GenCircles
www.gencircles.com
GenCircles allows you to upload your genealogy; then users can post messages on the individuals in your file. The site promises it won't sell your data, send you junk mail or sell your e-mail address. Both posting and viewing information are a piece of cake.
Genealogy Look Up Forum
www.expage.com/page/genealogylookup/
Volunteers are standing by (online, that is) to check indexes of births, cemeteries, censuses, deaths, libraries, links, marriages, obituaries and other genealogical lists.
GeneWeb
geneanet.org/geneweb.php3
With this free, full-featured genealogy software program, you can record data, add photos, create family trees, calculate relationships, manage dates, convert calendar dates and display statistical data. If you opt to use the online version, you can share your family tree with others and allow them to add their own data. (You can also keep it to yourself, if you prefer.) GeneWeb also may be downloaded for offline use.
GenSwap
www.genswap.com
This site's most valuable service is what its visitors have to offer: transcribed records of all sorts, volunteers to look up certain records for you and hundreds of entrieseither requesting or offering free informationon a bulletin board. Take advantage of GenSwap's tips, links to other sites offering free services, and an Internet mailing list notifying you of updates and additions.
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
www.raogk.org
This site's creators organize a network of volunteers who will do some legwork for you in their area. The volunteers usually limit requests to one each month, and there may be a waiting list for your county. All they ask in return is that you do a future genealogical favor for someone else.
Former President Jimmy Carter remembers his Southern roots in the August 2001 issue of Family Tree Magazine.