BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS:
* Becoming a Professional Genealogist (pdf)
  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 & Contractors
* ENIC-NARIC.net - Your Gateway to Recognition
  Help other interested organizations and individuals easily find information
  on current issues in international academic and professional mobility,
  and on procedures for the recognition of foreign qualifications.
* Genealogy as a Career and Genealogist Career Information
* Social Scientists: Other - USA
* Transitional Genealogists Forum

INDIVIDUALS and ORGANIZATIONS:
* American Society of Genealogists
  Recognition of genealogy as a serious
  subject of research in the historical
  and social fields of learning.
* Ancestry ExpertConnect
* Association of Professional Genealogists
* Association of Scottish Genealogists & Researchers in Archives
* Board for Certification of Genealogists and Roster
* Category:Genealogists - Wikipedia: Thomas Milton Tinney, Sr.
* Cyndi's List - Professional Researchers, Volunteers & Other Research Services
* eXpertGenealogy.com
* Genealogy Research Services in the Yahoo!® Directory
* Genealogy Professionals and Genealogist Service Directory - genealogyPro™
* International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists™
  - Find an AG® Professional | ICAPGen
* Professional Genealogist Finder™
  Genealogy research professional genealogist finder.
* Society of Australian Genealogists
* Speakers Guild (Genealogical): SpeakerNet News
  Planning for the 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:
* Cyndi's List - Occupations
* DOT Dictionary of Occupational Titles Index
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen
  1607-1783 Dictionary.
* History Of Work Information System: Links
  Tens of thousands of occupational titles
  from countries and languages around the world
  from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
  - Images
    Images on the world of work in the past,
    taken from various books and collections.
* List of Occupations
* NAICS Association
  North American Industry Classification System.
  - Free NAICS & SIC Code Lookup
* O*NET OnLine: O*NET OnLine USA Related Sites
* Ranks, Professions, Occupations and Trades
* Vocational Information Center: Index
  Career and technical education resources.

RESOURCES:
Management - Topic Outline of Business Management
* 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.
* Conferences and Event Planning: Meeting
  - AllConferences.Com
    Directory focusing on conferences,
    conventions, trade shows, exhibits,
    workshops, events and business meetings.
  - Event Planning
    Find USA wedding hall, party rooms,
    conference rooms, meeting and event space.
  - Global Meetings Industry Portal
    Congresses, conferences, conventions, incentives,
    meetings and special events.  Search for corporate
    meeting rooms, corporate event venues and banquet facilities.
* Family History Based Education Resources
  Study history's greatest texts as sources of knowledge of leadership
  and find out how to enable greatness.
* Management & Organization Studies Information Resources
  - Management Information Systems Information Resources
  - Technology & Operations Management Information Resources
* Marketing: Topic Outline of Marketing
  - AdForum
    Advertising agencies, TV commercials,
    commercial ads and award winning ads.
  - DoubleClick.com
    Digital marketing technology and services:
    online ad serving and management technology
    for advertisers, web publishers and ad agencies.
  - Google™ Agency Toolkit
    Build effective advertising programs, optimize
    performance and uncover market insights.
  - Market Research World
    General information about market research.
  - Marketing and Advertising Resources
  - Marketing Information Resources
  - Portal - Global Marketing: KnowThis®.com
    Marketing, market research,
    Internet marketing and advertising.
    - Advertising: Advertising - Redbooks.com
* Public Relations: Oxford Analytica - International Relations
  - Public Relations Society of America (PRSA): Other Resources
    National and international public relations related online sources.
    - Public Relations Student Society of America
* StartupNation
  Small business advice, help starting a business and entrepreneur forum.



