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FREE : Join FamilyLink.com - The Social Network for Genealogists and Their Families : Upload your family tree and expand it with the help of local genealogists from all over the world. Need help finding your ancestor with a local lookup? Connect with genealogists that live in the cities of your ancestors. Build FREE Ancestor web pages. And more...
Genealogy Tools for Researchers. Program downloads : Find County for Towns of Ohio, Find Townships in Ohio, Find Counties and what States they are in, Date Calculator, Soundex Code from Name, Ahnentafel Explanation and Calculations, Relationship Calculator, Henry Number Explanation, Land Measurement Conversions. Also printable forms : Ancestor Chart, Family Group Sheet, and Federal Census Help Sheet.
Geographical Location Tools
RootsWeb Town Search 1.0 : Find the County for a U.S. Town or City
TownCo. Put the county's name and leave the state's name blank and you will get a list of the states with a county by that name. Likewise, put the state's name and leave the county's name blank and get the list of all counties for that state. In both cases, each county listed will be linked to a list of resources available at RootsWeb for that county.
Look for places in the 1891 census : A database containing the names of places encountered in the 1891 census. It has a fairly wide coverage of places, but does not contain the smaller ones. You can use it to help locate places, or to find out the film on which the 1891 census records can be found. Data available for England, Wales and the Isle of Man.
United Kingdom and Ireland Parish Finder. Locate the county or counties where a parish may be found.
The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker. Locate towns in Eastern or Central Europe, by name or location.
Baden, Germany Parish Finder. Find the Parish (Pfarramt) and District (Kreis), and the available records, for 3,000 localities in Baden.
Converting between 1920 and 1930 Census EDs in One Step. This page lets you obtain an Enumeration District (ED) for an address in selected large cities in the 1920 US census if you know the ED for that address in the 1930 census, and vice versa.
Obtaining Enumeration Districts for the 1900 to 1940 U.S. Census in One Step (Large Cities). Starting in 1880, all information in the census is arranged by enumaration districts (ED) and stored on microfilm rolls. In order to know which microfilm roll to look in, you need to know the ED in which the person lived. This One-Step form allows you to determine the 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 of 1940 ED if you know the person's address.
Date and Calendar Tools
Birth Date Calculator. This calculator is a useful tool for genealogists. It is designed to calculate the birth date when the age at death and the date of death are the only facts known. As we all know this is often the only information recorded on older headstones.
On what day of the week were you born? : Enter your birthday, then hit the "Update" button to find out.
Exact Age Finder : Find out precisely how old you are, in various units! (Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds.)
Make a customized calendar.
10,000-Year Calendar Free Download. Five formats available : tif, pcx, gif, xls, and pdf.
Java Perpetual Calendar. This calendar will work for any Gregorian year, from 1582 till the present, as long as you have a java enabled browser.
Perpetual Calendar. Select any month, and enter any four-digit year (0001-9999).
Free Excel Yearly Calendar Template. This spreadsheet will show 12 months on a single page, beginning with the month and year of your choice.
Calendar Magic. Freeware. Full year and monthly calendars for 23 different calendar systems. Date conversions among the 23 calendar systems supported. And much more.
Jewish Calendar Conversions in One Step
Date Converters. Calculate birth date from death date and age at death in day/month/year format. Convert dates from various calendars : Gregorian, Julian, Hebrew, Islamic, Persian, French Republican, Mayan, and more.
Useless dates related to your birthday. Birthday-Calculator : Find out when you are 10000 days old or maybe 1 billion seconds old?
Any Year Calendars. These calendars never expire because they don't list any holidays or days of the week. Good for recording birthdays, other vitals, etc.
Calculate duration between two dates. This service calculates the duration, counting the day count and the number of days, months and years between two dates. Among other things, it can be used find how many days old you are and the weekday you were born.
Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar. Calculate the date of Easter and other Christian celebrations for any year after A.D. 325.
Calendars Net. Display and edit your own calendar of events. Let others post and view events . . . or not. Link your calendar to your web site. View and print out calendars by the day, week, month, or year.
Date calculator: Add to or subtract from a date. This service enable you to add or subtract days, months and years to a date to calculate a past or future date.
Easter Day. Find the date of Easter Day in any year.
