Jackson Family Genealogy                                                        Table of Contents

HELPFUL LINKS & TOOLS
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Bill Buchanan's Overview of PAF 5.2 software
PAF 5.2 is the software used to create the data pages on this Jackson web site.
(available free here from www.familysearch.org)

New! Organizing Documentation

Copyright Info: http://www.progenealogists.com/copyright_table.htm  easy reference for what is now available for free use.

Census Records - History of and How to Use Them: 
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~haas/learningcenter/

Downloadable Forms for organizing your research:
http:www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html

Two sites with links to all county sites in all states: 
http://www.usgenweb.com
http://www.rootsweb.com/~websites/usa/index.html#county

County Finders:
1) Rootsweb: http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi
2) NACO: http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/usamap.cfm
        (This is great for finding cities or counties that are misspelled and therefore can't be located by rootsweb county finder!
         Also for determining when county was formed.  This is a favorite site!)
3) USGS: (Scroll down to USGS): http://www.searchforancestors.com/map/us.html
    The Rootsweb county finder is also on this site.

Calculate Birth Date from Death Data:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/in/county/orange/calculate.htm

Day of the Week Calculator:  http://geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/9714/zeller.htm

'Quaker' Dates (example:1722/1723)
www.illuminatrix.com/andria/quaker.html

Where are nearby towns?
http://geonames.usgs.gov/

New Jersey County Formation: (scroll down to, and click on New Jersey Counties to see chart)
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/toc.html

New Jersey Place Names; old and present:
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/njplace.html

West Virginia County Formation:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmonong/

North Carolina County Formation and Dated Maps:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/countyfm.htm

Georgia Vital Record Online (partial birth & death & Colonial Wills): 
http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/

Bill Buchanan's great list of Canadian research links