RESEARCH AIDES

Here are a few off site pages that have helped me in my own genealogy research, and web page design. They include outdated medical terms, handwriting deciphering, language translation, calculating days of the week, and more. I hope they help you as much as they helped me.

• Old-Time Medical Terminology - from the Lancaster County, Nebraska site.
• Birth date calculator - figures birthdate when age and death date are known.
• Deciphering old handwriting - comes in handy when trying to read censuses, letters, diaries, etc.
• Naming patterns - a neat way to begin to decide if a person is directly related to your line.
• German names - basic background on German first names.
• Surname relevance - reasons on why NOT to rely on one surname spelling.
• Changing surnames - How common was it for an immigrant to change his/her name?
• Surname meanings - This is listed only as a site of interest. It is nearly impossible to trace a family all the way back to the first person to use a particular name.
• Genealogy software - which one do you choose? A comparison here.
• Family Tree Maker - The software I use.
• Genealogy for beginners - from Rootsweb.com
• Web Design - How to's on HTML, Java, and other basics.
• Web Pages that Suck - Learn good design by looking at bad design. A site that stays with you.
• Cemetery research - How to use what you have gathered from headstones.
• Dating tombstones - Estimating date of burial by the material used as a marker. From MIGenweb site.
• Headstone and tombstone cleaning and care - An entire site devoted to preserving stones for future generations. What you are doing now may be wrong.

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