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Find Lifespan Overlap With Chronos Crossfinder

Chronos Crossfinder Chronos Crossfinder takes a list of names of famous people and celebrities (ideally from the late 18th century forward) and checks with Wikidata to see if there are any places where the lifespans overlap. If there is, search URLs using that pair of names and the overlap timespan…

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Find Affiliations Between a List of People and a List of Organizations: PeopleLinx Affiliation Filter

  PeopleLinx Affiliation Filter (PAF) Enter a list of people separated by commas and a list of companies / organizations separated by commas. PAF will use Wikidata data to find affiliations between the first list and the second and present you with a list. I have checked 125 people against…

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Find Connections Between Names With Wikidata: PeopleLinx Affiliations Lookup

PeopleLinx Affiliations Lookup (PAL) Enter a list of names separated by commas. (I have entered up to 125 and that works, but it takes a minute to sort and group the names.) PAL will search Wikidata to find the education, employers, and organization memberships for each name and group names…

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Crony Corral: Match People/Companies/Organizations and Topics in Wikipedia

Crony Corral searches Wikipedia to find people/companies/organizations with matching Wikidata properties and further searches for Wikipedia topics they have in common. Properties searched include: P159: headquarters location – Location of the main office of an organization, company, or institution. P108: employer – Used to link a person to the organization…

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Organize Your Biographic Searches Into Time Spans with Biography Buckets

Do you ever find yourself doing research on a person where you have a name and a lot of biographical information, but no real direction for searching? Biography Buckets is for you. Biography Buckets takes biographical events or keywords associated with a person and uses them to build date-based searches…

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