Nice Reference Site(s)

Various Odds and Sods

  • A Collection of Unusual Epithaphs
    [SIZE=-1]Funny, original, curious, quaint, touching, poetic, telling monumental inscriptions. Browse by surname or by location. [/SIZE]
  • Digital Archives of the Carroll Public Library
    [SIZE=-1]Public Library in Carroll, Iowa. Newspaper archived back to 1884. [/SIZE]
  • Friends of the Cemetery
    [SIZE=-1]Searchable database for over 21,000 burials in Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers (formerly Layman's) Cemetery in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. [/SIZE]
  • Athens Historic Newspapers Archive
    [SIZE=-1]A project of the Digital Library of Georgia. The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive spans the years 1827-1922 and includes four newspaper titles. The site is free and word searchable. [/SIZE]
  • Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes
    [SIZE=-1]A directory of online New York naturalization indexes listed by county. [/SIZE]
  • Online Illinois Naturalization Records and Indexes
    [SIZE=-1]A directory of online Illinois naturalization indexes listed by county. [/SIZE]
  • Dictionary of Old Occupations: A-Z Index
    [SIZE=-1]Free online dictionary explaining well over a thousand old occupations, trades and professions. [/SIZE]
  • A collective list of historic cemeteries in Putnam County, NY.
    [SIZE=-1]All active and closed cemeteries listed with address, GPS, description, and a developing list of all burials, by the Putnam Co. Cemetery Committee. [/SIZE]
  • DonsList Finding Guides
    [SIZE=-1]30,000+ microfilm reels from the National Archive are now freely available in digital form on the Internet Archive. Guide.DonsList.Net provides finding guides which allow you to easily find the reel you want with a link to go directly to it. These records include the complete US decennial census from 1790-1930, extensive Pensioner and Military Service Records from the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, and much more. [/SIZE]
  • U.S. State & County Boundary, Highway and Atlases Maps
    [SIZE=-1]U.S. State and County Boundary Maps, D.O.T. Highway Maps and Atlas Map Images of old american atlases during the years 1750 to 1900. [/SIZE]
  • Virginia State & County Maps
    [SIZE=-1]Virginia State & County Boundary, D.O.T Highway and old Atlases Maps. [/SIZE]
  • The Review Newspaper Archives Online
    [SIZE=-1]Get access to The Review Online Archives, Vankleek Hill Newspaper, EARLIEST editions covering Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec since 1893. [/SIZE]
  • Colorado State & County Maps 1850 to Present
    [SIZE=-1]Colorado State & County Boundary, D.O.T Highway and old Atlases Maps. [/SIZE]
  • Westerly Journeys
    [SIZE=-1]Westward migration from the pilgrims to forty niners--name lists, genealogy, local history. (Surnames: CALHOUN, MORTON, PAINTER, BRYAN, CONN, COLEMAN, WEST, GRIFFITH, STONE...more. [/SIZE]
  • GravestonePhotos.org - United States
    [SIZE=-1]A site for gravestone photos with captions, for all of the United States. [/SIZE]
  • England Jurisdictions, 1851
    [SIZE=-1]Interactive England county maps showing parishes, districts, hundreds, probate courts, dates of parish creation, dates of extant records and much, much more. [/SIZE]
  • American Surnames
    [SIZE=-1]A comprehensive guide to the origins, etymologies and distribution of over 150,000 American surnames. [/SIZE]
  • Geograph
    [SIZE=-1]Aims to collect a photograph from every geographical grid square in the UK & Ireland. Fantastic if you want to find a photo of where your ancestors originated. [/SIZE]
  • Old Time Cooking Recipes
    [SIZE=-1]Collection of over 700 traditional homemade cooking recipes from our grandmothers kitchens. [/SIZE]
  • Historical Maps of Nebraska
    [SIZE=-1]These digitized maps of early Nebraska were scanned from atlases published between 1850 and 1901. [/SIZE]
  • In Old Fort Dodge
    [SIZE=-1]Historical articles and news about the early days of Fort Dodge, Iowa, and the surrounding area. Articles are posted on the date they originally published. [/SIZE]
  • Parish Registers Database Search
    [SIZE=-1]English parish register database containing free transcripts and images taken from many published books. [/SIZE]
  • Historic Court Records
    [SIZE=-1]Historic Court Records consists of extracts, transcripts and indices of records in repository in the Fredericksburg Circuit Court, Fredericksburg, Virginia. [/SIZE]
  • World Newspapers and Magazines
    [SIZE=-1]World Newspapers and magazines sorted by country.[/SIZE]
  • Historic Palm Beach County
    [SIZE=-1]News, photos, and discussions of and about the history of Palm Beach County, Florida, and the historic archives of The Palm Beach Post, the Palm Beach Daily News, and other local newspapers. [/SIZE]
  • The Canadian Gravemaker Gallery
    [SIZE=-1]This is the oldest and the largest free access national Canadian site which collects and displays photos of grave markers in cemeteries. Currently there are almost 1,000 completely photographed cemeteries and 400,000 photos online. [/SIZE]
 
