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Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com/
A commercial site that requires a fee to access all databases;
however, recent
databases and those that are updated are available to search
for free
for two weeks. There
is also a forum discussion for surnames and the Ancestry
World Tree, a database of genealogy submitted by researchers. It boasts
close to 80 million names, but it is only as good as the researcher
submitting it was.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy
Sites on the Internet
http://www.cyndislist.com/
A mega-index of all genealogical websites - over 95,000 listed.
Arranged in
an easy-to-use alphabetical order by subjects such as adoption,
vital records,
or country and ethnicity.
FamilySearch
http://www.familysearch.org/
This Mormon family research site allows people to search three
important things:
the IGI (International Genealogical Index), Ancestral
File, and the
holdings of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
The IGI is a
database of births, deaths, and marriages from around the
world gleaned from
primary sources, such as church records and town records,
as well as secondary
sources, such as printed genealogies and town histories.
The Ancestral
File is the database of submissions of family trees to the
Mormons.
The Family History Library is the premier genealogical
library in
the United States.
GenForum
www.genforum.genealogy.com/
The largest and most popular genealogical forum on the Internet.
One can post
messages under specific surnames and search the messages already
listed.
A good way to find other researchers with a common
interest.
RootsWeb.com
http://www.rootsweb.com/
This site includes links to many genealogy tools and resources,
databases, mailing lists and message boards. It includes California
cemetery information
and California birth records which give birth date, name,
parents'
surnames, and locality of the event. The California death
records
give death date, name, parents' surnames, Social Security
number, birth
date and locality of the event.
San
Mateo County [CA] Genealogical Society
http://www.smcgs.org/
This is the Web site for the San Mateo County Genealogical
Society which maintains a small collection and offers help
from volunteers. Their Web site
includes information on classes and workshops, meetings,
and
publications.
Sutro Library
Information
http://www.onelibrary.com/Library/calslsut.htm
With the largest collection of genealogy materials in the
Bay Area, The Sutro Library is the genealogical depository
for and a division of the California State Library. Among
the holdings are thousands of family genealogies, as well
as historical records of the states. Since the library lacks
its own website, this independent site provides essential
information about the library and its collections, including
instructions on how to access the catalog online.
USGenWeb
Project
http://www.usgenweb.org/
Every U.S. county has a web site for genealogy and this is
the main page for
this project. These
web sites are also accessible through Cyndi's List.
Content varies from county to county.
The sites are all volunteer-supported
and what they have is free to use.
Last
updated May 2004 courtesy of San Mateo County
Library (wn)
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