Nice Reference Site(s)

[Thande]

Thanks to whichever mod stickied this (I assume it's Ian?) Doc's come up with some great resources here.

[Glen]

Originally Posted by Thande

Thanks to whichever mod stickied this (I assume it's Ian?) Doc's come up with some great resources here.

That would be me, actually.

[Thande]

Originally Posted by Glen

That would be me, actually.

I knew you and Max had the power to move threads, but I didn't think you could sticky them.

[Doctor What]

United States historical census data browser, 1790-1970.- Examine state and county topics for individual census years (1790-1960) on such topics as literacy rates, ethnicity, average size of farms and slave population, to name just a few.

FEDSTATS - Searchable access to statistics from over 70 agencies of the U.S. government.

Data on the Net - Search or browse a listing of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.

Finding Canadian, U.S. and international statistics -large collection of statistical sources. Emphasis on Canadian stats but there's a fair number of U.S. and International sources as well.

[Doctor What]

The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture - pretty much everything you need to know about the Metis of Canada. *Lots* of pictures to view.

Canadian Architectural Archives - contains thousands of images that document nearly 50 years of Canadian architectural, cultural and social heritage.

CanadaGenWeb - links to a wide variety of geneology sites.

Archives Canada - an electronic initiative designed to provide online access to holdings in over 800 archival institutions across the country.

Canadian Centre for Architecture- The CCA holds one of the world's foremost international research collections of publications and architectural design documentation - conceptual studies, drawings, plans, models, prints, and master photographs, archives and oral histories of individual architects, related artifacts and ephemera.

Image Gallery - The Image Gallery showcases thousands of fascinating online images of museum artefacts, photos, paintings, and more.

Artefacts Canada- Containing millions of collection records and close to 580 000 images from hundreds of museums across the country, this resource is used by national and international heritage professionals.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - the Commonwealth War Graves Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. Contains a searchable database with information on 23,000 cemeteries and memorials where they rest.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Canadian version of the above--contains a registry of information about the graves and memorials of more than 116,000 Canadians.

Hudson's Bay Company Archives- The Hudson's Bay Company's records document the history of the HBC since its inception in 1670 following the history of the fur trade, North American exploration, the development of Canada as a country and the growth of HBC's Canadian retail empire.

Peel's Prairie Provinces- Peel's Prairie Provinces is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of the history and culture of the Canadian Prairies. The site contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies and a fully searchable collection of the full texts of many of these items.

Spirit Wrestlers - Everything you wanted to know about the Doukhobors...

National Archives - The U.S. Government archives

UNESCO Archives Portal - Truly *massive* collection of links and resources and online archives for pretty much every major country.

[Doctor What]

Linguistic Map - Maps of various regions of the world broken down by language. For Canada and the U.S. where English is predominant, it's also further broken down by dialects of English.

Indian Lands of the United States- The Indian Lands of the United States map layer shows areas of 640 acres or more, administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

North American Indian Maps - A major listing of maps of American Indian territories and boundaries. Many links - a prime reference site.

Rare Map Collection - The New World -rather extensive collection of old and rare maps of the New World covering from c. 1500 to c. 1900

David Rumsey Collection - Thousands of high-resolution digital images of maps from the David Rumsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of historic maps in the US. Focus is 18th and 19th c. North and South America cartographic materials.

Antique Maps of the Pacific Ocean - Antique maps (pre-1800) for the Pacific Ocean and its islands.

Maps of Roman Gaul, 60 - 50 BC.

Historic Florida Maps - 3,100 Florida maps from the 1500s through the present.

Finland History - Maps showing the history of the Finnish-related people of Russia. Includes maps of city locations, name changes, and much commentary.

Early maps- Comprehensive list of sites containing historical maps

Historical Maps - more old maps

Japanese Historical Map Collection - Online gallery of 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World.

Michigan and Great Lakes- Images and descriptions of the history of the Great Lakes as depicted in actual maps from 1571 to 1865. Includes significant maps of French, English and American periods.

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe- Maps showing political status of Europe and Mediterranean basin at the end of each century from AD 1 to AD 2000, plus maps of historical battle sites. Site in English and French.

Prehistoric Globalization - Maps that change history. Paper on maps predating Columbus including a section on fraudulent maps.

Maps Of The Ancient Roman World - Maps of areas referred to by Cornelius Tacitus in "The Histories", A.D. 1.

