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- Scroll back to the top of the page
- When the page is scrolled past the top of this page a Scroll to Top icon will appear at the bottom right corner of the page.
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Scroll to a particular position on the page. Allows use of a button, icon or image. Click on the Challenge button to go to the Challenge section of the web page.
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Got it to work once. Don't know why A marker from Scroll Target Stack doesn't work after. Looked up name syntax at W3 website.
Added HTML Name tag "B" which works just fine.
Genealogy
This page contains a extensive collection of web site links I found useful, in no particular order, except for County Formation Maps, Google Searches, Living People Lookups, and Newspaper Research that I listed first. Browse and see if there's any topics that interest you, or do a "find" for something in particular.
U.S. Genweb
The United States USGenweb URL is (https://www.usgenweb.org/). There is a WorldGenWeb (https://www.worldgenweb.org/)but it was put together well after USGenweb. The world version has links to all country web sites and the U.S. version has links to all states. A description of USGenweb can be found in the FamilySearch Wiki (https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/USGenWeb). A description of WorldGenWeb can be found in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldGenWeb). I maintain four USGenWeb county sites, two in California and two in Pennsylvania. They are areas where either I (or my ancestors lived).
There is an excellent Ani-Map program from Goldbug.com they call the County Boundary Historical Atlas. Several web sites give credit to Ani-Map in generating their County Formation maps. One site is Genealogyinc.com with an example using Pennsylvania Counties. Also, http://www.mapofus.org/ has an extensive set of Ani-map-like county formation maps. Another tool is the Newberry Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (mentioned in James Tanner's Genealogysstar.blogspot.com blog. Randy Majors created a free website tool that uses this excellent Newberry source, overlaid on a Google Map. Just type in any present day US address and historical year. http://www.randymajors.com/maps.html.
Also, read two blog posts by James Tanner that cover this topic very well. Take Time for Geographic Timeline
Here are my favorite "live people" search sites. If you REALLY want to find out about someone, you can find a lot by using any/all of these sites. The latest one I added is http://www.zillow.com that estimates your home's worth if you supply the address. I read about it on Dick Eastman's Blog http://www.eogn.com.
This page contains a extensive collection of web site links I found useful, in no particular order, except for County Formation Maps, Google Searches, Living People Lookups, and Newspaper Research that I listed first. Browse and see if there's any topics that interest you, or do a "find" for something in particular.
U.S. Genweb
The United States USGenweb URL is (https://www.usgenweb.org/). There is a WorldGenWeb (https://www.worldgenweb.org/)but it was put together well after USGenweb. The world version has links to all country web sites and the U.S. version has links to all states. A description of USGenweb can be found in the FamilySearch Wiki (https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/USGenWeb). A description of WorldGenWeb can be found in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldGenWeb). I maintain four USGenWeb county sites, two in California and two in Pennsylvania. They are areas where either I (or my ancestors lived).
- California, Mendocino County - https://www.cagenweb.org/mendocino/
- California, Santa Cruz County - https://www.cagenweb.org/santacruz/
- Pennsylvania, Indiana County - http://pagenweb.org/~indiana/
- Pennsylvania, Mercer County - http://pagenweb.org/~mercer/
There is an excellent Ani-Map program from Goldbug.com they call the County Boundary Historical Atlas. Several web sites give credit to Ani-Map in generating their County Formation maps. One site is Genealogyinc.com with an example using Pennsylvania Counties. Also, http://www.mapofus.org/ has an extensive set of Ani-map-like county formation maps. Another tool is the Newberry Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (mentioned in James Tanner's Genealogysstar.blogspot.com blog. Randy Majors created a free website tool that uses this excellent Newberry source, overlaid on a Google Map. Just type in any present day US address and historical year. http://www.randymajors.com/maps.html.
Also, read two blog posts by James Tanner that cover this topic very well. Take Time for Geographic Timeline
- Part 1
http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2015/03/take-time-for-geographic-timeline-part.html - Part 2
http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2015/03/take-time-for-geographic-timeline-part_22.html
- Growth of a Nation - Ten minute Flash "Movie" on how the country was formed from 1789 to present. Gives good overview of when states were admitted to theunion and the big battles of the day.
- Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - Four and a half minute video of how health and wealth has grown and redistributed in the last 200 years. Very instructive.
- Abkebab's Map of Europe 1000 AD to present with timeline. Many other similar animated maps.
- Migration map of the U.S. from the New York Times
- Six "Secret" Genealogy Google Search Tricks, especially the "around(x)" operator.
- Google Advanced Searchhas a form for you to input a variety of search terms. Very useful!
- Google Genealogy Searching Article from Genealogy In Time Magazine.
- Search Term to produce list of Free Kindle Genealogy Books" site:www.amazon.com “Free in Kindle Store” Your Search Term(s)
- Guide to Google - http://googleguide.com - Will make you an "Expert" Google searcher
- Good overview course on Google search http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/ by a Google scientist.
- Focused Searches: Precede your search with the tilde symbol to limit the search to synonyms... e.g. ~genealogy (Google says they removed this feature)
- Remove items - If you want to search for something and exclude results, add a word preceded by the dash symbol
- Exact phrase - Surround a series of words by quotes e.g. "William Cullison George"
- Search just for images http://images.google.com including uploading a .jpg file, and find similar images.
- Find Clipart... Google "clipart genealogy", or use Bing.com "clipart genealogy" and find even more genealogy clipart
- Search for date ranges, add this to your query "1910..1930"
Here are my favorite "live people" search sites. If you REALLY want to find out about someone, you can find a lot by using any/all of these sites. The latest one I added is http://www.zillow.com that estimates your home's worth if you supply the address. I read about it on Dick Eastman's Blog http://www.eogn.com.
- Locate Area Codes and Reverse Phone Nbr Lookup - http://www.allareacodes.com/
- Search U.S. zip codes by address, city, or county: https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/
- http://www.advancedbackgroundchecks.com/
- http://www.411.com
- http://checkpeople.com (14 Jan 2022)
- http://familytreenow.com * Comprehensive
- http://www.infobel.com (http://www.us-info.com this also points back to infobel - seems to be non-US oriented)
- http://instantcheckmate.com (kind of slow)
- http://www.intellius.com
- http://www.peekyou.com
- http://www.peoplefinders.com
- http://www.peoplesearch.com
- http://www.peoplesmart.com
- http://www.pipl.com * Gathers from Multiple sources
- http://www.radaris.com
- http://www.spokeo.com
- http://www.switchboard.com
- http://www.whitepages.com
- http://www.whowhere.com
- http://www.zabasearch.com * Very good
- http://www.zoominfo.com
- The Ancestor Hunt, Newspaper Links is a delight from Kenneth R. Marks of Arizona. Arranged by state with some specialty newspapers from Canada and Australia. Many are free! Just became my favorite Newspaper site.
- Elephind.com 2.7 Million Newspapers (1.3M Australia, .9M Chronicling America, 171K Texas 300K Miscellaneous
- Comprehensive Newspaper list by James Tanner author of http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com
- Chronicling America, from Library of Congress - Listing of Newspapers all over the country. Useful just to figure out what newspapers existed in certain time periods in certain cities in the U.S.
- Newspaper Library (Pay Site) - http://www.newslibrary.com
- Sutro Library of California - http://www.library.ca.gov
- Susan Rush - Favorite Newspaper Sites via an email to Family Tree SIG Members - 5 May 2014
- University of Illinois
http://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/newspapers/historical.php - Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/#tab=tab_advanced_search - California Digital Newspaper Collection
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc - Google News Archive
http://news.google.com/newspapers - Newspapers.com (owned by Ancestry) $$$
http://newspapers.com - Online Historical Newspapers Website
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home\ - Archive.com $$$
http://www.archives.com/ - GenealogyBank $$$
http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ - NewspaperArchive.com $$$
http://newspaperarchive.com/ - Fold3 $$$
http://www.fold3.com/?home=b&xid=1628&gclid=CNS9kNL6lb4CFcuVfgodPwsA4g&s_tnt=67932:1:0
The Challenge of Adding Sources to Family Trees
My favorite blogger James Tanner is writing a series about "The Challenge of Adding Sources to Family Trees". He has a great perspective on the topic with a trial lawyer background and years as a researcher and teacher of genealogy.
