"Sites Less Traveled"

Here are some interesting websites to consider when doing family history research, taken from an old newspaper article and recorded here so I can throw away the yellowed clipping.

Signing the Mayflower Compact - You can read what it said by exploring "The Avalon Project."

• The Avalon Project - Study old laws to learn why people did or didn't do certain things.
• British Advice - Help for researching your British ancestors.
• Bureau of Land Management - Access to land surveys.
• Documenting the American South - Primary sources for studying the South.
• 50 States - Links to interesting tidbits of information (weather, topography, laws, etc.) organized by state.
• American Women's History - Explore to discover more about your female ancestors.
• Harvard University Library - What was life like for an immigrant ancestor?
• Library of Congress American Memory - Learn about different places at various points in time in order to place ancestors in historical context.
• Life in Colonial America - Shed your 21st century mantle and feel what pre-Revolutionary War life was like.
• Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms - Know what ailments your poor ancestor was suffering.
• Weights and Measures - If an ancestor's property line ran 80 chains, how long was it? 

It was one mile long.