Trenches on the Web - World War I Western Front maps, including trench locations for major battles.

WWII Maps - 100 black and white WWII maps indexed by date, many with troop movement and battle locations indicated.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - links to about 200 sites with maps.

[Doctor What]

World Statesmen - Comprehensive list of statesmen and world leaders since 1760 , arranged by region and country, with dates of birth and death, and additional information on flags, maps, anthems, and political parties. Includes links to related resources.

Those were the days-Today in history - A daily summary of news events, famous birthdays and hit music that happened on this day in history

Leon's Almanac of Political History - Political historical events for each day of the year with links to supplementary information.

[Doctor What]

British Library Newspapers - National archive collections in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers, including online facsimile issues of London's Daily News, The News of the World and The Weekly Dispatch, and The Manchester Guardian.

Democracy at War - The Canadian War Museum's archive of Canadian newspapers from the Second World War.

Irish Newspaper Archive - Online archive of Irish news publications from 1763 up to the present. Search and the first 10 page views are free.

FindArticles - Searchable online article archive of back issues from hundreds of newspapers, journals and magazines.

CBC Archives - Hundreds of radio and television clips from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

[Doctor What]

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) - Georeferenced Population Data Sets for various countries

City Population - Principal cities and agglomerations of the world and of many countries (tables and maps).

Internet Resources for Demographers- Collection of demography links, organized by content.

North American Demography - Stats for Canada, United States and Mexico

Population Stats- Population statistics by country: total population, growth rate, birth rate, death rate, migration rate, life expectancy, infant mortality, and population density.

[Wendell]

www.nationmaster.com-A resource on comparative rankins of countries in assorted categories.

[Doctor What]

Adherents.com - growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. The perfect site if you are desperately looking for answers to such obscure religious questions as number of Lutherans in Alabama in 1990 (19,030), religious orientation of Superman (Methodist), number of adults who identified themselves as Atheist in the 2001 U.S. census poll (902,000) and how many mainstream science fiction and fantasy novels, short stories and movies (speculative fiction) which contain references to Zoroastrianism (42), to name only a few.

First Nations Seeker -Directory of North American Indian Portal Websites

Academic Guide to Jewish History - Extensive links to all aspects of Jewish history and scholarly research. Photographs, manuscripts and more can be found among the various sites cited.

Newspaper Directory- links to pretty much every newspaper in the world.

[Doctor What]

GenMaps -
Great Britain maps, 16th through 19th century, divided into counties and regions.

Historical maps of London-
A historical map with sites of Victorian London during the time of Dr. John Snow (1813-58), the prominent epidemiologist and anesthesiologist. Maps cover 1818 to 1872

Turkey in Maps -
On-line exhibitions of antique maps of Turkish Empire and Asia Minor

United States Digital Map Libray -
Online archive of state, county, and treaty maps.

U.S. Library of CongressMap Collections-
Searchable collection of digitized maps in the public domain from North America, 1544-1996. Grouped into categories: cities, environment, exploration, immigration, military, and transportation.


Java World Map projections -
An interactive java applet for exploring different map projections of the world, with the ability to change the projection, scale and center of the map. You can also do the same thing to the Moon and the planet Mars

Map History / History of Cartography -
Tony Campbell's tightly organized global overview of the subject's resources, activities and opportunities, with leads to the collecting of old and early maps and thousands of links.

Map Projections -
Collection of printable map projections organized by type.

The History Page -
A comprehensive directory of links, organized by period.

History of nations-
Provides a history of every country in the world. Includes an overview as well as more detailed historical information.

Old World Traditional Trade Routes -
Research on history, geography and logistics of communication, pilgrimage, and trade routes of Eurasia and Africa 10,000 BCE to circa 1820 CE.

Reportret -
Gallery of reconstructed portraits of key figures from world history, without anachronisms, respecting contemporary style, and based on historical sources.

AlternaTime -
A collection of timeline links on the web for history, science, arts, literature, popular cultures, and even some science fiction books/movies

Flotte's outline of History-
An illustrated timeline of history from prehistory to the present day. Absolutely insane number of maps and charts of all kinds to be viewed.

Keeping in Touch with the Past and Future-
World history timeline spanning the dawn of time to the 16th century, with images and links.

Food Timeline -
The origins of foods, historic recipes, extensive teaching resources and web links.

