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How Do I Begin To Document & File Family History?  An Introduction.   Books - Publications:
Genealogical Materials
Business & Professional Researchers Calendars & Clocks
Citing Sources Copyrights, Patents & Trademarks
Currency,  Money, Weights,
Measures & Symbols
Documentation & Identity Records
Indexers & Genealogists Relationship Charts
   Research Tools, Articles & Forms Writing Systems & Handwriting

BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS:
Academic Supervisory Relationship Specialist - Adoption Specialist
Agency Historian - Archivist - Bibliographer - Biographer - Bookseller
Building Historian - Business Historian - Columnist - Communicator
Conference Planner - Consultant - Curator - Digital Preservation Expert
Documentation Specialist - Editor - Elderly Care Advisor - Ethnic Specialist
Expert Witness - Family Historian - Family Relationship Expert - Genealogist
Geneticist - Heritage Specialist - Indexer - Inheritance Researcher - Instructor
Internet Researcher - Kinship Specialist - Lecturer - Librarian - Lineage Specialist
Local Historian - Oral Historian - Personal Resource Specialist - Photographer
Professor - Publisher - Recorder - Rehabilitation Aide - Reference Consultant
Researcher - Reunion Planner - Social Touring Specialist - Society Historian
Student - Surname Specialist - Teacher - Tech Expert - Translator - Web Designer
Webmaster - Writer

Careers for Students of History: Historians as Consultants and Contractors

Genealogy as a Career and Employment

Social Scientists: Other - USA
INDIVIDUALS and ORGANIZATIONS:
* The American Society of Genealogists
  Recognition of genealogy as a serious subject of research
  in the historical and social fields of learning.

* Association of Professional Genealogists
* Association of Scottish Genealogists and Researchers in Archives
*
Board for Certification of Genealogists and Roster
* eXpertGenealogy.com
*
Genealogy Research Services in the Yahoo! Directory
*
International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists™
  -
Lists of Accredited Genealogists
*
Professional Genealogist Finder™
  Genealogy research professional genealogist finder.

* Professional Genealogists and Genealogy Services Directory
*
Researchers and Professional Sources
* Society of Australian Genealogists
* Speakers Guild (Genealogical) and
SpeakerNet News
  Planning your next conference, all-day seminar, or yearly lecture schedule?
* USA: Find a "genealogist", using
MSN Yellow Pages; also, use "genealogists"
  and "family historian", or other key words, in
Google™ Maps and Yahoo!® Local.
OCCUPATIONS:
* DOT Dictionary of Occupational Titles Index
* List of Occupations
*
O*NET OnLine: O*NET OnLine USA Related Sites
*
Ranks, Professions, Occupations and Trades

RESOURCES: Family History Based Education Resources.  Study history's greatest
texts as
sources of knowledge of leadership and find out how to enable greatness.
* BBB - Better Business Bureau®
  Fairness and Integrity in the marketplace - US and Canada.
  -
Genealogy
    Avoid common scams while seeking and sharing family history online.

*
Business.gov - Official Business Link to U.S. Government
  - U. S. Small Business Administration
* CCH Business Owner's Toolkit (USA)
  Total know-how for small business.
  -
BigBook™: Yellow Pages (USA)
  - Bplans.com
    Business Plan Software and free sample Business Plans.
  - Financial and Employment Information
  - Home Business Magazine (Work from Home)
  - Inc.com (Where to start and grow your business.)
  -
Small Business Trends

    Daily updates on trends that influence the global small business market.
* Global Meetings Industry Portal and Eventective (USA)
  Congresses, Conferences, Conventions, Incentives, Meetings and Special Events.
  Search for corporate meeting rooms, corporate event venues and banquet facilities.
* Portal Global Marketing and KnowThis
  Marketing, market research, Internet marketing and advertising.
  - Advertising: Redbooks.com
*
Public Relations Society of America (PRSA): Other Resources
  National and International-Public-Relations-related online sources.
  - Public Relations Student Society of America


CALENDARS and CLOCKS: Calendar and Clock

Current: World Clock - World Time Server
General: The Calendar Zone - Calendars through the Ages: NASA: Calendar History
Calendopaedia comparison of Calendars - Interfaith Calendar for World Religions
Rosetta Calendar Conversion: Old Style and New Style Dates - world-calendar.com
Worldwide History and Social Studies: Timelines, Date Conversions & Period Resources

CITING SOURCES: Citation
* Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
*
Electronic Reference Resources
*
Evidence Explained (Book)
  Citing history sources from artifacts to cyberspace. 

