• Straight Dope; Hoaxes.org; FactCheck.org; The Fact Checker at the Washington Post; TruthorFiction.com; PolitiFact.com; Notes and Queries from the Guardian; Skeptic's Dictionary; List of common misconceptions at Wikipedia.


• African American organizations: Colored Conventions Movement.


• Saying the letters: ICAO or NATO alphabet.


• American Revolution, Elehistory including interactive sites, events, and troop movements.


• Archives: Search archives at ArchiveGrid; State & Territorial Archives; NUCMC. Dictionary of Archives Terminology.


• Art: Getty Vocabularies: Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Cultural Objects Name Authority, Georgraphic Names Thesaurus, Union List of Artists Names. Also Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog.


• Articles see Journal Articles


• Astronaut/Cosmonaut Statistics.


• Free audiobooks at LibriVox.


• Automobiles: Automotive Family Tree. Who owns who. Internet Movie Cars Database.


• Best sellers list from NY Times on Hawes.


• Biography: U.S. District Judges.
  Craftspeople database by MESDA.
  Ancestor Bibliography Register by Colonial Dames of America.
  World Memory Project, lists Holocaust victims.
  Native American Veterans. U. S. and Canadian. Includes Confederate soldiers.
  Livingston's Law Directory, 1852. Every lawyer in the United States, it claims.
  Biographical directory of the railway officials of America. 1885-1922.
  Slave Biographies. So far has Louisiana.
  Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States. In progress.
  List of officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps, from 1775 to 1900: comprising a complete register of all present and former commissioned, warranted, and appointed officers of the United States Navy, and of the Marine Corps, regular and volunteer.


• Biology: Tree of Life Explorer. See also Plants.


• Birds: What Bird -can search by color, pattern, etc. Minnesota Bird Songs.


• Books. The Public Domain Review, "an online journal ... dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas."


• Book reviews: FantasyBookCritic; H-Net Reviews; Locus Online; Tor Books; Uchronia alternate history; NPR.


• Book series listings: Book Series in Order; Bookseries.org.


• Buy a book: BetterWorldBooks.com, buy a book and they make a literacy donation. Also Textbooks.com; Alibris; CampusBooks; BookFinder; ISBN.nu; Half Price Books; ABEBooks, Amazon subsidiary; Thrift Books; Biblio.com. Addall searches multiple sites.


• Bowker Identification Services, obtaining an ISBN.


• Bridges: Bridge Hunter.


• Calendars & Dates: Perpetual Calendar; TimeandDate.com; On-This-Day; This Day in History (History Channel); On This Day (NY Times).


• Catholic Directory, USCCB locator to find U. S. dioceses, parishes, and web sites. Sadliers' Catholic directory, various years 1850 to 1895.


• Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Lists.


• Clothing and Fashion, Fashion History Timeline. Also Dating Pics by Fashions, an article with a number of useful links.


• Codes: The Telegram Code, 1880; Character Codes For RootsWeb.com Users.


• Coffee Library.


• Computer and tech lingo via Computer Desktop Encyclopedia.


• U. S. Copyright Term and Public Domain Status; Copyright Renewal Database, 1923-1963 for books.10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained.


• Databases: LoC eResources.


• Dialects: American English.


• Diseases: Manual of international classification of causes of death; adopted by the United States Census Office for the compilation of mortality statistics, for use beginning with the year 1900. 1902. Codes used on death certificates. Later editions online.


• Dissertations and Theses: Open Access Theses and Dissertations, free to use. EBSCO Open Dissertations.


• Exchange Rates: CoinMill.com.


Alphabetically: A-E-F-J--K-P--Q-T--U-Z
• Almost every file format in the world.


• Flags see also Ships.


• Food and Cooking: The Food Timeline.


• Gardens and Gardening. (See also Plants.) Dave's Garden.


• Government acronyms, GovSpeak.


• Government docs: 1909 Checklist of U. S. Public Documents, 1789-1909. For collections, see Full Text: Government and Legal Documents.


• Guns: Serial numbers.


• Handwriting see Bookmarks : Genealogy: Anywhere in "Miscellaneous." Also see Writing below.


• Historical Marker Database, worldwide.


• Holidays: Legal Holidays; World Holidays; British Holidays; Medieval Holidays.


• Images -- copyright free collections. Creative Commons; New York Public Library; Yale Center for British Art, 22,000 images; American Antiquarian Society digital images; Pixabay; MorgueFile; StockSnap; NegativeSpace; Smithsonian Open Access Image Collections; Art Institute of Chicago, Color Our Collections; Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access; 14 Paris Museums; Rijksmuseum images.
  Free Vintage Illustrations; Clipart Library.


• Journal Articles: IBZ Online has some open access; likewise JSTOR. Also Google Scholar.


Alphabetically: A-E-F-J--K-P--Q-T--U-Z
• Languages: Foreign Languages, word lists.


