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: 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
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.

* Academy of Certified Archivists - Archival Websites:
Archival Science
* Archivenet

* Archives in the World:
Archives Made Easy
  - International Portals and Directories
  - Memory of the World: UNESCO-CI
    -
Registered Heritage: UNESCO-CI
  -
UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
* 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    Search through historical documents, personal papers and family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.
* International Archival Resources on the Internet
  - Reference at Your Desk
    Library service designed to provide
    quick access to the type of ready-reference
    tools needed by archivists and records managers.

*
Libraries & Museums
  -
Family History Library Catalog All Subject Search

  - Guidelines For Using Records Repositories and Libraries

  - MeL Best of the Internet

  -
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

* National and Other ARCHIVES:
  - Archives & Manuscript Collections
    National archives and libraries,
    college and university collections
    and historical society archives.
  - Australia Archives and Australian Family History Compendium
  - Canadian Genealogical Research: Archives Canada and
Library & Archives Canada
  - History, Genealogy & Archives
    Databases & E-Resources
    (Library of Congress).
  - Ireland National Archives and PRO of Northern Ireland.
  - National Archives and Sources of Family History Information
    for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, with focus on
    your historyRecords of the UK government from Domesday
    to the present.

    - FamilyRecords.gov.uk
    - FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium
  - New Zealand National Archives
  - Scotlands People and Scottish Archive Network
    Official government sources of genealogical data for Scotland.
  - USA:   
    - NARA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
      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
      - National Personnel Records Center
        Information on United States Civilian Records.
      - Veterans and their Families
        - Location of Military Service Records

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
* 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.

* Economic History
  -
EH.Net Encyclopedia: Index: Related websites | EH.Net
* Museum of American Financial History

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
Investor's Information Gateway -
Knowledge Management for Business
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
* Departments of Economics Worldwide:
  - Non USA: University Economics Departments

  - USA:
AmosWEB is Economics: ECON*world
* Economics Search Engine(ESE)
* Economy.com Network
* Inomics® for Economists
*
Statistical Resources on the Web
  -
STAT-USA/Internet
* Trade
  - World Trade Organization; TradePort™ Country Profiles
*
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
* Cartography
  -
Map History / History of Cartography - WWW-Virtual Library
    - Family History: Maps and Place-Names
    - Images of Early Maps on the Web
    -
Mapping History
  -
Online Map Creation: planiglobe®
*
Cyndi's List - Maps, Gazetteers & Geographical Information
* Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
  - Ancient World Mapping Center
  - Historical Map Web Sites
  - Map Collection
  - World of Maps - Die Welt der Karten
* 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).

* Geography Departments Worldwide
*
Geography Site
  Resources for learning and teaching about geography.
*
Geo-Guide
  Subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites
  in earth sciences, geography and mining.
* Geoinformatics Web Links Database
  Covering surveying, geodesy, imaging,
  photogrammetry, remote sensing,
  mapping, cartography and GIS.
* LOCAL SEARCHES with MAPS:
 
Geody - the World's Search Engine
  Google
™ Earth
  Google
™ Maps

 
MSN® Live Search Maps
  Yahoo!
® Maps
  All of these sites are invaluable in doing
  local searches using surnames or other
  genealogical related search terms.
  - MapYourAncestors.com - Bringing Genealogy to Life
  -
Using Maps in Genealogy
* Map Machine @ nationalgeographic.com 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
  -
MapBlast
  -
MapQuest:® Maps (Outside US & Canada)
  - Multimap.com - Online Maps to Everywhere
  - National Geographic Links
*
Maps: Scanned Collections Online
*
National Atlas
  Authoritative and reliable geographic information that
  covers North America, that can be freely downloaded,
  without copyright concerns or license restrictions.