* Genealogical Proof Standard
* How to Cite Sources
* Internet Citation Guide for Genealogists
* Professional Genealogy
  Manual for researchers, writers, editors, lecturers and librarians.
* Research and Documentation Online
* Research Strategies and Internet Evaluation
*
Son of Citation Machine™
  Interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university
  students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect
  other people's intellectual properties.

*
Sources, Citations, Documentation and Evaluating Evidence
* Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement
*
Style Guides: Reference Tools
  - Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries

* Style Manuals & Guides
* Why Bother?
  The value of documentation in family history research.

COPYRIGHT, PATENTS and TRADEMARKS:
Copyright - Patent - Trademark
* Copyright Information and International Resources
  - Fair Use
  -
International Copyright Resources
  -
United States Copyright Office
    -
Copyright Renewal Database
*
Intellectual Property
  
Worldwide Patent Offices, IP Organizations, Official Databases,
  Official Guidelines, Case Law Databases, IP Courts, etc.
  -
World Intellectual Property Organization
    Essential information on intellectual property by means of individual country profiles.
    References to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols,
    names, images and designs used in commerce.

* Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets Worldwide
  -
Delphion Research Intellectual Property Network
    International and US patent search database, with
free basic search.

  - Google™ Patent Search
 
- Patent Searching Database
  -
™Web and Trademark and Copyright Services
  - United States Patent and Trademark Office

    - WikiPatents
      Patent reviews, free patent PDFs, patent searching and file histories
.

CURRENCY, MONEY, WEIGHTS, MEASURES and SYMBOLS: Portal:Numismatics
Brent-Krueger Coin Supply - Other Numismatic Sites of Interest
*
Currency:
  -
Currency & Banking
    - xe.com The Universal Currency Converter™
      -
FXHistory - Historical Currency Exchange Rates
  -
Inflation
    - Inflation Calculator
  - Money: History of Money -
Pedigree
    -
Coin and Conscience - Baker Library Historical Collections
    - Current Value of Old Money
      How much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth today?
    - Geographical Directory of World Paper Money
    -
Historical American Currency Exhibit
    - Paper Money & Bank Note WWW Directory
* Weights, Measures and Symbols: Units of Measurement and
Symbol
  - Dictionary of Units
  -
Graphic Symbols Historical Index
  -
How Many?  A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
  - World Weights and Measures
    Past and present, units and systems of units, indexes and scales.

DOCUMENTATION and IDENTITY RECORDS: Google™ Docs Tour
* Ancestor Roots Information: Inheritance - Vital Records
  OneSource Genealogy and Family History Searchable Databases.
  - Baptism - Driver's License - Identity Document - Newspapers - Notary Public
    Parish Register - Passport - Tax: TaxWorld - Voter Records: Elections by Country
*
Association for Documentary Editing
  Related links to the practice of publishing collections of writings, letters, and/or speeches.

* List of Identity Card Policies by Country: Recognition of Human Individuals
* Manuscript Sources for Genealogists
*
Northwestern University Library: Foreign Governments International Documents
  - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
    - UNPO - Nations and People
* PublicRecordCenter.com™: European Public Records
 
Categorized by country, access international records such as Jewish vital records
  and Jewish genealogy, international missing children websites, stolen art reports,
  international vital records, court systems of a country, international law, international
  adoption, international telephone directory by country, and official government websites.

* SearchSystems.net - The Largest Public Records Directory
  Worldwide reliable directory of public records on the Internet.  Resource of business
  information, corporate filings, property records, deeds, mortgages, criminal and civil
  court filings, inmates, offenders, births, deaths, marriages, unclaimed property,
  professional licenses, and access to billions of records.
* USA: Identity Documents in the United States
  -
PublicRecordCenter.com™
  - Public Record Research Library (BRB Publications):
Free Public Record Sites.
    Major United States Federal, State and County public record research guides
    and information manuals that explain how to use effectively the available databases.
  - USA Tax History Museum

INDEXERS and GENEALOGISTS: FamilySearch Indexing - Preserving Family Heritage:
Join thousands of other volunteers who are finding and preserving worldwide family
history, with free worldwide access to the indexes.
* American Society of Indexers (ASI)
  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
  - American Society of Indexers: Internet Reference Sources
  - Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
* ANZSI - Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
*
The Indexer
  Periodical devoted specifically to all aspects of indexing.