Various sources of blank genealogy forms
Irish Genealogy
http://sortedbybirthdate.com/ Just change the date in the URL. You might get lucky. e.g. http://sortedbybirthdate.com/pages/19150129.html
Cemeteries/Graves
Ireland History
My wife and I have "indulged" in DNA tests (Autosomal Tests with Ancestry, FTDNA and Y DNA with FTDNA for me, a Y DNA test fo rmy wife's brother's son and an autosomal test for her). We found very close Y matches with our same surnames, but unfortunately, none of our matches have done research far back enough to identify who the common relatives are. There is a lot to learn about genetic genealogy, especially if you want to understand what is being tested. It's complicated and geneticists have their own terminology, A DNA SIG was started by the SRVGS group in 2012 to help us understand it and ended about 6 month later. There are many web sites that shed light on the subject. DNA testing can be expensive and, I would imagine, quite profitable for the companies that provide the testing. Therefore there's a lot of advertising and inflated clains. YDNA tests cost between $125-$175 and mitochondrial test are over $200. Autosomal (so called "Family Finder") tests are more reasonable as millions are taking it, on special as low as $59 and normally about $99. Here some links I've run across:
Genealogy Tools
These sites can be used to discover the meaning and history of your name.
Browser Access Web Sites
Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com
The Genealogy Research Plan
To do family history research, you need to have goals and a plan.
Very Helpful Tools when analyzing Census Record. Try googling "Census Image Templates"
Linux
PC
There are some very informative Genealogy Blogs. A couple noteworthy ones are Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy, Genea Musings, the Genealogy Bank Blog and a terrific Resource, a genealogy blog finder.
Podcasts are very helpful. You can play them on your mp3 player (iPod or equivalent) and learn when you have downtime traveling or waiting. You just downlod the podcasts (mp3 files) and upload to your music player. iPods and iPhones make it very easy to automatically choose and get new podcasts using iTunes.
British Royals
Research Tools
Genealogy Inc - See also their list of county formation maps of most states.
Some Interesting Genealogy Sites:
I am working on a brick wall, trying to locate any information about my third great grandfather. I have information about my second great grandfather Samuel George, b. 1815 Indiana cty, PA, d. 1889 Mercer Cty, PA. An 1880 census record indicates that Samuel's father is from Ireland. That's all I know about him. So I'm looking into immigration from Ireland to the U.S. before 1815 and families that existed in nearby Indiana, PA. I located a William George born in Ireland, who lived close to Indiana, PA and am tracing his family. Updated Mar 2015. Fairly likely guess at given name for 2nd ggf is "William" according to Irish family naming conventions. So I'm on the trail of William George, in early Pennsylvania (1810-1830), and before. My aunt and I commissioned some work by Salt Lake City LDS Researchers and found some additional information including a will, where a William George left Samuel George land and a home in Pennsylvania. It's looking like William George may be our man.
I'm also researching the George line using Ancestry, Rootsweb, MyHeritage and FamilySearch sites.
My favorite blogger James Tanner is writing a series about "The Challenge of Adding Sources to Family Trees". He has a great perspective on the topic with a trial lawyer background and years as a researcher and teacher of genealogy.
- The Historical Reality (20 Aug 2016)
- The Citation Issue (4 Sep 2016) James lists many (ten) citation standards.
- https://judyrecords.com. For United States court cases. Easy to use. Very clean interface,
Various sources of blank genealogy forms
Irish Genealogy
- Irish Genealogy Toolkit and Irish Genealogy News by Claire Santry. Irish Genealogy Toolkit was created as a way of passing on that knowledge to another generation of amateur genealogists and, she hopes, sparing them the wasted hours and money of going round and round in circles or following blind alleys. It covers all the basics of tracing ancestors in Ireland. Irish Genealogy News came along a few years later to keep family historians up to date with the surprisingly fast-moving world of Irish genealogy. Professionals and amateurs alike have come to depend upon it.
- The Septs - Outstanding publication about Irish Genealogy
- Irish Clans, Tribes and Septs - Tries to be the biggest index of freely available eBooks (or 'e-Books' if you prefer) on Irish History, Biography and Genealogy! The eBooks are listed in a wide range of categories.