Don't know if this has already been mentionned, but here goes: http://www.behindthename.com/.

Not really useful on History, but for those who are searching about names and their signification it's quite handy. It also sometimes show the "family tree" of a name, which includes its old forms and variations in other languages.
 
This is more like a reference document no longer hosted on a military website.

It's a military casualty spreadsheet.
 

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Internet Resources for the Study of Medieval War

Internet Medieval Sourcebook (ORB) - Fordham University

Websites for Medieval Military Historians - deremilitari.com.

Antique Arms - excellent links page to dozens of online weapons collections.

Medieval and Renaissance Archers - links page.

Arms and Armor link page - Costumer's Manifesto

Historic Arms and Armor Collections - discussion forum

Carolingian Arms and Armor in the 9th Century - research / pdf document

Metallurgy and Production of European Armor

Medieval Arms and Armor Page - armor and costumes from Charlemagne to Louis XIII, A. Racinet 1888.

French Medieval Armor - plates from A. Racinet 1888

Manufacture of Full Plate Armor - nice educational poster

Horse Armor - nice educational poster

Imperial Mongols - Nomad Armament and Home Made Weaponry / research, pdf document.

Motte and Bailey Castles, Ringworks

Castle Building in Central Europe - the international background / research, pdf document.

Trebuchet - Scientific American, July 1995 / excellent.

Byzantines, Avars and the Introduction of the Trebuchet

Byzantine Heavy Artillery - the Helepolis (cf Trebuchet) - research article / pdf document.

Medieval Mechanical Artillery

Balance Throwing Siege Engines - of the Middle Ages.

Demonstrations of Medieval War Machines - at historic Chateaux in France

Medieval Siege Warfare - A Reconnaissance

Castle Warfare during the Reign of English King Stephen - 1135-1154

The Siege of Nottingham Castle - 1194

Dover Castle and the Great Siege - 1216.

Oliver of Paderborn and his siege engine at Damietta (Egypt) - 1219 / Fifth Crusade

Castles in Wales 1 - Historical Essays & Perspectives

Castles in Wales 2

Norman Castles in Wales

Beau Mareys (Beaumaris) Castle (Wales) - 1295

Caernarfon Castle (Wales) - 1283-1292.

Merovingian Military Organization - origins in the late Roman Empire / research, pdf document.

Warfare and Society in the Carolingian Ostmark - research article / pdf document.

Kings, Clergy and War at the Time of the Carolingians

Medieval Warfare - overview

Knightly Arms - Plebian Arms

Chaucer's Knight and the Medieval Laws of War - research article/ pdf document

Wars and Warriors in Gregory of Tours' Histories I-IV

The Evolution of Cohesion in European Armies - Middle Ages to 16th Century.