Piracy Timeline -
Events in the history of maritime piracy. Include links, images and maps.

Regnal chronologies -
An archive of king lists showing both individuals and dynasties, as well as eras of foreign rule and non-monarchic periods for most regions of the world, from earliest times to the present. Includes some national heraldry.

War Scholar -
A comprehensive and comparative listing of major wars from all over the globe, organized by region, from ca. 3000 B.C. to the present day; links to encyclopedia articles for each conflict.

WW1 Timeline-
World War 1 (Great War) Timeline, detailing events, day by day from 1914 through to 1919

WW2 Timeline -
Detailing every wartime event, day by day.

Representative Poetry Online -
English poetry from 658-present.

Military History Encyclopedia -
Reference for all military history - wars, individuals, battles, weapons and the concepts behind warfare.

GeoNative -
Place names in minority languages, generally those of native peoples and nations without state, which usually never appear in maps.

Virtual religion Index -
Large link collection from Rutgers University, categorised by religion. Also includes resources for ancient religions, archaeology, philosophy, sociology of religion, and psychology of religion.

Gothic and Medieval Art, History and Architecture -
Information and resources on all things Gothic and Medieval.

Internet Sacred Text Archive -
Archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

Virtual Trip: Introduction to Ancient World -
Virtual trip through ancient sites across the world.

Archaeolink-
One stop resource for all things archaeology and anthropology related. Contains 30,000 links(!) --and counting…

ArchArt-
A great collection of archaeology and art photographic images available on line.

Clive Ruggles Image Collection-
Over a thousand images of archaeological sites in the Americas, Australia, the British Isles, Continental Europe and Polynesia taken by Clive Ruggles of Leicester University.

[Doctor What]

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

The maps were mainly designed to help fire insurance agents determine the degree of damage to a property and show accurate information to help them determine risks and establish premiums. They showed the size (including color-coding), shape and construction of buildings (brick, adobe, frame, etc), dwellings (including hotels and churches), and other structures such as bridges, docks and barns. Along with fire stations, you could also find water facilities, sprinklers, hydrants, cisterns, and alarm boxes as well as firewalls, windows, doors, elevators and chimneys and roof types. The maps included street names, property boundaries and lot lines, and house and block numbers. Other information such as the latest census figures, prevailing winds; railroad lines and Indian reservations and topography were included. Today, the maps are an invaluable guide to inner-city history, land use, and historic preservation.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922 A digital collection of 4,445 Sanborn fire insurance maps from the University of Georgia Libraries.

Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Utah, from the collection of the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library.

Fire Insurance Maps of Chicago -ca. 1886

1907 Sanborn Maps of Charlottesville

Charlottesville, Virginia 1920

Sanborn Insurance Maps
Digitized Sanborn Maps from 1886, 1891, 1896, 1907 & 1912 for Fredericksburg, Virginia.


Historical Maps

1789 Map of Norwich ~ Norfolk, England

1853 Wisconsin Gazetteer On-Line
From the University of Michigan. Scanned images of the original book.

1854 Map of Hannibal
Includes names of residents and their locations. ~ New York

1855 State Census & 1855 Election District Bounadries - Manhattan ~ New York

1860 Manhattan & Brooklyn Street Index by Wards ~ New York

1864 Manhattan Ward Boundaries ~ New York

1866 Johnson's Brooklyn Map ~ New York

1867 Brooklyn Ward Boundaries ~ New York

1872 County Map of Colorado, Dakota, Indian Nations, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska & Wyoming

1874 Plat Maps Keokuk County of Iowa

1874 Richland County Plat Maps ~ Richland County, Wisconsin
1874 plat maps of the 16 townships of Richland County.

1876 Maps of Maryland's Eastern Shore

1880 Gloucestershire ~ England

1886 Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire ~ England

1887 Plat Maps Keokuk County of Iowa

1891-92 Kings County Ward Boundaries ~ New York

1895 U.S. Atlas
Scanned images of county and state maps, index of towns.

1905 Plat Maps Mahaska County of Iowa

American Memory Railroad Maps 1828-1900

The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789

American Shores - Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850

Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation
Fabulous Flash-animated depiction of the territorial expansion of the United States.

