Code Generators & Date Converters

• Calendars at TimeAndDate.com:  Tell it the year you want and it will give you a 12-month calendar for that year.

  • Or do one month only

• Calculate the day of the week for a particular date either new style (after 1752 in England) or old style (before 1752 in England)

• Calculate a Birth Date from a Death Date and Age in years, months, and days

• Soundex Code Generator on FamilyTreeMagazine.com

• Soundex Code Generator on Rootsweb.com

Dictionaries & Reference Guides

• Genealogy Abbreviations

• Genealogy Dictionary

• Genealogy Terms

• Archaic Medical Terms

• Law Dictionary, Bouvier's 1856

• The Free Dictionary:  Dictionary, Legal Dictionary, Medical Dictionary, Financial Dictionary, Wikipedia Encyclopedia, Idioms, Acronyms

• Business Unusual:  Old-time Occupations Translated

• Biographical Dictionary

Internet Research Helps

• "Librarians' Internet Index:  Websites You Can Trust"

  • Genealogy

  • Obituaries

  • Biographies

Place/County Finders

• Rootsweb.com's County Finder

• USGS Place Finder

  Find Cemeteries, Lakes, look for places with your surnames in the titles (might be clues as to areas where your ancestors have been), and more!

• Both of the above (Rootsweb.com County Finder and USGS County Finder) in one place!

• Place Name Sites from Arizona State University Libraries

Research Guides

• LDS Online Research Guides

Social Security Death Index

• Rootsweb.com's SSDI Interactive Search

• Stephen P. Morse's SSDI Search Page

• ObitCentral.com's SSDI Search

• FamilyTreeLegends.com's SSDI Search

• Genealogy.com's (Family Tree Maker) SSDI Search

• Ancestry.com's SSDI Search

Surname Registries

• Geneasearch Surname Registry -Search the over 9,000 names registered and/or add your surnames to the Registry.

Translators

• Google Language Toolsfor searching web pages in other languages

• Babel Fish Translationfrom AltaVista

• Mezzofanti Free Translations.This page gives you direct access to several different powerful translators and multilingual dictionaries, all for FREE!  The world of foreign friends, family, customers, and website visitors is now open to you! These free translators will give you and the main message of the entered text, commonly with some flaws (when translation accuracy is important, they suggest consulting a professional translator).

• Language Dictionaries

  • yourdictionary.com - There are 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries of the world. 2,261 have writing systems (the others are only spoken) and about 300 are represented by on-line dictionaries as of May 11, 2004.  New languages and dictionaries are constantly being added to yourDictionary.com; as a result, we have the widest and deepest set of dictionaries, grammars, and other language resources on the web.

  • Glossaries Arranged by Languages - Compiled by the University of Finland

  • Yahoo!Reference Language Dictionaries