Some AFHS research aids
Talks Given at AFHS Meetings - Geographical Starting Points - Alberta Local Histories - Getting Started

Addresses and dates

• Adoption.org
• 555-1212 Phone Numbers, Email addresses (fee)
• Birthdate Calculator
• Board for Certification of Genealogists
• Canada 411 Canadian phone numbers, addresses
• Ecclesiastical Calendar - use to calculate when ecclesiastical (e.g. Easter) events occurred in any year
• Family History Centers - locations, phone numbers, and hours of operation
• Family History Societies
• German Telephone Numbers
• Perpetual Calendar
• Switchboard - Find US Phone Numbers
• Telephone Directories Online
• WhoWhere? PeopleSearch
• Yahoo People Search - White Pages and Email
• Yellow Book (Yellow Pages)

Advice in getting started

• Achievements Ltd. - established 1961, carries out research based on its extensive collections and network of searchers world-wide. Non-profit company specialises in UK and Ireland. Trained genealogists will also offer advice. Associated with the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.
• Alberta Family Histories Society - Tracing your family tree
• Ancestry.com
• Latter Day Saints
• Rootsweb

Book sources

• Advanced Book Exchange - a place to look for out of print and antiquarian books
• Antiquarian Booksellers of America
• Barbara's Used Genealogy Books - Whittier, CA
• Baronage Press - UK
• Genealogical Publishing Comany - US
• Global Genealogical Supply - Milton, ON
• Interlink Bookshop - Victoria, BC
• Internet Genealogical Bookshop - England
• JR Solutions - Calgary, AB - specializing in Mennonite books
• Park Genealogical Books - focus on Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota - Roseville, MN
• Society of Genealogists Orderline - London, England

Dictionaries/word lists

• Genealogical Glossary
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
• Scottish genealogical terms
• Soundex Conversion Program
• Surname Thesaurus
• Your Dictionary

e-zines for genealogists

• The Cemetery Column
• Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Family Chronicle Magazine - Article index online
• Feudal Herald - an online e-zine dedicated to heraldry
• Genealogy In Time
• Genealogy Today
• Global Gazette
• Upfront - by National Genealogical Society

General resources and research advice

• Arcalife.com - a lovely site where you can "secure and share your memories and family history"
• Archives.com - formerly GenHomePage.com, retained all GenHomePage content and added several new features
• AudioTapes.com - audio recordings of genealogical presentations
• Black Sheep Society of Genealogists for those "who have a dastardly, infamous individual of public knowledge and ill-repute somewhere in their family"
• Catholic Church History and Genealogy Guide
• Census Record Clues - based on the data housed in the US census, but useful for other countries as well
• Citing your Electronic Sources
• Common Internet & Electronic Citations
• Currency Converter
• Family History Place - links to many society websites
• Family History Societies - around the world
• Family Reunion Doctor - reunion planning
• Federation of Genealogical Societies
• Finding a Helper in Another Country
• Genealogy Today - search for new genealogy sites
• Genealogy for Kids!
• Genealogy Resources on the Internet
• Genserv - Database of Databases
• Given Names - frequencies found by Social Security Administration for 1880-1997
• History of International Migration
• Internet Citation Guide for Genealogists
• Immigrant Ships
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
• Learning Center (Ancestry.com)
• Library of Congress
• Lutheran Roots Genealogical Exchange - surnames and queries can be posted
• Naming Practices - Norway
• National Genealogical Society
• National (US) Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• Nicknames
• Photographs: Tips for Determining a Date
• Projects Registry - a listing of thousands of extraction and indexing projects underway internationally. Started as an LDS project, then taken on by the National Genealogical Society, it is now in the hands of Kindred Konnections.
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
• Royal Genealogies
• Scan Tips Well worth the visit!
• Social Security Numbers (US) - explained
• Taphophila - About cemeteries and funerals
• Treasure Maps - The How-to Genealogy Web Site
• Yates Publishing - search 1,000,000 persons on hundreds of family group sheets
• Yahoo Groups This is the site to visit if you're looking for an emailing list
• Yahoo Lineages and Surnames

Paper of Record is a Canadian historical archive of full-page newspaper images that you can search for unique coverage of past events. Created from newspaper collections (click on Search the Archives to see newspapers in the collection), the archive can save you days and weeks of research time.

