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Geographical Location Tools
City-to-County Finder : Find the County for a U.S. Town or City
JewishGen Gazetteer. Contains the names of one million localities from 54 countries throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Converting between 1920 and 1930 Census EDs in One Step. This page lets you obtain an Enumeration District (ED) for an address in selected large cities in the 1920 US census if you know the ED for that address in the 1930 census, and vice versa.
Unified Census ED Finder . Starting in 1880, all information in the census is arranged by enumaration districts (ED) and stored on microfilm rolls. In order to know which microfilm roll to look in, you need to know the ED in which the person lived. This One-Step form allows you to determine the 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 or 1950 ED if you know the person's address.
Date and Calendar Tools
Birth Date Calculator. This calculator is a useful tool for genealogists. It is designed to calculate the birth date when the age at death and the date of death are the only facts known. As we all know this is often the only information recorded on older headstones.
Birth Date Calculator. Calculates birthdate from death date and age
of death in year-month-day format.
On what day of the week were you born? : Enter your birthday, then hit the "Update" button to find out.
Exact Age Finder : Find out precisely how old you are, in various units! (Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds.)
Exact Age Calculator : Amazon download.
Make a customized calendar.
10,000-Year Calendar Free Download. Three formats available : xls, wk4 and pdf.
Calendar Calculator. The Calendar Calculator is 100 % web-based, and is therefore compatible with all versions of Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Perpetual Calendar. Select any month, and enter any four-digit year (0001-9999).
Free Excel Yearly Calendar Template. This spreadsheet will show 12 months on a single page, beginning with the month and year of your choice.
Calendar Magic. Freeware. Full year and monthly calendars for 23 different calendar systems. Date conversions among the 23 calendar systems supported. And much more.
Jewish Calendar Conversions in One Step
JOS Calendar Conversion. The JOS Calendar Converter can convert a civil (Gregorian calendar) date into the equivalent date on the Hebrew calendar, and vice versa.
Special Age Calculator. Use the Special Age Calculator to find out your upcoming special age in seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks.
Interesting dates related to your birthday.
Any Year Calendars. This accessible Excel calendar template can be customized to any year.
Calculate duration between two dates. This service calculates the duration, counting the day count and the number of days, months and years between two dates. Among other things, it can be used find how many days old you are and the weekday you were born.
Church Calendar Calculator.
Date calculator: Add to or subtract from a date. This service enable you to add or subtract days, months and years to a date to calculate a past or future date.
Easter Day. Find the date of Easter Day in any year.
Name Variants
Soundex Calculator. This form will convert a surname to the corresponding soundex code (4 characters), using the rules specified in the National Archive's handbook.
Generating Soundex Codes and Phonetic Tokens in One Step.
Geographic Names Thesaurus. Provides guidance on the preferred and/or current names of geographic and geopolitical entities..
Historical and Economical Context
Peers and Contemporaries tool from OurTimeLines.com : Another way to gain perspective on your ancestors is to learn who their peers and contemporaries were. This tool makes it very easy to do that. Simply enter the birth year and the name, and it will generate a list of peers and near-peers for you.
Free Personalized Timelines This web site generates personalized web pages for you. They show how your life (or the life of anyone else you choose - for instance, your descendants and ancestors) fits into history as we know it.
dMarie Time Capsule. Free On This Day in History Report for the years 1800 through 2001.
Anyday in History : Get a list of historic events & birthdates that occurred on a any selected day of the year
The Inflation Calculator. A form adjusting any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2021.
How Much is That Worth Today?
United States : Comparing the purchasing power of money in the United States (or colonies) from 1774 to any other year including the present.
Great Britain : Comparing the purchasing power of money in the Great Britain from 1270 to any other year including the present.
Currency Converter: 1270–2017 (UK). Use the currency converter of the National Archives of England and Wales to find out how yesterday's prices compares to today's prices or how today's prices compares to yesterday's prices.
Computing 'Real Value' Over Time With a Conversion Between U.K. Pounds and U.S. Dollars, 1830 to Present. This calculator will compute the "real value" of the price, cost, or value of something over time and convert it from British Pounds to U.S. Dollars, or vice versa. For example, you can ask what is the value in dollars in the year 2000 (desired year) of something that was valued at five pounds in 1850 (initial year).
Inflation Calculator (Canada). The Inflation Calculator uses monthly consumer price index (CPI) data from 1914 to the present to show changes in the cost of a fixed "basket" of consumer purchases. These include food, shelter, furniture, clothing, transportation, and recreation.
Scots Currency Converter. Scotland had its own currency, the pound Scots, prior to the Act of Union in 1707.
Miscellaneous
Roman Numerals Converter : Convert between integers and Roman numerals, or check the validity of Roman numerals for common mistakes.
Email Address Encryption Tool : If you display your email address at the bottom of your web page, spammers using email harvesting robots will find it. However, you can hide your address from robots while still allowing visitors to your web site to contact you.
Relationship Calculator. Simply keep pressing the simple relationship buttons to build up complex relationships.
Getting Road Maps and Aerial Photos in One Step
Ask a Librarian at the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room of the Library of Congress. They cannot undertake research in family history or heraldry, but they can answer many general questions.
Citation Machine. The primary goal of this tool is to make the proper crediting of information property so easy that it becomes a habit, not a laborious task.
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