ARCHIVES and KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Scholarly online resource evidence and records for use by genealogists and family historians.

Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory SEARCH This Site
Archive Sources & Library References: Countries Worldwide - USA
Business & Economics: World Business - World Economics
Geography & Maps: Gazetteer - USA & Canada
Governments - National & Local: USA
Legal: Court Information & Records: USA
Military Worldwide: Regional - USA: Wars & History by Time Period
Pedigree & Lineage: Social Networking [with Family Trees]
Personal Web Sites: Oral History
Religion & Culture: Cultural Heritage - Religion: Institutions - Worldwide
Research & Learning
Surnames & Names: Family - IGI - Onomastics - Surname (Surnames)

Web Pages for Scholarly Societies

Archive Sources & Library References

ARCHIVAL INTERNET RESOURCES: Directory of International Archival Resources
Internet Archive
Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts.

Repositories of Primary Sources
Websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives,
rare books, historical photographs and other primary sources.
UNESCO Archives Portal:
Memory of the World - Registered Heritage - World Heritage List

*
Archival Science: Archivopedia
 
- Academy of Certified Archivists: Links
  -
Archivenet
    - Reference at Your Desk
      Library service designed to provide
      quick access to the type of ready-reference
      tools needed by archivists and records managers.

  - Archivist: People - Archivopedia
    Biographies of notable archivists and librarians.

  - Preservation (Library and Archival Science)
  -
Technical Handbooks and Guides - Archivopedia
    - Archival textbooks and e-books.
  - Terms - Archivopedia
    Index of archival, LIS and public history terminology.
* Archive: ArchivesWiki - Archive Directories
 
Clearinghouse of information about
  archival resources throughout the world.
  - All Countries - A to Z:
Archives Made Easy

    - Archives & Manuscript Collections
      National archives and libraries,
      college and university collections
      and historical society archives.
    - Australia Archives: Australian Family History Compendium
    - Canadian Genealogical Research: Archives Canada -
Library and Archives Canada
    - History, Genealogy & Archives - LOC
      Databases and E-Resources
    - Ireland National Archives and PRO of Northern Ireland.
    - National Archives, with
research and learning,
      and family history research at the British Library;
      for
England, Wales and the United Kingdom: UK
      government records from Domesday to the present.
      -
Your Archives: Categories - Your Archives
       
Community of record users where people can share their
        knowledge of British history and archival sources held by
        The National Archives and by other archives throughout the UK.

    - New Zealand National Archives
    - Scotlands People and Scottish Archive Network
      Official government sources of genealogical data for Scotland.
    -
UK Data Archive
    - United States of America: States
      - NARA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration:
NARAtions
        Records from the legislative, executive and
        judicial branches of the federal government,
        census records, with other pertinent records
        of interest to genealogists and historians.
        -
Access to Archival Databases
        - ALIC - Archives Library Information Center
        - Archives Library Information Center - Genealogy
        - Footnote™
          Original documents online.
        - Genealogy Links and Web Sites
        - Genealogy Research Topics
        - Guide to Federal Records
        -
List of NARA Records Digitized by NARA's Partners
        -
National Personnel Records Center
          Information on United States civilian records.
        - Veterans and their Families
          - Location of Military Service Records
* Archivists and Genealogical Researchers
  - Archival Repositories for Genealogists
  -
ArchiveGrid
    Search through historical documents, personal papers and family
    histories held in archives around the world.  Thousands of libraries,
     museums and archives have contributed nearly a million collection
    descriptions to ArchiveGrid.  Researchers searching ArchiveGrid
    can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact
    archives to arrange a visit to examine materials and order copies.

  - Family History Archive
    Be a contributor or sponsor
    of the Family History Archive.
  - FamilySearch
™ Record Search
    Search millions of indexed records
    from this pilot site.  Browse through
    the images of records waiting to be
    indexed.  More records are added monthly.
  -
Guide to Donating Your Personal or Family Papers to a Repository
  - Historical Text Archive: Electronic History Resources
  -
World Archives Project - Ancestry.com

    Free historical record collections with searchable record indexes.
*
GeoCities:
Yahoo!® GeoCities Japan
  - GEOCITI.ES: Neighborhoods
  -
Internet Archive: GeoCities Special Collection 2009
  - InternetArchaeology.org
  - Reocities Archive: Reocities
*
Libraries & Museums
  -
Family History Library Catalog All Subject Search

  -
NGS Guidelines for Using Records Repositories and Libraries
  -
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
  - Special Collections Web Resources
    - ALA | Internet Resources: Archives and Special Collections
    -
Special Collections on the Web

  -
Research Guides by Subject
    Selected Internet resources
    from Yale University.

  -
Virtual Library : Subject Guides [Nanyang Technological University Library],
    with
online references.

Business & Economics

BUSINESS and ECONOMICS: PORTAL:BUSINESS and ECONOMICS
* businesshistory.net
  History of business.
  - Business History
  - Business History Related Resources
  - Business History Review
  - International Directory of Business Biographies
  - WWW Virtual Library Economic and Business History
*
Company: Portal:Companies
  Companies by country and industry.
  -
Company Histories (USA)
  -
List of Oldest Companies - A.D. 578 to A.D. 1851
  - U.S. Company Information
*
Corporation
  - Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
  -
Multinational Corporation
    -
List of Conglomerates
* Documentation and Publications: Professional Genealogical Sources
  -
Category:American Families
    -
Classification of American Wealth
      History and genealogy of the
      wealthy families of America.
  -
FT.com - Financial Times - Genealogy
    - What's in a Name
      Firms' simplified family trees on the web.
  -
Museum of American Finance
* Economic History
  -
EH.Net Encyclopedia: Index: Related websites | EH.Net

WORLD: BUSINESS - Topic Outline of Business
Biz/ed
- Brint.com - Business - Business.com - BusinessDictionary.com
Business Guides - Business Nation - Doing Business - Explorit Now - globalEDGE™
Hoover's Online - International Business Culture, Customs and Etiquette
Knowledge Management for Business - Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Business products and services, dictionary, domain name registration, education,
international information, Internet web site hosting, long distance, marketplace,
news, search engines,
small business center, software and telecommunications.
* Academic Business Libraries
  North and Central America; Europe and Asia-Pacific.
  - Columbia University Business & Economics Library Guides
  -
Harvard Business School
    - Research Guides - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
- Site Map
  - Vanderbilt University WML - Research LibGuides
   
General business topics, career research and data sources.
    - Researching an Industry or Specific Company
* CEO Express: Executive Gateway to the Internet
* Forbes Lists and Fortune Magazine on CNNMoney
*
Stock Market
  -
NASDAQ® Stock Market
  - NYSE: New York Stock Exchange
  -
SEC Filings & Forms - USA (EDGAR)
   
- LLRX.com: Business Filings Databases
* Special Issues - Gary Price's List of Lists
  - Gómez™:  The eCommerce Authority®
    Internet evaluation methodology,
    and high-quality community ratings
    and reviews of online businesses.
* Wall Street Executive Library
* World Bank Group
  -
Liber8™ Research Library
 
  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Missouri (USA).
* World Chambers Network:
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
* Worldwide Directory of Finance Faculty and Professionals

  - Bloomberg.com
    Financial markets commodities news.
  -
Living FAMILY and FUN Portal: Financial
  -
Wachowicz's Web World: Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students

WORLD: ECONOMICS -
Topic Outline of Economics
*
AEAweb: Resources for Economists on the Internet
*
AmosWEB is Economics: ECON*world
* EDIRC
  Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers.

