Genealogy

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Techniques: Genealogy

Links

• Historical Records
  • Free Access
    • FamilySearch - User submitted lines of varying accuracy; as well as the 1880/1881 Census for US, UK, Can; an older SSDI; and various extracted records.
    • USGenWeb Project An army of volunteers 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 Foundation Ellis Island ship manifests with an index.
    • Various state archives and government agencies best located at Cyndi's List
  • Membership $$$ Required
    • Ancestry.com Lots of content... lots of money.
    • Genealogy.com Seems to be Ancestry.com's only real competetor... until you realise that it has the same parent company. So much for competition.
    • KindredKonnections
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• Services
  • Cyndi's List The webs largest index of all things genealogy.
  • RootsWeb Portal site for Ancestry.com's free half, Rootsweb.
• Software
  • Family Tree Maker (FTM): not 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)
  • GeneWeb: open source web-based family tree software
  • Personal Ancestral File: free