BookFinder.com
www.bookfinder.com
Type in an author name or title keyword, and BookFinder will quickly offer a list of titles. It also tells you which are available as new, used or rare books, and how much they cost at the top online booksellers (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.) One click takes you to your item of choice at the retailer where it's available.
Britannica.com
www.britannica.com
With one search of this site, you can tap the resources of the complete, updated Encyclopædia Britannica, related Web sites with reviews, timely articles from more than 70 magazines and related books.
Bygones
home.utah-inter.net/bygones/
Bygones is a free software program that allows you to take notes on a computer and later load that data onto your main program (Family Tree Maker, Generations, etc.) Each piece of research is entered as a "research extract," tracking sources, findings and other notes.
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html
Each week, John Fuller and Christine Gaunt add hundreds of mailing lists, e-mail addresses, Web sites and newsgroups that could provide you with just the information you're looking for. Nowhere else will you find such a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of mailing listsmore than 20,000 are currently listedwith instructions on how to participate and links.
Genealogy Web Page Tutorial
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7002/
This site will help get you started posting a family tree on the Web. From design to clip art, hosting to programming, these tutorials can hold your hand as you make your first forays into Web site creation.
A List of Occupations
cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html
This page contains a massive, alphabetized list of mostly archaic occupation names and what they meant.
PublicLibraries.com
www.publiclibraries.com
Pick a state and you'll get a list of libraries and their Web sites. Or check the list of specialty libraries for links to the Library of Congress, presidential libraries, US state libraries, national libraries of the world and subject-specific libraries.
For reviews of 10 genealogy reference books, see the August 2001 issue of Family Tree Magazine.