- http://wordclouds.com is the simplest to use and the most flexible of all the word cloud generators I've seen, and, it's free
- If you have a Family Tree in FamilySearch.org, the web site http://treeseek.com has a namecloud function for your ancestor's first names and last names that's pretty good.
- A word cloud article informal us of many that still exist even if wordle.net isn't.
- Completely free, they claim. http://freeconferencecall.com. See a review of five sites that advertise free conference calls. http://fitsmallbusiness.com/best-free-conference-call-service/
- Will rate your favorite web site numerically & analyze in many ways. See if your favorite web site stands up to this scrutiny. An example is: https://www.woorank.com/en/www/eogn.org
- Census Search
- Find out details about your city. Originally developed as a research tool for reporters to include background information. http://censusreporter.org/
- Web site discussion American Migration Patterns. Recommended by James Tanner in 2014
- This is a very powerful and free genealogy tool. It is similar to Ancestry.com in that it has record search and Family Tree capabilities. It is located at http://familysearch.org.
- Great Utility for creating custom calendars, very efficient - http://timeanddate.com
- Easy to use recent calendar printing - http://www.calendar-365.com/2015-calendar.html
- Great article about suggestions to create a family's history by Randy Seaver from his Blog, http://geneamusings.com
- Lulu is a great resource for publishing inexpensively. http://www.lulu.com
- Type in address to get coordinate: http://jytangledweb.org/maps/addy2gps.html
- Navigate Map to get coordates: http://jytangledweb.org/maps/getgps.html
- In Google Earth - Navigate to your location, then click on New Placemark Icon (looks like yellow stickpin), move to desired location, then copy paste L/L from the New Placemark Dialog Box
- In Google Maps - Navigate to the location, then right-click and click on "What's Here"
http://sortedbybirthdate.com/ Just change the date in the URL. You might get lucky. e.g. http://sortedbybirthdate.com/pages/19150129.html
Cemeteries/Graves
- I have generally been aware of Find A Grave but finally got around to registering and adding a few memorials of my relatives. Let me tell you, it is addictive. If you have feelings for your relative who have died, what a great way to remember them. See http://findagrave.com. Don't forget to register.
- Interment.net - Free, 6 million records
- gravelocator.cem.va.gov - military graves
- abmc.gov - maintains cemeteries, foreign cemeteries - 125k solders
Ireland History
- Ch 1 BBC The Story of Ireland - Age of Invasion
- Ch 2 BBC The Story of Irelend - Age of Conquest (Normans 12th century)
- Ch 3 BBC The Story of Ireland - Age of Revolution
- Ch 4 BBC The Story of Ireland - Age of Union
- Ch 5 BBC The Story of Ireland - Age of Nations
- S2E1 The Last of the Free. See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history. The Holy Isle of Iona is described with pleasant music
- An excellent article by Kimberly Powell of About.com. It covers seldom-discussed on-line trees such as Ancestry's Online Family Tree, One World Tree, RootsWeb's WorldConnect Family Tree
- http://www.zillow.com - Provides real estate values.
- http://showmystreet.com - Key in street & see a picture of property via Google Maps
My wife and I have "indulged" in DNA tests (Autosomal Tests with Ancestry, FTDNA and Y DNA with FTDNA for me, a Y DNA test fo rmy wife's brother's son and an autosomal test for her). We found very close Y matches with our same surnames, but unfortunately, none of our matches have done research far back enough to identify who the common relatives are. There is a lot to learn about genetic genealogy, especially if you want to understand what is being tested. It's complicated and geneticists have their own terminology, A DNA SIG was started by the SRVGS group in 2012 to help us understand it and ended about 6 month later. There are many web sites that shed light on the subject. DNA testing can be expensive and, I would imagine, quite profitable for the companies that provide the testing. Therefore there's a lot of advertising and inflated clains. YDNA tests cost between $125-$175 and mitochondrial test are over $200. Autosomal (so called "Family Finder") tests are more reasonable as millions are taking it, on special as low as $59 and normally about $99. Here some links I've run across:
- YouTube - Search for "DNA for Dummies", "DNA Explained" and "Genetic DNA Testing". e.g.this interesting video with Megan Smolenyak narrating & Chris Haley and is Scottish relative.
