Section 4 - Tool Box

Section 4
ToolBox
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:26 PM

"People will not look forward to posterity
who never look backward to their ancestry."

Edmund Burke
1729-1797

Beginner’s Guides to Genealogy

AncestorNews	http://www.ancestornews.com/ • Resource center for beginning Internet genealogy
Family Tree Maker Online’s Genealogy "How To" Guides	http://www.familytreemaker.com/mainmenu.html
Getting Started in Genealogy and Family History	http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/
Treasure Maps	http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/ • How-to get started on your family history.
"Where Do I Start?" from Italy WorldGenWeb	http://www.rootsweb.com/~itawgw/cont/howtore/start1.htm • Beginner's guide to Italian Genealogy.

General Charts / Forms

1900 U.S. Census Extract Form	http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1900.pdf?sourceid= 00392187258917938426 • Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1910 U.S. Census Extract Form	http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1910.pdf?sourceid= 00392187258917937502 • Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1920 U.S. Census Extract Form	http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1920.pdf?sourceid= 00392187256901189868 • Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1930 U.S. Census Extract Form	http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1930.pdf?sourceid =00392187256901182000 • Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1930 U.S. Census Extract Form Download	http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kipke/ oddend/1930census.htm • Download a 1930 US Census form in MS Word format. -You MUST have MS Word on your computer- Paper size: Landscape, 8.5 x 14 legal.

Blank Census Extract Forms

http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/census.htm?rc=
locale%7E&us=0

Everton

http://www.familyhistorynetwork.net/other_services/
free_downloadable_chart.php
• Pedigree/Family Group Chart - for recording a direct lineage.

Family Group Record

http://a1356.g.akamai.net/f/1356/2383/4h/www.ancestry.com
/save/charts/famgrec.pdf

Family Relationship Chart

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/chart.html
• Download this Family Relationships Chart and identify the relationship between two individuals in your family tree.

Genealogy Forms
(FREE)

BY: Mary (Hagstrom) Bailey and Duane A. Bailey

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/genealogy/

• Note: These forms require the Adobe Acrobat reader. Most browsers already have this installed.

pedigree chart This is a cross from a version found in Reunion and a chart from the LDS. It's main feature is that it's simple.

pedigree fan chart This is a request from our genealogy friends. Holds 8 generations (255 people)!

family record sheet. This sheet is what we use to keep track of per-family unit data. It features references for each piece of information.

research log sheet. This sheet is fairly standard. It keeps track of research you're performing on an individual in a particular locality. (We've done a lot of work with westward-moving pioneers. This research is problematic, but these forms are the best approach we can think of.)

correspondence log sheet. This sheet looks similar to the research log, but keeps track of letters you've sent to others for information. The document number refers to letters and responses you've sent out. We've not used this much, but it's invaluable for keeping track of, say, foreign correspondence.

Ship Manifest Extract Forms

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpip1gs/manifest_extract_forms.htm
• 1893-1906
• Post 1906

Interviewing

Along Those Lines	http://www.ancestry.com/columns/george/04-03-98.htm • Interview Absolutely Everyone! by George Morgan
Shaking Your Family Tree	http://www.ancestry.com/columns/Myra/Shaking_Family_Tree12-25-97.htm • Linking Past Holidays to the Present, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley
Shaking Your Family Tree	http://www.ancestry.com/columns/myra/Shaking_Family_Tree02-19-98.htm • Preserving Your Family Stories, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley
Tips for Oral History Interviewing	http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/tips/66.asp • By Kip Sperry

Organizing

Getting it Together by Liz Kersten	http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/together /d_p_1_archive.asp
Spring Cleaning by Juliana Smith	http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/compass/587.asp

