4/1/2000
By Melanie Rigney
The good news is that the Internet has a zillion sites to help research your roots. The bad news is that there are a zillion sites-how do you find the ones with the answers you need? Get clicking with our picks of 101 of the best genealogy resources on the Web.
The Internet is overflowing with tens of thousands of sites with information about getting started with your family history research, finding your ancestors, sharing your discoveries and networking with others. But if you jump on the Web without preparing for your journey, you'll be as frustrated as if you tried to find Space Mountain without a Disney World map.
Before you sign on:
The logic of doing as much spadework as possible before you start searching mega-databases is obvious: You're a lot more likely to find information about your third-greatgrandfather Smith if you know his son Josiah was born in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., in 1842 than if you start scouring all the online Smith surname databases when you're not even sure of your own grandfather's first name or where he grew up.