Genealogy
Reference Tools and Dictionaries:
- CensusTools (downloadable Excel spreadsheets for summarizing genealogical data)
- City Directories of the United States of America
- Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
- Downloadable Charts and Forms: From Ancestry.com, well-designed and free.
- Family-Reunion.com: Listings and postings for family reunions and associations.
- Geographic Names Information Service (GNIS): Place name information for the United States.
- GEOnet Names Serves (USGS): Worldwide counterpart to the GNIS, listing more than five million names.
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online: Especially useful for determining alternative and multiple names used to describe a single place.
- Helm's Genealogy Toolbox: A comprehensive source of genealogical how-to information.
- Heraldry on the Internet: Allows users to look up family crests online, and features heraldic dictionaries and reference tools.
- Historical and Genealogical Societies on the Internet: Lists contact information for more than 6,000 societies in the United States, Canada and Australia.
- Infobel World: Telephone Directories Worldwide
- Map History/History of Cartography: Links to both information and digital map images.
- Soundex Converter (from Rootsweb)
- YourDictionary.com: Links to hundreds of foreign language dictionary and translation Web sites.