Antique Maps of Iceland
All antique maps of Iceland (older than 1900) that are in the collection of the National and University Library of Iceland have been converted to a digital format and are accessible here

Atlas des Deutschen Reichs
This 1883 atlas of the German empire includes maps of the bordering portions of present-day Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, and Switzerland. Maps are large scale (1:850,000).

Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data ~ Massachusetts
Combines photographs, maps, & city directories into a variety of interactive tools for exploring Boston past & present.

British History Online - Historical Geography
Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. Historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale for each county in England, Wales & Scotland. Historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:2,500 scale for Chester, Colchester, Coventry, Oxford and much of central London.

Canadian Maps
1926 Souvenir Highway Map-Province of Saskatchewan; Early 1900s Map of Western Canada, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba: Canadian National Railways (shows township, range, meridian markings); The New World Atlas and Gazetteer 1922 Edition, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba (shows Provincial Electoral Districts 1922), California (Shows 1922 Counties), Austria, Hungary, Czecho-slovakia, Roumania, Jugo-slavia, Europe; Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Maps 1924 and 1984 (all SWP maps show meridians, township and range markings); 1947-48, 1950-51 and 1952-53 Saskatchewan Pool Country Elevator System Maps with calendar index.

City of Los Angeles 1922 Map

Cleveland Cartography
Information about historical and contemporary maps and map-related happenings in and about Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.

Cornwall 1878 Map ~ England

Counties Gazetteer
Organized by the counties of England, Scotland, and Wales, this site contains scanned images of historic maps dating from 1846 to 1899.

The Courts and Yards of Old Norwich ~ Norfolk, England

Gazetteer of British Place Names
Contains the ancient or geographical County of over 50,000 place names in Britain along with modern administrative areas information.

Germans in America - 1914 Map

Greenwood Map of London 1830
8 inches to a mile, surveyed by Christopher and John Greenwood 1824 to 1826, with additions to 1830. Access the map by clicking on an image of the complete map, or by using the 5000 place name index.

Greenwood's Map of London 1827

Historical Atlas of Canada - Online Learning Project

Historical Maps of India
Maps of pre-independance India.

Hungarian Village Finder and Gazetteer for the Kingdom of Hungary
More than 30,000 place names for villages, settlements, towns, and cities in the former Kingdom of Hungary.

Introduction to Manhattan Timeformations ~ New York
Maps Manhattan's Skyscrapper district through time. (*VERY* cool)

Landgate ~ Western Australia

A Look At Cook
Census tools for Cook County Illinois, including Chicago City. Maps, enumeration district descriptions, ward boundaries & notes.

Old Hampshire Mapped ~ England
Historic maps of Hampshire.

Old Sussex Mapped ~ England
Two centuries of Sussex county maps.

Ordnance Survey Large Scale Scottish Town Plans 1847-1895
Over 1,900 sheets covering 62 towns - the most detailed maps ever surveyed by Ordnance Survey.

Rutgers Cartography - Historical Maps of New Jersey
A large collection of historical New Jersey maps, with a special focus on the central part of the state.

Saskatchewan, Canada Rand McNally 1924 Indexed Pocket Map Tourists and Shippers Guide
Map of Saskatchewan, showing township and range grid markings, CPR and CNR railways, helps to locate homesteads.

Tribal Migrations East of the Mississippi
Charts the migrations of Linguistic Stocks of the Muskhogean, Proto-Muskhogean, Siouan, Iroquoian, Algonquain & Caddoan Tribes. Additional information on many other native groups as well as their culture can be found as well.

California County Data by the California State Association of Counties
Links for cities within each county, county websites, county maps, county history and more.

Civil Parish Map of Somerset ~ England

Evolution of United States County Boundaries and an animated GIF showing county boundaries for 1650, 1700, 1750, and census years from 1790 onward

Leitrim-Roscommon Map Collection ~ Ireland
Maps that display the Parishes, Baronies and Poor Law Unions for these two counties.

Maps of Ireland
Maps of Ireland, including: Map of Irish Counties; Detailed Map of Ireland; Map from Kinealy's This Great Calamity; Poor Law Unions, 1842-1849; Public Works, 1846-1847; Cholera Map, 1848-1850,"Quiz Map" of Irish Counties; The Provinces of Ireland; and Belfast Neighborhoods.

Norfolk County Council - E-Map Explorer ~ England
Online interactive maps of Norfolk both current and historical.

U.S. County Maps
Links to rotating animated maps showing all the county boundry changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundries. Many of the county maps go back to the 17th century.