* Internet Public Library
  Example of Internet indexing resource.
*
List & Index Society: British Isles Publications
* OpenIndex
  Creating a Public Internet Index.
*
Sites of Interest to Indexers
* Society of Indexers (British - Irish)
  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
  - Family and Local History Indexing Group (UK)
  - Indexers Available
* Swish-e: Download Information
  Fast, flexible, and free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files.
* www.html-indexer.com
  Professional's tool for creating and maintaining real indexes for web sites, intranets, HTML Help,
  JavaHelp and other HTML documents.

RELATIONSHIP CHARTSPedigree Chart
* Ahnentafel Charts
* Cousin
* Family Trees
  Create a family tree.  Tracing your roots is an amazing adventure.  How to delve into your past
  and display your findings.  Martha Stewart Living cover: Family Trees; April 1999, pgs 220 - 231.
* Genealogical Charts and Family Trees Online

*
Kinship: Kinship Glossary, Symbols, Terms and Concepts
  -
Kinship Degree Systems
  -
Systematic Kinship Terminologies

RESEARCH TOOLS, ARTICLES and FORMS:
* Charts for Reference in Genealogy Research
*
Download Forms and Research Helps Document Types
*
Foreign Languages: Translations and Translators
* Free Online Genealogy Tools
  Find online resources such as downloadable forms, calendars, look ups, software,
  clip art and translators to assist with your genealogy research on the internet.
*
Genealogical Tool Kit
  Tools for that important research trip when visiting archives, libraries and town halls.

* Genealogy Glossary by FamilySearch™
  
1 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.com: Glossary
* Glossarist: Genealogy Dictionaries and Glossaries
* Glossary of Terms and Genealogical Terms

WRITING SYSTEMS and HANDWRITING: Penmanship
Historical records appear immediately after the appearance of writing, in all socially
connected societies, since the time of Adam and Eve.  Oral history derives from area
geographical population "islands", devoid of advanced civilization, both in ancient
and modern times.  When oral history is later recorded, the "oral history" is no longer
"oral history", but established tradition handed down from generation to generation.
All "preliterate societies" are actually branches, (oral societies are then "post literate"
societies), the linguistic degenerated sub sets of older civilizations from which they
came or out migrated, due to wars and other contentions (from Egypt, Mesopotamia,
China, the Hebrew Biblical ancestry, etc.).  Modern genealogical research findings
reveal a similar pattern wherein approximately one-third of the world's secluded
populations are illiterate.

The nature and history of human language, by definition, requires the subject
to be limited to records produced by humans; i.e., the preserved genealogies
and associated documents, rather than modern speculative theories.  The basic
thrust of all primary ancient centers of civilization has recognition of religious
authority and ethical lessons, associated with administrative secular documents.
History is properly concerned with causality, or why a certain outcome happened
and how it is linked to earlier events.  History teaches that the world's writing systems
have not been independent of immediate, ongoing, factual group conflicts that create
generational illiteracy, unconnected to any linguistic epochs.  The kept, handed down
genealogical pedigrees, fragmented and incomplete, show language corruption that
began in the 2944 B.C. to 1994 B.C. time period, altered through group regional population
movements and the subsequent family group isolation, in dynastic genealogies.

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Abbreviations®.com
  
World's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms,
  abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet.

  - Abbreviations Found in Genealogy
* English and Literature
  Includes book sources, dictionaries information, English studies, foreign languages,
  grammar, literary resources, reading and writing data.
* HANDWRITING: Palaeography
  - Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
    - Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World
  - Cynscribe: Calligraphy Directory

    Art of fine handwriting and penmanship.
  - Deciphering Old Handwriting
  - English Handwriting 1500 - 1700
  - Examples of 17th Century Handwriting
  - Help with old Handwriting
  - How To Read A 200-Year-Old Document and Other FAQs
  -
Immigrant Ancestors Project© Script Tutorial
    Decipher manuscripts and documents printed in old typefaces, or
    written in old handwriting styles, using examples in German, Dutch,
    Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages (circa A.D. 1800 - 1920).

  - Medieval Writing: History, Heritage and Data Resource
  - Palaeography Tutorial (How to read old handwriting)
  - Reading Early American Handwriting (Book)
  -
ScottishHandwriting.com
* How Do I Begin To Document and File Family History?  An Introduction

* Technology Of Writing
* Writing Systems and Manuscripts

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