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Genealogy & Family History Resources
Genealogy and family history research resources abound online. Genealogical research is a huge global activity, with millions of people sharing information through genealogy web sites and listservs. People use the Internet to locate relatives, find old records, and research their ancestry. Over the last few years, more and more official historical records and government databases have been made accessible online, including census data; birth, death, and marriage records; ships' passenger lists; immigration records; and more. At the same time, thousands of specialized genealogy research sites have sprung up to make this challenge easier. We present a few of the most popular here.
General Family Research
Ancestry.Com FamilySearch (Mormon) FamilyTreeMaker.Com RootsWeb Genealogy Gateway GenConnect Canada Visitor Centre Canada GenWeb Genealogy Pages Maven Jewish PortalGenealogical Advice, Help & Tutorials
RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Family Trees Beginner's Guide to Genealogy Rookie's Guide to Genealogy Research Crash Course in Genealogy ROOTS-L listserv Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness FamilyTreeMaker Step-by-Step GuideSearchable Databases
RootsWeb Social Security Death Index (US) Ancestry.Com Social Security Death Index (US) WorldConnect Immigrant Ship Transcribers' Guild (US) National Archives of Canada British Columbia Archives British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid Cemetery Records Online CyberSurfer Genealogy Database (Canada & US) Canadian Geographical Names inGeneas Canadian Passenger & Immigration Database Canadian Expeditionary Force WWI JewishGen Databases & MoreFamily Tree Software
Family Tree Maker
My Family Tree
Ultimate Family Tree
MyFamily.Com
Cumberland Family Tree (Windows)
FamilyFinder's List of Software