- SRVGS Member Bob Venter's web site - http://venter.org specifically the link to "A Short Course in Genetics".
- LAGS member Doug Mumma's surname study web site http://mumma.org
- Centimorgan Chart - https://dnagenealogy.tumblr.com/image/158365551403 from the excellent (at finding adoptees ancestors) "DNA Detectives" Facebook Group.
Genealogy Tools
- Calculate birth date from death date and age on tombstones and death certificates http://www.ovs-genealogy.com/tools/
These sites can be used to discover the meaning and history of your name.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name - Full Names
- http://www.behindthename.com/ - Given Names
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given_name - Wikipedia definition of Given Name
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname - Surname
- After being shown some TNG web sites recently, I became very interested in this software. It appears to be a very flexible way to put your personal genealogy on the Web so that potential collaborators will see it and contact you with a wealth of new information. It has been installed successfully in August, 2011 and my wife and I are experimenting with it. They came out with a version 9 earlier in 2012 and it's working well. Some example sites are: Lisa and Roger, Author's TNG Site (Darrin Lithgoe) and the Kloosterman family. It is very cool software, only costs $30.
- Lots of info about obituaries and a bonus is many manual chart forms that you can easily download from their site map.
- There appears to be a dearth of good information about the Gedcom format used to transfer genealogy data between computer programs. Maybe there's a book or web site that's so good, nobody needs to publish anything else! Well, I think that people concentrate so much on their own genealogy programs that they don't share data with other programs. So they don't have issues of sharing files between genealogy programs. I noticed a couple blog entries from geneamusings.com blog dealing with this very issue and I hunted down a couple other web sites that talk about Gedcom issues.
- Geneamusings Blog Entries
- The Seaver Source Citation Saga Compendium
- Feb 17, 2011 post about Family Tree, Legacy and Roots Magic genealogy programs and Gedcom
- FTM 2011 ==> Roots Magic and Legacy - Geneamusings Blog about inputtng sources into FTM 2011 and then attempting to export via Gedcom to Roots Magic4 and Legacy 7 databases.
- Wikipedia Gedcom Entry
- Gedcom from Cindi's List
- Gedcom 101 from About.com
Browser Access Web Sites
- Google Sites - See my Example at http://sites.google.com/site/georgefamilywebsite/
- Tribalpages.com - See my Example at http://billgeorge.tribalpages.com
- Yahoo Groups - They do, unfortunately, have a lot of advertising
- Ancestry has ceased publishing the Ancestry Magazine. But all back issues are available from Google Books.
- Discovered this map-making gadget & couldn't resist showing our travels, mostly in the U.S., Mexico & Canada and UK with some Caribbean. The web site, bighugelabs.com has ALL KINDS of artsy craftsy web pages like this, from calendar makers to comic book captions.
| Travels of Bill and Diane through 2014 |
Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com
| Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com/map.php |
The Genealogy Research Plan
To do family history research, you need to have goals and a plan.
- A good place to start learning about this is at an About.com web page, about the "Genealogy Research Plan" - http://genealogy.about.com/od/basics/a/research_plan.htm
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness- Volunteers help you.
- Family History Expos - Find one near you and they usually have volunteers providing expert help.
- There's a poplular book out, for $34.95 by Dan Lynch called "Google Your Family Tree"
Supporting Sites with ordering or interviews: World Vital Records | Genea Musings | - Other Google Family Tree Search Links
- MacGen Group
- Diablo Valley Macintosh User Group, Genealogy SIG
- Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group, Mac Class taught by Pat Burrow
- Who do you think you are - NBC Friday night, 8pm.
- Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Local (to Castro Valley, California) Genealogy groups:
- California Genealogical Society - Transferred from San Francisco to Oakland
- Contra Costa County Genealogical Society meets the second Thurday of each month (except Aug) at 7pm in Concord.
