Laura's

Favorite Links

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Some of my Favorite Genealogy Sites include:

  • Census Links has some free census information online!
  • www.censusdiggins.com has some free census information online!
  • Family Tree Maker has an excellent site to help you search by surname.
  • LDS Family History Center provides access to Ancestral File records as well as an index to the library's holdings. "Access will be slow, church officials warn.".
  • The USGenWeb Project HOME PAGE can be accessed from either of the following: http://www.usgenweb.org or http://www.usgenweb.net
    For TENNESSEE research:

  • Tennessee GenWeb Page - This is a great site! If you're researching in Tennessee, this is the location to visit! TNGenWeb lists all counties and person(s) to contact about those counties.
    Tennessee State Library and Archives has many searchable records online.
    RootWalker.com - Genealogy Pages for Northern Middle TN

    Genealogy SF - This is a great site for sources of information for genealogy research and data!
    Genealogy Forum will let you post and view surnames! - Great site!
    The Roots Surname List (RSL) is a list of surnames (over 110,000 in August 1996, submitted by over 7,500 net.genealogists) with associated dates and locations. Its purpose is to enable genealogical researchers to locate others interested in sharing and comparing data about the same families.
    How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe to the Roots Surname Discussion Lists: -- just click on the list you want. When the "mail-to" window pops up, write just the single word "subscribe" in the body of the message. That's all.
    If you want to unsubscribe from a list, click on it and write just the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message only.
    Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet
    Lineages, Inc. The Tennessee Research Room. Also be sure to visit their site American Research Room, an online resource for information about tracing your American roots. Here you'll find historical information, addresses, phone numbers, and research tips that will help you find that elusive ancestor.BR
    HTML Coded Sample Pedigree by Elaine Johnson has a very nice example of an on-line pedigree chart that is freely available for you to copy and use.
    CENSUS VIEW - "Actual" Census Records Available on CD-ROM!!! lists counties and states which are available on CD on their site...
    GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN TENNESSEE COUNTY COURTHOUSES has some very helpful hints and suggestions...
    A Guide To Discovering Your Cherokee Ancestors .
    Native American History Archive is an interface for geographical, historical, topical and keyword-based student inquiries on topics related to Native American history and culture in the United States.
    Ahnentafel Charts - What is an Ahnentafel Chart? - Describes what an "AHNENTAFEL" is and how to create an ancestor chart using this method...
    Genealogy's Most Wanted is pretty interesting - check it out!
    Ever have any trouble Deciphering Old Handwriting in old documents? Just getting started? How to do tombstone rubbings.
    Ultimate Family Tree is a genealogy search site...
    Genealogy Home Page
    Genealogy Resources on the Internet
    National Archives Server
    Todd Sherman's Other Genealogy Sites List
    Traveller's Southern Families
    United States Census Bureau Home Page
    Yahoo - Arts: Humanities: History: Genealogy
    The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board and Genealogical Information which provides records which are essentially limited to individuals who worked in the rail industry after 1936. Visit their site for more details.
    GenTree - Genealogical Databases

    REVOLUTIONARY WAR Sites

    National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution incorporated by an Act of Congress in 1896, the NSDAR is a non-profit, non-political, volunteer service organization with nearly 180,000 women in some 3,000 chapters in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Japan. The Society was founded in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 1890 and has celebrated more than 100 years of service to the nation. .

    National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

    Civil War Sites

    Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
    Sons of Confederate Veterans of the Civil War
    Civil War Photographs
    The Civil War Preservation Trust
    National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
    U.S. Civil War Center
    The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania
    Tennessee Society - Sons of the Revolution and Sons of Confederate Veterans.

    Some Great Map Sites...

