Just as it’s labeled, this is My Toolbox. It isn’t intended to be a complete list of everything genealogy or history related — it’s what I’ve found useful.
Books
- Family History Books – 100,000+ digitized genealogy and family history publications searchable at FamilySearch
- Internet Archives: eBooks and Texts – 3 million public domain books
- Google Books – Save books in your own library with a Google Account
- Gutenberg Project – All free eBooks, all in public domain
- HathiTrust Digital Library – 11 million total volumes, 1/3 in public domain
- MLibrary Digital Collection
- Open Library – 1 million free eBook titles plus an eBook lending library
Cemeteries
- Billion Graves – Partner w/FamilySearch
- Find-A-Grave – Partner w/Ancestry
Genealogy Research
History
Maps
- Geography & Map Reading Room – Library of Congress
- Google Earth – Not Google Maps. It’s software you download to your computer.
- England & Wales Jurisdictions 1851 – Family Search
- National Association of Counties – County/City Search
Newspapers
- All You Can Read – top 50 Canadian Current Newspapers
- D’Addezio – Canadian obits: name, age, DOD, newspaper. Not full obits, but helpful.
- Elephind – Search the World’s historic newspaper articles
- Canadian Historical Newspapers Online – Links to free online historical Canadian newspapers
- Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pgs – Old Fulton NY Postcards site
- World Newspapers – Canadian section of current newspapers and news sites
- Your Life Moments – Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan selected newspaper obits
Tools (calculators, apps, etc.)
- Currency Converter – from The National Archives [United Kingdom]
- Elapsed Time – Determines Time between Two Events in One Step by Steve Morse
WordPress Help
- Hot off the Press – WordPress.com News
- Mobile Apps – A no brainer – couldn’t live without it
- Sams Teach Yourself Word Press – Podcasts & articles, old but still useful
- Tutsplus – Tutorials: software and tools
- WordPress TV – Video tutorials
Blogging Prompts
By no means is this all of the blogging prompts related to genealogy. I’ve put the ones that interest me in My Toolbox for handy reference.
For a great list of blogging prompts, go to Geneabloggers Daily Blogging Prompts. That’s where all of these came from!
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