Society & Culture
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- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
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https://cagenweb.org/capioneer
The California Pioneer Project maintains a crowdsourced list of settlers who migrated to or were born in California prior to 1880, compiled from genealogical researchers across the country. Visitors can browse pioneer names by county, access Gold Rush-era diary bibliographies, search county biographical indexes, and connect with other researchers through a contact directory.
https://selkie0776.neocities.org/
Selkie's personal Neocities page blends lolita fashion, emo/j-pop music fandom, and retro 2000s web aesthetics into a charmingly nostalgic corner of the internet. Visitors will find blog entries, fanlistings, a guestbook, and a self-introduction from a Biology major with interests spanning Black Veil Brides, VOCALOID, casual lolita fashion, and exotic animals.
https://messiahscriptures.neocities.org/
Messiah Scriptures is a freely shareable online collection of New Testament books, Apocrypha, and the Tanakh, organized for easy navigation by individual book. The site emphasizes open access, explicitly encouraging sharing and linking under a FOSS-style ethos.
https://faintlymacabre.neocities.org/
A hauntingly atmospheric personal site by faintlymacabre that greets visitors with an immersive graveyard narrative, drawing them in with will-o'-the-wisp imagery and eerie, lyrical prose. The creative landing page sets a macabre, otherworldly tone that hints at a richly themed personal space waiting beyond the entrance.
http://openhymnal.org/
The Open Hymnal Project is a freely distributable database of Christian hymns, spiritual songs, and prelude/postlude music available for download as PDFs, MIDI files, MP3s, and ABC Plus source files. With multiple seasonal editions including Christmas, Lent/Easter, and a Visitation Edition designed for bringing music to the sick, this is a remarkable labor of love for congregations and musicians seeking open-source hymnody.
https://phantomrats.neocities.org/
Phantomrats is a personal Neocities page by a creator who goes by 'phant0m', greeting visitors with a playful 'VIRUS ALERT' splash page. The site appears to be in very early or minimal stages, with little content beyond the landing page welcome.
http://academic-genealogy.com/californiastateinformation.htm
A comprehensive link directory covering California state resources for genealogists and historians, compiled by V. Chris and Thomas M. Tinney, Sr. as part of their Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory. Visitors can explore curated links organized by region (Northern and Southern California) and topic, including archives, databases, government records, library networks, heritage resources, and more.
https://jewishgen.org/databases/eidb
JewishGen's Ellis Island One-Step Search Tools, developed by Stephen Morse, provide powerful alternative search interfaces for the Ellis Island immigrant arrival database covering records from 1892 to 1957. Part of the broader JewishGen platform, this tool is particularly valuable for Jewish genealogy researchers tracing ancestors who passed through Ellis Island, with access to ship manifests and flexible search options beyond the official database.
https://deathindexes.com/
Created by Joe Beine, DeathIndexes.com is a comprehensive directory of links to online death records, obituaries, cemetery burials, wills, probate records, and death certificate indexes organized by U.S. state and county. An essential genealogy research tool, it also covers the Social Security Death Index and major city records for places like New York City, Chicago, and Detroit.
https://tilde.town/~rll
A sparse early member page on tilde.town, one of the original collaborative Unix communities that helped revive old-web culture. User rll muses briefly about creativity and pottery in a pair of timestamped journal-style entries from October 2014.