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Calculators etc.
Age Calculator
Calculate the difference between any two dates. Use to calculate age at
death, or current age.
Birthdate Calculator
Calculate a birthdate from information found on a tombstone or death
certificate.
Birth Year Calculator
Cousin Calculator
Calculate the family relationship between two people who share a common
ancestor.
Day of Week Calculator
Enter date to calculate day of week.
Easter Holiday Finder
Enter year to calculate the date on which Easter falls.
Find out just
Exactly How Old
Are You?
Inflation Calculator
Calculate today's monetary value for ancestor's salaries, will bequests,
etc.
And another.
Do you want to know
what happened
on the day that you or your ancestor was born?
Perpetual Calendar
Enter month and year (0000 to 9999) to get calendar for that month.
Roman Numeral Converter
Convert a roman numeral to a decimal number. Roman numbers are often
found on tombstones or legal documents.
Time Capsule
Generate a Time Capsule page with headlines, consumer prices, birthdays,
songs, TV shows, toys, and books for the selected date. The years
included are from 1800 to 2005.
Julian to Gregorian Calendar Chart
Explanation of the calendar and its change from Julian to Gregorian.
Soundex Code
The Soundex code was developed to help negate
the effects of all the spelling variations that can occur for similar
sounding names (Meyer, Meier, Mire, and Smith, Smithe, Smythe, etc.).
This way, indexers can index records based on a Soundex code (how a
surname sounds) and *not* by how it is spelled.
Soundex Calculator
Convert surname to soundex code online. Find other surnames with the
same soundex code.
Another Soundex
Calculator
and another
Clipart
Kith 'n' Kin Clipart
http://www.jsmagic.net/kith/
http://www.isp.on.ca/genealogy/Graphics/default.htm
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Money Matters
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How Much is that Worth Today?
EH.Net calculator for comparing the
purchasing power of money in Great Britain from 1264 to any other
year up to the 21st century. It is one of a number of calculators
for comparing wages, prices and relative values at the website
How Much is that?
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UK Personal Inflation
Calculator
The Office for National Statistics
developed this web-based tool that allows users to calculate an
inflation rate based on their personal expenditure patterns, rather
than the averages used in published statistics.
Dollar-Pound
Exchange Rate From 1791
An exchange rate is the price of one currency
in terms of another currency. The exchange rate presented here is the
price of the British pound in U.S. dollars, that is, the number of U.S.
dollars per British pound. This is the traditional way in which the
relative price of the two currencies is compared.
UK
Retail Prices Index
Information about how inflation is
calculated and links to tables of data from the Office for National
Statistics.
Consumer Price Inflation Since 1750
A composite price index covering the
period since 1750.
Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750-1998.
House of Commons Library Research Paper
99/20.
Wartime cost of living
A list of prices of everyday items
Britain during the Second World War. The same site has information
on typical wages.
The Cost
of Living in 1888
Compiled by Richard Patterson.
Wages,
the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money
This is part of the economics section of
the Victorian Web a huge
website about literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria
maintained by Professor George P. Landow and colleagues of his at
Brown University in the United States.
The Cost of Living in Jane Austen's England
A brief article describing how a family
would manage on £250 a year, or, much more comforably, on £1,000 a
year. In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility Mrs John
Dashwood argued that her in-laws family would not know how to spend
half their money if they had £500 a year.
Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living
This article describes the coinage, wages
and cost of living in London from the late 17th century to the
beginning of the 19th Century.
Costs and Wages in Great Britain
Some examples of wages for particular
occupations and a small selection of prices taken from the book The English: A Social History, 1066-1945 by Christopher Hibbert,
London: Grafton Books, 1987.
Relative Value of Sums of Money
A set of tables compiled by Alan M.
Stanier from various sources giving wage rates for various
occupations in Britain at different times.
Wife Selling in Britain
Instances of wife Selling occurred in
Britain until late in the 19th century. It was regarded,
particularly by the poorer sections of society, as an alternative to
divorce. This account of various cases includes prices. The most
famous account of wife selling is in Thomas Hardy's novel
the
Mayor of Casterbridge. It was based on
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