Search Engines / Search Sites

All the Web	http://www.alltheweb.com
Ask Jeeves	http://www.ask.com/
AltaVista	http://www.altavista.com
Electric Library	http://ask.elibrary.com/
EuroSeek	http://www.euroseek.com
Excite	http://www.excite.com
Galaxy	http://www.galaxy.com
Genealogy Search Engines	http://www.genealogysearchengines.com/
GenSearcher	http://www.gensearcher.com • All-in-One Genealogy Search Page
Google	http://www.google.com
HotBot	http://www.hotbot.com
Infospace	http://www.infospace.com
LookSmart	http://www.looksmart.com
Lycos	http://www.lycos.com
Munky	http://www.munky.com/main.php
My Virtual Reference Desk	http://www.refdesk.com/
NetFind	http://search.aol.com/aolcom/index.jsp
Netscape Net Search	http://wp.netscape.com/escapes/search/netsearchv1.html
Northern Light	http://www.northernlight.com
Profeta	http://www.profeta.it/ • Italian Catholic Search Engine
Ready Reference Collection	http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR • The Internet Public Library
Searchbug	http://www.searchbug.com
SurfWax	http://www.searchwax.com
WebCrawler	http://www.webcrawler.com
What U Seek	http://www.whatuseek.com/
Yahoo	http://www.yahoo.com

Meta Search Engines / Search Sites

Beaucoup Search Engines The Big Page	http://www.beaucoup.com/
BIG Search Engine Index	http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/
CNET Search.Com	http://www.search.com
Debriefing	http://www.debriefing.com/
Dogpile	http://www.dogpile.com
Highway 61	http://highway61.com
IXQuick	http://ixquick.com/
Langenberg	http://www.langenberg.com/
Mamma	http://www.mamma.com
McFind	http://www.mcfind.com/index.html • 13 types of searches
Metacrawler	http://www.metacrawler.com
Metagopher	http://www.metagopher.com/
ProFusion	http://www.profusion.com
Search Engines Worldwide	http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/searc1.html • This metasite is an extensive list of search engines and directories. There are 850 search engines from 130 nations and they are listed alphabetically by country.
Use It	http://www.he.net/~kamus/use2en.htm • Categories: Internationals, Europeans, Italian, Business, News, and Computers.

Italian Search Engines / Search Sites

Arianna	http://www.arianna.it/
Libero	http://www.libero.it/
Lycos Italia-Ricerca	http://www-it.lycos.com/
Nikos	http://www.nikos.com/italyweb/
Shinyseek, Italy	http://www.shinyseek.it/
Virgilio	http://www.virgilio.it/edit/index.html

Online Directories

411Locate	http://www.411locate.com
555-1212.com	http://www.555-1212.com/ • Great for area code lookups. Also a general search site.
Australia411	http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/
AT&T World Net Service	http://www.att.net/find/
Bigfoot	http://www.bigfoot.com/ • People, web pages, yellow & white pages and e-mail.
Canada411	http://www.canada411.ca/
FoneFinder	http://www.primeris.com/fonefind/ • U.S. and Canada
Free People Search Engines	http://www.free-people-search-engines.com • Its links are still growing, but the Free People Search Engines pages are already an excellent introduction to the world of online searching, for both the living and the dead.
Infobel	http://www.infobel.com/world/default.asp
InfoSpace.com International	http://in-110.infospace.com/_1_4IB4TEG03NL7E2L__info/index_ppl.htm
Internet Address Finder	http://www.iaf.net/
For International - Phone Directories on the Web	http://www.infobel.com/teldir/
Nedsite Search Center	http://www.nedsite.nl/search/search.htm
Paginegialle Italy: Yellow Pages	http://www.paginegialle.it/
PayPhones	http://www.payphone-directory.org/
The Pay Phone Project	http://www.payphone-project.com/
Reverse Look Up Directory by InfoSpace	http://in-132.infospace.com/_1_260770243_info/reverse.htm
Semaphore	http://www.semaphorecorp.com/default.html • All United States addresses, ZIP+4 codes, mail carrier route. • Old addresses to new forwarding addresses for free.
SuperPages	http://www.superpages.com http://www.bigbook.com http://www.bigyellow.com/
Switchboard	http://www.switchboard.com/ • Find a person, business, or e-mail.
US Postal Service	http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ • ZIP code lookup and address information.
Usenet Address	http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu/ • E-mail addresses
WhoWhere by Lycos	http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/ • E-mail, phone & address, and on the web.
WorldPages.com	http://www.worldpages.com/ http://www.worldyellowpages.com/ • Business, people, government, e-mail, and web.
Worldwide Yellow	http://www.worldyellowpages.com
Yahoo People Search	http://www.four11.com/
Yahoo Reverse	http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/suppress.html
The Yellow Pages	http://www.theyellowpages.com http://www.yellowpage.com • Topic, keyword, phrase, or category.