* Economics Search Engine(ESE)
* Inomics® The Internet Site for Economists
* Moody's Economy.com
*
Statistical Resources on the Web
  -
STAT-USA/Internet
* Trade
  - World Trade Organization; TradePort™
*
WebEc - WWW Resources in Economics
  -
International Economics

Geography & Maps

GENERAL GEOGRAPHY and INTERNATIONAL MAPS: Maps & GIS - Topic Outline of Geography
Geography [
Human Geography - Physical Geography]: Portal:Atlas - Portal:Geography
*
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
  - ASTER: Links

    - NASA, Japan Publish Detailed Map of Earth
  -
DigitalGlobe® | An Imagery and Information Company
    High quality earth imagery and geospatial information products.
  - Web Links Database - Geoinformatics
    Surveying, geodesy, imaging, photogrammetry, remote sensing.
* Cartography
  - Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
    -
World Map: Map of the World

    -
World of Maps - Die Welt der Karten
  - Map History / History of Cartography - WWW-Virtual Library
    - Ancient World Mapping Center
    - Family History: Maps and Place-Names
      -
Ancestral Atlas - Family Tree Mapping - Family History Sharing
      - Cyndi's List - Maps, Gazetteers & Geographical Information
      -
Historypin: Pin Your History To The World
      - Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers Collection - Ancestry.com
      - MapYourAncestors.com - Bringing Genealogy to Life
      - Using Maps in Genealogy
      - World Continents Quizzes - Fun Map Games
    -
Historical Map Web Sites
      Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
.
    - Images of Early Maps on the Web
    -
Mapping History
  -
Online Map Creation: planiglobe®
* Gazetteer: World Gazetteer
  -
List of Gazetteers
    -
Alexandria Digital Library Project
    -
GeoNames
      Geographical database covers all countries.
    - Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® Online
    - Latitude & Longitude
    - Places OnLine
      Sponsored by the
Association of American Geographers.
      -
LibGuides: Geography - Tempe Campus - Place Names
    - World Atlas of Maps Flags and Geography Facts
      Absolute and relative location of any country
      (location and geographic coordinates).

*
Geo-Guide
  Subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites
  in earth sciences, geography and mining.
  mapping, cartography and GIS.
  - Geography Departments Worldwide
    -
Geography Site
      Resources for learning and teaching about geography.
  -
Internet Resources: Geography
- List of Online Map Services
    -
Bing™ Maps: Bing™ Maps
    - Geody - the World's Search Engine
    -
Google™ Earth: Google™ Earth
    -
Google™ Maps: Google™ Maps
    -
OpenStreetMap
      Online collaborative project to create
      a free editable map of the entire world.
    -
WikiMapia
      Combines Google™ Maps with a wiki system,
      allowing users to add information, in the form of a note,
      to any location on Earth.

    -
Yahoo!® Maps: Yahoo!® Maps
*
Maps, Global Map, World Atlas - National Geographic and mapsarea.com
  All kinds of maps from around the world: historical, city, street,
  physical, cultural, atlas, flags, clip art and other resources.
  - Atlas and Maps (refdesk.com)
  -
Blue Ribbon Links - Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com
  -
MapQuest® International
    International maps and directions.
  -
Maps: Scanned Collections Online
  - Multimap.com - Online Maps to Everywhere
  - National Atlas
    Authoritative and reliable geographic information that
    covers North America, that can be freely downloaded,
    without copyright concerns or license restrictions.

  - World Atlas
    Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Oceania.

USA and CANADA: Maps & Gazetteers
*
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
* Color Landform Atlas of the United States
* David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
*
HistoricAerials.com
* Map Machine - National Geographic
* Mapathon.com
* Mapquest®
  United States and Canada maps.
* TerraServer-USA
  - My House
    Aerial photo of the street where you live.

*
USA Place Names Gazetteer - States, Counties, Cities
*
USGS Geography Information
  Physical and cultural geographic features.

Governments - National & Local

INTERNATIONAL: Government Information - Official Residence
Politics:
Portal:Politics
* Area Studies and
ISA: Directory of Internet Resources
  Comparative politics: elections, parties
  and governments around the world.
*
Civil Service
  - Cyndi's List - Public Servants
*
Election: Elections by Country
  - IFES Election Guide
  - International IDEA | IDEA
  - List of Election Results by Country
  - Voting: Voting System
    -
Table of Voting Systems by Country
    - Voter Registration
      - Cyndi's List - Voters, Poll Books, Electoral Records
*
Globalization Links | The Global Transformations Website
*
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research: Member Institutions
  ICPSR is the world's largest archive of digital social science data.
  -
Courses & Learning Tools
  - Data:
Data Use Tutorial

*
International Agencies and Information on the Web

*
International Organizations
* Law and Government Resources of the World
  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Local Government
  - ICMA International
    Create excellence in local governance worldwide.
    -
International Affiliates
  - International Institute of Municipal Clerks:
Association Websites
  - International Local Government Sites:
Other Relevant Sites
  - Oultwood International Local Government Index
* Pew Research Center: For the People and the Press
* Political families of the World and
Dynasty

* Political Resources on the Net:
Other Politics Servers and Academic Sites
* Political Science: Topic Outline of Political Science
* Regional Genealogy and Local History Research
*
Researching Foreign Countries
* Ultimate Political Science Links Page (P.S. Ruckman, Jr., ed.)

USA: Portal:Government of the United States: C-SPAN - WARGS.COM US Political Pages
Federal Web Locator - FedStats - FedWorld.gov: Top Government Web Sites
GPO Access - Unclesam - Google™ Search -
USA.gov: Family, Home & Community
* American Political Science Association
  - Resources for Political Science
*
Federal Citizen Information Center
  - Federal Forms Catalog for Citizens
* Government Information
* Local Government in the United States:
Local Governments: USA.gov
  - 50states.com: States and Capitals
  -
Capitol Impact Government Gateway: Public Records Online
  - United States: Local US, City and Federal Governments
*
Political Families of the United States
 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Political Graveyard
  U.S. political history and cemeteries.
* Society for History in the Federal Government:
SHFG: Related Links
  - Federal Agency Web Sites: Information for Genealogical Research
*
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress: Congress.org - Roll Call
  - Congress and Legislation
  -
Current Members of the United States Congress
  -
Dirksen Congressional Center
  - How to compile a Legislative History
  - Legislative Branch
  - NARA - Members of Congress
  - United States Congressional Biographical Directory
  -
United States Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
  - United States Senate: Reference Home
* United States Census Bureau: American FactFinder - USA Census
  Social, demographic and economic information.
  - United States Historical Census Data Browser

* US Government refdesk.com
  -
Open Government Guide

    Every state's open records
    and open meetings laws
.
  -
US Government Documents

Legal: Court Information & Records

GENERAL LAW [Common Law]: Portal:Law - Topic Outline of Law
Inheritance -
JURIST - Legal News & Research - Legal Dictionary - Legal Guardian
* FindLaw
® International Resources
* FindLaw® LawCrawler for Legal Professionals
  Legal web and databases search.
*
Further Research Resources
  Lawlinks - University of Kent.

