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This provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I.
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Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records
The Official Land Records Site for the United States. This site has a searchable database of more than five million (1820-present) Federal land conveyance records, including scanned images of those records. There are also images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810. The site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.
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English Customary Weights and Measures
Explains the origins of the system still in use in the United States.
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Information on many areas of measurement including historical.
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Weights and measures.
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From Norsk Forlishistorisk Forening. Provides old Norwegian measurements included area, volume, and coinage.
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Translation table of old to contemporary units of measurement. Includes area, length, volume, weights, counts, speed, coins, & worldwide measurements.
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How Many? - A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
How many cloves in a stone? How many bushels to a seam? This is an encyclopedic listing of current, historical, and obscure measurements from around the world.
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Index of Imperial Russian Weights & Measures
In order to find and use specific types of Russian records, resarchers need to be able to identify and understand some key terms in the Russian language. This glossary contains terms relating to weights and measures in Imperial Russia, transliterated from Russian, along with their English translations. The terms included here are those that you are likely to find in Russian genealogical sources.
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Index of Imperial Russian Weights & Measures
From the Doukhobor Genealogy Website.
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International Committee for Historical Metrology
The International Committee for Historical Metrology (CIMH) intends to develop and advance the research on the field of history of measures and weights.
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Online Conversions - Conversion of Metric Units at Asknumbers.com
Conversions between different metrics of length, weight, temperature and more.
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