Medical Terms

Archaic Medical Terms	http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm
List & Glossary of Italian Medical Terms	http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/IT/lijst.html
Old Names of Diseases	http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/8380/illness.htm

Italian Profession & Given Names

D’Addezio.com	http://www.daddezio.com/genealogy/italian/names.html • Italian first name translator.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Italian Given Names	http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~torchia/names/ italiannames.htm
Italian Genealogy Homepage	http://italiangenealogy.tardio.com/html/index.php • Italian given names and their English equivalents
Italian Names and the History of Italian Names	http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/pearlsofwisdom/italynames.html
Ken's Genealogy Home Page	http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8783/italjobs.html • Professions http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8783/givename.html • Italian given names and their English equivalents

Italian Genealogical Definitions

FamilySearch.org Italian Genealogical Word List	http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/WLItalia.ASP
Felice's Italian Genealogical Sezione	http://users.ids.net/~felice/Dictionary.html

Libraries, Archives & Research Centers

The Internet Public Library	http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/
LDS Family History Centers	http://www.genhomepage.com/FHC/
Librarian’s Index to the Internet	http://lii.org/
Library of Congress	http://www.loc.gov OR http://lcweb.loc.gov
Libweb- Library Servers via WWW	http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
NAIL - Home Page - NARA Archival Information Locator	http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html • Database of selected holdings of the U.S. National Archives.
National Archives & Records Administration- ( NARA )	http://www.archives.gov/index.html
The Newberry Library	http://www.newberry.org/
New York Public Library	http://www.nypl.org/
Public Libraries of Europe	http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/eurolib.html
WebCats: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web	http://www.libdex.com/

SOUNDEX - Converter Sites

Genealogy Online- Soundex	http://genealogy.org/
Surname to Soundex Code	http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/Genea/soundex.sh
University of Rochester, Department of History	http://www.history.rochester.edu/jssn/page4.htm • Example of a soundex card.
Yet Another Soundex Converter	http://www.bradandkathy.com/genealogy/yasc.html

Maps

Animated US Growth	http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/us.gif
Mapblast	http://www.mapblast.com/
MapQuest! Interactive Atlas	http://www.mapquest.com • Locate a city anywhere in the world, or get driving directions to wherever you need to go.
Maps On US	http://www.mapsonus.com
Microsoft Expedia Maps	http://www.expediamaps.com • Using "place finder" type in a town to locate it anywhere in the world. Use "address finder" when you have a specific address.
My Facts Page - Atlas & Maps	http://www.refdesk.com/factmaps.html
Historical Maps of Europe: The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection	http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/ history_europe.html
Oddens’s Bookmarks	http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html • Over 14,000 links
U.S. Gazeteer	http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer • More current maps. 1990 U.S. census information can be found for specific locations at this site.
USGS National Mapping Information	http://mapping.usgs.gov
U.S. Surname Distribution	http://www.hamrick.com/names/

Language, Dictionaries and Translations

ITALIAN & LATIN TRANSLATION
BY
JULIET VIOLA KNIFFEN, M.A.

AFFORDABLE ~PROFESSIONAL
Find out what those Italian letters and certificates say!
Handwritten records welcome.
All translations complete, accurate, and formatted per the original. Translator of genealogical records, handwriting, and family histories.

