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Cyber Champs
Need another online success strategy? Don't waste time with subpar sites—surf straight to our 2006 picks for the 101 Best Web Sites.
For this year's 101 honors, we decided to use those other Web site roundups as our starting point—a sort of qualifying heat for the big 101 competition, if you will. Only sites we've already selected as among the best in a particular category were even eligible for consideration.
We've recently revisited all these sites, of course, to update our entries and to make sure they're still worthy. Some have imporved dramatically since we first singled them out, several have relocated, and others no longer made the cut. Our 2006 list reflrects all these changes, as well as a rigours (not to mention difficult) paring down of 300-plus stellar sites to a mere 101. In short, this year's list represents the best of the best of online genealogy, as filtered by our staff and our expert contributing editors. As usual, our selections reflect a preference for sites where you can do real research or find essential additions to your family history. Sites that mostly just link to other sites, where the real good stuff hides, tend to get axed. Ditto for mere collections of tips or advice. (After all, you've got Family Tree Magazine for how-to information from experts.) The number of subscription sites truly worth your money has increased dramatically in recent years—but all other things being equal, we'll pick a free site over a paid one. (We've noted primarily paid-content sites with a
By David A. Fryxell
Our annual 101 Best Web Sites compilation is hardly the only time we scour the Web for great family history sites. We're constantly on the prowl for new ways to rev up your online research, putting Web sites' claims to the test and noting which digital destinations are no longer worthy of your clicks. Several times a year, in fact, we publish other compilations of online favorites clustered around a single topic: internationa research, for example, or sites specializing in historical photos.
.) So which sites finished ahead of the pack in our 2006 competition? We thought you'd never ask...
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