* terraserver®.com
  Repository of aerial photographs and satellite images.
  - GlobeXplorer™
  - Keyhole

* World Atlas
  Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa,
  Middle East and Oceania.
* World Continents Quizzes - Fun Map Games

USA and CANADA: Maps & Gazetteers
* Color Landform Atlas of the United States
*
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
* Mapathon.com
* Mapquest®
  United States and Canada.
* Microsoft
® TerraServer Coverage Map
  - My House: TerraServer USA
    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
*
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 Directories and Information - AT&T
*
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
    - International City/County Management Association
  - International Institute of Municipal Clerks
  - 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
Google™ U.S. Government Search - GPO Access -
USA.gov: Family, Home & Community
*
American Political Science Association
  -
Resources for Political Science

* Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies Resource Links
*
Federal Citizen Information Center
  - Federal Forms Catalog for Citizens
* Government Information
* Local Government in the United States: Local Government
  - 50states.com: States and Capitals
  - Local Community and Regional Resources: 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 and Your Link to Congress
  - Congress and Legislation
  -
Current Members of the United States Congress
  - 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
  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
.

Legal: Court Information & Records

GENERAL LAW [Common Law]: Portal:Law - Topic Outline of Law
Inheritance -
JURIST - Legal News & Research - Legal Dictionary - Legal Guardian
* Emory University Law Library Electronic Reference Desk
* FindLaw: International Resources
*
FindLaw LawCrawler for Legal Professionals
* GigaLaw.com
  Legal information for
  Internet professionals.
* Gateways and Portals to Legal Information
*
GLIN: Global Legal Information Network
  International legal database with official full texts
  of published documents in the original languages.

* Guide to Law Online

* Guide to Legal History Resources on the Web
* Hieros Gamos - 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
  - List of Concentration and Internment Camps
  -
Prison Search - Free Prison Inmate Locators
  -
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 Information Resources - refdesk.com
*
Legal Documents, Legal Agreements, Legal Forms (UK)
  - BUSL: Legal History: The Year Books
*
Legal Research and Law Resources at Katsuey's Legal Gateway
*
Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale) Foreign Law Research Guide (by Country)
* 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
* Electronic Access to State Court Records
  (with Public Access Guide for Justice Information Systems[PDF])
  AK   AL  AR  AZ  CA  CO  CT  DC  DE   FL  GA  HI  ID  IL
  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  MA  MD  ME  MI  MN  MO  MS  MT
  NC  ND  NE  NH  NJ  NM  NV  NY  OH  OK  OR  PA
  RI  SC  SD  TN  TX  UT  VA  VT  WA  WI  WV   WY
* Federal and Tribal Court Related Web Sites
* Federal Courts Finder
* FindLaw Lawyer Directory . . . West Legal 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 (Library of Congress)
*
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.

  -
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: MILITARY DIRECTORY WORLDWIDE - 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 Archives International
* Military Books Online
* 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 History Sources and Military History
  - Military History Channel and
Military Channel
  - Reader's Companion to Military History
  - Social Science Information Gateway Military Links
  - Society for Military History Links
* 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: History
    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
      - Document Archive
      - First World War.com
      - Resources:
World War I
    -
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
    -
RealMilitaryFlix.com
*
World's Armies Link Page
  Official military servers
  and defense information.
  - Foreign Military Links
  - 
Jane's Information Group Free News and Jane's Products - Subject Index
  - 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
*
Canadian Military Heritage Project and War and Military
* Commonwealth War Graves Commission
*
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:
* American Battle Monuments Commission
* Ancestry.com - Search Military Records
* CALL's Military Domain Search Engine
* 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.].
* 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
* 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
and Veterans History Project by AARP
  - Veterans Largest Service Organization - The American Legion
  - Veterans of Foreign Wars

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
* Guide to the American Revolution, 1763-1783
  -
American Revolution and The Revolutionary War
(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 & 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:
FAMILY TREE: Wikipedia®: Family Trees
* 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
* 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

SOCIAL NETWORKING - GENERAL: Social Bookmarking - Social Media - Social Software
List of Social Networking Websites - Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog
Wink: Free people search for social networks
and other online communities.  Includes name
search plus location, school, work, interests, etc.
* Coghead™
  Web-based business applications that can
  be used by anyone, anytime and anywhere
.
*
Diigo
 
Social information network that creates global
  communities around information, topics and
  knowledge. 
Includes web highlighter, sticky
  notes, social bookmarking and annotation,

*
Facebook:
Facebook
 
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.
*
hi5
  Your friends, your world.