Surnames in Italy / L'Italia dei cognomi
By entering a surname in the 'Cognome'boxand pressing the red arrow, a distribution map of Italy is generated showing the concentrations of that particular surname in Italy.

U.S. Surname Distribution Maps
Generates online maps of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States. The source of this data is the 1850 Census, 1880 Census, 1920 Census, and 1990s phone books. Note that the Census data is a sampling of 1 in 100 names, so the 1990 data is the most accurate

Migration Routes, Roads & Trails

American Migration Patterns
Online article by Beverly Whitaker. (Lots of links)

Early American Trails and Roads
Descriptions of 18 of the major early roads: The Boston Post Road; Braddock's Road; The California Trail; The Fall Line Road; The Federal Road; The Great Wagon Road; The King's Highway; The Mohawk (Iroquois) Trail; The Mormon Trail; The Natchez Trace; The National Road; The Oregon Trail; The Pennsylvania Road; The Santa Fe Trail; The Trail of Tears; The Upper Road; The Wilderness Road; Zane's Trace.

Migrations.org -MASSIVE collection of links and data regarding migration of many of the settlers into the U.S.

The Convict Trail ~ Australia

Migration Routes From Pennsylvania To Virginia

Migration Trails In Early Pennsylvania
Includes color coded map.

Ohio County Info: Pioneer Migration Routes through Ohio

Early American Trails and Roads
Map sketches and descriptions of routes from Beverly Whitaker.

Formation of the California Missions
Animated map showing the sequence of Mission foundings along the El Camino Real.

U.S. Westward Migration, 1775-1860

Oregon Pioneers - The Oregon Territory and It's Pioneers
Lists of emigrants, sorted by year.

Roots and Routes - Yankee Migration FAQ
With animated map showing Yankee migration over time.

Migrations: African-American Mosaic Exhibition
From the Library of Congress.

[Doctor What]

Clothing & Costumes

Bissonnette on Costume: A Visual Dictionary of Fashion
Example images of costume by locality, time period and accessories. Covers 18th to 20th century.

Costume History at The Costumer's Manifesto
Links to many sites by period which are useful for dating old photographs based on the clothes worn by the subjects.

Dye History from 2600 BC to the 20th Century

The History of Costume

Lisa's Fashion History Database
Full-color drawings of ladies fashions from the 1800s and 1900s.

Tartans of Scotland
Register of all publicly known tartans online, which includes details and images of over 2,800 tartans.

Cowboys, Ranchers and the Wild West

Crossroads of the Wild West
The famous and infamous characters of the American west in the second half of the 19th century.

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
Sources of the history of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West.

OK Lawmen & Outlaws
Lawmen and outlaws from Oklahoma Territory, Indian Territory or the State of Oklahoma.

Medical & Medicine

Old Diseases & Their Modern Definitions

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine
Searchable database of home made treatments for a variety of ailments.

Historic Asylums (of America)
Dedicated to the study of historic insane asylums, state hospitals, sanitariums, county homes, medical hospitals, and related institutions.

Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920
An electronic archive from the Maryland State Archives.

The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Archives
Includes amongst other records the collections of: the New York Infant Asylum, 1865-1910; New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, 1910-1947; and the New York Asylum for Lying-In Women, 1823-1899.

Rossbret UK Institutions
Information on asylums, almshouses, prisons, hospitals, orphanages, workhouses & the Poor Law.

Epidemics in US 1628-1918

OntarioGenWeb - Epidemics
Historic epidemics in the province of Ontario.

Directory of medical licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775 ~ England

Pre-1870 American Surgical Instruments & Amputation Sets
Extensive photos and information on Civil War surgical amputation sets and instruments. Included are articles on collecting and identification of medical antiques and specificaly US Army Hospital Department sets. List of American makers of military surgery sets used during the Civil War.

History of Epidemics and Plagues
This site focuses on the medical causes and transmission mechanics of epidemics but does give some interesting historical background.

Epidemic Disease in London
From the Centre for Metropolitan History.

Cholera in the 19th Century ~ Scotland
Scanned examples of original documents from the Lamb Collection of the Dundee Library.

The Cholera Epidemic of 1873
Historic narrative of the epidemic in Birmingham, Alabama including an early map of the city showing areas of the disease.