Maps/place names

• Australian Geographic Place Names
• BC Geographic Data
• Canadian County Digital Atlas Project - tailors searches to county, township, town & surname in Ontario
• Canadian Geographical Names
• Cartographic Collection of David Rumsey - beautiful old maps
• Geographic Coordinate to Map Converter
• Google maps
• England street maps - search by postal code, etc.
• European History Interactive Maps - see how borders have change over the years (very cool!)
• Expedia - comprehensive map resource
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Historic Atlas of the 20th Century
• Map Collection: 1597-1988 - from U.S. Library of Congress
• Map History
• Maps Online - comprehensive index
• Mapquest
• Panoramic Maps - for many American and Canadian cities; a fascinating U.S. Library of Congress site
• Prussian Maps where Mennonite settled
• Trenches on the Web - Military/Battle Maps
• United States, 1895
• United States Geographical Server
• United States Surname Distributions mapped concentrations 1850-1990
• United States Surname Distributions in Current PhoneBooks
• United States Territorial Maps
• World GenWeb

Medical/health

• The American Experience: Influenza 1918
• Epidemics in the U.S. 1628-1918
• Plagues & Epidemics
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
• U.S. Epidemics

Methodological aids/courses

• Augustan Society - maintains registration of coats of arms, orders of chivalry, knighthood and merit
• Charts - custom printed
• College of Arms
• Census Extraction Forms (US)
• Dad's War Home Page - A good page for getting ideas on how to tell someone's story
• Deciphering Old (American) Handwriting
• DNA/mtDNA Studies
• Do History
• Gen-Newbie-L - take lessons in doing your genealogy online or subscribe to a 'newbie' discussion
• Guide to Free Online Photo Albums
• Heraldica - comprehensive site for learning about your Heraldry
• Learn2Scrapbook.com
• National Institute for Genealogical Studies
• Scrapbooking.Com
• TreeMaker (custom charts) Service
• Virtual University - learn genealogy and web design

Military

• Canadian War Graves

Omnibus sites

• Cyndi's Amazing Structured List
• Family Search - from the LDS Church
• Family TreeMaker / Genealogy.com Online Search
• Family Treemaker User Home Pages
• John Fuller's Genealogical Resources on the Internet
• Kindred Konnections - 10,000,000 person searchable database
• Genealogy - at About.com
• Mother of All Maritime Links

One name studies

• Guild of One Name Studies
• Rempel
• Riggs
• Rounsefell
• see also DNA/mtDNA

Search engines (WWW)

• Article: Six Great Ways to Search the Web
• Altavista
• Ask
• Bing
• Dogpile - rapid search that uses the capacities of a lot of other search engines
• Excite
• Family Tree Searcher - store brief details about your ancestors here and get personalized searches at a number of large online repositories
• Fast Search
• GenealogySpot
• Google
• Lycos
• Northern Light - a research portal
• Open Directory - a refereed, categories search tool for the internet
• WebCrawler
• Yahoo

Social aspects of history

• Behind the (First) Name
• Canadian Railway History
• Cemetery Iconography
• City of the Silent
• Coalmining and Railways
• Costuming History - lots of pictures, slow to load, but worth the wait
• Inflation Calculator - put old land values, purchases into current dollars
• Life in Flanders - 18th and 19th Centuries
• National (US) Museum of Funeral History
• Plumbing History
• Timelines of History

Surnames galore

• AFHS Members' Surname Interests
• Ancestry.com search page
• Ancestry.com Surname Message Boards
• Chinese Surname Origins
• First Name Basis - site dedicated to finding connections to women through unusual given name spellings
• Common Threads A site dedicated to surname queries
• Campbell River Genealogy Club - Members' Surname Interests
• Family Tree Searcher - can be used to search multiple surname sites
• Lancashire, England Surname Index
• Mary's Genealogy Treasures - surname registry
• Roots Surname List
• Rootsweb Message (Locality and Surname) Boards
• Surname Resources at Rootsweb - (common names only)
• Surname Helper (RootsWeb)
• Surname Web - register your surname and see if others have already registered it