* GigaLaw.com
  Legal information for Internet professionals.
*
GLIN: Global Legal Information Network
  International legal database with official full texts
  of published documents in the original languages.

*
Guide to Law Online
  Law Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
.
* Hieros Gamos
  Worldwide law and legal research center.
* International Court Web Sites:
  Convict -
Criminal Justice - CriminologyInternment - Prison
  - BlackSheepAncestors.com
  -
Capital Punishment U.K., United States and Worldwide
  -
Convicts Transported to Australia: Convicts Australia
  -
Courts of England and Wales: Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
  -
Cyndi's List - Prisons, Prisoners & Outlaws
  -
International Criminal Records Search
  - List of Concentration and Internment Camps
  - List of Prisons by Country
    -
U.S. Prison Search - Free Prison Inmate Locators
      - List of United States State Prisons
      -
List of U.S. Federal Prisons

      -
List of U.S. Military Prisons
  -
World Criminal Justice Library Network
* International Police Agencies: Police
*
International Union of Notaries: Documento sin título
  - Civil Law Notary
  - Notary Public

*
Internet Legal Resource Guide: Global Index
* Law - Legal I
nformation Resources - refdesk.com
*
Legal Documents, Legal Agreements, Legal Forms (UK)
  - BUSL: Legal History: The Year Books
*
Legal History Research Guide - UofM Law Local
  - Georgetown Law Library: Guide to Legal History Databases
*
Legal Research and Law Resources at Katsuey's Legal Gateway
*
Lillian Goldman Law Library - Yale University
  -
Country-by-Country Guide to Foreign Law Research

* LII: Legal Information Institute - Global: US Federal and Law by State
* LLRX.com
  International legal and technology articles and resources.
*
Multinational Collections Database
  Sources that reprint the laws and regulations
  of international jurisdictions on specific legal topics.

*
SEARCH LAW: HG. org: Law Firms, Attorneys and Lawyers Directories
  - FindLaw | Find a Lawyer. Find Answers: Thomson Legal Record.
  -
Law Firm: Directory from Martindale.
   
Lawyers, find a lawyer, law firm and
    attorney directory from martindale.com®.
    -
Lawyer: Directory from LexisNexis®.
* Virtual Chase
 
 Teaching legal professionals how to do research.
* VoS - Voice of the Shuttle: Legal Studies
* World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
  
Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law.

USA: Law of the United States
* American Bar Association: Education and Public Resources
*
California Courts Self-Help Center
*
CourthouseDirect.com (USA)
* Court Rules, Forms & Dockets by LLRX for USA
*
Cyndi's List - U.S. - Courthouses
* Federal and Tribal Court Related Web Sites
* Federal Courts Finder
* FindLaw® Lawyer Directory
  Provides profiles of US government attorneys,
  lawyers, legal professionals and corporate counsel.

*
Google™ Search: <Unclesam>
  Surname searches will reveal
  individuals in some case law.
* History of the Federal Judiciary
* How to Verify an Expert’s Credentials: Daubert Tracker
* Law Library of Congress (USA)
 
Collection of primary and secondary sources that
  constitutes the largest legal collection in the world.
* Law: The Public Library of Law
  Largest free online law library in the world.
  -
State Links for Public Access to Court Records
*
law.com®
  Up-to-the minute legal news, legal information
  and e-law services, analysis and insight, books,
  software and legal forms.  50-State(US) specific
  sites and online continuing legal education.
* lexisONE
sm: State Resource Center
*
Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale) Research Websites
* National Consumer Law Center
*
National Criminal Justice Reference Service

* PACER
  Public Access to Court Electronic Records.
*
Social Law Library Research Portal: State Law
* State Court Web Sites
* Supreme Court of the United States of America
  -
OYEZ®
    U. S. Supreme Court multimedia.
  -
SCOTUSblog

  -
Supreme Court Historical Society
* USDOJ: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Making a FOIA Request
  -
USDOJ: FOIA: Other Federal Agencies' FOIA Web Sites

Military Worldwide

GENERAL: OPEN DIRECTORY - SOCIETY: MILITARY (DMOZ): Military and Veteran
Military Science: Topic Outline of Military Science and Technology
* Armed Forces: Air Force - Army - Marine Corps - Navy
*
Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
  Toward a broader vision of Military History
.
*
Cyndi's List - Military Resources Worldwide
* International Crisis Group
  Conflict prevention and resolution.
* Military: Global Security Resources
  Broad spectrum of national security
  issues of the nuclear age,  promoting
  humanitarian uses of science and technology.
  -
International Security Policy & Military Affairs
    Selective guide to library materials
    and Internet resources on international
    security policy and military affairs.
  -
Strategic Intelligence
*
Military - Google™ Books
* Military History: Military History Sources
  - Military History Channel and
Military Channel
  -
Reader's Companion to Military History - Google™ Books
  - Society for Military History Links
* Military Science:
Topic Outline of Military Science and Technology
* Reunions: Family, Friends & Military
* Table of Contents for Military Chronologies:
Timeline
*
WAR:
Portal:War
  -
List of Wars - War Times Journal Portal - Wars of the World - World War: World War [History] (archived)
    Comprehensive guide to armed conflicts, with ancient and modern resources.
    - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Useful Links
    - World War I: Portal:World War I
      -
Cyndi's List - Military - World War I: The Great War
      - First World War.com
      - World War I
      - World War I Document Archive:
Links to Other WWI Sites
    -
World War II: Portal:World War II - Topic Outline of World War II
      - Cyndi's List - Military - World War II
      - World War II
      -
World War II Resources
*
World's Armed Forces Links
  Official military servers and defense information.
  - Foreign Military Links
  - 
Jane's Information Group Free News and Jane's Products - Subject Index
  - Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China
  - Real Military Network
    Military community, games, movies, news, and TV.

  - SearchMil.com
    Over one million military pages indexed
    and ranked in order of popularity.

MILITARY - REGIONAL:
Sites of Memory

British Empire
: British Empire and Commonwealth: Military History and Institutions
* Commonwealth War Graves Commission
*
Library and Archives Canada: Military and Peacekeeping
  - Canadian Military Heritage Project
*
Organisations and Resources for British Military History Research
* Roll of Honour: Links
  -
Complete United Kingdom Memorials and Rolls of Honour

United States: Portal:Military of the United States
General:
*
Air War College Military Index to the Internet
  -
Internet Searching Tools
  -
Military Portal
    Augmenting the U.S. Air Force portal and DoD portal,
    Army, Navy, Marine, National Guard portals
.
* American Battle Monuments Commission
* Ancestry.com - Search Military Records
* Government Documents on Military History
* Hereditary Societies of the United States of America
  "War" Societies are the "oldest, largest, and best-known
  of the hereditary societies", "with membership based on
  the military service of an ancestor" [Grahame Thomas Smallwood, Jr.].
  -
Institute of Heraldry
* Medal of Honor: MOH Links: Congressional Medal of Honor Society
*
MERLN: Military Education Research Library Network
 
MiPALs defense-related U.S. policy
  statements on selected key topics.

