Recommended Web Sites-- Pamunkey Regional Library

Recommended Web Sites

The following web sites were selected with the aim of being useful to residents of Virginia, particularly in the counties we serve. The Pamunkey Regional Library is not responsible for the content of the web sites listed below. Please let us know if there are any broken links or if you have questions or comments about any other part of our web site.

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Children and Teens
100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites
Accelerated Reader List (Hanover)
Accelerated Reader Lists (Goochland) (author) (title) (level) (points)
Acquinton Elementary School QuizList Interactive
(King William County Accelerated Readers)
Awesome Stories
Child Safety on the Internet (en Espanol) and (alternate link)
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
FEMA for Kids
GetNetWise
Great Sites
Hamilton-Holmes Elementary School Library
Hamilton-Holmes Middle School QuizList Interactive
(for King William County Accelerated Readers)
How Stuff Works
KidsClick
Kids' Search Tools
NASA's Space Place
Presidential Timeline
Science Fair Project Resource Guide

SciJinks
Stately Knowledge
Teens' Top Ten
Who Is My Legislator?

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Colleges and Universities
College Navigator
Educhoices
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
MIT OpenCourseWare
Randolph-Macon College
University of Richmond
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Education Wizard
Virginia Union University

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Community Information
Chesapeake Bay Program Web Site
Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
Hanover County Community Corner
Hanover ICare
King and Queen County's Information Trail
Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers Association
National Federation of the Blind Newsline
United Way
Virginia 2-1-1
Virginia Cooperative Extension
The Virginia Voice
West Point, Virginia

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Consumer Information
Annual Credit Report
Attorney General of Virginia's Consumer Assistance Page
Autotropolis.com
Boxoh.com Package Tracker
FTC.gov (information formerly on Consumer.gov)
Consumerist
Consumer Product Safety Commission (Recalls)
DTV Setup Assistance (through PinTech Corporation)
FuelEconomy.gov
GetHuman.com
IntelliChoice
Patient Advocate Foundation
The Squeaky Wheel
United Way's "Get Your Finances Fit!"
USA.gov (information formerly on Consumer.gov)
Virginia Grown Products
Virginia Medicare Supplement Insurance Premium Comparison Guide (PDF)
Virginia Office of Consumer Affairs

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Emergency Preparedness & Response
American Institute of Philanthropy
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance
Craigslist online community
DisasterAssistance.gov
Disaster Recovery
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Insurance Information Institute
National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD)
Network for Good
Red Cross
Salvation Army
United States Department of Homeland Security
USA.gov
Virginia Department of Emergency Management

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50+
AARP TaxAide Finder
AGS Foundation for Health in Aging
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel)
SeniorNavigator.com
SeniorNet.org
Social Security Retirement Planner
The Virginia Voice

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Financial Aid
FAFSA

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Genealogy
Goochland County Historical Society
Hanover County Historical Society
Historical Society of West Point, VA
King and Queen County Museum
King William County Historical Museum
Our Documents
Unknown No Longer (from the Virginia Historical Society)
The USF Africana Heritage Project
VAGenWeb
Virginia Genealogy (from the University of Virginia library)

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Government / Federal
Census Bureau
CIA World Factbook
Data.gov
Federal Citizen Information Center (formerly USA Services)
FedStats
GovEngine.com
Open Congress
United States Code
United States Patent and Trademark Office
USA.gov

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Government / State & Local
City of Richmond
Code of Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia Flag Status
Goochland County
Goochland County Code
GovEngine.com
Hanover County
Hanover County Code
Hanover County's Adopted Budget for Fiscal Year 2011
Hanover County's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for 2010
Hanover County's 2007 Population and Housing Data Report
Hanover County Board of Supervisors & Planning Committee Meeting Agendas
Henrico County
King & Queen County
King & Queen County Code
King William County
King William County Code
Town of Ashland
Town of West Point
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA)
Virginia Public Records
Virginia's Judicial System Forms
Who Is My Legislator?

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Health
Health-Related Web Sites
Virginia's Pandemic Flu DVD

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Home Schooling
Hanover Homeschoolers Yahoo! Group
Home Educators of Virginia
Kings Home Educators (supports Home Schoolers in King William and King & Queen Counties)
Richmond Area Homescoolers
VAHomeschoolers (formerly Virginia Home Education Association)

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Image Finders
Cities around the World
Colr Pickr
Google's Image File
Life Magazine Photo Archive on Google
Lycos Multimedia
Shorpy
WebPlaces

International
Asia Observer
Black Stump (Australia)
International Art Search Engine
Te Puna Web Directory (New Zealand and the Pacific Islands)

Job Search
Ashland Employment Opportunities
CareerBuilder.com (formerly Headhunter.net)
Careers and Job Searching pathfinder
Goochland County Employment Opportunities
Hanover Career Student Resource, Inc.
Hanover County Employment Opportunities
Indeed.com
King William County Employment Opportunities
Occupation Outlook Handbook
PRL Careers & and Job Searching Information
RichmondJobNet
SimplyHired
Starting a Business in Hanover County
Virginia Career View
Virginia Department of Human Resource Management
Virginia Employment Commission
Virginia Workforce Connection
West Point Employment Opportunites