For a free price quotation, email scans or mail a copy of your documents:
1908 Grant Street
Berkeley, CA 94703-1510

www.julietviola.com
Italian@JulietViola.com

TRANSLATION SINCE 1983

AltaVista: Translations	http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn • English/French, English/German, English/Italian, English/Portuguese, English/Spanish. Can also translate a web site in a foreign language.
CyberItalian	http://cyberitalian.com • Lessons in the Italian language online. Has audio capabilities also.
Claritaslux	http://www.claritaslux.com/ • Language software to learn to speak Italian, Spanish, French, Polish, English, and German.
Dialetti di Italia	http://www.simonel.com/dialetti.html
I Dialetti Italiani	http://www.netaxs.com/~salvucci/ITALhome.html
Ethnologue: Italy	http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Ital.html
ForeignWord.com	http://www.foreignword.com/ • This site provides over 160 dictionary links for 61 languages, machine translation for 19 languages, links to over 1000 glossaries, and a directory of over 1800 translators.
FreeTranslation.com	http://www.freetranslation.com/ • FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages. This site focuses on translating entire phrases versus exact word-for-word translation. It can translate much more information at one time than its competition. Translate text or an entire web page.
Italian Dictionary (English to Italian)	http://www.june29.com/IDP/files/Italian.txt
Italian-English dictionaries	http://www.traduzioni-inglese.it/dictionary-glossary.html
Italian Irregular Verbs	http://turtiainen.dna.fi/cgi-bin/it/irreg.pl • Italian irregular verbs - Conjugations in all tenses of 110 common Italian irregular verbs.
Italian Villas	http://italianvillas.com/phrases.htm • Words and phrases for touring Italy
R-O-Matic	http://www.aromatic.com/itaeng/ • Italian to English, English to Italian "Word" dictionary.
T-Mail	http://www.t-mail.com/ • An e-mail translation service.
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries	http://dictionaries.travlang.com/ • A ton of converters on this site.
Web Italian Lessons, by Lucio Chiappetti	http://www.june29.com/Italian/

Latin

FamilySearch.org	http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rg.asp? Dest=G1&Guide=WLLatin.asp • Latin genealogical word list.
SunSite Latin Dictionary	http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/HyperText/
Words By William Whitaker	http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe • The dictionary is about 27000 entries, as would be counted in an ordinary dictionary. This may generate many hundreds of thousands of "words" that one can construct over all the declensions and conjugations. But this is a modest, student-size dictionary. The point of this tool is to help in simple translations for a beginning Latin student or amateur.

Designing / Creating Your Own Home Page

1-Stop Free Shop	http://www.1stopfreeshop.com/genealogy.htm • Free Online Genealogy Tools. Find online resources such as downloadable forms, calendars, look ups, software, clip art, and translators to assist with your genealogy research on the internet.
BigNoseBird.com	http://www.bignosebird.com • A treasure box full of tools.
Cyndi’s Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit	http://www.cyndislist.com/construc.htm

Italian / Italian - American Web Rings

Abruzzo World Web Ring	http://www.abruzzo2000.com/awwr/ • The purpose of this ring is to create a circular itinerary through all the sites connected to Abruzzo.
The Italian - American Web Ring	http://www.angelfire.com/ny/maryg/ring.html • Register your Italian - American website here.

Genealogy Software

Ancestral Quest for Windows	http://www.ancquest.com/
Brother’s Keeper	http://www.brotherskeeper.com
Clooz	http://www.clooz.com
Cumberland Family Software	http://www.cf-software.com/
Family Tree Maker	http://www.familytreemaker.com/
Genealogy Software Springboard	http://www.toltbbs.com/~kbasile/software.html • List and review of the major genealogy software programs.
Legacy	http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/
Reunion	http://www.leisterpro.com/
Wholly Genes	http://www.whollygenes.com/