*
Military Network and Military.com: Milblogging.com
  Informational resources and strategic Internet links
  to those past, present, and future individuals serving
  in the American Armed Forces and their survivors,
  families and friends.  Also included are more than
  seventy world government agencies.
* NARA - Prologue - Genealogy Notes
*
Online Military Indexes, War Records & Databases of Soldiers
*
POW /MIAs
  - Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office

*
Selective Service System: Obtaining Records
  Information from records kept on men currently
  registered with Selective Service, as well as on
  men in the
Civilian Draft Registration Database,
  as far back as World War I.

* SoldierQuest
*
United States Military Records.pdf
* U.S. Department of Defense Official Website
*
U.S. Memorial Day History and Information on U.S. War Memorials
* US White House Commission on Remembrance
* Veterans: Veteran
  - Department of Veterans Affairs
  -
Disabled American Veterans: Links
  -
Veterans History Project: Veterans History Project
  - Veterans Largest Service Organization - The American Legion
  - Veterans of Foreign Wars
  -
Warrior Gateway

Specific Key Wars and History by Time Period: Research Outline

(980s to late 1400s) Norse Colonization of the Americas
*
( circa 1000) L'Anse aux Meadows

(1492 - 1776) Colonial History of the United States:
Colonial Ancestors
* Christopher Columbus: Ancient and Modern Explorations
*
European Colonization of the Americas
  History of the land that would become the United States
  from the start of European settlement to the time of
  independence from Europe.
(1620 To Present Time) Military History of the United States
* American Soldier from 1747 to the Present
*
List of United States Military History Events
(1754 - 1763) French and Indian War
(1763 - 1783) American Revolutionary War
* American Revolution: American Revolution
  - Guide to the American Revolution, 1763-1783
(1784 - 1800) Papers of the War Department
* (1786 - 1787) Shays' Rebellion:
Shays' Rebellion
(1812 - 1815) War of 1812
* Guide to the War of 1812
(1846 - 1848) Mexican–American War
* Guide to the Mexican War
(1861 - 1865) American Civil War
* Civil War:
Portal:American Civil War
  - American Civil War
  - American Civil War
: Index of Civil War Information - Internet
  - Civil War Interactive: The Only Daily Civil War Newspaper
  -
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
  
  Computerized searchable database
    containing very basic facts about
    servicemen who served on both
    sides during the Civil War.
  -
Civil War: Research Database
  - Civil War: Soldiers and Events
  -
Cyndi's List - U.S. - Civil War / War for Southern Independence
  - Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies
  -
Index of Civil War Information available on the Internet
(1865 - 1918) History of the United States
* (1898) Spanish-American War
  -
Guide to the Spanish-American War
* (1899 - 1913) Philippine-American War
  -
Timeline of Philippine–American War
(1914 - 1918) World War I
(1939 - 1945) World War II
*
Military History of the United States during World War II
(1947 - 1991) Cold War
(1950 - 1953) Korean War
*
Korean War Project
(1959 - 1975) Vietnam War
* Vietnam War Internet Links: General Information
  - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
: The Virtual Wall
    Memorializing the men and women who gave their
    lives in Vietnam, such as:
    - TINNEY, Donald Warren, Jr.
      . .  SGT. - Army - Regular.
    - TINNEY, Johnny Mack
      . . . CPL. - Army - Selective Service.
(1990 - 1991) Gulf War
(11 SEP 2001 To Present Time) War on Terrorism

* Terrorism in the United States (from AD 1800 on)
* War on Terrorism: DHS - Department of Homeland Security
 
America Attacked: A Day of Deep Mourning - 11th September 2001
  - 9 / 11 Families for a Safe and Strong America
  - Before Taliban (book)
    Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad.
  -
Community of Veterans
    Iraq and Afghanistan exclusive
    online veterans-only community.

  -
Corporation for National and Community Service
  -
Faces of the Fallen
    Collection of information about each U.S. service
    member who has died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  - Honor the Fallen: Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
  -
PBS: America Responds
  - September 11th Digital Archive
  -
Talking to Kids About Terrorism or Acts of War

Pedigree & Lineage Networking: Family Trees

PEDIGREE & LINEAGE INFORMATION - GENERAL: Personal Web Sites - Surname - Surnames
FAMILY TREE: Wikipedia®: Family Trees
* Ancestral File from LDS (Mormon) FamilySearch™
* Community Trees from FamilySearch™
 
Lineage-linked genealogies from specific time
  periods and geographic localities around the world.
* Genealogy
  On the iconography and rhetorics
  of an epistemological topos.
* Genealogy Webmaster - Webmasters
  Homepage Construction.
* Numbering Systems in Genealogy
  Summary of systems used in
  genealogy and pedigrees.
  - Cyndi's List - Numbering Systems
*
Personal Ancestral File: PAF Tutorial, Personal Ancestral File Forum
  and Personal Ancestral File User Groups, such as the Utah Valley - UT
  and the Silicon Valley - CA groups, provide resources,
assist in managing
  free
PAF software downloads for records and exchange of research information.
* Pedigree Resource File
  From LDS (Mormon) FamilySearch™.
* Who Can Find People?
  Ongoing current information and
  resources for genealogists, family
  historians and researchers to FIND
  People, Places and Things.
  -
Community Forums & Chat Directories
* WorldConnect Project
  Connecting the world, one GEDCOM at a time.
*
Yahoo!® Arts>Humanities>History>Genealogy>Lineages and Surnames
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SOCIAL NETWORKING - GENERAL:
Media - Network Service - Software - Websites: Websites Review 2010
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SOCIAL NETWORKS - INFORMATION & SEARCHING
*
Eternos™
  Automatically and continuously import
  data from Facebook®, Twitter™, Gmail™,
  Picasa™ Web Albums, Blogs, and RSS feeds.
* Find a Person & Email Search
  AnyWho, ZoomInfo, MIT, Plaxo, Facebook®,
  Plurk, Yelp, Hi5, Friendster, Ning, TalkShoe®,
  MySpace™, Naymz
, and Linkedin®.
* Mashable
  Social media news, web tips and guide.
*
Mashpedia: Real-Time Encyclopedia
  Free to use and open for public participation,
  allowing users to discuss specific topics, post
  and answer questions; to share relevant links
  or contribute in new creative ways;
organized
  outlook of live content feeds for every topic; a
 
key effective resource for information research.
* Samepoint
™ Social Conversation Search
  Mining the deep social web, Samepoint's crawlers
  search millions of social media web sites in real-time.
* Social.com
  Discover your social world.
* Wink
  Free people search for social networks and other
  online communities.  Includes name search plus
  location, school, work, interests, etc.
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SOCIAL NETWORKS - MAJOR SITES: Social Media Around the World 2010
*
Baidu Space
*
Facebook: Facebook® -
The Facebook® Blog
  Social utility that connects you with the people
  around you, made up of many networks, each
  based around a company, region, high school
  or college.  Create a New Page on Facebook®
  -
Facebook® People Directory
   
