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Access Genealogy Cyndi's List Genealogy Resources on the Internet Genealogy Today GeneaNet Find news and reviews on more great Web sites in the August 2003 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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www.accessgenealogy.com
It's not just a useful online starting place, with genealogy-related news plus lots of links, but also a source for data. Researchers with Native American roots especially will want to explore the collection here, which includes the 1880 Cherokee census and the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes. Other resources cover military records, cemeteries, biographies, census records, immigration, African-American ancestry, vital records and more.
www.cyndislist.com
Cyndi Howell's exhaustive catalog of links—more than 180,000, painstakingly sorted into 150-plus categoriesÑcontinues to set the standard. It's no wonder her site has had more than 32 million visits since 1996. A search box now makes this mammoth site easier and faster to use.
www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html
The Web isn't the only way to research your family tree online; don't forget mailing lists, newsgroups, telnet and Gopher, technologies that predated today's ubiquitous WWW. This in-depth list, compiled and still continuously updated by Chris Gaunt and John Fuller, covers all those other ways to plug into your roots, as well as Web sites.
www.genealogytoday.com
A useful stop wherever you are in your genealogical journey: Resources and how-to information are categorized for those just getting started, those who've been researching for several years and are mostly interested in recent generations, those who've already traced their families back multiple generations, and advanced genealogists (including professionals, librarians and educators).
www.geneanet.org
Begun as a volunteer effort back in 1996, GeneaNet has a French accent and a more global perspective than most US portals. You can search databases with more than 70 million entries or scour the whole Web with the associated GeneaSeek search engine www.geneaseek.org. Special sections include databases of family photos and postcards from around the world. "Privileged" members (beginning at about $40 a year) get extra perks, but this site is valuable even for occasional visitors.
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