TELEPHONE SEARCHES:
There are over 105 million listings from USA & Canada available for searching online. Search by name, phone number, occupation, etc.
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AnyWho InfoSpace Yahoo People Search SwitchBoard 555-1212 Telephone Directory BizForm LookUP PayPhone Pagenet C2 USWest |
http://www.anywho.com/ http://www.infospaceinc.com/ http://phone.yahoo.com/ http://www.switchboard.com/ http://www.555-1212/com/aclookup.html http://www.contractjobs.com/tel/ http://www.networkx.com/bonnyville/bizform.html http://www.abii.com/ http://ww.payphones.com/ipp.htm http://www.pagenet.com/ http://www.c2.org/ http://www.w3.uswest.com/directorysource/ |
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Various telephone directories and searchable sources of telephone numbers, including a reverse telephone lookup and links to sites that will map the address for you. |
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BigBook GTE SuperPages Big Yellow World Yellow Pages Yellow Pages Online Internet Yellow Pages Macmillan Computer Publishing AT&T 800 Big Foot |
http://www.bigbook.com/ http://www.superpages.com/ http://s12.bigyellow.com/ http://www.worldyellowpages.com/ http://www.ypo.com/ http://yellowpage.net/ http://www.mcp.com/directories/ http://att.net/ http://www.bigfoot.com/ |
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World Yellow Pages and 800 Numbers |
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Search college telephone books from around the world |
gopher://gopher.nd.edu:70/11/ |
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Click on "Non-Notre Dame Information Sources", then click on "Phone Books—Other Institutions". A vast collection of searchable telephone books and other directories. |
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E-Mail Searches:
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Internet 411 Who Where Internet Address Finder LookUP! Email Database World Email Directory Netfind Gateway ESP Mailbox Search
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http://www.Four11.com/
http://www.whowhere.com/
http://www.iaf.net/
http://www.lookup.com/
http://worldemail.com/wede4.shtml
gopher://ds.internic.net:4320/1netfind
http://ww.mailbox.co.uk/esp
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Search for email addresses using these databases, which provide directories of addresses akin to a "White Pages" for the Internet. |
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Internet Searches:
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Finger Gateway Finger InterNIC White Pages WhoIs Gateway Domain Names |
http://polaris.net/gateways/FingerGw.html http://alpha.acast.nova.edu http://www.internic.net/ http://www.bdt.com/cg1-bin/whois http://ibc.wustl.edu/domain_form.html/ |
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Find a person’s name, phone number & address based on an email address. Find any registered person, domain, resource, product or service available on the internet, including the worldwide X.500 directory. |
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Web site index
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http://www.einet.net/ http://www.apollo.co.uk/ |
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A massive index of Web sites in hundreds of categories ranging from "Business & Commerce" to "Social Sciences". Accessible through a keyword search engine. |
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Reference.Com |
http://www.reference.com/ |
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Reference.COM makes it easy to find, browse, search, and participate in more than 150,000 newsgroups, mailing lists, and web forums. |
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NetCheck |
http://www.netcheck.com |
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The Netcheck Commerce Bureau serves as an important vehicle in the effort to increase and insure Ethical Commerce on the Internet. The people who shop the Member companies with confidence, and those who have had problems with other companies, can file complaints when something goes wrong. The Netcheck Commerce Bureau was created as a service for the people. Netcheck gives the public, not government intervention, the ability to report on company to company and consumer to company business practices throughout the world. |
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VIRTUAL LIBRARIES:
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Stanford internet public library Carrie U.S. House of Reps Internet Law Library |
http://celtic.stanford.edu/vlib/Overview.html
http://www.ipl.org/ http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html http://law.house.gov/ |
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Online "virtual" libraries that enable you to search for ANYTHING, anywhere. |
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Online Reference & Research |
http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html |
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Incredible site for useful tools: language (dictionaries, rhymes, thesaurus, translators), library (people, religion, quotations), geographical (maps, telephone, facts), financial (currency converter, stock quotes), shipping (zip codes, package tracking) and internet (listserv searches) |
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Index of radio, TV, cable companies Online index to all forms of media – from cable TV to newspapers to radio stations |
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MediaFinder |
http://www.mediafinder.com/ |
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Searchable database of magazines, catalogs, newsletters, newspapers, directories, mailing lists, advertising and periodicals. |
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News Services:
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FacsNet |
http://www.facsnet.org/ |
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Used by reporters to search for insight, background and sources for all top issues. Contains links to all the major news services. |
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NJO NewsFlash AP News Headlines Reuters News Headlines AP News Summaries Reuters News Summaries |
http://wire.nj.com http://www.newsday.com/ap/topnewsx.htm http://www.206.2.79.12/reutersnews/index.html http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/news/summary.html |
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Check these sites daily for the latest news. |
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MAPS:
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MapQuest Proximus GeoCities Map It MapsOnUs Semaphore Corp. Interstate Highway Link City Maps MapBlast Yahoo Point-to-Point Driving Instructions |
http://www.mapquest.com/
http://www.proximus.com/lycos http://www.geocities.com/ http://ww3.mapsonus.com/ http://www.semaphorecorp.com/ http://interstatelink.com/isl/ius.html http://www.city.net/ http://www.vicinity.com/ http://maps.yahoo.com/yahoo/ |
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Interactive maps for locating any residence, business, address, or city in the continental U.S. |
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Address Servers:
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U.S. Postal Service |
http://www.usps.gov/ |
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By selecting a city and state, you can look up any zip code or get a listing of the local post offices. The USPS site lets you track Express Mail online, submit a change of address form electronically, or determine the postal rates for overseas mail. |
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Address Server
Geographic Name Server Nat’l Address & Zip+4 Server |