*
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.

*
Netvibes
: Netvibes.com Blog
 
Publishing a home page personal web portal.

*
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
  Online community that connects people
  through a network of trusted friends.
*
Ubiplanet BETA
  Privacy and trust in your daily
  communication with your friends.

* Windows Live™ Spaces: Windows Live
™ Spaces
  Place to share with confidence.


SOCIAL NETWORKING with FAMILY TREES:
Social Networking for Genealogists (2009)
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.
* Ancestral File from LDS (Mormon) FamilySearch™
* Ancestry.com - Search Trees & Community Records
  -
Ancestry World Tree
    Build your family tree
    using our pedigree files.
  -
OneWorldTreeSM
    World's largest family tree.
*
Famillion.com
  Build your family tree
  and connect the world.
*
Family Tree Circles
  Find family tree researchers
  and information for your surnames.
* 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
  - Facebook: Login
  - MySpace.com
®: Family Tree Apps
*
FamilyLink.com
  Service of WorldVitalRecords.com.
*
Familyrelatives.com
 
Free social networking features to link
  members and family historians together
.
*
findmypast.com
 
Create or build a family tree.
*
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.

* GeneaNet
  Create your genealogical tree
  with the GeneWeb program.
* 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™

  Online genealogy service with the
  world's largest pedigree-linked archive.

* 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.
*
PAF - Personal Ancestral File
, 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.
*
Past Times Project
  Fill in missing family tree links and
  find ancestors through genealogy.

* Pedigree Resource File
  From LDS (Mormon) FamilySearch™.
* Personal Web Sites
* TreeX.com
  Genealogy, family trees, records
  and online family tree builder.
*
Tribal Junction
  Family Tree, Family History
  and Family Website.

* Tribal Pages
  Internet site for free kin and
  pedigree information about all people.
*
Twitter
  What are you doing? 
Free social messaging
  utility for staying connected in real-time
.
  -
Genealogy » Tweeters Directory » Just Tweet It
*
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.

* WorldConnect Project
  Search and submit family
  trees at RootsWeb.com.
*
Yahoo!® Arts>Humanities>History>Genealogy>Lineages and Surnames
  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  Misc
*
ZOOOF
  The Family Network.

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 
0  1  2  3  4   -   -    7   -   9
    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

* 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 - Links
    - Oral History Association
  - Matrix Oral History Tutorial
  - Oral History: Techniques and Procedures (Military)
    Guidance for historians tasked with conducting interview.

  - Reminiscence - Family History, Oral History Techniques
    - Family History Questionnaire
  - StoryCorps®
    - StoryCorps®: Recording America : NPR - In The News | StoryCorps®
* 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
  0-9  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

Religion & Culture

CULTURAL HERITAGE: Portal: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 List
    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 and 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
      - Mission R
esources
      - Overview of Electronic 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
  - Andover-Harvard Library
    Biographical and genealogical information.

  - Archives: Religious Communities
  -
Baptism
  -
ASCH Related Links
  -
Association of Religion Data Archives
  - ATLA - CDRI Digital Resources for the Study of Religion
  - Catholiclinks.org: Archive Index
  - Church Records Project ~ USGenWeb Archives Project
  -
Churches: Religious Institutions Records
    - Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835
  -
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: Member Associations
  - Parish Register:
Parish Research Links
  - Selected Other Archives with Material of Interest
  - 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
        - 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
        - Catholic History & Genealogical Research

          - Cyndi's List - Catholic

        -
Encyclopedia
        - Vatican City: Library - [Vatican]
      -
Christian Science
        -
Church of Christ, Scientist
      - 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
      -
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
    - Are  you  ready  to  join  the  Daughters  of  Confucius?
    - 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
  -
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
Genealogy Questions & Answers | Answerbag.com: Genealogy | New Q&A

GenHelp
- Yahoo!®  Answers: Genealogy

ASK GENERAL REFERENCE QUESTIONS: Answers.com®
Ask A Question - ASK NYPL (New York Public Library) - Ask.com Search Engine - Askville
BrainboostBrainboost™ -
Chat Reference Libraries - Worldwide -
Fields of Knowledge
Internet Public Library: Ask a Question - Just Ask Anybody! - Online Report Creator (using A.I.)
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.

