HIT: Web Sites for Senior Citizens (long)

[Kalliopi Mantalias <Kmantali@CCSD.EDU>]

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who contributed to this list!  I
hope others will find it useful as well.

Genealogy

Gallimaufry
http://sml.simplenet.com

Family Tree Maker Online
www.familytreemaker.com

Genealogy Home Page
http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw

 Surname List Name Finder
 http://www.rand.org/cgi-bin

 How to Do Genealogy and Oral History
 http://www.clpgh.org

Ancestry
http://www.ancestry.com

Names


British Columbia Vital Statistics (most popular baby names, 1996):
  http://www.hlth.gov.bc.ca/vs/births/babyname.html

 Top Names for Baby, Alberta, Canada, 1996:
 http://www.crowfoot.com/plates/babies.htm

Baby Names in Michigan, 1995:
 http://www.mdmh.state.mi.us/PHA/OSR/NAMES95.HTM

 BabyCenter (popular baby names, past and present):
 http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/popnames.html

 1990 U.S. Census (has section on frequency of male and female
  first names):
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/genealogy/www/freqnames.html

 First Names and What They Mean:
  http://www.zelo.com/firstnames

 The Etymology of First Names:
 http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~mcampbel/etym.html
 http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~mcampbel/etym/top.html
 http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~mcampbel/etym/sources.html


Travel

Southeast Asia Travel Diary
http://edweb.gsn.org/seasia

Elderhostel
http://discover-net.net/~jimo/eldnote/current.html

MapQuest!
http://www.mapquest.com/


Sending Flowers

Virtual Florist
http://www.virtualflorist.com/vf/index.htm

Recipes

Goya
http://206.184.128.8/goya/Recipe.html


Lifelong Learning

Elderhostel
http://www.elderhostel.org


General Interest

Senior Citizen World Wide Web Sites
http://k12.oit.umass.edu/senior.html
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/RESOURCES/seniors.html

Disability Information
http://www.rsa.lib.il.us/~mitbc/disabled.htm


Pot-Luck
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/RESOURCES/

Libraries
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/LIBRARIES/

Kelley Blue Book Official Guide
http://www.kbb.com/

Agepage.com- information and resource for aging population
http://www.agepage.com/

National Senior Citizens Law Center- advocacy for low income elderly
individuals
http://www.nsclc.org/

SeniorNet- nonprofit organization for computer-using seniors
http://www.seniornet.org/

SeniorLink- national eldercare resource, referral and consultation Web site
for seniors and their families
http://www.seniorlink.com/

Seniorcom- site for seniors that includes chat site and Senior News Network
http://www.senior.com/

Social Security Online- the government agency web site
http://www.ssa.gov/

Medicare- official government site for information about Medicare
http://www.medicare.gov/index.asp


Administration on Aging- Internet and e-mail resources on aging, lots of links
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/pages/jpostlst.html

National Aging Information Center- lots of links to senior information
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/naic/

ThirdAge
http://www.thirdage.com/

Books, Authors, Literature
http://www.microfusion.com.au/

News & Newspapers
http://www.microfusion.com.au/

AARP
http://www.aarp.org/

Mail A Meal Gourmet Postcards
http://mailameal.com

NAUPA (National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators)
http://www.unclaimed.org/


http://www.lyrics.ch
International lyric server which includes lyrics for 76767 songs for all ages.

http://www.bluemountain.com
The easiest way and cheapest way to send animated greeting cards for all
occasions...no cost.

http://www.allmovie.com/amg/movie_Root.html
All-movie guide - online film and video database accessed by title, actor
or keyword.

http://www.ebig.com
Encyclopedia Britannica online with not only info but also links to major
newspapers, art galleries, etc.

Brittanica Internet Guide
http://www.ebig.com/

Librarians' Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/

Online Bookstores
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com.

Listservs (Mailing List Directories)
http://www.liszt.com/

Cats
http://www.ee.techpta.ac.za/cats/catrule.html
http://www.ee.techpta.ac.za/cats/
http://www.imall.com/archives/cats.html

Dogs
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/guide.html
http://www.srdogs.com/
http://www.dogsonline.co.uk/

Search Engines
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.altavista.digital.com
http://www.webcrawler.com



Kelly Mantalias                         "Reading is to the mind what
Library Media Specialist                 exercise is to the body"
Laurel Plains Elementary School                 --Sir Richard Steele
New City, NY                                            1672-1729

kmantali@ccsd.edu

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