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101 Best Family History Web Sites
By Melanie Rigney
Today's Families
www.yourfamily.com www.myfamily.com family-reunion.com www.hattiesclothesline.com www.storypreservation.com www.city-gallery.com
This site has a genealogy bulletin board almost as an afterthought. The focus is much more on the here and now of family life (including a long-lost-family bulletin board), and does a nice job in that regard. Home page hosting is available.
Consider this an online version of a family reunion. This Ancestry.com site will host your family's page for free, and you can give access to anyone you want. You can put up photos, set up private message boards, keep track of birthdays and all sorts of other things to stay in touch.
Now that you've found all those third and fourth cousins, don't you want to get together with them? This site shares great tips on how to round up all your long-lost relatives for a reunion, and what to do once you get together.
A great place to find supplies for your family reunion or genealogy group: T-shirts, coffee mugs and sweatshirts (e.g., "Genealogists don't die, they just lose their census" and "So many ancestors, so little time").
The Center for Life Stories Preservation shares free tips on how to get started keeping family and other stories and offers a sampling of others' tales.
Steve Knoblock's site is chock-full of helpful hints for the visual side of your family history. There are tips for building a family album online, including advice on using a scanner, identifying old photos and restoring photos.
Melanie Rigney is the editor of Writer's Digest magazine www.writersdigest.com and a long-time family history researcher.
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