Medieval Thinking on War

Myths of Medieval Warfare

The Military Revolution - A Medieval Perspective

Guédelon Castle- constructing a replica 13thc castle

Teenagers at War in the Middle Ages

Military Service and the Robin Hood Legend - in the 14th Century / research, pdf document

The King’s Mirror as a Medieval Military Manual - c.1250.

St. Augustine - Love and Hate in Medieval Warfare - research / pdf document.

Church justification for violence in the Middle Ages

Medieval France - Armies and Navies

Medieval War Bibliography - comprehensive as of 1998.

Links to Important Battles

In Search of the Oriflamme - historic banner of the French monarchy.

Mounted Infantry in Medieval Warfare - research article / pdf document.

The Ransom of Oliver Guesclin 1378/9 - research, pdf document

Capture the Knight Alive! - Agincourt Ransoms (1415)

Pay for the Troops - Mercenaries, Plunder and Ransom

Recruiting, Organization, Tactics

War Finance in Aragon - mid 15th century / research, pdf document.

Italy and the Companies of Adventure - in the 14th Century / research, pdf document

Kievan Rus - The Struggle for Control 1235/6 / research, pdf document.

Military Intelligence in Arabo-Byzantine Naval Warfare - research ms

Byzantine Army - Anglo Saxons in the Varangian Guard.

Byzantium in Battle - war is the least preferred method of defense / research, pdf document.

Mongols in the West - The Golden Horde gallops into Eastern Europe.

Establishment of the Ottomans - in the Balkans and South Eastern Europe.

Latin Responses to the Expansion of the Ottomans - before 1389 / research, pdf document.

Holy War in the Greek Orthodox World - Russian Chronicles 12th-16th Century / research, pdf document.

Teutonic Knights in Prussia - Horses and Crossbows.

The Sense of Humor among the Teutonic Knights - of the Thirteenth Century.

Ulrich Bretscher's Black Powder Page

The Two Oldest Handgonnes of Switzerland

Handgonnes and Matchlocks - a history of firearms to 1500.

Gunpowder Weapons of the 15th Century

The First Cannons.

Fifteenth-Century Gunpowder Artillery - in museums

Fifteenth-Century Iron Bombards

Joan of Arc and Gunpowder Weapons - Siege of Orleans (1429).

Cannon and the Fall of Constantinople 1453

Warfare and Firearms in Fifteenth Century Morocco - 1400-1492.

Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournament - Glossary of Terms

The Norman Horse Bit.

Secular and Religious Knights 1225-50 - saddle, bit, bridle and riding styles.

Training of Horses for Tournaments and Warfare - research / pdf document.

La Régle du Temple as a Military Manual - How to Deliver a Cavalry Charge.

Tournaments - 11th to 17th century. . Tournament brutality - the Melee

Heraldry, Coats of Arms and Crests - past and present in England.

Who Went on The Crusades? - research, pdf document.

The Crusades - the significance of Egypt / research, pdf document.

Origins of the Nizari Isma'Ilis - and the Assassins

Medieval Accounts of Salah al-Din's Recovery of Jerusalem (Al-Quds) - fr Hadia Dajani-Shakeel c.1187.

Capture of Jerusalem by Saladin - 1187.

Franks as Depicted in Muslim Sources - Crusades of the Twelfth Century.

The Battle Charge in the Latin East 1192-1291

he Albigensian Crusade - 1205-1255.

Military Intelligence in Arabo-Byzantine Naval Warfare - research.

Turks in Europe (1305-13) - Serbs in Asia Minor (1313). - research / pdf document.

Naval Contract by the Papacy Against the Turks, 1334 - research ms

Ottomans: Galleys, Galleons, Portolan Charts and Isolani - research

Mamluk Naval Policy - Rotting Ships and Razed Harbors / research, pdf document
 
I may as well post my collection of heraldry links.

Héraldique Européenne - Arms of a tremendous number of royals and nobles, past and present, from all over Europe. Includes rolls of arms for the major knightly orders. It's in French, but pretty navigable for the non-speaker.