http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/direct/phone.htm/ http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu.adserv.html/ http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo http://www.semaphorecom.com/cgi/form.html/ |
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Given a valid U.S. postal address, this server attempts to rewrite the address in the proper format along with the ZIP+4 code. If it is successful, you can retrieve a Postscript or a GIF file of the address for printing, with a barcode! You can also view a street map of the address, from 2 different Internet map sites (MapBlast and MapQuest). |
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People Searches:
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Vital Records State Vital Records MedAccess |
http://www.inlink.com/~nomi/vitalrec/staterec.html http://www.medaccess.com/address/vital_toc.htm |
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State-by-state listing of available sources of vital records. This database gives you the state government addresses for where to write to vital records including birth, marriage, divorce, and death records. |
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Social Security Social Security Death Index (SSDI) SSN Lookup Social Security Administration |
http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi/advanced.htm http://informus.com/ssnlkup.html http://www.ssa.gov/ |
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SSDI can be used to determine if the one you are looking for is no longer with us. The SSN Lookup allows you to find out if a SSN is valid and when & where it was issued. The SSA site allows you to request personal earnings & benefit estimate statements. |
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Missing & Exploited Children Project Find Child Quest |
http://www.missingkids.org/ http://www.projectfind.com/ http://www.childquest.org/ |
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Extensive databases of missing children and suspects, complete with pictures. Project Find includes also includes missing adults afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. |
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U. S. Surnames |
http://www.hamrick.com/names/ |
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Are you curious where other people with your same last name (surname) live in the United States? Interested in genealogy? Just enter any name into the form below, and you’ll see a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States. This database contains the 50,000 most common surnames in the United States. |
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CSRA Online |
http://kadima.com/ |
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CSRA Online presents a unique database for people tracing on the Internet. This database consists of over 170 million names, 125 million with date of birth compiled from multiple public, private, and proprietary sources. The database is continually enhanced by the integration of additional records to produce a database of exceptional breadth and depth. |
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Directory of Database Services |
http://www.facsnet.org/report_tools/CAR/cardirec.htm |
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Are you curious where other people with your same last name (surname) live in the United States? Interested in genealogy? Just enter any name into the form below, and you’ll see a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States. This database contains the 50,000 most common surnames in the United States. |
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Adoption Parent Finders BirthQuest Searchable adoptees databases |
http://www.idir.net/~pbrown/ http://www.access.digex.net/~vqi/top.html http://www.adopting.org/adoptees.html |
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Online international searchable databases dedicated to searching adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and siblings. |
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Class Mates |
http://www.classmates.com/ |
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This unique new service helps high school alumni friends find each other. When you join ClassMates you get access to e-mail addresses for other registered alumni and make it possible for your old school friends and reunion organizers to contact you. Has registrants from more than 25,000 high schools covering all 50 states, Canada and about 300 American/Canadian territorial and overseas high schools. |
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Pilots |
http://www.landings.com/ |
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Find anything and everything about aviation. Searchable databases contain over 680,000 pilots, 16,000 airports, 260,00 A&P mechanics and ratings database entries, serial and n-number databases have over 300,000 entries. |
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Celebrity Addresses |
http://members.aol.com/RIPOKICKS/index8.html http://www.springrose.com/celebrity/ |
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celebrity e-mail addresses, including NBA, NFL, MLB and WWF superstars. |
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Forbes 400 richest Forbes Billionaires Directory |
http://www.forbes.com/Richlist/richquer.htm
http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/billionaires/index.asp |
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There are online indices of the entire Forbes Four Hundred sorted by wealth or name. Search for the world's richest by name, country, or net worth. Each entry includes worth, source of wealth, and short biographical sketch. |
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Credit Reporting:
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Credit Bureau More Credit Reports Financial Service (non-profit) Equifax Experian (formerly TRW) Confidential Credit |
http://www.creditbureau.com/ http://www.budhibs.com/crdrpt.htm http://www.cccsedu.org/ http://www.equifax.com/ http://www.experian.com/personal.html/ http://www.dealernet.com/reynolds/credit/ccredit.htm/ |
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Sites that provide you the ability to obtain copies of your credit report, correct discrepancies on your report, obtain credit counseling, repair, and other financial services. |
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GOVERNMENT
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Better Business Bureau |
http://www.bbb.org/ |
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Locate a local BBB or search their online resource library. |
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Defense Link USNI Military Database |
http://www.defenselink.mil/ http://www.ucg.com/defense/per_usn.htm |
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The purpose of DefenseLINK is to provide the public with a single, unified starting point for information about the Department of Defense, its organization and its functions. The DefenseLINK home page provides direct access to the Information Services established by each military department and organization. It also contains many Defense publications, answers to frequently asked questions about the department, and an easy-to-use search interface. |
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Bureau of Labor Statistics |
http://stats.bls.gov/ |
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor. The BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor. |
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Federal Web Locator |
http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html |
