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Books We Own CousinConnect GenCircles GENDEX Genealogy Helplist Heirlooms Lost MyTrees.com Past Connect Find news and reviews on more great Web sites in the August 2003 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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www.rootsweb.com/~bwo
Somebody, somewhere has that genealogy book with the fact you need to get past your brick wall. If only you had some way to find her and ask her to look it up for you! There is—the Books We Own site, where (to the horror of genealogy book publishers) generous researchers all over put their libraries at your fingertips. A wonderful service—see the December 2001 Family Tree Magazine for a review—but don't abuse it; if you need more than a lone lookup or two, buy the book.
www.cousinconnect.com
Boasting more than 24,000 queries from around the world, this is among the best stand-alone sites for hooking up with other genealogists and distant cousins researching your family. (Genealogy.com's GenForum and the Ancestry-RootsWeb message boards still dwarf it, though.)
www.gencircles.com
Cliff Shaw created GenCircles to do existing pedigree databases and message boards one better. Not only does his Global Tree contain more than 45 million user-submitted ancestors, you can use Shaw's matching technology to connect your kin with those in the database. Besides GenCircles' own forums ("clubs"), the Genealogy Message Searcher also hunts for results in the Ancestry-RootsWeb boards.
www.gendex.com
It ain't fancy-looking, but Gene Stark's stalwart server indexes thousands of Web databases covering 40 million user-submitted genealogies on nearly 40 million ancestors. Find one that might be yours, and you can check it out without having to visit the separate database.
helplist.org
Another site that shows how genealogists can indeed depend on the kindness of strangers, the Genealogy Helplist connects you with far-flung researchers willing to look up your ancestors in their local libraries, archives and courthouses. Reviewed in the December 2001 Family Tree Magazine.
www.heirloomslost.com
Find your waylaid family heirlooms with this site that helps connect orphaned stuff with the families that once owned it. The database contains more than 1,600 items and covers 4,400-plus surnames.
www.mytrees.com
The free Ancestry Archive Index searches 200 million names. A subscription to the Kindred Konnections service ($100 a year) gives you complete access to the archive, plus various records resources. Too steep a price tag? Upload your own family file or spend a few minutes helping with an indexing project, and you can earn free access time.
www.pastconnect.com
Another site that unites people with the lost pieces of their past, Past Connect contains rescued items. Visitors to the site can discover treasures sold at auctions, estate sales, flea markets, yard sales and the like, such as letters, diplomas, marriage certificates, photographs, birth certificates, receipts, postcards and funeral cards.
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