  -
CRL - Projects & Programs
* Concept of Information
* 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.

  -
FamilySearchWiki
    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.
    - Vision: Why We Built FamilySearch Wiki
  - Prosopon Directory of Prosopographical Research
  - Reference & Finding Aids Records Search - Ancestry.com
* HighBeam Research
  Archive of millions of documents
  from multiple sources.
* IngentaConnect
  Academic and professional publications
  available for online, fax and Ariel delivery.
* Institutional Repository
  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
* Merlin Information Services and 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 of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Library Gateway
  - Online Research Resources:
All Online Resources Subjects
   
[ 0-9 ] 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

Surnames & Names

FAMILY NAME: Appendix:Names
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
  - Babynology
  -
Think! Baby Names

    Origin, meaning of baby
    names for boys and girls.

  - Yahoo!® Directory of Baby Names
* Cyndi's List - Names
*
IBM Global Name Reference Encyclopedia - Software
* 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.
  
172 million variants identified for 3,423,000 Surnames
  
12 million variants identified for 712,000 Forenames
  
Gender identification for more than 196,000 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
*
WeRelate:Surnames - Genealogy

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: Onomastics - Selective Bibliography of International Web Sites
Toponyms (Toponymy), Anthroponyms (Anthroponymy) and miscellaneous name sites.
* Collection of Onomastics: A Bibliography
*
Etymology: Etymology: Names
  -
Lists of Etymologies
  -
Online Etymology Dictionary
* Gymnastics with Onomastics
*
International Council of Onomastic Sciences: 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

SURNAME GENEALOGY SEARCH:
* LDS Family History Library Catalog Surname Search
* SurnameWeb
  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
* Surnames Categorized by Letter - Google™ Web Directory

  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
* Surnames, Family Associations & Family Newsletters Index - Cyndi's List
  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

* Surnames Family Genealogy Forum - GenForum

  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
* Surnames from Linkpendium
  A Æ Â Ä Å Á B C D E É È F G H I J K L M N O Ó Ø Ö P Q R S T Þ U Ü V W X Y Z
*
Surnames Websites from RootsWeb.com: Database Index and Searches
  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 Index and Family History Search
*
Wikipedia® - Category: Surnames
  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

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 Internet - Family History Web Sites
*
GedLink - The Worldwide Genealogical Network
  Exchange with those who have already studied your surname.
  -
GedLink | Stockholm Challenge

* GenCircles

* Genealogical Research Directory
  Key Surname reference work for
  worldwide family history research.

* List of Most Common Surnames
*
National Trust Names (Great Britain)
  Future home of World Surname Profiler
.
  -
World Names Profiler
*
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.
* Relevance of Surnames in Genealogy (pdf)
*
Surname Map
 
- Surname Distribution Analysis and Mapping
* surnamenavigator.org

*
Surname Research Page
*
Top: Society: Genealogy: Surnames and Nicknames
* 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.

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.
* Internet Collections and Resources for Independent Scholars

  Selected high quality Internet information for students,
  academics, researchers, or practitioners.
  - British Academy PORTAL

  -
Competitive Intelligence
    Selective resource
    guide from LLRX.com.

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

 
- INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
  - Intute: Arts and Humanities
  -
List of Academic Databases and Search Engines
  - PINAKES, A Subject Launchpad
  -
Scirus
    For scientific information.

  - Scholars' G
uide to the WWW
    Prepared with 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
    - Dissertation Doctor®:
Dissertation Process Is a Journey
    - Dissertation.com
    -
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations - CRL
    - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
      -
Find ETDs — NDLTD and SCIRUS ETD Search — NDLTD

        Full-text electronic theses and dissertations from institutions.

    - PhdData.org
      Universal index of doctoral dissertations in progress.
      - Internet Genealogy Community StudyA Bibliography (pdf)
    -
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
  - Countries of the World
    Graduate School Studies - Libraries:
    Subject Guides - University Genealogical Resources
  - Graduate School: H-Grad Grad Link

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