Browse for friends alphabetically by last name.
  -
Family Search on Facebook®
    Find people with your last name (surname).
  -
Find Your Friends on Facebook®
    Connect with friends and relatives, see their
    full profiles, share photos and participate in
    other related family and fun activities online.
    -
Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory
*
Friendster:
Friendster®
  Meet new friends, stay in touch with old ones,
  share online content and media.
*
Habbo: Habbo®
  World’s largest, fastest growing virtual world
  and social networking service for teenagers.
*
Hi5: hi5
  Your friends, your world.
*
LinkedIn: Relationships Matter
  Informed professionals exchanging
  information, ideas and opportunities.
*
MySpace: MySpace.com™
 
Create a private community on MySpace and
  share photos, journals, interests; map a Family
  Tree for families who want to keep in touch.

*
Ning: Ning
  C
reate, customize, and share your own social
  network
for free in seconds.  Make it public or
  private and for anything - and anyone - you'd like.
*
Orkut: orkut
  Online community that connects people
  through a network of trusted friends.
*
Twitter: Twitter

 
Communicate and stay connected through
  the exchange of quick, frequent answers.
* Ubiplanet: Ubiplanet
  Privacy and trust in your daily
  communication with your friends.
* Windows Live™ Spaces:
Spaces - Windows Live™
  Place to share with confidence.


SOCIAL NETWORKING with FAMILY TREES:
Social Networking for Genealogists: Amazon.com
Features Of The Ideal Family Social Network | WebProNews
Sites with do-it-yourself user control over individual
web page creation.  New web applications created,
with minimum software programming experience.
* Ancestry.com - Search Trees & Community Records
  -
Ancestry World Tree
    Build your family tree
    using our pedigree files.
  -
OneWorldTreeSM
    World's largest family tree.
* Arcalife
 
Empowering technology to record
  and secure valuable family history.
*
Cyndi's List
  Social networking for genealogy.
*
Famillion.com
  Build your family tree
  and connect the world.

*
Family Tree Circles
  Find family tree researchers
  and information for your surnames.
*
family tree explorer™
  Family tree building from Findmypast.co.uk.
* Family Tree Guide: Your Free Online Family Tree
  Placing a family tree online with
  website and website address.
*
Familybuilder™
  Genealogy applications for social networks,
  with Family Tree the leading genealogy
  application on Facebook and Bebo.
  - Bebo: Please Sign In
  -
Family Tree | Facebook
  - MySpace.com
®: Family Tree Apps
*
FamilyLink.com
  Service of WorldVitalRecords.com.
*
Familyrelatives.com
 
Free social networking features to link
  members and family historians together
.
*
Free Family Tree Portal - Rodovid EN
  The world Is closer than it seems.
  Get to know people better.

*
Free Genealogy Search Help for Google™
  Complete a small family tree and
  this site will set up different searches.
* Genealogy Wiki: a Wikia wiki (Familypedia)
  Work collaboratively with others to create
  a network of articles about ancestors, that
  provides information about historical and
  social context on a global scale, from the
  multiple cultures residing upon the Earth.
*
Genealogy Wise
  Genealogy and family history social network.
* GeneaNet
   Build your online family tree, share it
  and learn more about your ancestors.

* Genes Reunited
  Trace UK Family Trees for free.
* Geni - Everyone's Related
  Free Family Tree.
* How to Build a Genealogy Webpage
  Genealogy programs that put your
  family tree online at Ancestor Search.
* Multiply®
  Secure, family-friendly media sharing.
* MyFamily.com®
  Private Family websites.
*
MyHeritage.com
 
World's fastest growing family network.
*
MyTrees.com
  Kindred Konnections®.

* OneFamilyTree
  Free genealogy site where people
  can search for their ancestors, share
  information, research their family history,
  build and share their family trees.
* OneGreatFamily™.com
  Genealogy, Family Tree
  and Family History.

*
Past Times Project
  Fill in missing family tree links and
  find ancestors through genealogy.

* TreeX.com
  Genealogy, family trees, records
  and online family tree builder.

* Tribal Pages
  Internet site for free kin and
  pedigree information about all people.
*
Twitter: Genealogy » Tweeters Directory » Just Tweet It
  What are you doing?  Free social messaging
  utility for staying connected in real-time
.
*
WeRelate.org
  World's largest genealogy wiki,
  creating pages for over 2,000,000
  people and families and growing.

  - Family Tree Explorer
    Online application to build
    and navigate a family tree.
*
WikiTree
  Provides a central place on
  the Internet for kin information.

Personal Web Sites

PERSONAL WEB PAGE: Biography - Guideposts - Happiness
Personal Life: Portal:Personal Life - Topic Outline of Self
* Family History Web Sites Search: Marriage and Family Ties
* Genealogy Web Sites by RootsWeb.com 
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* Google™ Web Directory:
  - Family WebSites Categorized by Letter:
    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
  - Kids Categorized by Letter:
    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

  - Personal Homepages Categorized by Letter:
    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
  - Teens Categorized by Letter:
    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
* Genealogy Webmaster Homepage Construction
* How Do I Begin To Document and File Family History?  An Introduction
*
Oral History: Oral History Internet Resources - Oral History Links on the Web
  Account of something passed down by word of mouth: one generation to another.
  -
African Oral Genealogy (pdf)
    Collecting and preserving yesterday for tomorrow.
  -
Art of the Oral Historian
  -
Cyndi's List - Oral History & Interviews
  - H-Oralhist
  -
International Oral History Association: Websites
    -
Oral History Association (USA): OHA Wiki
      -
Regional and International Organizations

  - Matrix Oral History Tutorial
  - Reminiscence - Family History, Oral History Techniques
    - Family History Questionnaire
  - StoryCorps®
    Honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening.
    - StoryCorps® - Recording America (NPR): In The News
  - U.S. Army Guide to Oral History
    Guidance for historians tasked with conducting interview.
* Personal Pages at Colleges and Universities Worldwide
* Tradition: Portal:Folklore
*
Who Can Find People?
  -
Lists of People: Lists of People By Name
* Yahoo!® Society and Culture>People>Personal Home Pages
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Religion & Culture

CULTURAL HERITAGE: Portal:Culture - UNESCO: Culture
* Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies - VoS
  -
Countries and Their Cultures
  -
Cultures of Modern and Current Nations and States
  -
Popular Culture
    Various areas of popular
    culture throughout the ages.

* Culture
® 4.0
  Contextual Guide and Internet
  Index to Western Civilization.