Medieval

Dominion & Domination of the Gentle Sex: The Lives of Medieval Women

History of Europe in Medieval Times, Anglo-Saxons
Historic and genealogical information about royal and nobility family lines.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Medieval English Towns
An outstanding online source for medieval urban history in England.

Medieval Names Archive

The Shaping of the Medieval World - Medieval Web Links (has not been updated in very long time but still contains lots of useful links)

Some notes on medieval English genealogy
Much more than just "some notes" - this site provides excellent content and links for the serious medieval researcher.

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.

Railroads

The Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad
Learn all about a 60 mile underground railroad that operated with 146 locomotives and 3000 freight cars 40 feet below the streets of downtown Chicago.

Iron Roads - Making Tracks Across Nebraska

Pennsylvania Railroads

Post Medieval Railway System in Herefordshire ~ England

Railroads in Kansas

That's Terrific! History of the Northern Pacific Railroad
History of the railroad through the Pacific Northwest.

UK Heritage Railways

Eastern Railway Travel
Showing major lines in the Eastern U.S. from 1827 to 1850.

Railroad system of the United States: 1890
Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.

Western Railway Travel
Showing major lines in the Western U.S. from 1827 to 1850.

1880 U.S. Federal Census New York Juvenile Asylum, New York, NY
Many children from the institution were sent to Illinois and other states on Orphan Trains between about 1853 and 1929.

The Orphan Train Collection

Orphan Trains of Kansas

Indian Wars

Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts - Includes information and photos. Contains dozens of links to additional Civil War, Buffalo Soldier and other related military sites.

[MrP]

At Thande's suggestion, some nice flag sites:

http://www.warflag.com/flags/select.shtml
http://www.warflag.com/napflags/index.htm
http://vial.jean.free.fr/new_npi/index.htm
http://www.anyflag.com/history/

[Doctor What]

Currency

British Coins 1816-2000

Colonial Currency

The Comparative Value of Money between Britain and the Colonies

Currency Converter
From the UK National Archives. Converts modern UK currency to old values based on year & vice versa.

Current Value of Old Money - Extensive collection of links for many different kinds of currency in many different time periods. Links include numerous currency convertors (from Biblical times to present), inflation rates and even prices for various goods.

Money in North American History
From Wampum to Electronic Funds Transfer.



Scanned documents

Playbills from Edinburgh’s Theatre Royal ~ Scotland
Searchable scanned images of of over 240 playbills from the early 19th century

Archive of Primary Sources at DoHistory
Graphic images of primary source material focusing on early American history. Transcriptions for some of the sources are also provided.

The Stars and Stripes - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
Online scanned images.

Documents in Military History
From Hillsdale College's collection of primary sources for military history. Covers ancient to WWI time periods. Over 400 documents available.

Imperial German Army - Pre 1914
Including orders of battle, names of officers, and some photos.


Military history

The Irish in other Wars and Armies

Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth

Russian Generals of the Napoleonic Wars Period

Medals of the World
Database of images of medals from around the world.


Various sites on Colonial or ancient trades and occupation titles

Colonial Occupations

Colonial Occupations

Colonial Occupations

Colonial Occupations

Colonial Occupations and Their Current Title

Occupations in Colonial India

Old Time Job Descriptions

Ranks, Professions, Occupations, and Trades



Misc.

Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs
Photographs and ephemera from a collection of vaudeville performers, acts, and stage productions, primarily from the American vaudeville circuit from the late 1800s and early 1900.

Theatre Historic Society of America

Overview of American Whaling

Circuit Rider / Pioneer Professionals Database
A database of traveling pioneer ancestors, including: circuit riders (any clergy), physicians and midwives; teachers; public servants and industrialists.

The Steam Engine Makers' Society

Stone Quarries and Beyond
Quarries, quarry workers, stone cutters & stone carvers, historical dealers of stone & the finished product.

The Telegrapher Web Page
Fairly extensive collection of research resources for the history of telegraphy

[Doctor What]

Immigration

Major European Ports c.1800's
Extensive collection of links that deal with all things ship related from shipwrecks to immigration lists to ship pictures.

Destination U.S.A.
Actual steamship advertisements and fare schedules. Read three personal accounts of life in steerage.

Emigration U.S.A.
Read popular "emigrant guides" that provided potential emigrants with information about the United States and Canada. Excerpts cover time periods between 1832 to 1891.

