June 18, 2008, Vol. 2, Issue 13

Summer issues of our self-described ‘pithy’ research newsletter will be slim and trim. We figure you want to finish your work quickly so you have more time to barbecue and lounge by the pool. (Or was that us?) Either way, we’re here if you need us (please call!) and we’ll do our best to quickly bring you some entertaining research sites all summer long.

Public Records

The Public Records Online Directory is a Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors’ and Recorders’ offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. Some Recorders’ offices have marriage and birth records available online. Although not every county and parish has data online, many have home pages, and where neither is available a phone number has been provided. We’ve found this to be very useful.

Intermezzo

25.jpg We are constantly asking the age-old question. What are you making for dinner? Well, this should help. Food Blog Search is a speedy little search engine that searches for recipes in more than 2,000 food blogs. You have a food blog of your own? Have it added! No problemo.

Timelines.

You’ve been there. Someone wants to match up something with a historical timeline. Or make a nice new one. Or, you really just want to see the progression of an idea or event. You are going to love Dipity. Check out gas prices and events over time or the history of the Beatles. Or anything in between.

RSS?

You have all your favorite feeds set up. But there are still sites out there without an RSS feed. So what’re you to do? Get emails? Check the pages? Well, you can, of course. Or you can go to Feedity. There, you can convert any page or search into a feed. We love, love, love it.

Stump the Researcher

A loyal reader asks: You’ve told us about Skinny Zips which tells you a ton about each area, but it doesn’t solve my problem today. Now I want to see where the zip code is. Help?

Our pleasure. Look here.

Off we go

We have work to do. (Thanks for that!)