*
Culturelink:
Cultural Internet Resources
  Network of networks for research and
  cooperation in cultural development.
*
Ethnic Groups: Ethnic Toolkits
  - Acadian: Cajun [Cyndi's List - Acadian, Cajun & Creole]
  - African American [Cyndi's List - African-American] (FS: AAR)
  -
Hispanic - Latino
  - Jew (
FS: JFHR)
  - Other, Etc.

* Global Memory Net
  Gateway to the world cultural, historical and heritage image
  collections from selective collaborative institutions in the world.
* Human Relations Area Files Collection of Ethnography User Guide
  
eHRAF User Guide and online information restricted to selected
  library use only. 
Cultures in eHRAF Collection of Ethnography.
  Compare with
standard cross-cultural sample of 186 cultures,
  used by
scholars engaged in cross-cultural studies.
* Minority Studies: Minority Group
* Native Web: NativeWiki
  Cyber-community for Earth's indigenous peoples,
  concerning native, aboriginal and indigenous Internet
  resources on all seven continents. 
Indigenous nations
  and peoples (past and present) of the world.

  -
GeoNative - Table Index
    Place name tables for minority and native
    languages, arranged by minorities and states.
  -
List of Indigenous Peoples

  - Minority Studies: Minority Group

  -
WWW Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies CWIS George Manuel Library

* Preservation & Historic Buildings - Events - Houses - Locations
*
www.culture.info: Africa - Americas - Asia - Europe - Mideast - Pacific

RELIGION: Portal:Religion - Topic Outline of Religion - World Faith News
List of Religions and Spiritual Traditions - Major Religious Groups
* Directories and Topical Guides:
  -
American Academy of Religion
    World's largest association of academics who
    research or teach topics related to religion.

    -
Other Scholarly Organizations and Resources
    - Related Scholarly Organizations
    -
VoS: Religious Studies
  - General Religion - Yale University Library
    - Yale Divinity Library: Free Online Religion Resources
      -
Electronic Resources for Religion
      -
Mission Resources
      - Research Guide for Christianity:
Primary Sources
      - Special Collections: Records of Religious Educational Institutions
  - Internet Guide to Religion: Wabash Center
  - ReligionFacts
    Just the facts on the world's religions.
  -
ReligiousResources.org
  - Virtual Religion Index
    - Academic Sites
    -
 American Studies
    -
 Ancient Near East
    -
Anthropology & Sociology

   
- Art & Archaeology
    - Biblical Studies
    - Buddhist Tradition
    - Christian Tradition
    - East Asia

    - Ethics & Moral Values
    - Greco-Roman Studies
    - Hindu Studies
    - Islamic Tradition

    - Judaic Studies
    - Philosophy & Theology
    - Psychology of Religion

  -
World Religion Resources
* General Worship:
BBC - Religion

  -
Beliefnet®: Inspiration - Spirituality - Faith
  -
Interfaith Calendar and Pilgrimage
  - Internet Theology Resources
    - Encyclopedia of Religion and Society: Religions of the World
    - Internet Sacred Text Archive

  - Religion and Ethics
* Institutions, Historical Resources and Records: Place of Worship
  UNESCO Archives Portal: Religious Communities
  - Andover-Harvard Library
    Biographical and genealogical information.

  -
Baptism
  -
ASCH Related Links
  -
Association of Religion Data Archives
  - ATLA - CDRI Digital Resources for the Study of Religion
  - Catholiclinks.org: Archive Index
  - CCEd: Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540 - 1835
  - Church Records Project ~ USGenWeb Archives Project
  -
Cyndi's List - Religion & Churches
  - Family History Library: Subject Search Results (Subject like 'church')
  -
Hall of Church History
  -
International Association for the History of Religions
    - IAHR Member Associations
  - Parish Register:
Parish Research Links
  - Selected Other Archives with Material of Interest
  - WCC Library and Archives
    - Useful Links - Archives on Ecumenism
    -
Useful Links - Ecumenical Libraries

  - Writing Congregational Histories
    Introduction, getting started, doing research,
    publication, preservation and conclusion.

* Religious Denomination: Confessional Agencies
  Index to Religions Worldwide by Group (Denomination) Name
  I J N T X Z
  
National and world religion statistics,
  church statistics and world religions
.
  Listing of Official Denominational Web Sites
  -
Bahá'í Faith: Portal:Bahá'í Faith
    -
Bahá’í International Community
  - Buddhism:
Portal:Buddhism
    - BuddhaNet
  -
Christianity: Portal:Christianity -
News: Christian Post (Updated Daily)
    - Christian Denominations: [by number of members]
      -
Adventism: Portal:Seventh-day Adventist Church
      - Anabaptist
        - Amish (Amish)
        - Brethren in Christ
        - Church of the Brethren
        - German Baptist (variants)
        - Hutterites
        - Mennonites

          -
Cyndi's List - Mennonite
      - Anglican Communion: Portal:Anglicanism
      -
Baptist: Portal:Baptist
        - Cyndi's List - Baptist
      -
Calvinism: Portal:Calvinism
        - Reformed Churches: World Alliance of Reformed Churches
      - Catholic (Catholicism):
Portal:Catholicism
        -
Answers: U. S. Parishes
        -
Local Catholic Church and Family History & Genealogical Research Guide
          [
Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy Research Guide (archived)]
          - Cyndi's List - Catholic

        -
Encyclopedia
        - Vatican City [Vatican]
      -
Christian Science
        -
Church of Christ, Scientist
      - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
Portal:Latter-day Saints
        - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS - Mormon)
      -
Eastern Christianity: Portal:Eastern Christianity - Portal:Oriental Orthodoxy
        -
Assyrian Church of the East
        - Eastern Orthodox Churches
        - Eastern (Roman) Catholic Churches
        - Oriental Orthodox Churches

      -
Evangelicalism
      - Huguenot
        - Cyndi's List - Huguenot
      -
Jehovah's Witnesses
        -
Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchtower Society
      - Lutheranism: Portal:Lutheranism
        -
Cyndi's List - Lutheran
      - Methodism
        -
Cyndi's List - Methodist
      - Pentecostalism
      - Presbyterianism
        - Cyndi's List - Presbyterian
      -
Protestantism
      - Religious Society of Friends: Links
        - Cyndi's List - Quaker:
Quaker.pdf
      -
Unitarianism
        -
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
    - Christian Directory
      Listing of Christian sites across the globe.

    - Jesus of Nazareth - Biblical Historical Essay
      Life of Jesus Christ as depicted in scripture and art.
   
- Joshua Project
      Unreached peoples of the world.
    - MyChurch
      Christian social network.

    - Regional Portals and Organizations:
     
- National Council of Churches - USA
        -
Find Local Churches and Places of Worship
      - Portal:Christianity in China
      -
Portal:Indian Christianity
    -
WCC - World Council of Churches
      -
Member Churches
  -
Confucianism: Portal:Confucianism
    - Confucius (September 28, 551 – 479 BC)
      Confucius' family genealogy may be the longest in the world.