  • The Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/) is making detailed American Panoramic Maps from its collection available, thanks to a gift from LizardTech, which has donated special file-compression technology. The software reduces the size of the map files by more than 20 times. Users can view the entire image or zoom in for greater detail. No special software is necessary.
  • Tiger Mapping Service a project sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data.
  • USGS Mapping Information.
  • Goldbug Maps
  • John Robertson's Map Collection Page has a number of map links organized by state.
  • Graphic Maps and Globes.
  • Intellicast USA Weather Offers national and city-specific weather forecasts.
  • The US Gazetteer City/Zip Code Look-up (courtesy of the US Census Bureau) identifies places by population, location, and a Tiger Map of the area.
  • Xerox PARC Map Server has a scalable map of the world. Point, click, and zoom in.
  • Yahoo Maps Very cool map - just punch in an address, with zip code, anywhere in the United States, and it'll give you a detailed map of the area (with point to point driving directions too).

    Laura's Favorite Recipe Sites

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  • BE SURE to Check out CopyKat.com - they have some great "copy cat" recipes from some of your favorite restaurants!

  • BE SURE to Check out www.Epicurious.com - search for some excellent recipes from many sources & get feedback from others that have tried the recipes. This site has a great format and is one of my favorite sites when I want to search for a recipe using a particular ingredient...

  • Foodtv.com - has some great recipes from all the shows that air on The Food Network.

  • The Internet Chef is an electronic archive dedicated to the worship of food...

  • Home Arts Recipe Finder has a recipe for every occassion!

  • Great Chefs provides recipes and chef biographies from the Great Chefs TV shows. It also has a shopping section that features Great Chefs cookbooks and videos.

  • Mimi's Cyber Kitchen

  • The Vidalia Onion Factory includes favorite recipes and onion fixins... Be sure to try these sweet delicious onions when available!

  • The Vidalia Farmers Market, Inc. Recipes has some great recipes! You've got to try the Vidalia Onion Dip (1996 Vidalia Onion Festival Grand Prize Appetizer)! Mmmmm.

  • The Recipe Guys is an interesting recipe source and includes custom recipe searches and a guide to low fat foods. Select recipes and build a custom cookbook that you can refer to when ever you like.

  • Official site of Kikkoman Corporation contains updated cookbook featuring soy sauce recipes, Japanese food glossary, product information and more.

  • Taste Of America Recipe Table of Conents, a complete cooking class, with recipes and menus for home entertaining, and catalog sources for gourmet food and gifts...

  • Digital Chef For those who love to cook: the complete cooking experience, with 3000+ recipes, cooking ideas, cooking techniques, food chat and message boards, online cooking events, shopping and more...

  • Pillsbury Central has recipes, menus and enertaining ideas for every season.

  • Oregon Dungeness Crab Recipes has some really great recipes using one of my favorite seafoods!

  • Kraft Interactive Kitchen has hundreds of recipes, cooking tips and techniques, and lots of other good food ideas. Great suggestions for entertaining. Fun activities for families.

  • Hershey's Page includes some great chocolate recipes! YUM!

  • Callahan's Cookbook

  • Laura Odem's Recipe Box

    Some of my Favorite Non-Genealogy Sites include:

    flower3.gif - 0.5 K Want to brighten someones day? Try sending some Virtual Flowers!

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    flower3.gif - 0.5 K Too much time on your hands? You might try stopping by Electronic Web-A-Sketch"

    flower3.gif - 0.5 K Tetra's Virtual Aquarium ..to see how various combinations of fish would look through your very own virtual fish tank by Tetra.

    dilbert.gif - 0.4 K The Dilbert Zone Just for fun!

    flylogo.gif - 3.4 K Fly Powered Planes is pretty amusing - check it out! Who says that ordinary house flies are good for nothing. Use them to power your own fleet of miniature planes...

  • Cassini Lifted Off For Saturn on 10/15/1997 at 4:43 a.m. EDT. The Cassini spacecraft wrapped up this year's whirlwind tour of Saturn's many moons with a Titan rendezvous on Dec. 26, 2005. Check out this site for the scientific and engineering details.

  • The Home Depot webpage has lots of helpful tips for those home projects.

  • My Pet's page Oscar, Tipper and Lucy's page!!!

    atlanta_braves_hat.jpgHome of the Braves - need I say more?!!! :-)

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