Genealogy's Best-Kept Secret--Revealed! Between 1936 and 1943, Works Projects Administration workers created valuable--but little-known--resources for genealogists. Here's how to find them. www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/apr05/wpa.asp +++++++++++++++ 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. http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/birth.html +++++++++++++++ The Wisconsin State Collection Belgian-American Research Collection Tiny URL = http://tinyurl.com/6vj6d +++++++++++++++ The Peopling of Canada (1891-1921): Home Page http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/canada1891/ +++++++++++++++ Newspaper Abstracts Think of this as the USGenWeb (see above) for newspaper abstracts and extracts. Organized by state and county and depending on the flying fingers of volunteers, this site focuses on US newspapers prior to 1923. You'll also find some articles from other countries prior to 1900. The pages here now number more than 10,500. www.newspaperabstracts.com +++++++++++++++ The Olden Times Unlike Newspaper Abstracts (see above), this is a one-man show-but it's an impressive site nonetheless. You'll find obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, ads and cartoons, all scanned from the Webmaster's collection of 18th-, 19th- and early 20th-century newspapers from the United States, British Isles and Australia. www.theoldentimes.com +++++++++++++++ eHistory Easily overlooked because it's not strictly a genealogy site, eHistory serves up more than 130,000 pages of historical content, 5,300 timeline events, 800 battle outlines, 350 biographies and thousands of images and maps. A favorite resource here for Civil War buffs is, incredibly, the searchable 128 volumes of The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. The "OR," as this mammoth work is affectionately known, is the authoritative reference to army operations during the Civil War. www.ehistory.com +++++++++++++++