    - Confucius Family: Qufu and Kung Te-cheng
    - Hindu: International
      Confucius family tree to grow bigger.
    - New Confucius Genealogy
    -
Roman descendants found in China?
    -
Roman Legionnaires and Waiguoren Invade the Chinese Family Tree
  - Hinduism:
Portal:Hinduism
  - Islam: Portal:Islam
    -
ImHalal.com: Search Engine Designed For Muslims
  -
Jainism: Portal:Jainism
    - Jainism
      Jain history, principles and resources.
  -
Judaism: Portal:Judaism
    - BOOK [Stick] of JUDAH
    - Cyndi's List - Jewish
  -
Scientology: Portal:Scientology
    -
Churches of Scientology
  - Shinto:
Portal:Shinto
  - Sikhism: Portal:Sikhism
    - Sikhism
  - Taoism: Portal:Taoism

  - Zoroastrianism:
Portal:Zoroastrianism

Research & Learning

ASK GENEALOGY & FAMILY HISTORY QUESTIONS:
Ask A Genealogist - Ask Genealogy Questions - Ask a Librarian: LOC - LH & Genealogy
Contact the SLC Family History Library: Mail To: Family History Questions - GenAnswers
Genealogy Questions & Answers | Answerbag.com: Genealogy | New Q&A

GenHelp
- Yahoo!®  Answers: Genealogy

ASK GENERAL REFERENCE QUESTIONS:
Answers.com® -
Aardvark - Ask A Question - ASK New York Public Library - Ask.com Search Engine
Askville -
Chat Reference Libraries - Worldwide -
Fields of Knowledge - ipl2: Ask a Question
Online Report Creator (using A.I.) -
Quora - START Natural Language Question Answering System
Wikipedia: Reference Desk - wiseGEEK
- Yahoo!® Answers

SOURCES & EXPERTS: Experts.com - National Press Club - Reporter's Resources
Directories and sources of experts on the Web, including Universities and other
think tanks and policy centers
Professors claim publicly to be experts, using rigour
in their research projects; an important part of intellectual honesty, having conclusions
proportionate to valid evidence.
* Center for Research Libraries: Research (International)
  Consortium of colleges, universities and libraries
  providing scholarly research resources.

  -
Collaborations
* Concept of Information
*
Critical Advising Issues
  National Academic Advising Association promotes and supports quality academic advising
  in institutions of higher education to enhance the educational development of students.

* Factbites:
  Where results make sense.
* Genealogy:
Cluster Genealogy
 
Research technique that examines records left by an ancestor's cluster: the extended family,
  friends, neighbors, business associates, government contacts, religious affiliations, etc.  This
  gives a
generational historian, an accurate picture of life about the person under investigation.
  Cluster genealogy relates to the broader discipline of prosopography, used in historical studies.

  -
FamilySearch Wiki | FamilySearch.org: Introduction
    Community website dedicated to helping people
    throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors.
    Here you can learn how to find, use, and analyze records
    of genealogical value.
  - Prosopon Directory of Prosopographical Research
  - Reference & Finding Aids Records Search - Ancestry.com
* HighBeam Research
  Library of millions of documents from credible publications.
* IngentaConnect
  Academic and professional publications
  available for online, fax and Ariel delivery.
* Institutional Repository:
Institutional Repository Bibliography
  Online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating,
  in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution,
  particularly a research institution.
  - Digital Databases
    Education publications and books online.
  -
OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories
  -
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
    Open access to the research literature
    pre- and post-peer-review through
author
    self-archiving in institutional eprint archives
.
  - Repository Maps
   
Mashup of data from ROAR and OpenDOAR
    overlayed onto Google
™ Maps.
* ISI Highly Cited Researchers

  E
xpert gateway to the most highly
  influential scientists and scholars worldwide.

*
iTools: Quick access to the best Internet tools
*
Knowledge Management
  Manage the process of creation or identification,
  accumulation, and application of knowledge
  or intellectual capital across an organization.
  -
ITtoolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
    Knowledge organization and knowledge access.
*
Library of Congress Services for Researchers
  - Doing Research at the Library of Congress
* Portico
  Investigative and web resources
  for advancement professionals.

* Reference and Homework Help
* ResearchChannel
  Nonprofit media and technology organization
  that connects a global audience with the research
  and academic institutions whose developments,
  insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures.
* Spire Project
  Better ways to find information.
* UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society
  Monitoring the development of the information
  society towards knowledge societies.

*
University Library at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  -
Online Research Resources - Search
   
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Surnames & Names

FAMILY NAME: Appendix:Names - name -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Family Name - GeneaWiki -
Married and Maiden Names
- Name Change
Family name, or surname, is the part of a person's name that indicates to
what family he or she belongs. 
Note the variation in names presented in the
New Testament pedigree of Joseph, the step-father of the Messiah Jesus Christ.
* 20000-Names.com
* alfabette zoope name lists
*
All About Names - WikiName
* AskOxford: Concise Dictionary of First Names
  -
Behind the Name
    Etymology and history of first names.
  - WeRelate:Given Names - Genealogy
* BabyNames™.com
  -
Baby Name Wizard
  - Babynology
  -
Think! Baby Names

    Origin, meaning of baby
    names for boys and girls.

  - Yahoo!® Directory of Baby Names
* Cyndi's List - Names
*
IBM - InfoSphere Global Name Recognition
  Multi-cultural name information,
  analytics and name matching.

* Last Name Meanings Dictionary
* Namespedia
 
Place where people contribute to names
  meaning and even genealogy tracking.

* Name Thesaurus
  Image Partners Limited technology for finding surname
  and forename variants.  At least
348 million variants identified
  for 5,614,000 surnames; 22 million variants identified for 1,141,000
  forenames, and gender identification for more than 215,000 forenames.
*
Surnames by Country - A Selected List of References about Personal Names
 
Local History & Genealogy Reading Room (Library of Congress).
*
Webster's Online Dictionary - with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation
  Announce your surname words of the Year.  Use this resource to find
  surname descriptions
and freely print single pages as references, or
  copy a full page into your own web site
.  Includes definitions, synonyms
  & etymology,
screenplay writers, musical artists, book titles, periodicals,
  commercial examples, photography & images, quotations, speakers,
  translations, and much more.

  EXAMPLES: Definition of Smith and
Definition of TINNEY

IGI: INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
Records indexed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - LDS (Mormon).
*
IGI Batch Numbers and Using the Batch Numbers
  Sources of information for individuals listed in International Genealogical Index.
* Temples & Priesthood Ordinance Work

ONOMASTICS: Selective Bibliography of International Web Sites
Toponyms (Toponymy), Anthroponyms (Anthroponymy) and miscellaneous name sites.
*
Etymology: Etymology: Names
  -
Lists of Etymologies
  -
Online Etymology Dictionary
* Gymnastics with Onomastics
*
International Council of Onomastic Sciences: ICOS - Links
*
Onomastic
*
Onomastics in Anglo-Saxon Studies
  Select bibliography.

