Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://snowy.neocities.org/
Skylar's farewell update to a Neocities site she built at age 15, reflecting on five years of growing up, changing interests, and finding community on the indie web. A heartfelt time capsule that captures the bittersweet experience of revisiting a teenage online presence and saying goodbye to it with gratitude.
http://txgenweb.org/
The TXGenWeb Project is a volunteer-driven genealogical and historical effort covering all counties in Texas, offering free access to online databases, surname queries, vital records, cemetery listings, and local historical background. Part of the larger USGenWeb network, it serves as a gateway to county-level resources that help researchers trace their Texas ancestors and explore regional history.
http://combinedfleet.com/
Nihon Kaigun is a comprehensive reference site dedicated to the Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II, covering topics from battleships and aircraft carriers to tactics, logistics, ordnance, and doctrine. With partner resources like a WW2 Database and IJN Doctrine forum, it serves as a hub for serious researchers and enthusiasts of Pacific War naval history.
http://firstsettlersshenandoahvalley.com/
The First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley is a non-profit lineage society founded in 2009 to honor and memorialize those who arrived in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley prior to January 1, 1800. The organization collects and preserves family histories, lineages, and historical records while connecting descendants of early settlers and offering professional genealogy research services for Augusta County, Virginia.
https://candyteeth.neocities.org/
Mortis (also known as Bones) runs this chaotic, expressive personal homepage celebrating their identity as a furry, otherkin, and queer teen with a love of electronic music, drawing, and computers. The site is a classic old-web personal introduction page packed with identity labels, webring participation, and the unapologetic weirdness its creator wears as a badge of pride.
https://tilde.town/~bear
Bear's tilde.town home features a thoughtful collection of small web tools, projects, and reflections on the philosophy of personal sites as living documents rather than static printed pages. The page links to creative coding experiments, note-taking tools, a write.as publishing platform, and musings on how people change over time in ways that chronological blogs fail to capture.
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/
Dave Pollard's long-running blog tackles civilization's collapse, free will, ecological crisis, and the search for a more meaningful way to live, blending personal essays with sharp cultural criticism. The site features original short stories, poems, and satire alongside deeply considered posts on philosophy, collapse theory, and the nature of human conditioning.
https://avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.htm
The Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI), presented by Avotaynu, provides searchable access to over 699,000 surnames drawn from 42 genealogical databases containing more than 7.3 million records. Using the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System for phonetic grouping, it is an invaluable tool for anyone researching Jewish family history and tracing surname variants across historical records.
https://algenweb.org/bibb/court/minutes/1826circuitmin.html
Part of the ALGenWeb project, this page presents transcribed Circuit Court minutes from Bibb County, Alabama spanning 1826 to 1836, compiled by Jacquelyn Cox Otts in 1993. Researchers tracing Alabama ancestors will find case-level details including names, dates, and legal proceedings such as divorces, land disputes, and criminal matters drawn directly from the original record books.
https://grrrl.valentinely.cc/
Made by a Girl is a mini clique run by lapin that lets website creators proudly display that their site was handcrafted by a girl. Members can grab one of the provided badges and link back to show solidarity with girl-made corners of the web.