Society & Culture
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https://iagenweb.org/
The IAGenWeb Project is a volunteer-driven genealogy hub covering all 99 Iowa counties, offering free access to vital records, gravestone photos, census data, and historical military records. Part of the larger USGenWeb network, it receives over a million visits per year and features special projects ranging from Civil War rosters to Orphan Train rider records.
https://juniorgeneral.org/
Junior General is a free community-driven resource dedicated to teaching history through paper soldier miniatures, tabletop wargames, and interactive classroom scenarios spanning Ancients through Modern conflicts. Visitors can download printable paper miniatures organized by historical era, access battle scenarios like Pearl Harbor and the Korean War, and find articles on historical gaming in the classroom.
https://lovebyte.party/
Lovebyte is an annual online demoparty dedicated entirely to sizecoding, where competitors create intros, graphics, and music in extremely tiny file sizes ranging from 32 bytes to 1024 bytes. Held over a February weekend on Discord and Twitch, the event features multiple competition categories, seminars, bytejams, and showcases spanning oldschool platforms like ZX Spectrum and Atari to modern high-end and fantasy consoles.
HMS Gambia - C48
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https://hmsgambia.org/
A detailed tribute and historical record dedicated to the crews of HMS Gambia (C48), a Colony-class light cruiser that served from 1941 to 1960. The site features commission histories, crew biographies, ship photographs, a timeline, and association records, making it a rich resource for veterans, descendants, and naval history enthusiasts.
https://webring.sewifurs.org/
SEWI Furs is a webring connecting furries from southeastern Wisconsin and nearby areas, maintained by Lilia Roo. The site lists member websites with short bios and provides HTML templates so members can easily add webring navigation to their own pages.
https://idgenweb.org/idgenweb/families.html
The Idaho GenWeb Families page collects contributed Family Group Sheets, pedigree charts, descendant records, and historical photos for dozens of Idaho family surnames. Visitors can browse PDF documents for families like Steunenberg, Ledford, and Wilde, or explore pedigree charts submitted by researchers tracing their Idaho ancestral lines.
https://walkingfox.tripod.com/
Created by Sachem Walkingfox, this site is a dedicated resource on the Mohican, Pequot, and Mohegan peoples, covering their villages, burial grounds, ceremonies, and the preservation of traditional Native American words and culture. Visitors can explore sections on smudging, pipe ceremonies, pow-wows, and tribal history, making it a heartfelt effort to document and share Eastern Woodland indigenous heritage.
https://usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/railroads
Part of the NEGenWeb Project, this site documents Nebraska's rich railroad history with sections covering railroad accidents, worker biographies, job descriptions, and the railroads that served each county. Genealogists will find it especially useful for tracing ancestors who worked on or traveled the Iron Road across Nebraska, including records from the Railway Express Agency spanning 1850 to 1975.
https://dncj.ugent.be/
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (DNCJ) is a collaborative scholarly reference project uniting researchers from Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, the United States, and Belgium to document the full landscape of Victorian-era press and journalism. Covering individual journalists, editors, proprietors, printers, illustrators, publishers, and periodical titles in a single alphabetical sequence, it serves as a comprehensive reference for anyone studying 19th-century media culture.
https://de.genwebs.org/
DEGenWeb is Delaware's branch of the USGenWeb Project, offering genealogical records, historical documents, and research resources organized by the state's three counties: New Castle, Kent, and Sussex. Visitors can search the Delaware USGenWeb Archives by surname or place name, access tombstone transcriptions, census records, African American genealogy resources, and links to state libraries and historical societies.