- East Bay Genealogical Society of Oakland | Meetings
- 2nd Wed., 10am, Family History Center, 4766 Lincoln Avenue Oakland, CA 94602 510-531-3905 - Hayward Area Genealogical Society
- 3rd & 4th Tues., San Lorenzo Library, 6:30pm, 395 Paseo Grande. San Lorenzo, CA 94580, 510-670-6283 - Livermore-Amador Valley Genealological Society | Meetings
- 2nd Mon., 7:30pm, 3400 Nevada St., Pleasanton, 94566 - Macintosh & Genealogy (MacGen.org) - User Group started by Bill George in April 2009
- 4th Sat., 1:30pm Family History Center, 4766 Lincoln Avenue Oakland, CA 94602 510-531-3905 - San Mateo Genealogical Society
- Third Wed. or Third Sat., Silicon Valley Community Foundation at 1700 South El Camino,San Mateo - San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society
-3rd Tues 10am-12 Danville FHC, 2949 Stone Valley Road, Alamo - Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group | Meetings
- 2nd Sat 9-11am, 875 Quince Avenue Santa Clara, California, USA (Used to be Silicon Valley PAF User Group
- Association of Professional Genealogists
- Board for Certification of Genealogists
- California Genealogical Society - Free Beginning Genealogy Lessons, 1st Saturday of the month.
- International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists
- National Genealogical Society - Subscription to Magazine. They Have National Conference
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
- Southern California Genealogical Society
Very Helpful Tools when analyzing Census Record. Try googling "Census Image Templates"
- Census Tools - http://www.censustools.com - This one is EXCELLENT
- Encyclopedia of Genealogy (sponsored by eogn.com)
- Oakland Regional Family History Center (with list of 12 Bay Area FHCs)
http://www.oaklandfhc.org
4766 Lincoln Avenue
Oakland, Alameda, California, United States
Phone: 510-531-3905
Hours: T, W 10am-9pm; Th, F, S 10am-4pm - National Archives Pacific Region
https://www.archives.gov/san-francisco
1000 Commodore Drive
San Bruno, California 94066-2350
Phone: 650-238-3500
Fax: 650-238-3511 - Sutro Library
https://www.library.ca.gov/sutro/
480 Winston Drive
San Francisco, CA 94132
Phone: (415) 731-4477
Fax: (415) 557-9325
E-Mail: sutro@library.ca.gov - Santa Clara Central Park Library
Genealogy Collection in Heritage Pavilion
http://library.santaclaraca.gov (search for Central Park Library)
2635 Homestead Road
Santa Clara, CA 95051
408-615-2900 Reference Desk
Linux
- Free - Ftree
- Free - Genes (from Sourceforge.net)
- Free - Gramps
PC
- Free - Personal Ancestral File (PAF) Although discontinued by LDS
- $29 - Ancestral Quest | Demo (Same author as PAF)
- Free - Legacy 7.0 Standard
- $29 - Legacy 7.0 Deluxe | Demo
- $29 - Family Tree Maker
- $59 - The Master Genealogist | Demo
- $29 - Roots Magic | Demo
- Free - FamilySearch (LDS)
- Free - Rootsweb
- $29/yr - MyFamily.com
- $50/2 yrs - World Vital Records
- $59/yr - Footnote
- $240/yr US - Ancestry.com
- $360/yr US+World - Ancestry.com
- Family Graphics - Specializes in printing charts from Mac pgm, Reunion. Excellent site, good prices
- Generation Maps - The Chart Chick likes this site
- Wholly Genes Charting - From the publishers of The Master Genealogist Softwaree
- Reunion - Leisterpro.com has Message Boards with Charting Topics
- The Chart Chick
- Misbach - PDF Forms for Manual Charts
- Project Gutenberg | Wikipedia especially Thomas Darcy McGee's "The history of Ireland"
- "A History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850" by Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Definition of Gedcom from EOGEN Encyclopedia
- Gedcom to HTML Program Misbach
- Alameda County Library System Main Site | Genealogy|
- City Libraries | Example Pleasanton has genealogy docents
- WorldCat - Worldcat.org
- Whatsasthere - http://www.whatwasthere.com/. Historical photos contributed by users
- Shutterfly - http://www.shutterfly.com I like this site because their prices are competitive and they print the file name of the picture in light blue on the back of each picture. They also have gifts for family, to print your photos on, like coffee mugs. They also allow you to create multiple free web gallery-oriented web sites. Examples are my George Campout and Pardee Picnic photo gallery web sites.