A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry - A digitization of an 1894 book by James Parker. Very comprehensive. If you can dream it, chances are Parker's got a blazon term for it.

Basic Blazonry - A primer for beginner blazoneurs from the Society for Creative Anachronism

Heraldry for Scribes - Another SCA guide. It also has tips on designing and drawing a good shield.

A Grammar of Blazonry - SCA again. The advanced course, for people who have mastered basic blazon writing. The difference between "palewise in fess" and "fesswise in pale," things of that sort.

An Armory of Famous Musicians - Not too useful in the AH area, but it's really interesting stuff and includes good examples of complicated blazons.

Mon - A basic introduction to Japanese heraldry

Kamon World - This used to be easier to navigate without knowledge of Japanese. Now I have to click around randomly. But the kamon collection is just as enormous and just as beautiful and just as useful for people looking to design their own.
 
Maritime History

Sailing Warships of all Nations - Must Visit Site - complete listings for USA and European countries.

Sailing Navies: Ship and officer listings - comprehensive.

Historic Naval Ships of the World - by location

United States: Ship of the Line.

Dictionary of American Fighting Ships

Royal Navy : Research guides - NMM

RShips of the Royal Navy-rate classes

Royal Navy (England) Ship of the Line

Royal Navy 1793-1815

Royal Navy in the late 18th and early 19th century

England - Ships of the Old Navy

Royal Navy - Tricomalee and Leda Class Frigates

HMS Tricomlee: orlop & hold . . messdeck . . gundeck . . quarterdeck . . cutaway deck

Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: 1650-1815 - a forum for tactics.

Long Guns, Carronades, Shot, Small Arms, Gun Ports, Magazines

Guns, Cannon and Carronades

Naval Cannon Types

Verso and Bombard History

Ron Ossian's Pirate Cove

Blackbeard & Queen Anne's Revenge - period documents

Nautical Research Guild - 500 links to historic ships, museums

Comprehensive Maritime History Links 1

Comprehensive Maritime History Links 2

National Maritime Digital Library

Maritime and Naval Museum Links

Northern Europe: The Hanseatic League - 11th to 15th centuries

Northern Europe: The Hanseatic League Map- 13-14th centuries, in Swedish

Tour the Boston Waterfront in 1921 - disover the 17thc harbor.

History of Sailing Cards - collection at Mystic Seaport

The Whalers' Heritage Project

American Whaling to 1876, by Joseph Starbuck - complete onscreen, text of this 1878 classic.

American Offshore Whaling Voyages - National Maritime Digital Library

Native Hawaiian Whalers in Nantucket - 1820-1860.

Ship building in Essex County, Massachusetts

Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page

American Shipbuilding in the Heyday of Sail - Rise


 
Assorted stuff:

· Alfred Hospital Index - Index to Deaths at the Alfred Hospital and the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum
Includes names, ages, nativity, cause and date of death of residents of Melbourne in the 1860's and 1870's.

· Complete Descriptive List or Muster Roll of the Crew of the U.S. Gunboat Commodore Morris on the Thirty first day of March, 1864
Roll of personnel aboard the vessel for the period; includes details of nativity, state of enlistment, age, occupation and personal description.

· Complete Descriptive List or Muster Roll of the Crew of the U.S. Steamer Florida on the First day of October, 1863
Roll of personnel aboard the vessel for the period; includes details of nativity, state of enlistment, age, occupation and personal description.

· Complete Descriptive Muster Roll of the Crew of the U.S.S. Minnesota on the First day of January, 1865.

· Complete List or Muster Roll of the Crew of the U.S. Steam Frigate Niagara on the Thirty first day of December, 1864
Roll of personnel aboard the vessel for the period; includes details of nativity, state of enlistment, age, occupation and personal description.

· Muster Roll of the CSS Sea Bird
A muster roll of the Confederate Naval Vessel Sea Bird with additional data from other sources.

