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Template:stub Techniques: Genealogy

Links

Historical Records

varying accuracy; as well as the 1880/1881 Census for US, UK, Can; an older SSDI; and various extracted records.

putting all sorts of great genealogy content on the web in their spare time. (Also a branch of rootsweb -> Ancestry.com -> MyFamily.com)

Ellis Island ship manifests with an index.

    • Various

[http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6365&o%20iid=831&o%20lid=831&o%20it=831%7C state archives] and government agencies best located at Cyndi's List

where this goes. It's free.... if you have a library card from a participating library... which is many/most. This company provides "web libraries" to K-12, university, and local libraries, and happens to have a family history branch.

  • Membership $$$ Required (The first three of these are usually

available to use for free at a local [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp Family History Center])

money.

Ancestry.com's only real competetor... until you realise that it has the same parent company. So much for competition.

like it is. You pay them to do research for you. This can help when you get stuck.

Services

all things genealogy

free half, Rootsweb.

it searches other sites and gives you links... mostly you get links, but there is some content.

Software

recommended

    • User Review: The company puts out some decent content and their

customers wanted a program that worked with their content cds, so they threw together the worst program I have ever used and bundled it with their other stuff. The hassle is not worth any convinence that being able to interface with their content may provide. Unfortunately (true to the ms phenomenon) people seem to use what comes with their other software. (eep! Even this now belongs to MyFamily.com)

(alt): open source web-based family tree software

free

the street is that PAF is an old version (current when it was acquired but old now) of this. It does seem terribly familiar in look and feel. However, AQ has kept evolving, and now has fixes for many of my biggest complaints with PAF. I haven't used it enough to know if it has new issues.

never tried it because their web site gives me no confidence in their computer skills.

Genealogy Detective] This web site also scared me away.

this one.

(and only?) family tree software for the Mac.

know are raving about this one. It is suppose to be the bestest ever. I haven't tried it.

Tools and Toys

Printable maps.

which county any given US town is in. (Records are kept at county level, hence you need to know the county.)