- Flickr - http://www.flickr.com - This site lets you upload your photos to their website for others to view.
There are some very informative Genealogy Blogs. A couple noteworthy ones are Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy, Genea Musings, the Genealogy Bank Blog and a terrific Resource, a genealogy blog finder.
- Ancestry Insider
- Chart Chick Her specialty is Charting
- Dear Myrtle of the Dear Myrtle Blog
- Dick Eastman of Eastman's Genealogy Newsletter
- Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
- Geneablogger - Contains a list of HUNDREDS of genealogy blogs
- Genealogue
- Genealogy Bank Blog
- Genealogy Blog Finder
- Genealogy's Star - James Tanner - Wonderful, in depth information. FamilySearch and LDS oriented
- Genea Musings - Randy daily 's great Blog
- Genroots - Colorado Blogger, note his humor
- Juliana Smith of Ancestry.com's 24/7 Family History Circle,
- Steven J Danko's Genealogy Blog
Podcasts are very helpful. You can play them on your mp3 player (iPod or equivalent) and learn when you have downtime traveling or waiting. You just downlod the podcasts (mp3 files) and upload to your music player. iPods and iPhones make it very easy to automatically choose and get new podcasts using iTunes.
- Cyndi's List - Podcasts
- Genealogy Gems - Lisa Louise Cooke
- Genealogy Guys - George C. Morgan and Drew Smith
- Genealogy Made Easy - Lisa Louise Cooke
- Genealogy on Demand
- National Archives Podcast Series
- MySociety - FGS Podcast Series
British Royals
Research Tools
Genealogy Inc - See also their list of county formation maps of most states.
Some Interesting Genealogy Sites:
- Geni.com - Very compelling way to share your family tree and motivate relatives to provide biographical information.
- Genetic Genealogist web site
- Cyndi's List is a tremendous resource, at http://www.cyndislist.com/.
- Google Genealogy Search - There is also a clever genealogy search page using Google technology that's quite helpful at http://www.genealogy-search-help.com/index.html.
- Family Tree Searcher - This is a Multi-Site Genealogy Search utility that lets you search eight genealogy sites at once. It may save you some time. http://www.familytreesearcher.com/
- About.com. A good free resource for beginning genealogists is http://genealogy.about.com. They have podcasts and frequent email updates available as well as the web site itself.
- History of the Census
- Facebook.com Millions of users - Do a search on "Genealogy" to find friends, blogs, podcasts and web sites. Maybe get lucky and run into relatives (and maybe not).
- Self-publishing site for people who want to publish their blogs. http://www.blurb.com
- Google Maps - The most incredible current-day map resource on the internet
- Perry-Casteneda Map Collection - Large collection of maps from the Univ. of Texas including many from the CIA
I am working on a brick wall, trying to locate any information about my third great grandfather. I have information about my second great grandfather Samuel George, b. 1815 Indiana cty, PA, d. 1889 Mercer Cty, PA. An 1880 census record indicates that Samuel's father is from Ireland. That's all I know about him. So I'm looking into immigration from Ireland to the U.S. before 1815 and families that existed in nearby Indiana, PA. I located a William George born in Ireland, who lived close to Indiana, PA and am tracing his family. Updated Mar 2015. Fairly likely guess at given name for 2nd ggf is "William" according to Irish family naming conventions. So I'm on the trail of William George, in early Pennsylvania (1810-1830), and before. My aunt and I commissioned some work by Salt Lake City LDS Researchers and found some additional information including a will, where a William George left Samuel George land and a home in Pennsylvania. It's looking like William George may be our man.
I'm also researching the George line using Ancestry, Rootsweb, MyHeritage and FamilySearch sites.
- George Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning
- George Study
- George DNA Surname Project
- Memorabilia - Crests & gifts
- George Surname web sites on Genealogy.com
- My family is connected to Sir Godfrey Kneller, it is thought through family lore - But it isn't clear how. I have Knell surnames. To find out more Google Godfrey Kneller and visit this web site http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=62 and the Wikipedia Page on him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Kneller.