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Web Guides
Ready Reference
Dictionary.com
dictionary.reference.com
Offers a free dictionary, thesaurus, grammar guide, and links to foreign language dictionaries
U.S. Postal Service Zip-Code Finder
www.usps.com/zip4/
Telephone Directories
www.infobel.com/teldir/
For national and international phone directories
Mapquest
www.mapquest.com
Provides maps and driving directions both national and international
Business and Finance
Mass. Bedrock
www.massbedrock.org
For information on business and economic development in Massachusetts
Yahoo Finance
finance.yahoo.com
For stock reports, company profiles and up to date news about public companies
biz.yahoo.com/funds/
For mutual funds reports, Morningstar ratings, prospectuses
CBS MarketWatch
cbs.marketwatch.com
For up to the minute financial news, stock reports, mutual fund reports, analytical tools
Consumer Information
Better Business Bureau
www.bbb.org/
Massachusetts Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation
www.state.ma.us/consumer/
Purpose of this site is to inform and protect consumers. The site also includes a "Top 10 Consumer Links for Mass. Residents."
FirstGov for Consumers
www.consumer.gov/
Provides links to a broad range of online federal information resources.
Federal Citizen Information Center
www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
Accesses all consumer publications provided by the government.
Education
State of Mass. Department of Education
www.doe.mass.edu
Includes school and district profiles and information on the Mass. Teachers Examination.
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)-Mass. Dept. of Education
www.doe.mass.edu/mcas
MCAS Rankings
www.boston.com/mcas/
Provides district and individual school rankings by grade and subject.
Common Application
www.commonapp.org
Required by many colleges and universities for admission.
Financial Aid for College Students
www.ed.gov/studentaid/
Includes information about grants and loans, eligibility requirements, applying for financial aid, repayment, applying online, and other useful information.
SAT Exams
www.collegeboard.com
Includes information on registering for the exam, test and registration deadline dates, fees, and an online registration form.
Genealogy
Hingham Genealogy
freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~blackwell/ma/Hingham1893/Hingham1893.html
Contains parts of History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Volumes I-III by George Lincoln.
Hingham Cemetery
www.hinghamcemetery.org/
Provides names of persons and their burial plot locations in ‘Old Ship'/Hingham Cemetery.
Massachusetts Archives
www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm
Includes information about records kept at MassArchives and at other institutions.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints FamilySearch
www.familysearch.org
Comprehensive site containing information about starting family history, finding ancestors in their records collection, links to other genealogical websites, and the Family History Library Catalog.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
www.cyndislist.com
An extensive index (with links to the sites) of genealogical resources on the Internet.
Social Security Death Index
ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/
An index to basic information about people with social security numbers whose deaths have been reported to the Social Security Administration. About 98% of the people in the SSDI died after 1962, but some death dates go back as far as 1937.
Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary-Genealogy Resources on the Web
www.webrary.org/ref/genealogy.html
Includes links to useful genealogical websites, links to other libraries with genealogical collections, and information about how to go about doing genealogical research.
Government
Local
Town of Hingham
www.hingham-ma.com
State
State Senator Robert Hedlund
www.mass.gov/legis/member/rlh0.htm
State Representative Garrett Bradley
www.mass.gov.legis.member/gjb1.htm
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Homepage
www.mass.gov
Massachusetts Tax Forms
www.dor.state.ma.us
Mass. General Laws
www.lawlib.state.ma.us/mgl.html
Mass. Code of Regulations
www.lawlib.state.ma.us/mgl.html
Federal
Executive Office of the President
www.whitehouse.gov/president/
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
www.senate.gov/~kennedy/
Senator John Kerry
www.kerry.senate.gov/
Congressman William Delahunt
www.house.gov/delahunt/
Federal Tax Forms
www.irs.ustreas.gov/
Federal Web Locator
A gateway to all kinds of federal government information on the web.
www.infoctr.edu/fwl/
Health & Medicine
Medline Plus
www.medlineplus.gov
The best starting place for dependable, up-to-date consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library. Links to doctors, hospitals, disease and drug information, clinical trials, and more.
Massachusetts Physician Profiles
www.massmedboard.org
Mass. Board of Registration in Medicine lists doctors' education, training, board certification, specialties, malpractice claims, and disciplinary actions.
Jobs & Careers
Boston Globe Job Listings
bostonworks.boston.com
Mass. Division of Career Services & Mass. Division of Unemployment Assistance
www.detma.org
Monster.com
www.monster.com
Provides national and international job listings
Occupational Outlook
www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
A national source of career information provided by the U.S. Department of Labor
Law
Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries
www.lawlib.state.ma.us
Good starting point for Massachusetts as well as federal law. Links to statutes, case law, forms, online librarian help, and more.
NOLO Self-Help Law Center
www.nolo.com
Commercial site whose mission is to provide information about everyday legal matters.
Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
www.martindale.com
Online version of the M-H directory of lawyers and other legal personnel.
Newspapers
Boston Globe
www.boston.com
Boston Herald
www.bostonherald.com
New York Times
www.nytimes.com
Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com
Patriot Ledger
www.ledger.southofboston.com
Hingham Journal
www2.townonline.com/hingham/
Newspapers Online
www.newspapers.com
Transportation
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
www.mbta.com
For bus, boat, commuter rail, and subway schedules, fares, Greenbush project information, and other information.
Logan Airport
www.massport.com/logan
For flight schedules, flight tracking, parking information, ground transportation to and from the airport, traffic information, links to airline websites and other information.
T.F. Green Airport, Providence
www.pvdairport.com
For flight schedules, parking information, Providence area traffic reports, ground transportation information, etc.
Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Co.
www.p-b.com
Includes bus schedules for Logan Airport, for buses between Boston, South Shore and Cape Cod, and other schedules and information.
Amtrak
www.amtrak.com
Includes train schedules, fares, and online reservation service.
Greenbush Project
www.cbbgreenbush.com
Website sponsored by CBB Greenbush ( Jay Cashman, Inc. and BalfourBeatty Const., Inc.) and MBTA. Gives a description of the project, status reports by town (including photos), a map of the line, and other useful information.
Utilities
Aquarion Water Company
www.aquarion.com/massachusetts.html
Comcast-Cable Company
www.comcast.com
Hingham Light Company
www.hmlp.com
Keyspan Energy
www.keyspanenergy.com
Verizon
www22.verizon.com
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