Family History Month - The Value of Old Money

In old documents we often read about the wages of our ancestors, or how much they paid for their rent, home, funeral etc. Have you ever wondered what the equivalent of that would be today? Here's a website that will help you to gain a better understanding of the value "back then" to the equivalent value today:

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

Or there is this link that shows old UK money in new money values:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/