CALENDARS and CLOCKS:
Educational Exhibits about Time, Clocks, Daylight Saving & Calendars
* Current Time: Clock - Walk Through Time
  - Official US Time: UTC: Worldwide Day and Night
  - World Clock
  - World Time Server
* General Calendar: Calendar (Calendar - GeneaWiki)
  - Calendar Conversion
    Module supports the following calendars:
    Gregorian (current civil), Calendar week (ISO),
    Julian (old civil), Islamic (Moslem), Hebrew (Jew -
    Jewish), Mayan, French Revolutionary, Old Hindu,
    Achelis', Coptic, Ethiopian, Jalaali (incomplete)
    and Kyureki (Japanese traditional with CE).
  - Calendar Wiki: Calendrical Software
  - Calendar Zone
  - Calendars through the Ages
  - Calendopaedia - The Encyclopaedia of Calendars
  - Cyndi's List - Calendars & Dates
  - Interfaith Calendar for World Religions
  - Old Style and New Style Dates
  - world-calendar.com (archived)
* Worldwide History and Social Studies:
  - Timelines, Date Conversions & Period Resources



CITING SOURCES: Citation
* Citing Sources
  Documentation guidelines for citing
  sources and avoiding plagiarism.
* Cyndi's List - Citing Sources
* 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: 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 and Citations at Dartmouth
* Sources, Citations, Documentation & Evaluating Evidence
* Style Guides: Reference Tools: NCSU Libraries
  - Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries
    Illustrates differences among several
    major styles of citing information sources.
* Ultimate Writing Style Guides
  Resource for APA, MLA, Chicago
  (Turabian) and CSE manuals.
* Why Bother?
  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: Member States
    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
  - Create a Trademark
  - 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
    - 19th Century Patents
    - WikiPatents
      Patent reviews, free patent PDFs,
      patent searching and file histories.



CURRENCY and MONEY: WEIGHTS, MEASURES and SYMBOLS:
NUMISMATICS: Portal:Numismatics
* Collection of Useful Numismatic List of Starting Points
* Currency:
  - Currency & Banking
    - xe.com The Universal Currency Converter™
      - FXHistory® - Historical Currency Exchange Rates
  - Inflation
    - Inflation Calculator
  - Money: History of Money - Pedigree
    - Ancient Coins: Roman, Greek, Byzantine and Celtic
      Numismatic reference for attribution and values.
    - Coin and Conscience - Baker Library Historical Collections
      Popular views of money, credit and speculation.
    - Current Value of Old Money
      How much would a specified amount of money
      at a certain period of time be worth today?
    - Cyndi's List - Money
    - Geographical Directory of World Paper Money
    - Historical American Currency Exhibit
      Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's
      American Currency Exhibit online.
    - Paper Money & Bank Note WWW Directory
* Organizations:
  - American Numismatic Association: American Numismatic Society
    - Online Resources
  - Royal Numismatic Society: Links

WEIGHTS, MEASURES and SYMBOLS: Units of Measurement and Symbol
  - Cyndi's List - Weights & Measures
  - Dictionary of Units
  - Graphic Symbols Historical Index
    Symbols.com articles about Western signs, arranged
    into groups according to their graphic characteristics.
  - How Many?  A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
  - National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)
    Weights and Measures Division.
  - 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: A to Z Country Index
  OneSource Genealogy and Family History Searchable Databases.
  - Church Institutional - Historical Resources and Records
    - Religious Denominations
  - Cyndi's List - Genealogy Standards & Guidelines
  - Cyndi's List - Primary Sources
  - Driver's License
  - Identity Document: Identity Card Policies by Country
    - Biometrics
  - Newspapers
  - Notary Public & Civil Law Notary
  - Passport
  - Tax & Taxation
  - Voting & Voting Registers
* Association for Documentary Editing
  Related links to the practice of publishing
  collections of writings, letters, and/or speeches.
* GeneaWiki: Categories - Family History - Genealogy
* Genlighten.com
  Find offline genealogy records and documents.
* Manuscript Sources for Genealogists: Manuscript Archives
* 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.
* Universitetet i Tromsø: Historical Microdata around the World
* USA: Identity Documents in the United States
  - Public Record Center.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.
  - Public Records Search: Articles
    Encyclopedia of official state and county public records,
    with review and publication of user-contributed resources.
    - Birth Records
    - Cemetery Records
    - Census Records
    - Court Records
    - Criminal Records
    - Death Records
    - Divorce Records
    - Genealogy Records
    - Marriage Records
    - Obituaries
    - Public Records