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Libraries
Archive.org
British Library
Chesterfield County Public Library
Digital Library of Appalachia
Henrico County Public Library
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Library
Library of Congress
Library of Virginia
National Archives
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
New York Public Library
City of Richmond Public Library
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired Library & Resource Center
Virginia Library Association
Virginia Memory
Virginia Public Library Web Sites

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Literacy
READ Center
Arizona Association for Lifelong Learning
Helping Adult Students Improve Reading Skills (.pdf)
Literacy Information and Communication System
PBS Literacy Link
ReadPrint
Adult Learning Activities
Family Phonics Online
Teachology: Phonics Worksheets
ReadWriteThink: Student Interactives

Newspapers
Current Newspapers
Central Virginian
Daily Press
Goochland Courier
Goochland Gazette
Herald-Progress
Mechanicsville Local
Newspapers for the Blind
New York Times
Rappahannock Times
Richmond.com
Richmond Times Dispatch
Tidewater Review
Today's Front Pages
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post

Historical Newspapers
Chronicling America (Historic U.S. Newspapers)
Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860-1865)
Virginia Gazette (1736-1780)

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Schools
Public Schools
Hanover County Public Schools
Goochland County Schools
King William County Public Schools
King & Queen County Public Schools
Virginia Department of Education
West Point School System

Private Schools
Aylett Country Day School
Hanover Academy
Liberty Christian School

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Science
Astronomical Applications Dept. of the U.S. Naval Observatory
Encyclopedia of Earth
How Stuff Works
National Science Foundation
Public Library of Science
Science.gov
Scirus
Scitopia
The Society of Environmental Journalists
World Wide Science

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Search Engines
AltaVista
Ask.com
Bing
BlindSearch (search engine comparison tool)
Excite
Google
MetaCrawler
NoodleTools Search Checklist
oSkope Visual Search
Quintura Kids
WebCrawler
Wolfram|Alpha

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Subject Guides
Internet Public Library 2 (formerly Internet Public Library and Librarian's Internet Index)
Internet Scout Report
ResourceShelf
Yahoo!

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Tax Information and Forms (Federal and State)
AARP TaxAide Finder
Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation home page
Commonwealth of Virginia State Tax Forms
Federal Tax Forms
Federation of Tax Administrators
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

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TV Stations (Local)
WTVR/CBS (local digital channels 6.1 & 6.2)
WRIC/ABC (local digital channel 8.1)
WWBT/NBC (local digital channels 12.1 & 12.2)
WXOB-LP/Religious Independent (low power UHF channel 17)
WCVE/PBS (local digital channels 23.1, 23.2, & 23.3)
WRLH/FOX (local digital channel 35.1)
MynetworkTV and THIS (local digital channel 35.2)
WZTD-LP/Telemundo (low power UHF channel 45)
WRID-LP/Daystar (low power UHF channel 48)
WCVW/PBS (local digital channel 57.1)
WUPV/CW (local digital channel 65.1)

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Virginia Arts, Culture & History
Accessible Virginia new!
American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
Children's Museum of Richmond
Civil War Preservation Trust
Civil War Traveler
Encyclopedia Virginia
Frontier Culture Museum
Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson
Montpelier Center for Arts and Education
Museum of the Confederacy and the Confederate White House
On to Richmond! Civil War & Emancipation 150th
Poetry Society of Virginia
Richmond Ballet
Richmond Battlefield Park
Science Museum of Virginia
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Virginia Opera
Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the American Civil War
Virginia TimeTravelers
Virginia Tourism

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Virginia Indians
The following Virginia Indian Tribes are recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia, as of February 2011:

Chickahominy
Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe, Southampton County, VA
Eastern Chickahominy
Mattaponi
Monacan Indian Nation
Nansemond
Nottaway Indian Tribe of Virginia
Pamunkey
Patawomeck
Rappahannock
Upper Mattaponi

These Virginia tribes (except for Pamunkey and Patawomeck) are listed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' List of Petitioners (PDF) as seeking status as tribes recognized by the U.S. government. Others listed as petitioners include the following tribes and/or nations:

Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation
United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia
Wicocomico Indian Nation

No Virginia tribes are included in the federal Tribal Entities List (PDF) as of August 2009.

More Recommended Web Sites on Virginia's Indians

American Indians in Children's Literature (book recommendations)
Oyate (book recommendations, all tribes)
American Indian Resource Center, College of William & Mary
Virginia Council on Indians
Monacan Ancestral Museum in Amherst County
Pamunkey Indian Museum in King William County

Chief Powhatan's deerskin cloak, decorated with shell beads ("roanoke")

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Voters' Information
Voting and Election Related Web Sites