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« January 2003 | Main | March 2003 » February 26, 2003Slavery Suits from Washington University in Saint Louis
The St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project at http://stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/index.cfm is now offering Freedom Suits, "nearly 300 legal petitions for freedom brought by or on behalf of persons of color held in slavery within the St. Louis area from 1814...
Continue reading "Slavery Suits from Washington University in Saint Louis" » February 21, 2003Illinois Adds Several Genealogy Databases
I can't cover all of these in-depth; there are just too many of them! If you're doing genealogy research in Illinois, you'll be really stoked at these new databases. I will give an overview of the statewide ones. Note...
Continue reading "Illinois Adds Several Genealogy Databases" » USGA Unveils Database of Amateur Golf Tournaments
The United States Golf Association has launched a database of over 3000 amateur tournaments. It's available at http://www.usga.org/DATG/index.asp . You can search by types of tournaments (boys', girls', men's, women's, the disabled, etc.) location (by state in the US,...
Continue reading "USGA Unveils Database of Amateur Golf Tournaments" » February 20, 2003Gale Offers Black History Month Resources
Information company Gale has created a free resource for Black History Month at http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm . Look to the left side of the page for a map to the materials available. There are activities (divided into elementary, middle, and high school...
Continue reading "Gale Offers Black History Month Resources" » Get Information on Newly Indexed Pages From Googlert
Every day someone has fun with the Google API. The latest evidence is the Google search alert Googlert, at http://www.googlert.com/ . This service can be set up to run Google searches and send you URLs of newly-indexed pages by...
Continue reading "Get Information on Newly Indexed Pages From Googlert" » Hong Kong Movie Database
If the Internet Movie Database doesn't quite do it for you, check out the Hong Kong Movie Database at http://www.hkmdb.com/ . As you might guess, it's a site devoted to information on Hong Kong movies. It's set up a...
February 05, 2003A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
When does a ton weigh just over an ounce? How much alcohol is in a methuselah? And what is the diameter of a gnat's eye, anyway? These and other questions are answered by the Dictionary of Units of Measurement,...
Get Answers From Kansas
The state of Kansas has started KANAnswer, an online reference service for the residents of Kansas and for non-residents who have questions about Kansas. It's accessible at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/KLNB/KANAnswerWeb/index.htm . The service operates during bank hours basically -- M-F 9-5,...
February 04, 2003Disability Links in Subject Index
All Abilities ( http://www.allabilities.com ) is just that -- a subject index of links of disability resources. The top level of categories on the site is very Yahooesque -- it includes Arts & Entertainment, News & Media, and Shopping....
Sports Illustrated Covers
Almost fifty years' worth of Sports Illustrated Covers are available online at http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/covers/ . There are several ways to search this collection but the easiest way is a simple keyword search. Wondering how many times Pete Rose made the...
February 03, 2003Institute of Physics Makes Full-Text Searching of Journals Available
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has announced free full-text searching for their entire electronic journals archive back to 1874. This includes 172,000 articles, starting with the Proceedings of the Physical Society of London in 1874. You can search the...
Continue reading "Institute of Physics Makes Full-Text Searching of Journals Available" » Check Your Rank in Google
Why care about where Google ranks your page? If you're selling something, you probably do. You might also have some concerns about where your competitors are ending up, or want to try experiments with different keywords on your home...
Resources for the Columbia Disaster
I normally don't provide events-based information/coverage, but with Columbia I feel compelled to make an exception. Some places you can get information/background on the Columbia disaster: NASA Human Spaceflight Site -- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ Yahoo's Coverage -- http://tinyurl.com/58lv Google News Search...
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