* Onomastikon
  Includes short historical backgrounds,
  male and female first names or personal
  names, and surnames or family names,
  from many countries and periods.
*
Personal Name: Given Name
*
UTEP Special Collections: Onomastics Collection
  - Lurline H. Coltharp Onomastics Bibliography

SURNAME GENEALOGY SEARCH:
*
OneGreatFamily.com | Surname Index
* RootsWeb: Database Index: RootsWeb Surname List -- Interactive Search
  Aa-Alk  All-Ao  Ap-Az  Ba-Baq  Bar-Bat  Bau-Bel  Bem-Bir  Bis-Boc  Bod-Bor
  Bos-Bra  Bre-Brov  Brow-Buk  Bul-Bz  C-Caro  Carp-Chaq  Char-Clem  Clen-Colr
  Cols-Cou  Cov-Croo  Crop-Cz  Da-Dd  De-Dh  Di-Dq  Dr-Dz  Ea-Ell  Elm-Ez  Fa-Fk
  Fl-Fz  Ga-Gn  Go-Gz  Ha-Haq  Har-Hd  He-Hn  Ho-Ht  Hu-Hz  I  J  Ka-Kh  Ki-Kz
  La-Lh  Li-Lz  Ma-Mb  Mc  Md-Mn  Mo-Mz  N  O  Pa-Pg  Ph-Pz  Q  Ra-Rn  Ro-Rz
  Sa-Sd  Se-Sl  Sm-Ss  St-Sz  Ta-Th  Ti-Tz  U  V  Wa-Wg  Wh-Wn  Wo-Wz  X  Y  Z

* Surname Search at the Salt Lake City, Utah - LDS Family History Library Catalog
  Title search results, ordered alphabetically by surname.
* Surname Search Index and Family History Search (member of Ancestry.com, Inc.)
 
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Surnames Categorized by Letter: Google™ Directory - Society > Genealogy > Surnames

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Surnames, Family Associations & Family Newsletters Index - Cyndi's List
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* Surnames - Familypedia
 
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* Surnames - GenForum:
Genealogy.com Family Finder Search

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* Surnames - Linkpendium
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* SurnameWeb
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*
Wikipedia® - Category: Surnames
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SURNAMES: Newsgroups: Blogs, Genealogy Newsletters and Periodicals
* Alphabetic Surname Message Boards
* Ancestor Guide
* Ancestry.com
  
Learn about the family history of your surname.
*
British Surnames and Surname Profiles
* Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
* FamilySearch
  Search family history web sites.
* GenCircles
* List of Most Common Surnames
*
One-Name Study
  - Guild of One-Name Studies
    Worldwide centre of excellence in one-name
    studies, promoting individuals and groups through
    a programme of sharing, exchanging and publishing
    information about one-name studies; including
    conferences, seminars etc.
* Open Directory - Society: Genealogy: Surnames (DMOZ) and Nicknames
* Relevance of Surnames in Genealogy (pdf)
*
Surname Map
 
- Surname Distribution Analysis and Mapping
* surnamenavigator.org

*
Surname Research Page
* Various Country and Ethnic Naming Customs
  - American Name Society
    -
Annual Ehrensperger Report 2007
    - Current U.S. Surname Distribution
      Data from 1850 Census, 1880 Census, 1920 Census, and 1990's phone books.
* WeRelate:Surnames - Genealogy
* World Names Profiler
  Examine where in the world people with your surname are found.
  - National Trust Names (Great Britain)

Web Pages for Scholarly Societies

LEARNED SOCIETY: List of Learned Societies
* ISO - International Organization for Standardization
  -
NISO Standards - National Information Standards Organization
    Content publishers, libraries, and software developers use
NISO
    information industry standards that allow them to work together.
    -
Related Organizations - National Information Standards Organization
* Members of Learned Societies: Fellow

  -
ACLS American Council of Learned Societies

    Humanities and social sciences resources.
    -
SACLS Member Society Websites
  - Web Pages of Scholarly Societies: List of Learned Societies
    University of Waterloo Electronic Library Scholarly Societies Project.
* Professional Associations in the Information Sciences


LEARNED SOCIETY RESOURCES:
* Academic Education Learning Resources
  Top 5% in K-12 education and higher education.
* Dialog® and LexisNexis®
  Provide unparalleled research services to the academic community.
  Both online and web-based subscription services allow students,
  faculty and staff access to a vast universe of information.
*
Independent Scholars: Collections and Specific Subjects

  Selected high quality Internet information for students,
  academics, researchers, or practitioners.
  -
Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources
  -
British Academy: British Academy
    -
Portal and subject coverage in humanities and social sciences.
  -
Competitive Intelligence
    Selective resource guide from LLRX.com.

  -
getCITED
    Academic research, citation reports and discussion lists
.
  -
Google™ Scholar:
Google™ Scholar
    Creating the world's mostvexhaustive academic library.

 
- INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
  - Intute
    Best web resources for education and research.
  -
List of Academic Databases and Search Engines
  - PINAKES, A Subject Launchpad
  -
Scirus
    For scientific information.
  - Scholars' G
uide to the WWW
    Support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* Ph.D - Doctor of Philosophy: Habilitation
  - Academic Degree - Dissertation - Doctorate - Thesis
    - AAUP Member Presses and BiblioVault
      Scholarly presses located around the world.
    - ALPSP - Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
    - Arts and Humanities: Dissertations: A Guide to Resources
    - Australasian Digital Theses Program
    -
Center for Research Libraries - Dissertations
      Doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften
      from universities outside of the U.S. and Canada.

    - DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)
    - Dissertation Doctor®: Dissertation Process Is a Journey
    - Dissertation.com

    - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
      -
Find ETDs — NDLTD and SCIRUS ETD Search — NDLTD
        Full-text electronic theses and dissertations from institutions.
    -
OpenThesis
      Upload and search theses and dissertations.
  Worldwide free
      repository of theses, dissertations and other academic documents,
      coupled with powerful search, organization and collaboration tools.
    - PhdData.org
      Universal index of doctoral dissertations in progress.
      - Myth, Memory and Multiculturalism
        Exploring cultural identity through genealogical pursuit.
      -
Researching e-genealogy | Robert Gordon University
    -
ProQuest - UMI Dissertation Publishing
      - About Google™ / Google™ Scholar
      -
Finding the Dissertation or Thesis You Need
    -
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: Current Version
    -
Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web
      Alphabetical list of journals by title.

    - Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation
*
Research & Learning
* SPARC®: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition and
SPARC® Europe
  Alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations, helping to create systems
  that expand information dissemination and use in a networked digital environment while
  responding to the needs of scholars and academe.
  - Call for Papers
    PapersInvited presents an exhaustive list of Calls for Papers issued by professional
    bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines.
  - Directory of Open Access Journals

UNIVERSITIES and GRADUATE SCHOOLS WORLDWIDE:
* International Association of Universities:
List of Universities of the World
* Schools - Colleges - Universities: Alumni and Genealogy Education
  - Worldwide University Listings
    Libraries, advanced professional genealogy research,
    with global University listings, rankings and information.
  - Graduate School: H-Grad Grad Link
    - Graduate Programs by Subject: Graduate Schools Listings
     
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Archives and Knowledge Management:
Scholarly Online Resource Evidence and Records
for use by Genealogists and Family Historians
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