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[Pages:56]Lower Columbia Genealogical Society Spring Seminar, April 23, 2011, Longview Public Library, Longview, Washington

Online Genealogy Gems

General

Family Search. Explore the world's largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

Family Search Research Outlines."How-To" guides for each of the US States and also other countries. You may read them online or download them as PDF documents.



Family Search Research Helps.

Family Search. Step by Step Guides. More research help.

Family Search. Researching in Family Search. From Family Tree Magazine. These tips are for the old Family Search. Do try the Batch Number tip, tho.



Family Search Historical Records. From .

Family History Centers. A list of the FREE Premium Family History Websites available in the LDS Family History Center Portal such as Ancestry, Find My Past, Footnote, Genline, Heritage Quest and more. These are only available in the local FHC.



RootsWeb. Started in 1989, RootsWeb was one of the earliest genealogy websites. In 1996-7 RootsWeb supported US GenWeb and GenWeb county websites. RootsWeb is now owned by but the RootsWeb pages are still free and user contributed.



RootsWeb Database Indexes. Lists the contributed info by state and by county. All can be easily searched at one time.

RootsWeb Email Lists Subscribe to the email list of your ancestor's county. Email will come into your inbox from people researching the county of interest. You will learn about the county and learn from the content of the questions. Post a query of your own. Access the knowledge of the list. (Lola) Look on RootsWeb's Home page in the left hand column for Mailing Lists.

list Subscribe to your ancestor's county's email list. In the Search box type the name of the county and the state. Subscribe to your family surname's email list. Click on the first letter of the surname. Subscribe to your family's ethnic group's email list. Type the name of the ethnic group in the Search box. Subscribe to your family's church group's email list. In the Search box type the denomination.

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RootsWeb Message Boards. Read them all with this search.

RootsWeb Registry of Websites

RootsWeb Town Search. Use this handy tool to find in which county your town is located, and to see RootsWeb websites for your town.



RootsWeb's Guide to Family Trees: Sources

U.S. Gen Web. Organized by county and state this website has links to all the state websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties.



US GenWeb Archives Search Engine by State. The Archives are a "virtual library" of transcribed historical documents such as wills, obituaries, letters, biographical sketches, county and township histories, census, cemeteries, etc. This will vary by state and county, dependant upon what has been submitted. (Lola)



US GenWeb Archives Special Projects. The USGenWeb Archives sponsors Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those page. Many states also have ongoing projects as diverse as the transcription of Civil War regiments or the reuniting of families with lost photos, bibles, etc.



US GenWeb Archives Daily Uploads. This daily email to you lists all of the files uploaded to USGenWeb Archives the day before. It is a LOT of info in one email message, but easy to scan to see if any new information is of interest to you. If not, delete. Sign up and give it a try!



World GenWeb. Like U.S. Gen Web there is a web page for every country offering data and research help.

Social Security Death Index. Available free at both RootsWeb. SSDI is under Search Engines and Databases. Family Search. Under Browse by Location click on USA. Scroll down to "U.S. Social Security Death Index."

Cyndi's List. It has a bit of everything to do with genealogy. Wander through the lists and try a few.

. Genealogy. Info about everything - 800 Guides, 70,000 topics. Look over all their genealogy articles.

Ancestry. FREE Databases

Strategies for Finding Female Ancestors. From Family Tree Magazine, 2009.

DAR Library Online Research

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Online Birth and Marriage Indexes.

Online Searchable Death Indexes.

Family Tree Legends. Sellers of Legends software. Check out their free indexes under Records.

Family Tree Magazine website. Lots of free articles and research tips. Hover your mouse arrow over the menu bars at the top to see the drop down lists.



GeneaPro. Mainly a listing of professional researchers, but check out their FREE Resources on the Menu Bar.

The Library of Congress. Digital Collections & Services

Library of Congress Local History and Genealogy

The National Archives and Records Administration . Access to Archival Databases

Olive Tree Genealogy. 1700 free genealogy databases, plus links to additional offsite databases. Over 1,000 of these free genealogy databases are ship passenger list transcriptions, but there are also free military records, and specialized databases such as Loyalists and Mennonites.



Steve Morse's One-Step Search Engines. Morse has simplified searches for several popular databases.

Phone Books. Library Spot's White Pages. Lists online "phone books" to help you find missing "genealogical cousins."

