Tool Box

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his will be an ever-growing list of links to various resources and amusements for my genealogical Tool Box. Suggestions are always welcome!

Census Aids:

• Blank Forms
• Census Abbreviations
• Enumerator Instructions

Genealogical Portals:

• Cyndi’s List
• Linkpendium
• Steve Morse
• WorldGenWeb

Historic Photographs:

• Historypin
• WhatWasThere

Living People:

• Any Who
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• People Finders
• US Search
• Veromi
• Zaba Search

Military:

• Ages of Servicemen in Wars
• Cornell Making of America
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Fold3
• National Park Service
• Sons of the American Revolution

Names:

• Behind The Name
• Name Thesaurus
• Soundex Calculator
• Soundex Generator
• Surname Database
• Surname Facts

Geography, Land & Maps:

• Alabama Historical Maps
• Bureau of Land Management
• David Rumsey Maps
• Geographic Name Information System
• Google Maps
• GPS to UTM
• Library of Congress Maps
• Maps of US
• University of Texas Library

Online Books & Peridocials:

• Allen County Public Library
• Chronicling America
• Digital Public Library of America
• Internet Library 
• Newspapers.com
• Open Library

Personal Libraries: 

• Goodreads
• LibraryThing

Places Tennessee: 

• Atchley Funeral Home
• Rawlings Funeral Home
• TN Gen Web Project

Places West Virginia:

• Ancestry West Virginia
• Cyndi’s List West Virginia
• Family Search West Virginia
• Genealogy Inc. West Virginia
• WV Hometown Locator
• Kepner Funeral Home
• Linkpendium WV Genealogy
• Roadside Thoughts WV
• The WVGenWeb Project
• Vital Research Records
• West Virginia Online Records
• West Virginia Resources
• Wetzel County Parcel Viewer
• Wikipedia West Virginia

Records Death and Cemetery:

• Billion Graves
• Death Indexes
• Find A Grave
• Gravestone Symbolism
• Internment.net
• The Political Graveyard
• Tomb and Mausoleum Descriptions
• US Military Grave Finder
• We Remember

Records Vital:

• CDC Where to Write for Vital Records

Search Engines:

• Bing
• Chrome
• DuckDuckGo
• eGENEe
• Genealogy In Time
• Yahoo

Songs of Home:

• Country Roads
• I’m My Own Grandpa (with family tree diagram)
• Rocky Top
• Sixteen Tons

Styles & Standards:

• Best Practises for Headlines
• Capitalize My Title
• Citation Machine
• Evidence Explained
• Getting It Right
• NEHGS Sample Stylesheet
• Title Case Converter
• Word Press Citations

Surname Sapp:

• I looked up my Family Tree and …
• Miss America Crowning 1992: Carolyn Suzanne Sapp
• Where Are They Now: Carolyn Sapp

Understanding Family Relationships:

• Your Family Tree Explained
• Your Family Tree Explained: Parallel and Cross Cousins Explained

What you need to know about your British Ancestry:

• How to Become the British Monarch
• The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained

Writing:

• Using Active Voice
• Edit Minion
• ProWriting Aid
• Transitional Words and Phrases
• WordHypo Thesaurus

Misc. & Multiuse:

• Ancestry USA
• Ancestry USA State Research Guides
• Common Legal Terms
• Family Search USA
• Family Tree Rhapsody
• Genealogical Tidbits
• Google Translate
• Library of Congress
• National Archives Genealogy
• National Genealogical Society
• Old Disease Names
• Old Occupations Explained
• Passenger List Annotations
• This Day in History
• United States History
• US Genweb
• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikipedia
• WolframAlpha
• WorldCat
• WorldGenWeb