Virtual Jamestown - Indentured Servants - Search the Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686
Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations. This database of indenture contracts will eventually include over 15,000 indentured servants contracts from the London, Middlesex, and Bristol Registers. The contracts indicate not only the servant's name and length of indenture, but also the name of the servant's parents and owner, their home province and city, occupation, destination, and ship of embarkation.

Emigration Port Hamburg
Excellent online presentation of why Hamburg was a major port of departure for immigrants, how they were treated, what they faced, and how the process of departure worked.

Angel Island Immigration Station
The "Ellis Island of the West" in San Francisco is now a National Historic Landmark

Immigrating to the Port of Baltimore
Describes what it was like to immigrate into the US via Baltimore.

Immigration to Canada in the Nineteenth Century - Ships - Emigration Reports - Emigration Handbooks
Contains pointers to many other ships lists and sources.

Immigrants at Grosse-Île
Online searchable database of over 33,026 immigrants who stayed at the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.

Partridge Island: Heritage Resources St. John
From 1785 to 1942, Partridge Island served as North America's first Quarantine Station.

Poorhouses and Workhouses

The Poorhouse Story
A clearinghouse for information about 19th Century American Poorhouses for history buffs, genealogists, teachers/students, and others with a similar interest.

Charles Booth Online Archive
Charles Booth's survey of Life and Labour in London 1886 - 1903. The survey interviewed workers and families to discover the level of poverty of Londoners at the turn of the century. You can view a 'poverty map' of London, ca. 1889.

History of the Workhouse
Excellent site full of information on the UK workhouse system. Includes information on the Poor Laws, maps of the Poor Law Unions, scans of original records on diet, instruction, and rules, and more.

The Workhouse Homepage
Information on workhouses, asylums, hospitals, and more. Includes a developing directory of workhouses by county in the UK.

Kinship

A Chart for Figuring Relationships

A Chart of Consanguinity

Cousin Calculator

Kinship Degree Systems - Systems of Measuring Kinship Degree
Several different systems of counting degrees of bilateral kinship relatedness employed by jurists, geneticists, and anthropologists. Systems include: Civil Degree, Canon Degree, Collateral Degree, Murdock's System, Parentalia.

Mother of all Cousins Calculators
A Javascript cousins calculator that provides the option to calculate or to display the cousins relationships in tabular form.

A Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related Are Forbidden by the
Church of England to Marry Together.
Archbishop Parker's Table from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

City Directories

Historical Directories
Digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales. Includes text search and images.

Kelly's Directories On-line ~ Kent, England
Directories for the Bexley area from 1870 to 1938. From the Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre.

Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire For 1901
A complete 1901 edition of the Kelly's Trade Directory of Monmouthshire,Wales. Fully indexed, and containing a detailed descriptions of each location, including in each case a list of prominent citizens and tradespeople.

New Orleans City Directory 1805

San Francisco 1846 City Directory

Prisoners, Pirates and Outlaws

Alcatraz Inmate Lists
A database with names and crimes of prisoners who were on Alcatraz Island between 1933 and 1963.

Ireland-Australia transportation database (1791–1853)
Convicts from Ireland to Australia, 1788 to 1868.

Before the Needles
A detailed state by state listing of 14,490 executions that occurred under civil authority in the United States or within territory that later became the United States. From George Kendal being shot for espionage in Virginia (1608) until Gary Gilmore met his maker for murder in Utah (1977), it includes (when known) the convict's name, age, race, sex, occupation, crime, date of execution, method of execution and whether it was a single or multiple execution.

Canada Criminal Databases

Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index, 1870–1930

Civil War Richmond - Prisons
Including information about Belle Isle Prison and Libby Prison.

Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920

Libby Prison ~ Richmond, Virginia
Names of soldiers who escaped, died or were admitted to the prison, both Union and Confederate.

Victorian Prisoners in Buckinghamshire ~ England
Online searchable database of details of prisoners entering the County Gaol in Aylesbury in the 1870s.

Pirate Roster

Pirates Homepage

Capital Punishment in Britain
Including lists of those executed.

List Of Executions - England 1606 Onward

Sources for Convicts and Prisoners 1100-1986
Research Guide from the National Archives, United Kingdom.

The 48th Ohio at Camp Ford
History of Camp Ford, the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi.

Brothers Bound
A source page for information on the Civil War era prisoner of war experience - links to histories, biographies, rosters, and primary documents.