Surname Meanings and Origins. From .

Surname Navigator This is fun. You get many hits from different sites from everywhere. (Trudy)

World Cat. Find genealogy books such as family histories or county histories that you need to see in a library near you with World Cat.



Write Your Family History. From

YouTube. Family history can sometime be found in unlikely places. One such place is YouTube, an Internet website. I belong to a MyFamily website belonging to descendants of several early settlers of eastern Kentucky. They not only share family information and pictures but other tid-bits that might be of interest. One was on a now defunct railroad that had been in the area many years ago and now all traces were gone. The text was well written and the pictures a great visual addition. I decided to try other areas with YouTube. It worked and found it can be a great place for historical background. (Alice)

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Here are some samples: This is the one on the old railroad in eastern Kentucky.

How about a walking video of Lincoln's home in Springfield?

Was Grandpa a "number please" fellow?

Or you might want to learn all about the hammered dulcimer your ancestors played and listen to music while doing it.



"Best" Genealogy Websites

Family Tree Magazine's list of Best State Websites for 2010.

Family Tree Magazines list of "101 Best Websites 2010"

101 Ways to Search Your Family Tree for Free. From .

Best Records for Finding Female Ancestors. From Family Tree Magazine, 2010.

Books Online ? Genealogical & Historical

Google Books. Many copyright-free books free to download. Old county histories often have short family histories of their well-known residents along with history and descriptions of the land and towns. First try searching the county or town name. For actual titles look for bibliographies of books about your county or town of interest at US GenWeb, your state, county and town libraries and historical societies and in our Genealogy Room. I found lots of old county histories here! (Judy)



Google eBooks At Google Books, click on Go to the Google eBookstore. Put the words "Family History" in the search box and click the All Google eBooks button. Then choose the Free Only link. There are plenty of county histories and old surname books that are out of copyright. Also put your surname of interest after "Family History" in the Search box.



Internet Archive. Another site that contains lots of copyright-free books free to download including county histories, Massachusetts Town Records and the NEHGS Journals. A wonderful resource! (Judy)



Family Search/BYU Family History Archive Digitized Books. Don't be overwhelmed by the number of books to sort through. In the Browse window choose Family History Book Collection, then put a surname in the Surname search box and click Search.



Genealogy Book Links. Free digitized books for reading online or download. Mainly from Google Books and Internet Archive. Do check out their long, long list of biographies!



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Cemeteries/Tombstones/Obituaries

Find-a-Grave. This is a volunteer project to photograph tombstones. You can get birth and death dates from the photos of the tombstones and sometimes more information is posted by someone researching that person. I have had good luck finding tombstones for the brothers and sisters of my ancestors so I can then look for their obituaries which may tell me who their parents were. (Judy)



. Cemetery and burial records from around the world contributed by volunteers. Very incomplete.

US GenWeb Obituary Project. Incomplete, it is in progress.

Census

Family Search Census Images. Under Browse by Location click on USA. Scroll down to "United States." All are indexed but images are not available for 1860 and 1880. But they are available through the Family History Center Portal website to supscription sites. See "Family History Centers" under "General" above.



Internet Archive. Copies of all of the U.S. Censuses to read online or available for download. They are large and load very slowly.



US GenWeb Census Project. Census transcriptions for every county. Not complete as it is in progress. Subscribe to the US GenWeb Census Project newsletter and keep up with the latest records. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send an email to with the word `subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' without the

quotes in the subject and the body of the message. CENSUS-ANNOUNCE-request@

Mortality Schedules 1850 at Family Search. Under Browse by Location click on USA. Scroll down to "United States Census (Mortality

Schedule).

All Available Schedules 1850-1880. This site is a bit deceptive. Some of the states on their list have no mortality schedules, and most that do are US GenWeb sites you can access from the county GenWeb page.



Church Records

General Info. Church, Parish and Religious Records from .

General Info. List of church websites.

Baptist-Southern.

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Catholic. U.S. Catholic Parishes Online.

Dunkards/German Baptist Brethren/Church of the Brethren. "Finding Ancestors in Brethren Records: a Genealogical Guide to Brethren Records and History." Great resource. ;>))



Episcopal. Genealogical Research in the Records of the Episcopal Church.

