Genealogy ResultsAbout Genealogy Genealogy Fact: Genealogy is one of the fastest-growing hobbies, and one of the areas on the Net where there are literally thousands of resources. The sites listed here should help you find what you're looking for, especially to identify the best Net resources for family history and trace your ancestors. 

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 Genealogy for Beginners Genealogy for Beginners
 Genealogy Searches Online Genealogy Searches Online
 Surnames for Genealogy Research Surnames for Genealogy Research
 Genealogy Software Genealogy Software
 

Genealogy for Beginners "Genealogy for Beginners"


One-Stop Beginner's Genealogy - Find a wealth of information on how to get started researching your family history! Included to guide you through your first steps are tips, articles, tools and even a free introduction to genealogy online course. Just about anything you want to know, you can find from this well-annotated page.

Cyndi's List - How To - One of the oldest and most complete lists of genealogy links on the Net, Cyndi's List page for beginners includes many, many links to resources that may be helpful. If what you're looking for is a comprehensive list of pages and sites for beginners, check this list.

Beginner's Guide to Family History - This guide, which has been around since 1997, will walk you through the basic steps of genealogical research. It's a good overview of the process of research, focusing more on offline research in books, magazines and at family history centers and historical societies.

The Genealogy Training Pyramid - At this commercial site, you'll find many articles on genealogy as well as many databases of information. This article, on the steps of learning about genealogy, is a helpful orientation if you're just getting started with researching family history.

Genealogy Searches Online "Genealogy Searches Online"


Genealogy Portal - Use any of eight separate search engines on this page to try to track down an elusive branch of your family tree.

Cyndi's List: Genealogy Search Engines - You'll find here a wealth of genealogy search engines, including many that are country-specific or otherwise meet very specific searching needs.

Googling Genealogy Style - Kimberly Powell, About.com's Genealogy Guide, provides some excellent search tips for using the Google search engine to find genealogy and surname information.

Search the Social Security Death Index - Generated from the official U.S. Social Security Administration Death Index File, using this search tool may help you determine a few facts about some missing ancestors -- as long as the ancestors possessed U.S. Social Security numbers.

Ellis Island Ancestors - Volunteers with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints entered data from all the Ellis Island passenger lists. Very handy if your ancestor immigrated to America during the period when Ellis Island was the major entry point for European immigrants.

Surnames for Genealogy Research "Surnames for Genealogy Research"


One Stop Surname Research Center - About.com's Genealogy Guide, Kimberly Powell, has organized many resources about surnames so you can find the surname information you're looking for. You'll find the essentials for surname research: search tips, guides to surname databases, and information about surname meanings and origins.

Free Surname and Pedigree Databases - Here you'll find links to surname databases that are most likely to have the information genealogy researchers are looking for. The annotations make clear the strengths of each database so you can more quickly find what you need.

RootsWeb WorldConnect - A free genealogy search engine provided by RootsWeb and sponsored by Ancestry.com, a commercial genealogy site. Whether you're looking up your family history for the first time, or searching for just one more ancestor in your family tree, you might have luck with this large set of databases.

Genealogy Software "Genealogy Software"


Genealogy Software - One-Stop Guide - Start here whether you're looking for information on a specific genealogy software program or trying to figure out which one to buy. You'll find articles on how to select software, usage tips, and reviews of genealogy software and add-ons for different operating systems (including hand-helds).

Genealogical Software Report Card - The National Genealogical Society's Newsmagazine evaluates genealogy software, and posts both reviews of most of the major software packages and charts showing the relative strengths of different packages.

Cyndi's List - Software - One of the oldest genealogy sites on the Net, Cyndi's list includes links to a huge number of articles and products for researching, documenting and publishing your family tree.

Helm's Genealogy Toolbox - Software - Find here an exhaustive list of software available for genealogy researchers. It's a bit out of date, but may still be helpful as one of your sources of evaluation.

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