links http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/
Steve Morse One Step http://www.stevenmorse.org
Books and Libraries
250 Killer Archives
http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives
ALPL http://www.alplm.org/library/library.html
Allen County Public Library http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx
Ancestry Card Catalog
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx
Family Search Historical Books
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php
Google Books http://books.google.com
Hathi Trust http://www.hathitrust.org
Internet Archive Texts http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org
Open Library http://openlibrary.org
PERSI http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/persi.html
The Online Books Page http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html
WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org
Calculators and Tools
Document Hyperlink Checker
http://www.ablebits.com/word-hyperlink-manager-addins/index.php
Atlas Hist County Boundaries
http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/
Birth Date Calculators http://www.cyndislist.com/births.htm#Birthdate
Calendar Converters http://www.cyndislist.com/calendar.htm#Converters
Cousins and Relationships http://www.cyndislist.com/cousins.htm#Charts
Geographical Names http://geonames.usgs.gov/
Inflation Calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
TypeIt (accents and other characters) http://typeit.org/
US Dollar Historical Value http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/
Weather History http://www.weatherbase.com
Cemeteries and Death Records
Ancestors at Rest http://ancestorsatrest.com/
Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com
Internment http://www.interment.net
Midwest Obits
http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/current-obituaries-by-state.html
Obit Daily Times http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi
Obits Links http://www.obitlinkspage.com
Online Searchable Death Ind http://www.deathindexes.com
SSDI
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693
Tributes http://www.tributes.com
US Military Grave Locator http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
Census
Census Finder http://www.censusfinder.com/index.htm
City Directories
City Directories of the US http://www.uscitydirectories.com/
Eve and Don's City Directories http://www.evendon.net/PGHLookups/DirM.htm
Online Historical Directories
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home
Courts
CA Superior Court http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/find.htm
SF Superior Court http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/index.aspx?page=467
Education
Legacy Family Tree Webinars http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Webinars.asp
Genealogical Societies
Austin Family Assoc http://www.afaoa.org
CGSL http://californiaancestors.org
Crandall Family Assoc http://www.cfa.net/cfa/contents.html
FGS http://www.fgs.org
Freer Low Family Assoc http://www.freerfamily.org
German Genealogy Group http://www.germangenealogygroup.com
GSG http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org
Huguenot Hist Society http://www.huguenotstreet.org
ISFHWE http://www.isfhwe.org
ISGS http://www.ilgensoc.org
NEHGS http://www.newenglandancestors.org
NGS http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
SCGS http://www.scgsgenealogy.com
Schenectady Hist Society http://www.schist.org
Society Hill http://www.daddezio.com/society/
State Historical Societies http://www.stenseth.org/us/statehs.html
Illinois
ALPL http://www.alplm.org/library/library.html
Diigo Illinois Genealogy http://groups.diigo.com/group/illinois-genealogy
Illinois State Archives
http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/archives.html
Illinois State Gen Soc http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilsgs/
Illinois State Hist Soc http://www.historyillinois.org
Illinois State Library http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/
IRAD
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/iradhome.html
Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org
Land Records
Bureau of Land Management http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
Living People
123people http://www.123people.com
Alumni.net http://www.alumni.net
AnyWho http://www.anywho.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com
peoplefinders http://www.peoplefinders.com
pipl http://www.pipl.com
US Search http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp
Veromi http://www.veromi.net/processor.asp
White Pages http://www.whitepages.com
yasni.com http://www.yasni.com
Zaba Search http://www.zabasearch.com
Maps
David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com
Historic Map Works http://www.historicmapworks.com/
New York
Albany County Records http://www.albanycounty.com/achor/
Albany RDC Records http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/albany/
Early New Netherlands
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/
Huguenot Hist Society www.huguenotstreet.org
NY GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygenweb/county.htm
NYGBS http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org
NY Hist Soc https://www.nyhistory.org/web/
NY Hist Timeline http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/NYNY.html
NYS Archives http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml
NYS Library http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
NYS Offline Resources http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nysource/
Northern NY Hist Newspapers http://news.nnyln.net
Northern NY Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html
Old Fulton Postcards http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Olive Tree Genealogy NY http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
People of Colonial Albany
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/
PCA Bio Index
