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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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