· Register of Confederate Naval Patients in the C.S. Hospital Ship St. Philip at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861-1862
Register of Confederate naval patients, which includes personal details.

· Register of Confederate Naval Patients in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861


· Deaths in the Melbourne Hospital, 1867-1880
During the years 1867 to 1880, the Melbourne (Australia) ARGUS newspaper printed monthly lists of deaths that occurred at the Melbourne Hospital, in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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

· Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

· Military Lots assigned to soldiers, Garrett County, Maryland. 1787
Lots assigned to Marylanders who served 3 years in the American army during the Revolutionary War. Each soldier was assigned 50 acres, and officers 200 acres, in Garrett County, Western Maryland. Map by Frances DEAKINS and list of land grants.

· Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

· The National Road
Description and map from the National Parks Service.

· Biographical Dictionary of Organists, Composers for Organ and Organ Builders
This site list biographical detail for organists, composers and organ builders. It includes birth and death details, places they have worked (lived) etc. Note quite a lot of these people were also teachers; the entries are world wide.

· Grand Rapids, Kent Co, Michigan Historic and Geographic Databases
Specific, accurate maps and information on cemeteries, schools and neighborhoods in the City of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. General how-to re: Genealogy vs. Dewey Decimal, Genealogy vs. Name-collecting, footnoting vs common sense.

· Occupations of Yesteryear

· Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Library
Guide to the web compilation of annotated links to hundreds of websites about African, African American, and African Diaspora history and culture. The topics covered range from the underground railroad to hip hop music. Other subjects include civil rights, education, health, literature, military, religion, slavery, sports, and women. From the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.

· World War II Military Situation Maps - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
This site contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe. Some of the sheets are accompanied by a declassified G-3 Report giving detailed information on troop positions. Also includes an interactive essay about the Battle of the Bulge.

Victorian Illustrated Newspapers and Journals: Select list

· Irish Newspapers on the Internet
List of links from the British Library Newspaper Library.

· London National Papers on the Internet
List of links from the British Library Newspaper Library.

· Scottish Newspapers on the Internet
List of links from the British Library Newspaper Library.

· The British Library - Early Indian Newspapers

· University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection, Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project
The Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project digital collection includes transcriptions and video clips of oral history interviews conducted with members of the first generation of Cubans exiled since the Cuban Revolution. Interviewees include political prisoners, visual artists, community activists, and others.

· National Library of Ireland - Griffith's Valuation - Land Valuation Records
The Tithe Applotment Books and Griffith's Valuation are nineteenth-century property valuation records which are much used by family history researchers providing, if only in part, a substitute for the loss of almost all nineteenth-century census records for Ireland.

· National Library of Ireland - Parish Registers
The main source for genealogical research in the Library is Roman Catholic Parish Registers. The Library holds microfilm copies of the records of most Roman Catholic parishes in Ireland for the years up to 1880 and in some cases to 1900.

· Staffordshire Name Indexes
Brought to you by Staffordshire & Stoke On Trent Archive Service. Free access to the following indexes: Calendars of Prisoners at Staffordshire Quarter Sessions, 1779-1880; Staffordshire Police Force Registers Index, 1842-1920; Diocese of Lichfield Wills, 1650-1730; Staffordshire Apprentices, 1600-1900; Workhouse Admissions and Discharges, 1836-1900; Tenants of the Manor of Newcastle under Lyme, 1700-1832.

· The Coorow-Waddy Database
Database of past residents of Coorow, Waddy Forest, Marchagee and Gunyidi.

· The Three Springs Database
Database of past residents of Three Springs, Arrino and Dudawa in Western Australia.

· British & Irish Clock and Watch Makers (c1600-c1940)
Online Archive Library, Trade Directory Lists.

· Clickable Map (Image Map) of the Three Grand Divisions of Tennessee
From the TNGenWeb Project.

· Look at Me, a collection of found photos


· Nationwide Gravesite Locator
Online searchable index of over 3 million military burials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

· Opening the Ozarks: First Families in Southwest Missouri, 1835-1839

· Oshkosh Public Library Digital Collections
Postcards, city directories, atlases, local history books, rural schools and businesses.