INDEXERS and GENEALOGISTS:
* ASSOCIATIONS: Associations
  Professional indexing, classification and cataloguing associations.
  - 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)
  - Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers
  - Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
  - China Society of Indexers
  - German Network of Indexers
  - Netherlands Indexing Network
  - 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
    - Indexers Available Online Directory
* PROJECTS - Genealogy and Family History:
  - 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.
    - 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.
  - World Archives Project - Ancestry.com
    Free historical record collections
    with searchable record indexes.
* PUBLICATIONS - General:
  - Indexer
    Periodical devoted specifically to all aspects of indexing.
  - ipl2: Information You Can Trust
    Example of Internet indexing resource.
  - List & Index Society
    British Isles publications.
* SCHOOLS:
  - School of Library, Archival and Information Studies - UBC
    - Indexing Resources on the WWW
      Supporting working professionals.
      - Archival Indexing
      - Back-of-the-Book Indexing
      - Database Indexing, Controlled Vocabularies and Thesauri
      - Indexers and Indexing
      - Indexing Special Formats
* SOFTWARE:
  - Indexing Software
  - Indexing Software Vendors
* WEB (WWW - INTERNET): Index (Search Engine) - Web Indexing
  - Indexing the WWW
  - OpenIndex: Links
    Creating a public Internet index.
  - Swish-e: Download Information
    Fast, flexible, and free open source system for
    indexing collections of web pages or other files.
  - Web Indexing SIG
    - Resources for Indexers on Web Indexing
  - 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 CHARTS: Pedigree Chart
* Ahnentafel Charts
* Cousin
  - Cyndi's List - Cousins & Kinship
* Free Genealogy Charts
* Genealogical Charts and Family Trees Online
* Kinship: Kinship Glossary, Symbols, Terms and Concepts
  - Kinship Degree Systems
  - Systematic Kinship Terminologies
* Pedigree & Lineage Networking: Family Trees
* WayBack . Family Ties | PBS KIDS GO!
  Grow A Tree: online and downloadable versions.



RESEARCH TOOLS, ARTICLES and FORMS:
* BYU Family History Print Forms & Research Helps
* Charts for Reference in Genealogy Research
* Cyndi's List - Supplies, Charts, Forms, Etc.
* 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
* Terminology & Meaning of 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.
* 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: Reference Writing
  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
  - Cyndi's List - Handwriting & Script
  - Cynscribe: Calligraphy Directory
    Art of fine handwriting and penmanship.
  - Deciphering Old Handwriting
  - English Handwriting 1500 - 1700
  - Guidelines for Reading Old Documents
  - Examples of 17th Century Handwriting
  - How To Read A 200-Year-Old Document and Other FAQs
  - List of Languages by First Written Accounts
  - Medieval Writing: History, Heritage and Data Resource
  - Palaeography: Palaeography Tutorial (How to read old handwriting)
  - Reading Early American Handwriting (Book)
  - ScottishHandwriting.com
  - Script Tutorials
    Paleography, old documents, and family history
    research.  Languages include English, German,
    Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
  - Scriptorium | English Handwriting
* How Do I Begin To Document and File Family History?  An Introduction
* ISFHWE - International Society of Family History Writers and Editors
* List of Languages by Writing System
* Technology Of Writing
* Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
  General introduction to Web content creation.
* Writing Systems and Manuscripts

Documentation and Publications: Professional Genealogical Sources
Copyright © 1997-2010  By: V. Chris & Thomas M. Tinney, Sr.
All rights reserved.  Email: vctinney@sbcglobal.net

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