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The Federal Web Locator is a service provided by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy and is intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web. This list is maintained to bring the cyber citizen to the federal government's doorstep. |
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FedWorld Information Network |
http://www.fedworld.gov/ |
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Central access gateway to government agencies and information through subject category listings, U.S. government reports or through the Commerce Information Locator Service. |
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Federal Emergency Management Agency |
http://ww.fema.gov/ |
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Advising on building codes and flood plain management...teaching people how to get through a disaster...helping equip local and state emergency preparedness...coordinating the federal response to a disaster...making disaster assistance available to states, communities, businesses and individuals...training emergency managers...supporting the nation's fire service...administering the national flood and crime insurance programs...the range of FEMA's activities is broad indeed. |
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IRS |
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/ |
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Answers to tax questions, large number of IRS forms and publications, information for business, regulations, statistics and information about filing online. |
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National Record Archive |
http://www.nara.gov/ |
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Records in the National Archives document the government's policies, define how those policies are carried out, and offer insights into the experiences of individual Americans. They show the nation's expansion westward, the settlement of the land, the emergence of industrial America, the challenges of agrarian commerce, the story of American ingenuity, the fight for democracy, and the struggle for equality. They help to guarantee the accountability of the government to the American people and enable citizens to protect individual rights and liberties. Presidents and politicians, diplomats and soldiers, the famous, the infamous, and the ordinary citizen all have a place here. |
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Small Business Administration |
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/ |
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General information, resources for starting, financing or expanding a business, and a search engine for finding a specific SBA employee. |
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State Search |
Http://www.nasire.org/ |
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23 categories containing thousands of entries to help you find whatever you’re looking for in state government. |
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Thomas |
http://thomas.loc.gov/ |
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Full text of Congressional bills and the Congressional Record as well as links to additional House and Senate Member and Committee phone and address directories on those chambers' servers, a link to the House of Representatives page reflecting activities now on the House floor (if the House has adjourned, the page shows the last activity on the House floor) and a link to the page on the House of Representative's server showing today's committee schedules. |
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U.S. Bureau of the Census |
http://www.census.gov/ |
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The Census Bureau collects, analyzes and disseminates statistical data on our population and our economy. The public and private sectors use these data every day to help make important decisions that affect the lives of every U.S. resident. These data include everything from monthly imports and exports and retail trade activities to the age, race, and sex characteristics of our population, their living arrangements, and housing conditions. |
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CIA |
http://www.odci.gov/cia/ |
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Tour the CIA, search online publications, and links to other "intelligence" sites. |
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Government Accounting Office |
http://www.gao.gov/ |
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Free online access to GAO reports and testimonies. |
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Securities & Exchange Commission |
http://www.sec.gov/ |
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Its primary purpose is to provide the investing public with a reliable source of investment guidance, advice, and information so that they may make wise investing decisions. Information includes the EDGAR Database of Corporate Information, SEC News Digests and Public Statements, SEC Requests for Comments, andSEC Enforcement Actions, |
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U.S. Government Printing Office |
http://www.access.gpo.gov/ |
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The U.S. Government Printing Office is responsible for printing and distributing the printed and electronically disseminated publication of Congress and the executive departments of the federal government. |
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U.S. Patent Office |
http://patents.uspto.gov/ |
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This site contains both the US Patent Bibliographic Database (a freely searchable database of front page information from US patents issued from 1/1/76 to 11/11/97), and the AIDS Patent Database (a freely searchable database of the full text and images of AIDS related patents issued by the US, Japanese and European patent offices). |
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Korean War Project |
http://www.onramp.net/~hbarker |
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Online database tool for Korean War Casualties. Also has an area called Looking For, which allows inquiries for vets to be referenced to a page for units and reunions. |
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Military Locator Service This site contains a searchable active duty personnel database, overseas personnel database, duty losses database, two reserves databases and a military base locator database. |
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Navy Vessel |
http://www.semaphorecorp.com/gci/navy.html/ |
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Look up Zip+4 codes for U.S. Navy Vessels |
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Vietnam Era POW/MIA database |
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html |
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This database has been established to assist researchers interested in investigating the U.S. Government documents pertaining to U.S. military personnel killed, missing, or imprisoned in Southeast Asia during or after the conclusion of American involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. Researchers using this database can identify documents of interest by using search terms such as last name, country name, service branch, keywords, and statements such as "downed over Laos." |
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Department of Veterans Affairs |
http://www.va.gov |
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This site provides information on VA programs, veteran’s benefits, VA facilities worldwide, and VA medical automation software. |
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