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Social Security Administration's lists of popular baby names by decade, by state, for twins, and in U.S. territories

"The Archive's ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources includes items from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Robarts Library at the University of Toronto; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library; and the Boston Public Library. Resources include books on surname origins, vital statistics, parish records, and other historical and biographical documents. "

Includes a collection of Atlanta City Directories from early 20th century.

"Content digitized as part of this project includes Duke University yearbooks and other Duke University history-related items, early advertising texts, Utopian literature, transcultural travel literature, and other materials."

A computer program for the genealogy community which is intended to assist you in searching the web for information on your surnames and their variants. After you enter in your surname, you click on the Search button, and it will create 3 lists of similar sounding surnames. The lists are based on how good a sound match the other surnames are to the one you entered. The lists are titled Excellent, Close, and Longshot.

A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard.

"The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective. "

"The Mapping the National Parks collection documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present, reflecting early mapping of the areas that would become four National Parks, as well as the parks themselves. Production of this collection is being supported by a generous gift from The Rockefeller Foundation. "