· Upper Canada (Ontario) Criminal Database
Database indexes prison registers from Toronto, Whitby, Guelph, Woodstock, Chatham, Cobourg, Kitchener, Windsor, Peterborough, Lindsay, Owen Sound, Brockville, Belleville, Picton.

· Upper Canada (Ontario) Insane Asylum Inmates
Insane asylum database indexes to Toronto, Kingston, London, and Malden Insane asylums 1840's through 1900.

· Upper Canada (Ontario) Land Leases and Miscellaneous Petitions
Database indexes Upper Canada Land lease Petitions 1780s through 1840s.

· Library and Archives Canada - Home Children (1869-1930)
Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the Library and Archives Canada.

· the BIG Map Blog
A blog by a filmmaker/geographer providing enormous maps and access to the full-resolution file. All kinds of historic maps.

· Miami County Ohio Children's Home Index 1930-1970

· Miami County Ohio Courthouse Records and Images

· Albany County, Wyoming, Obituaries
Albany County Obituary Index 1868 to 1964, provided by the Albany County Genealogical Society, Wyoming.

· Victorian Era Calling Cards Genealogical Database
This database is composed of data from Victorian Era calling cards. These cards come from all over the United States & date from 1850-1910 with most of them undated. Calling cards were used in polite society for a call and visitations to someone.

· Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project - Transcribed or Photographed - Saskatchewan Cemetery Index
There are over 3300 cemetery and burial sites located in Saskatchewan. 951 cemeteries are transcribed or photographed & indexed on this site as of July 19, 2011.

· Amelia Island and Nassau County, Florida Genealogy and History
This site contains Nassau County Florida census records (1850 and 1895), cemetery reords, surname lists of pioneer families, family histories of pioneer families and local contacts fro genealogy.

· Canadian Military History Gateway


· County Sutherland, Scotland
County Sutherland genealogical resources including access to cemetery transcriptions and grave photos.

· United States Office of Coast Survey - Historical Map & Charts
The Office of Coast Survey's Historical Map & Chart Collection is a rich archive of high-resolution images capturing a vast wealth of the U.S. government's historical surveying and mapping. The collection of over 35,000 scanned images - covering offshore and onshore sites - includes some of the Nation's earliest nautical charts, bathymetric maps, city plans, and Civil War battlefield maps
 
Random Odds & Ends

· Miscellaneous cemetery burial lists for Alaska, Idaho, Nebraska, New York, South Dakota, Washington.
Cemeteries and Tombstones

· A list of office holders for County Clare, Ireland, in 1862, including magistrates, county officers, stamp distributers, etc., etc., as well as those involved in the Poor Law Unions of Ballyvaghan, Corofin, Ennis, Ennistymon, Killadysert, Kilrush, Scariff and Tulla.
Clare County Directory, 1862

· Cork County Directory, 1862
A short statistical account of County Cork, giving extent of land, population, etc., followed by an extensive list of office holders in the county for the year 1862. Names of Members of Parliament, Magistrates, County Officers, Cess Collectors, Coastguard and Constabulary Officers, are given, as well as lists of office-bearers in the Poor Law Unions of Bandon, Bantry, Castletown Berehaven, Clonakilty, Cork, Dunmanway, Fermoy, Kanturk, Kinsale, Macroom, Mallow, Midleton, Millstreet, Mitchelstown, Skibbereen, Skull, and Youghal.

