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All summaries written by David Fryxell
There’s a website for that—and Cyndi has a link to it. This essential guide has been categorizing genealogy sites for more than 25 years and now totals more than 315,000 links in 225 categories.
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Don’t miss this simple-to-search gateway to 80,000 digitized family-history books.
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Your brick-wall breakthroughs just might be found in the digital documents here, encompassing books, family and local histories and even old radio and TV programs. Or maybe you’ll find that useful-but-vanished genealogy website among the 550 billion pages archived in the “Wayback Machine.”
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Nothing fancy here, just “one-step” tools to make your searching easier: immigration records, census records, vital records, and help with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets and more.
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Once you’ve built your online tree, Twile generates a timeline and combines your family events with world history. Trees are private by default, but simple to share with relatives.
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Find that family history or other obscure tome among more than 2 billion items cataloged here, then let WorldCat locate the closest library to get your hands on it.
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Experts ranging from Ancestry.com to the US National Archives to some of your favorite Family Tree Magazine authors can be seen and heard here, sharing genealogy guidance. YouTube Premium ($11.99/month) allows for adfree and offline viewing.
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