Huguenots. Huguenot history, text of old books and passenger lists. Scroll down - the real info is below the first screen. Got an ancestor in early America with a French-sounding name? Maybe he was a Huguenot.(Judy)



Lutheran.

Mennonites. They have the Mennonite Encyclopedia online, family bibles, cemetery indexes, family histories, etc.

Methodist.

Presbyterian - Cumberland

Quakers. Rootsweb's explanation of Quaker records and where to find them.

Quakers. The Quaker Corner. Here is information about meetings, books, history, records, etc.

Quaker Records. A good introductory article by Maureen Taylor from Ancestry Magazine, Mar/Apr 2001.

Quakers. Earlham College Library's Friends Collection and College Archives. Detailed explanation records.

Quakers. Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library. Family research at Friends Historical Library.

Quakers. British Quaker Records. The Genealogist ( a subscription site) has indexes and images of Non-conformist records for early Quakers.

Quaker Meetings in the US

Seventh Day Adventist

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Computers & Genealogy

Windows Snip Tool & Windows Print Screen in Vista and Windows7. Some websites will not allow Save As or copying of pages or images. You can get around that with the Snip Tool or Print Screen. The Snip Tool is located at Start/All Programs/Accessories. Save it to your desktop, then drag it down to your Status Bar to keep it in easy reach. The Print Screen key on your keyboard will copy the image on your screen. Paste it into Word/WordPerfect/NotePad/WordPad and print. The result is an image which, unfortunately, is very poor resolution, but at least we don't have to copy the info by hand. (Alice)

Google Alerts. Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results -- such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs -- that match your search term. You can use Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web. Genealogists can use family names or places for the search term. (Bobbi)



Google Genealogy Style. 25 Google Search tips for genealogists from .

Google Search Basics

Google Search Basics: More Search Help

Google Translates. Want to translate a word or phrase? Instantly translate between over 50 languages with the Google Translate gadget. Simply type in your phrase, select a language, and Google's algorithm will translate it into English, Spanish, French, Chinese and more!



Tips for Finding Your Ancestors in Genealogy Databases. From .

Genealogy Search Online. From .

A Guide to Performing Genealogy Searches. From Genealogy in Time 1.html

DNA

Learn Genetics [Genetic Science Learning Center] at the University of Utah. (Teacher Resources & Lessons Plans)

Genealogy. Many links to explain DNA and terms used.

LSU Health Sciences Center. Reasons to do a DNA test.

Wikipedia.

Ancestry's introductory page on DNA testing.

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DNA Testing 101 from . Tracing Your Ancestry Through DNA

DNA and Genetic Genealogy from

Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation. Non-profit. DNA database and genealogical information.

Family Tree DNA. This company is one which sells the test. My husband is taking part in this surname DNA project which has been very interesting. We started with the basic 25 marker test and recently upgraded to the 67 marker test. They run specials occasionally where the price is lowered a little. We don't have all the second results back, but have been in contact with other Vances who are related. (This is done with those who agree to release the information.) I'm pretty sure I've found a Vance born in the 1770s that he is descended from, but am not sure which of that Vance's sons (or grandsons) ties him in. I'm hoping the second test will close that one or two generation gap I still have. (Karen)



DNA SURNAME STUDY GROUPS. Each company that does tests has Surname Study Groups. This is just one of them. Family Tree DNA Surname Projects. To see the results of tests done by this company for men with your surname, in the Projects Search box on the upper right, type in your surname. At the next screen, Surname Search Results, click on the surname in the Projects window. Next click on the surname in the Project Website window, then the yDNA results. You should see a page with zillions of colored numbers. (Judy)



Below is the page for the surname Cox: The names down the left side are not the names of the men who were tested, but the earliest known ancestor from the genealogical research of the men tested. The names are grouped by how closely the test numbers match. Note the number of names whose DNA matches the Coxes but are not named Cox. (Judy)



Ethnic Research

African Ancestored Genealogy.

Avotaynu Consolidated Jewish Surname Index

Jewish Gen. Databases and research tools.

Jewish Gen Family Finder. Database of ancestral towns and surnames currently being researched.

Native American Genealogy. Online indexes to all of the Rolls, census records, etc.

Native American. Eastern Cherokee Applications to the US Court of Claims. Scroll down the list to Eastern Cherokee. These are images of the original papers.



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