Civil War - Confederate and Union Prisoners of War
Searchable database of Civil War Union and Confederate Prisoners of War.

Misc.

History of Cattle Brands
Vast amount of information on everything you need to know about the history of branding.

Deaths, Disturbances, Disasters & Disorders in Chicago
Select bibliography of materials from the Chicago Public Library.

Notable Winter Snowstorms: Historical List
In North America.

Epidemic Disease in London

Images From the History of the Public Health Service
"Images from the History of the Public Health Service," consists of 165 photographs depicting people involved in the work of the Public Health Service (PHS) over much of its long history.

[Fenwick]

List of websites with various Monarch family trees.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ar...oyalsites.html

[Doctor What]

Royalty & Nobility links

Almanach de Bruxelles
Information on present and former sovereign families of non-European countries.

Almanach de la Cour
A compendium of articles on a variety of subjects, mostly connected with Orders of Chivalry, European Royal Houses, and the European Nobility.

Courtly Lives...Royal Great Britain
English Royalty with links to the Tudors, Edward I, Malcolm III/St Margaret, Lady Diana Spencer-Princess of Wales, and more.

The English Peerage (1790)
Transcriptions from Volume II.

The EuroStamm Home Page
Studies on esoteric points of European royal genealogy.

Genealogy Index
Genealogy of European royal and nobility families.

Hein's Royal Genealogy Page
Lists of descendants of several European monarchs.

HereditaryTitles.com
Updated database contains over 7,100 British hereditary titles and can be easily searched by degree, title, or surname.

Hoelseth's Royal Corner
Information on the royal and princely families of the world.

Kings & Queens of Europe

Leo's Genealogics Website
Over 300,000 entries in this database ranging from Roman Emperors to Australian aborigines, and anyone in between.

Monarchies of Europe

Monarchy Links
A list of annotated links to web pages of monarchies and monarchists, and articles related to monarchism.

Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site

Regnal Chronologies
A calendar of worldwide royal reigns, arranged geographically. The study of of king lists, sequences of governance in the history of a state, and the organizing of such data.

Robert's Royal Links

The Royalty in History Site

Royalty.nu - The World of Royalty
Royal genealogy resources, including books and web sites.

Russia Nobility Genealogy

The Titles of the European Monarchs

Belgium's Royal Family

The Blood of Ra. Life and Royalty in Ancient Egypt

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors

Dutch Royal Genealogy: 1500- Present

Encyclopedia Mythica: Genealogy tables

English Monarchs - from the Conquest

Genealogia Dynastyczna / Dynastic Genealogy
Genealogy of royal, aristocratic and nobles families.

Genealogical Gleanings - Royal & Noble Lineages of Tonga, Fiji, Hawaii, Burma and Cambodia

Genealogie Delle Dinastie Italiane
Genealogies of Italian noble families.

The Hashemites: Jordan's Royal Family

Holy Roman Empire - The German Reigning Houses
German Rulers in 1815-2000.

Maltagenealogy.com
The Libro d'Oro di Melita holds all created titles to those who were Maltese and those who are descendants of such nobility and royalty.

Office-Holders In Modern Britain
Lists of officials who served in the departments of central government since the Restoration. Online lists include Clerks of the Privy Council, Clerks of the Privy Seal, Clerks of the Signet, The Household of Queen Victoria, and Officers of the Green Cloth.

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire Home Page
The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire Project's goal is to record in a computerised relational database all surviving information about every individual mentioned in Byzantine sources during the period from 641 to 1261.

The Tudors
Biographical information about the British monarchs from Henry VII through Elizabeth I.

The House of Ptolemy: Abbreviated Genealogy -- Kings, Queens, and the Rest of the Royal Ptolemies

empire2britain: Five Descent-Lines of Queen Elizabeth of Britain from Julia, Sister of Julius Caesar

Lascaris de Vintimille Royal Gateway
Ascending lineage from Catherine Baillon to Byzantine emperors through the Franco-Italian Lascaris de Vintimille family.

The Olive Tree Genealogy: 1066 List of Knights: List of Those Accompanying William the Conqueror on His Invasion of England in 1066

[Communist Wizard]

A German Army (1918-1945) site. Invaluable for all of you Lettow-Vorbeckers, Communist Germans, Nazis, MWs, etc.:
Feldgrau.com