FamilySearch (Internet
genealogy service of the LDS Church)
Includes information about millions of people worldwide,
including a large number who are hyperlinked to their families.
There are also hundreds of groups of genealogists registered
there who are sharing their research efforts with each other. You
can also locate a local branch of the Family History Library. And
there is a part of the site dedicated to teaching people the best
methods for doing family research.
At the FamilySearch site, there is also a link where you can download a free copy of a very good genealogical software program, Personal Ancestral File, which is capable of many functions, including importing and exporting other people's family trees.
Ancestry.Com
Includes an extensive index of U.S. censuses among many other
services.
Internet
Family Finder
Indexes more than 100,000 published family histories and other
information located on thousands of websites.
More name indexes:
http://www.genealogylibrary.com
http://searches.rootsweb.com/htdig/search.html
More name indexes are listed at http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Acres/8310/gens.html.
And here are a couple of place indexes with genealogical info
about specific places:
USGenWeb (which also has a
service where people volunteer to look up records for you)
GENUKI
WorldGenWeb
Scott
McGee's GenWeb Databases
including a royalty database, a Mayflower descendents/pedigree,
and quite a few family databases (including yours, if you can put
it online in the requested format)
GENDEX Databases
including *lots* of genealogies
Infobases Genealogical Databases
Janyce's ROOT
DIGGIN' DEPT.
including SOUNDEX Converter, SS DEATH INDEX (SSDI) LOOK-UP
SERVICE and COMPLETE Social Security Record INFORMATION, GEDCOM
to HTML Translator, VOLUNTEER GENEALOGY HELPLIST
Janyce's
Surname-to-Researcher Registry
including a listing for my very own William Swap of Scotland, the
one family name I am most interested in tracing further back.
George
Archer's Genealogical Guide to the Internet
including such helps as Mailing Lists, SEARCH ENGINES FOR
GENEALOGY, NEWS GROUPS (USENET), Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs), Queries, Good and Bad, FAQ: German Surname Queries,
soc.genealogy.methods, GENNAM-L archives, soc.genealogy.surnames,
etc.
Genealogy Toolbox (searchable)
Genealogical and Historical Societies in the USA
Genealogical
Computer Interest Groups
(mostly in the U.S.)
Cyndi's List lists more than 50,000 websites in more than 120 categories, such as places, topics, and ethnic groups. Another comprehensive list of such sites is found at http://www.genealogy.com/links. Both sites have searchable indexes.
Expert genealogists answer your questions here.
I'd love to hear your comments about the usefulness of any of
these sites.
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