Other Sites (resources which may be helpful in various genetic projects, professional activities, and education)

shipping | multicultural resources | genealogy | legislation | travel | reference | news | health | other | animal genetics

• U.S. Nonprofit Gateway Web Network - links to 300,000 governmental agency web pages
• Government Web Search Tools, PhRMA
• FirstGov.gov, a single portal to nearly all online government resources, September 2000

Shipping packages

• Area Code Look-Up
• Federal Express package tracking
• UPS package tracking
• U.S. Postal Services

Multicultural resources

• Human Languages Page - dictionaries, translation programs, cultural resources for Spanish, German, French, Russian, Vietnamese, sign language, etc. etc. etc.
• Language Translations - instant online translations from one language to another
• Languages and Alphabets
  • Languages of the World - each language, appearance, where its used, special rules, etc.
  • Languages for Travelers - pick a language and learn the essentials
  • European Diacritics - details of special characters by language
  • Characters and Languages - list of characters used in languages around the world
  • ITU phonetic alphabet - complete with digitized sounds
  • Phonetic alphabets - a complete list (long)
  • ISO 8859 character sets
  • A guide to local slang by American city - also selected countries

Genealogy

• Ancestry.com Genealogy Library
• Cindi's Genealogy Home Page
• Everton Publishers Genealogical Helper
• Genealogy WWW sites
• The Genealogy Home Page
• Genealogy Software (Brother's Keeper)
• National Archives - Genealogy
• Pedigree Drawing Programs Software (for professional geneticists)

Legal / legislation information

• Guide to U.S. Congress
• THOMAS, Library of Congress - legislative information, track pending legislation

Travel Resources

• Airline toll-free numbers and websites
• Currency Converter, t-and ski.com
• Currency Converter, destination travel, create a currency cheat sheet to take with you, or convert a specific amount
• Discount Airfares Worldwide Online
• How Far Is It? - calculates distances between locations & provides a map
• Look Around: Travel, tourism
• MapQuest - U.S. Maps, Interactive Atlas, TripQuest
• QuickAid - airport travel services (airport directory), other
• The Rough Travel Guides
• USA Today - Bloomberg currency calculator

Reference Materials

• Acronym Database - decodes acronyms, or finds acronyms containing words
• Anagram Server - generates anagrams for name, word or phrase
• Bartletts Familiar Quotations, keyword searchable
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Famous Quotes and Quotations
• HyperHistory - 3000 years of world history online
• Phrase Finder - give a word, and tells you what phrases using that concept
• Quotations
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus - synonyms, etc.
• U.S. Zip Codes look up
• Webster's Dictionary Online

News / radio / TV/ newspaper

• National Public Radio

Health

• Kid's Height Predictor, WebMD
• Growth Charts, CDC
• Quackwatch: Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions
• Urban Myths and Legends - Health and Medical
• Women's Health (over 60), AMA
• Genetics, Women's Complete Health Book, LM Brzustowicz, 1995, American Medical Women's Association

Evolution / Science

• The Creation/Evolution Controversy, Don Lindsay

Web Site Tools

• Dr. Watson - link and style checker
• HTML style checking
• Net Mechanic - checks all links on web site either online or in batch and mails report
• Site Map - given a URL, generates site map
• WebSite Garage - check page for spelling, links, bandwidth efficiency, image compression
• Web Master resources
• WordBot - information about every word on web page

Interesting Tools

• Crossword Solver - description, produces list of matching words
• English to Hieroglyphic converter - English translated to Hieroglyphics
• What time is it now - find out the time right now in any city
• Word A Day by mail

English Resources

• Common Errors in English
• Elements of Style - use of language
• The English Server - English prose and poetry
• Frequency of names from the US Census
• Fundamental English vocabularies
• The King's English
• List of Homophones - Words sound the same, different meanings
• MRC Psycholinguistic Database
• The one hundred most frequently occurring words
• The Oxford Text Archive
• Palindromes
• Vocabulary Helper
• Word lists, Oxford University, various languages
• Xrefer, reference tools, British site with references including Oxford Dictionary

Other Reference

• Babel - a glossary of IT acronyms
• Biographical Dictionary
• Categorized Quotations
• The Book of Clichés
• Crossword a day
• Dictionary of foreign language computer terms
• Internet Public Library Reference Center
• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Project Gutenberg information, books and other materials
• Pronunciation Dictionary
• Quotations from Mark Twain
• Quotations
• The Quotations Page
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Shorter Oxford Dictionary word list
• Unfamiliar Quotations Quips, Quotations, and Quodlibets
• Word for the day
• The Word Detective
• What is - definitions of all things computational

Biology

• Biology Links, Miller's Biology

Animal Genetics

• Cat Color Genetics Primer & Feline Genetics Software, Congenital Defects (Feline Genetic Diseases), Tenset Tech. Ltd
• Dog Color Genetics Primer & Canine Genetics Software, Congenital Defects (Canine Genetic Diseases), Tenset Tech. Ltd

Revised January 13, 2003

   

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