Perpetual Calendar. Calendar creator for any month between A.D. 1 and A.D. 2400.
JOS Calendar Conversion. The JOS Calendar Converter can convert a civil (Gregorian calendar) date into the equivalent date on the Hebrew calendar, and vice versa.
Name Variants
SurnameThesaurus. The SurnameThesaurus has 165,226,795 entries for 3,274,214 distinct surnames. It uses NameX technology to identify name variants with significantly higher precision and recall than Soundex or Metaphone.
ForenameThesaurus. The ForenameThesaurus has 11,525,397 entries for 668,598 distinct forenames. It uses NameX technology to identify name variants with significantly higher precision and recall than Soundex or Metaphone.
RootsWeb's Soundex Converter. The Soundex system is a method of indexing names in the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 US Census. Soundex can also aid genealogists by identifying spelling variations for a given surname.
Surname to Soundex Converter Free on-line converter: Enter a surname, click on submit button and the soundex code will appear.
Historical and Economical Context
Peers and Contemporaries toll from OurTimeLines.com : Another way to gain perspective on your ancestors is to learn who their peers and contemporaries were. This tool makes it very easy to do that. Simply enter the birth year and the name, and it will generate a list of peers and near-peers for you.
Free Personalized Timelines This web site generates personalized web pages for you. They show how your life (or the life of anyone else you choose - for instance, your descendants and ancestors) fits into history as we know it.
dMarie Time Capsule. Free On This Day in History Report for the years 1800 through 2001.
Anyday in History : Get a list of historic events & birthdates that occurred on a any selected day of the year
The Inflation Calculator. A form adjusting any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2003.
How Much is That Worth Today?
United States : Comparing the purchasing power of money in the United States (or colonies) from 1774 to any other year including the present.
Great Britain : Comparing the purchasing power of money in the Great Britain from 1264 to any other year including the present.
Currency Converter (UK). Use the currency converter of the National Archives of England and Wales to find out how yesterday's prices compares to today's prices or how today's prices compares to yesterday's prices.
Purchasing Power of the British Pound, 1264 to Present. Use this calculator to determine the value of an amount of money in one year compared to another.
Purchasing Power of the United States Dollar, 1774 to Present. Use this calculator to determine the value of an amount of money in one year compared to another.
Computing 'Real Value' Over Time With a Conversion Between U.K. Pounds and U.S. Dollars, 1830 to Present. This calculator will compute the "real value" of the price, cost, or value of something over time and convert it from British Pounds to U.S. Dollars, or vice versa. For example, you can ask what is the value in dollars in the year 2000 (desired year) of something that was valued at five pounds in 1850 (initial year).
Inflation Calculator (Canada). The Inflation Calculator uses monthly consumer price index (CPI) data from 1914 to the present to show changes in the cost of a fixed "basket" of consumer purchases. These include food, shelter, furniture, clothing, transportation, and recreation.
Scots Currency Converter. Scotland had its own currency, the pound Scots, prior to the Act of Union in 1707.
Miscellaneous
Email Address Encryption Tool : If you display your email address at the bottom of your web page, spammers using email harvesting robots will find it. However, you can hide your address from robots while still allowing visitors to your web site to contact you.
Relationship Calculator. Simply keep pressing the simple relationship buttons to build up complex relationships.
Getting Road Maps and Aerial Photos in One Step
Ask a Librarian at the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room of the Library of Congress. They cannot undertake research in family history or heraldry, but they can answer many general questions.
Citation Machine. The primary goal of this tool is to make the proper crediting of information property so easy that it becomes a habit, not a laborious task.
Height Convesion Form. This form allows you to calculate the Modern American equivelant of the Old French heights, or vice versa.
If you represent an organization which serves the genealogical community at large - or if you serve a smaller community (perhaps you produce a family newsletter, host a website, organize reunions or some such thing) -- and find yourself shy of necessary funds, consider applying for a small grant, courtesy of Honoring our Ancestors
Online Clan Jigsaw Puzzles from Electric Scotland : Carmichael, MacIntyre, Campbell, and more.
The Adventure Train : A game based on Canada's railway history. 1) Identify a mystery object related to the railways. 2) Solve some riddles to take this object from Halifax to the West Coast Railway Heritage Park.
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