Genealogy
Cyndi's List
- of genealogy links
Family Search
- massive Mormon database
The General Register
Office for Scotland
The Public Records
Office
Roots Web
UK
Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange
Geographical Information
CIA World
Factbook
Multimap
- the whole of Britain to street level
Strolling -
virtual tourism of London, Paris and New York
Internet Newsgroup Searches
Deja Com - the search
engine for the thousands of Usenet newsgroups
The Invisible Web
Much of the material on the web is in databases which are not indexed
by the search engines.
You can read how to access this material in an article by Chris Sherman,
at The
Guardian Online. The addresses below are taken from that article.
The Invisible
Web
AlphaSearch
Direct
Search
Librarians' Index
to the Internet
Pro Fusion
Local Information (UK)
This is Britain
Up My Street
Medical
Medline
Plus - aimed at the general public
Museums and Art Galleries
The British
Museum
The Louvre
The National
Gallery
The Natural History Museum
The Science Museum
News (UK National)
BBC News Online - search from November
1997
The Electronic
Telegraph - with searchable archives back to 1994
Finanacial Times
Guardian Unlimited
- searchable archives from 1/9/98
Newspapers (USA)
New York Times
On-Line Reference
Ask Dr. Universe
(at Washington State University)
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Online
Refdesk - links
to thousands of reference sources
See also: The Invisible Web
Science
BBC
News Sci/Tech
The British
Museum
Eureka Alert!
US press releases and links
British National Space
Centre
NASA
The Natural History Museum
Nature
New Scientist
Sci-Central
- academic science links
The Science Museum
Science Fiction:
Dreamwatch Online
SF Crowsnest
s.f. portal and search engine
SFX
Telephone and Address Directories
BT PhoneNet
UK - free uk directory enquiries from BT
Yell - onlive version
of UK Yellow Pages
Transport (UK)
Railtrack Timetables
UK Government
Open Government
- general entry point for government information