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/bioindex.html#v
Schenectady DHA http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/index.html
Schenectady Hist Society http://www.schist.org
Ulster County Families
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~luke/
Newspapers
Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Civil War Newspapers http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm
Genealogy Bank http://www.genealogybank.com ($)
NEH Historic Newspapers http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html
NY Times Article Archive
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
Newspaper Archive http://www.newspaperarchive.com ($)
Northern Cal Newspapers http://www.rainydayresearch.com/index.html
Northern NY Hist Newspapers http://news.nnyln.net
Old Fulton Postcards http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Online Historical News
http://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home
US News Archives on the Web
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
Photos
Dead Fred http://www.deadfred.com
LOC Flickr Photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
NARA Photos
http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/photos.html
tineye http://www.tineye.com
Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Search Engines
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com
Highbeam http://www.highbeam.com
iSeek http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page
Online Journal Search Engine http://www.ojose.com
Scirus http://www.scirus.com
Soople http://www.soople.com
Vadlo http://vadlo.com
Virtual Learning Resource Center http://www.virtuallrc.com
Vital Records
Avail of Vital Records by State
http://www.byub.org/ancestors/records/vital/extra2.html
CDC Vital Records Directory http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm
Volunteer Projects
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness http://www.raogk.org
Restore the Ancestors Project http://www.restoretheancestors.com
Unclaimed Persons http://www.unclaimedpersons.org
Read more:
http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/p/research-toolbox.html#ixzz1Iu9UA4zp
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
April Staff Meeting
Thursday April 21, 2011, 7 p.m.
Relief Society Room
We will be talking about the new Church Handbook of Instruction, Book 2, Section -
"The Work of Salvation in Wards and Stakes."
The Section is on the web at
http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/the-work-of-salvation-in-the-ward-and-stake?lang=eng&query=family+history#5.5
And we will also talk about the new administrative handbook called "To Turn the Hearts" and can be found at
http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Local_Support/Priesthood/T3H/En/To_Turn_the_Hearts.pdf
Please read and come prepared to talk about ways the Family History Center can help the wards and stakes in the Work of Salvation.
Relief Society Room
We will be talking about the new Church Handbook of Instruction, Book 2, Section -
"The Work of Salvation in Wards and Stakes."
The Section is on the web at
http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/the-work-of-salvation-in-the-ward-and-stake?lang=eng&query=family+history#5.5
And we will also talk about the new administrative handbook called "To Turn the Hearts" and can be found at
http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Local_Support/Priesthood/T3H/En/To_Turn_the_Hearts.pdf
Please read and come prepared to talk about ways the Family History Center can help the wards and stakes in the Work of Salvation.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Online Film Ordering
Beginning April 13 all films will be ordered and paid for by patrons directly from the church at FILM.FAMILYSEARCH.ORG (all in small letters.) To order films, patrons will sign in with their user name and password that they use for new.FS, Indexing and LDS.org. They will need to have a valid email address and a credit card, debit card, prepaid bank card or PayPal account. Films can be ordered from a patron’s home computer, a family member’s computer, the county library or the FHC. Once they are trained, we will step back and allow patrons to do the order themselves.
The cost of the film is: $5.50 for 90 days (which includes shipping time – so about 70 days of use) We have been giving a discount in our FHC and renting the film for $2 for 60 days. That will be gone on April 13 so hurry if you want to order one more film at the special price.
The Extended Loan rate will be $13.75 with a very important change. It used to be that if you rented a film and then renewed it twice the $11 you paid for the first 2 rental periods plus the $5.50 for the second renewal covered the Long Term Loan price. Now you may renew the film as many times as you want for $5.50 each time, but when you decide to keep it for a long time, you will need to pay the Extended Loan Price of $13.75. So if you think you may want to keep it for a while, you can rent it the first time on Extended Loan for $13.75.
The Distribution Center will send the patron 4 emails for each order submitted –
1) When they receive the order
2) When they ship the order
3) When the FHC notifies them the order has been received at the FHC
4) 7 days before the order is due back.
As has always been the policy - films remain the property of the Church and must not leave the FHC while on loan. Films on Extended Loan that are not used for a year or more may be returned to the Church to clear room in the FHC.
Because we represent the church we must be very kind but firm in a couple of areas -
We can not push patrons to order on the computers at the FHC. They should order from home.
We must not use our credit card or PayPal account and have the patron give us cash.
We must allow patron's who order on FHC computers privacy and not view or type in their credit card number.
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