• Latin: Intro to Latin as used in UK 1086-1733. Latin Genealogical Word List.


• Law: Guide to Law Online, by the Law Library of Congress; US Code Popular Name Tool; U. S. Reports, Supreme Court decisions. Georgetown University collection of law dictionaries.


• Lighthouse Database.


• Abraham Lincoln's family: Nancy Hanks.


• Literary allusions:
• Angela Thirkell Society (called relusions); Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898.


• Mead: MysteryofMead. Everything you didn't know.


• The Media Bias Chart.


• Medievalists.net -- lots of interesting articles.


• Military Medals. U. S.: Medal of Honor, Service Cross, Silver Star.


• Mines: California, 1860-1922.


• Money and Values: Measuring Worth. Pounds Sterling to Dollars: Historical Conversion of Currency.


• Music: National Jukebox at LoC. Also Songs of America. Antimusic.com, rock music news.


• Names (including Aliases):
  Surnames and Forenames: American Last Names with first names too.
  • Forenames: Baby Name Wizard; Behind the Name.
  • Select Surnames of the English speaking world.
  • Foreign Names: Foreign Versions...English Names.
  • Foreign Names: Name Translator.
  • Nicknames: 18th & 19th Century Nicknames
  • Surnames: World Names Profiler (Uses Adobe Flash).
  • Surnames and Forenames: Forebears: Surnames; Forebears: Forenames.
  • Pen Names, Anonyms and Pseudonyms : The Colloquial Who's Who: an attempt to identify the many authors, writers and contributors who have used pen-names, initials, etc. (1600-1924).
  • An open access journal, Names: A Journal of Onomastics.
  • Place Names: See Maps & Geography.
  
  
• Authenticating Old Newspapers from LoC.


• Identifying Newspapers that Existed: Catalogue of the newspapers and periodicals...1852; LoC Directory of Newspapers, 1690 to present. See also Full Text.


• Nonprofit Explorer. Research tax-exempt organizations.


• Occupations: Dictionary of Old Occupations; Old Occupation Names.


• One-place studies. The Society website.


• Google Patents and Patent Numbers by Year.


• Periodicals: Employee Magazines in the United States, 1925.


• Photographers' Identities Catalog, from NYPL.


• Plants. (See also Gardens.) The Plant List, all land plant species and World Flora Online. Plants Database by USDA. Also Food Plants International, more than 27,000 species.


• Post Office: National Postal Museum; U. S. Postal Bulletins. Records of Appointments of Postmasters; Reports of Site Locations, 1837-1950. Table of Post Offices in the United State 1 Jan 1851.


• Power Outages, current info.


Alphabetically: A-E-F-J--K-P--Q-T--U-Z
• Quilt Index.


• Quotes: Quote Investigator.


• Railroads (see also Biography): Locations of Railroad Genealogical Materials. Railroads in America. Genealogy Quick Look includes index to Railroad Retirement Board.


• Samplers, about 5,000. Searchable.


• Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Internet Speculative Fiction Database.


• Scholarly Societies Project.


• SeaFoodWatch


• Sears Archives, catalogs, houses.


• Ships & Shipwrecks: U. S. Navy; The ShipsList, historical ships and passenger lists; Obtaining Pictures of Passenger Ships in One Step by Steve Morse; Index to Ship Registers, Mystic Seaport; ShipIndex $; Lloyd's Register; , Lloyds Register archive links; Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, 1856. House Flags of U. S. Shipping Companies; Nautical Archaeology Digital Library with many shipwreck lists. List of American-Flag Merchant Vessels that received certificates of enrollment of registry at the port of New York, 1789-1867; Civil War U.S. Navy ships.
  See also Whaling.


• Smileys and Emoticons.


• Snakes of North Carolina, with other herps.


• Social Security Number Allocations.


• Space flight. Chart: Every Space Launch in History, 1957-2021.


• State Blue Books.


• Statistics: Social Explorer; Worldometers, stats in real time.


• Steamboats see Ships.


• Telegraph: The Western Union Telegraph Directory. 1874. A guide to the transmission of telegraphic correspondence together with the tariff from New York to all parts of the world. Also see Codes, above.


• Telephone: National [US] Telephone Directory 1895.


Alphabetically: A-E-F-J--K-P--Q-T--U-Z
• Union catalogs: The European Library; Worldcat; Europeana Think Culture; CRL Online Catalog.


• Vietnam Casualties.


• Weather: Climate Extremes, NC Climate Office, Weather Satellite Images; WeatherSpark. History at WeatherForYou.


• Whaling: Whaling History and Whaling Crew List Database, ships from New Bedford. Whaling Masters, WPA comp 1938; Whalemen’s Shipping List and Merchants’ Transcript, 1843-1914.


• Words: Culturomics, using Google's database of scanned books; The Word Detective; The Eggcorn Database, unusual English spellings.

This page last updated 12 January 2025.

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