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The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more.
The Making of Modern Michigan : Digitizing Michigan's Hidden Past

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This index covers mostly Clackamas County and Oregon people and places, etc., including over 16,000 obituaries from over 100 years of Canby, Oregon newspapers, originally compiled by Canby Public Library volunteers and staff. The subjects of the obituaries were from a wide area including much of Clackamas County and northeast Marion County. Many otherwise unindexed sources in the Wilsonville Public Library Heritage Collection have also been indexed here.
Wilsonville Library : Northwest Heritage Index

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The War Graves Photographic Project
Families able to get copies of war grave photographs from cemeteries all around the world. Site working in association with The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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Pikes Peak Library District - Special Collections - Digital Photographs
Digitized, searchable collection of historical photographs online covering the Pikes Peak region, from the photo archives of the Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Collection of early 1900s views of Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa including the Floyd County Court House, street scenes, churches, schools, The Starr Home for the Aged, Hildreth Hotel, Gem Theatre & Anderson Ice Cream, library and other views. Mostly from 1900-1915, with a couple of views from the 1940s.
Charles City, IA Old Photographs and Postcards

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A name index, created in 1997, of all land deeds (patents) issued by the General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management in California. Details of each patent are listed by county in Adobe pdf and MS Excel formats.
California GLO / BLM Land Patents

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Describes war memorials and other public memorials. Lists names on war memorials, links to CWGC records.
Memorials and Monuments on the Isle of Wight

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The history of a coal mine in South Yorkshire England 1900 to 1996, with listing of 3,000 miners on a linked searchable database for genealogist. This site links families worldwide.
Silverwood Mine

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The Guide to British War Medals
An illustrated guide to the most commonly encountered British War Medals.

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The Guide to the French Medals
An illustrated guide to the most commonly encountered French medals.

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Photographs of growing number of UK War Memorials including close-ups of inscriptions.
UK War Memorials

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Early Vital Records of Massachusetts to the end of 1849
Transcriptions and images of the Massachusetts Town Vital Records "Tan Books" from the early 20th Century.

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Newspapers | State Library of Victoria
At the State Library of Victoria.

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Old photographs of Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland. Of interest to all family historians.
Old UK Photos - Free high resolution old photos and pictures of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and British Isles

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Archives - The New York Times
The New York Times Article Archive contains New York Times articles dating back to 1851. The archive is divided into two search sets: 1851–1980 and 1981–present.

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Makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century. The Database fills major gaps in our knowledge of one of the most important professions in early modern England and Wales. It provides an invaluable research tool for both national and local, academic and amateur historians, and genealogists who often need to discover biographical information about individual clergymen or more about the succession of clergy in a particular place. CCEd is a collaboration between historians at King’s College London, the University of Kent and the University of Reading, and it is supported by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London.
The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd)

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The largest fully searchable database of Canadians serving in the First World War, or other nationalities who served in the CEF. The site differs from others like the Libraries and Archive Canada sites, or the Canadian Virtual War Memoria by making all information, including birthplace or next of kin, available as part of the search criteria, making it very useful for genealogical research. There are currently over 70,000 entries, with more being added daily.The site includes many other features, including transcribed/searchable war diaries, book reviews, transcribed letters, images and statistics on Canada in the Great War.
Canadian Great War Project

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Definitions of old occupations.
Index of Old Occupations

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South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive
The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (U.S) provides users with an archive of over 81,000 newspaper pages from several south Georgia cities. The newspapers are word searchable and can be browse by issue. The site was created and is maintained by the Digital Library of Georgia.

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Cemetery records, information and maps extracted from the Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions and Records.
The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions and Records

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The Long, Long Trail - The British Army in the Great War
A resource for military historians, genealogists and others with an interest in the Great War of 1914-1918.

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Railways Staff Database
Cheshire, England. From the Cheshire West and Chester Council, Cheshire Record Office web site. The Archives holds 17 staff registers of 4 former railway companies: Cambrian Railway, Great Western Railway, London and North Western Railway, London and North Western & Great Western Joint Railway. The registers cover staff working over a large area of the North West including western Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and nine counties in North and mid Wales. They do not include stations in the east of Cheshire (eg Crewe). The registers provide a summary of an employee’s career, the actual details varying slightly between registers. The registers cover the period c. 1869 when the first register was compiled, to c 1950 although no one company’s registers cover this whole period. The index contains around 25,000 entries.
 
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