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GENEOLOGY
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Branching Out OnLine
www.didian.com/branch
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Branching Out OnLine sells itself as being
for those new to genealogy or new to the
Internet. 'Discover how to truly exploit the
resources available online. Learn more about
how to research effectively, maximize the time
you spend at the library, archives or
courthouses and save time on phone calls
across the country.' And, US-centric though it
is - 'courthouses' being a dead giveaway - it
gives you a masterclass in using search
engines effectively to get what you
want.
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Everton's Genealogical Helper
www.everton.com
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Salt Lake City-based resource that's
incredibly useful wherever you're living.
Really idiot-proof beginners guide to getting
started, plus a whole raft of links to other
sites and resources that will ease you on your
way. All this is backed up with fascinating
articles such as Searching Your Family Tree,
hints and tips from other seekers, and advice
on supplies and software you may find assist
your quest.
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Journal of Online Genealogy
www.onlinegenealogy.com
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Finding out about your antecedents can
quickly become a full-time job. Visiting
churchyards and perusing parish registers
around the country, periodical visits to the
Records Office. But the Internet really is at
its best for hobbies like this. And the
Journal of Online Genealogy scores in that it
focuses on how best to use your PC in tandem
with the Internet for digging up the past.
Expert information too on how to progress when
the trail runs dry.
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Office for National Statistics
www.ons.gov.uk
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First port of call if your family history is
confined to the British Isles is the Family
Records Centre, which holds birth, adoption,
marriage and death records as far back as
1837. You'll have to go to the Centre in
person (with your chequebook!) to get hold of
actual documents. But the procedure is clearly
laid out here. You can also order certificates
by email from the General Register Office in
Southport, provided you know which one you
want. The limitations are obvious: if you want
to go back further than 1837, you'll have to
visit local county record offices.
Nonetheless, it's more than likely that you'll
need to start here.
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Present Meets The Past
home.earthlink.net/~howardorjeff/instruct.htm
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What we particularly like about this site is
that it gets children and teenagers involved
in research into their past. The first step
is, of course, to talk to the grandparents,
and the emphasis is on having fun while you're
learning for both sides. In fact, the site is
so much fun and so easy to use with its links
and kits you can buy, that we'd recommend it
to adults too.
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Genealogy Home Page Tutorial
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7002/
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This is one for people who have already got a
family tree of sorts together and want to
share it with the Web and the world. There are
big advantages to getting your family tree
online, not least of which is that it is
likely to help fill in the gaps, as forgotten
17th cousins residing in Arkansas find your
site and contact you rather than the other way
round.
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Twenty Ways to Avoid Genealogical
Grief
www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/20ways
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We make no apologies for the fact that this
is not one of the most visually stunning sites
in this list. In fact, it's one of the most
boring looking websites you'll ever see. But
no matter, it's also one of the most useful.
The title says it all. Beginners to the
business of tracking down relatives waste
enormous amounts of time heading up blind
alleys, so let these guys provide you with a
map.
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Society of Genealogists
sog.org.uk
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Largely a means of publicising the work of
the Society of Genealogists (which costs
£7.50 to join, plus a £30
subscription fee - the application form is
online here), the website is sparsely
designed, but packed out with useful
information. The lists of UK lectures and
genealogy events is particularly handy and the
specific online extras provided include
discussion groups for members, a news service
for everyone else and of course, the requisite
list of links.
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Homework
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GCSE Bitesize Revision
www.bbc.co.uk/education/revision
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What the BBC claims to be the "first ever
revision guide via TV, books and the
internet". Bitesize is a nicely produced site,
with slick graphics of a smiling shark
(bitesize, geddit?) to guide you around. As
the name suggests, the site doesn't attempt to
talk you through endless reams of text -
there's very little point in that approach
online anyway - but instead provides
digestible, bite-size gobbets of information
to assist your GCSE revision, and if you get
stuck you can email a teacher with a
question.
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Homework Elephant
www.homeworkelephant.free-online.co.uk
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On the basis that elephants never forget,
presumably. This jumbo site has recently
debuted on the web. Its aim is to bring
students the best of the web in order to help
out with homework assignments. and will push
you in the right direction for specific help
on, say, Maths or Geography. There's content
too, of course, with monthly masterclasses,
currently featuring explorations into optics
and sound.
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Freeserve Revision
www.freeserve.net/education/examrevision
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Proving that Dixons' Internet service
provider has a few more tricks up its sleeve
apart from single-handedly revolutionising the
ISP market in Britain and selling bucketloads
of shares - the company has some A1 content
too. There are sections for each age band of
the national curriculum and for the core
subjects of English, Maths and Science. Key
subject areas are highlighted and you simply
click for revision tasks or tests.
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LineOne Learning
www.lineone.net/gcse/rev16
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Don't panic! LineOne produces a truly
excellent site to assist those in the throes
of revision for their English or Maths GCSEs.
It's a good, solid workout that you can't hope
to exhaust - the Maths site alone has more
than 1000 multiple choice questions, while the
English sections will test you on reading,
comprehension, punctuation, grammar and
spelling until you beg for mercy. If you're
still worried, click onto the Agony Aunt
section, where Janice will give you cool, calm
advice on how to best get through this tough
time.
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Galaxy Kids
www.galaxykids.co.uk
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Specially designed for pre-school and Year 1
and 2 pupils, Galaxy Kids aims to give three
to seven year olds a fun introduction to the
kind of work they will be doing at school.
It's a 52-week partwork, like the weekly
magazines 'building into a complete set' that
you see advertised on the TV, and includes
interactive stories, reading and writing
games, and an introduction to early maths
language and skills.
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GCSE Answers
www.gcse.com
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The sort of title bound to make any
despairing student in thrall to revision leap
to attention. Unfortunately, though, it's not
next summer's GCSE answers. Useful all the
same, not least because this site is compiled
by a group of teachers who know what questions
have come up, what questions are likely to
come up, and so have put together a series of,
well, questions basically, to give you
practice at fielding whatever the examiners
can throw at you.
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Schools Online
www.shu.ac.uk/schools/sci/sol/contents.htm
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An admirably friendly and informal site,
aiming to make science as approachable as
possible. The site is split into the Library,
where you are pointed in the direction of
other interesting websites, where you might
want to conduct research; the CafŽ, where
you can chat to scientists and other students
- "Ask them a question!" demands Schools
Online; the Lab, where you go to investigate
and experiment (and draw on experiments other
schools have done before.
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Topmarks
www.topmarks.co.uk
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An excellent piece of homework by primary
school teacher Sue Spolton. She's set out with
the altruistic aim of developing a free
website to help others use the internet
effectively for learning - an alternative to
subscription services. Topmarks is aimed at
pupils, teachers and parents, and is biased
towards the UK curriculum. Cleanly organised,
easy to use and navigate, it outshines many
professional sites. All the subjects are
searchable by age group.
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Recruitment
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Answers Recruitment
www.answers-recruitment.com
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Answers Recruitment is one of the leading
recruitment agencies for computer game
developers in the UK and also tracks down
people for many of the leading leisure
software producers in Europe. As well as the
technical and creative end, Answers handles
sales and marketing jobs and has an office in
France which deals with many of the positions
now coming up in the IT and new media
industries on the other side of the
Channel.
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Electronic Telegraph
www.appointments-plus.com
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Another Fleet Street heavyweight with an
enviable reputation for its recruitment pages.
Excellent for professional, especially
business jobs. The Telegraph is particularly
good for overseas appointments, and you can
search for jobs by location, be it the US,
Asia, Australia or whatever. Good too is the
county-by-county search for the UK. So tap in
'construction' and 'Leicestershire' and you'll
get a list of local jobs. Like having every
local paper at your fingertips.
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Index
www.index-group.co.uk
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A site dedicated to matching scientists,
wherever they are in the world, to the ideal
job, wherever that is in the world. The
emphasis is firmly on worldwide recruitment in
the spheres of information technology,
communications, engineering, pharmaceuticals
and environmental sciences. The site focuses
heavily on contract as well as permanent
positions, so why not go for that six-month
stint as a mechanical engineer in Zambia? Your
chance to work and see the world at the same
time.
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Jobs 4 Grads
www.jobs4grads.co.uk
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Jobs 4 Grads puts an exclamation mark after
its bannered boast: "The most complete
graduate jobs links page on the Net." Come on,
prove us wrong, they seem to be saying. But
cockiness is fine if you've got the goods to
back it. The site's big thing isn't its own
content of job ads, but an extraordinarily
detailed list of links to job vacancy
databases, newspaper job pages, university and
higher education sites plus a weighty A to Z
of potential employers.
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Gis a Job
www.gisajob.com
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Yosser Hughes is unlikely to have ever
conducted his desperate search for gainful
employment via the internet, but Gis a Job
nicks the seminal catchphrase from Boys From
The Blackstuff to set the irreverent tone of
this job hunting site. It may be flip but it's
a serious site, linking together 2396
employment agencies from around the UK, and
offering, when we visited, 77,650 jobs in IT,
the media, insurance and more. You enter your
search criteria - area, salary and so on, and
Gis a Job gives you a list of
suggestions.
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The Guardian
www.jobsunlimited.co.uk
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The only place to come if you're looking for
a job in the media, education, or social
services, the Guardian newspaper has
transferred its recruitment pages online with
some style. The volume of jobs in new media -
the Internet and the Web - is multiplying by
the week, and the paper has addressed this
with a standalone new media recruitment
section: you'll find it here.
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The Graduate Recruitment Company
www.graduate-recruitment.co.uk
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An eye-catching sentence on any recruitment
site are the words 'We are not an agency'. So
what do they mean? Graduate Recruitment places
candidates with companies as diverse as the
Financial Times, Capital Radio and PepsiCo. It
works in the fields of sales, PR, marketing
and recruitment and Information Technology -
including positions in support, development,
consultancy or programming. And that catch
line? Well they'll refuse to take you until
they've interviewed you and established you
are totally committed to your career
path.
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Web Recruitment Directory
www.recruiters.org.uk
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Anything that promises to be the ultimate
Internet resource for recruiters, employers
and jobseekers has a bit to live up to. The
Directory is a searchable database of
recruitment pages. The aim is to save needless
searching, and lets you seekers quickly find
the agencies and employers to assist with your
own specific needs. You can search the
directory by industry category, job type,
location, and so on.
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