Genealogy

Surname Navigator : http://www.kuijsten.de/navigator/ - SUPER way to do a quick surname survey Another - ExpertGenealogy Websearch Wizard : http://expertgenealogy.com/websearch/ The pre-eminent Rootsweb Surname List : http://rsl.rootsweb.com -- don't just search it, also list your surnames! GEDCOM index : http://www.gedcomindex.com/ Linkpendium's Surnames - Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname: http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/sur/ TNG Network Search for Names : http://tngnetwork.lythgoes.net/index.php UK Office of National Statistics database of surnames in use in England, Wales and the Isle of Man , September 2002: http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php Surname Profiler: The Geography of British Names : http://www.spatial-literacy.org/index.php?p=familyname Online English Names Directory : http://www.list.jaunay.com/engnames/ Yournotme.com , also UK, 2001: http://www.yournotme.com . You can leave messages on this sit

When you start research in a new area, it's always helpful to Google for basic sites, check out RootsWeb Guides to Tracing Family Trees : http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ , Cyndislist : http://cyndislist.com/ , and look at the Research Guides that the LDS puts out. These are now available, free, from http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/Rg/frameset_rhelps.asp Bookmark all the good sites you find! When you run into a snag, look over the basic research information again. Perhaps you have neglected a basic step. Doing the basics is like building a foundation for your house. You can build a house without a foundation, but it won't LAST! Doing the basics, like moving from the known to the unknown, keeping careful records and citing your sources, widening your search to include siblings, collaterals and neighbors, etc. might seem to slow you down sometimes, but they will keep you going for the long haul. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have

There is still lots of free info on Ancestry. In fact, recently two Census indexes have been added; the US 1880 every-name index, and the 1881 UK Census. The Message boards are free, as is the Ancestry World Tree. The My Ancestry Search Profile is pretty cool, and is free, although the results may point to subscription databases. The Learning Center is still free, which has loads of great articles. They also offer the free trial program, Family Tree Maker, although you do have to register to get that. Finally, the Research Registry is free for all. Two census indexes for free searching: the 1880 U.S. Federal Census and the 1881 England, Wales, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands Census. The 1880 U.S. Federal Census is an every-name index and the last census available census for the 1800s. More about this: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/1880-us-census-free-to-search-at.html . The 1881 census every-name index includes enumerations for England , Wales , the Isle of Man , and the Cha

If you have changed your email address permanently, and no longer have access to the account, to to the Rootsweb HelpDesk and have them do a global unsub for all your lists: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/form1.html More on changing your contact information at Rootsweb : http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/addresses/ I did not write this article, previously published in RootsWeb Review : 16 June 2004, Vol. 7, No. 24 . RootsWeb Mailing Lists -- Gone Fishing? "Summertime and the livin' is easy" is how the familiar song from "Porgy and Bess" goes. For RootsWeb users in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is nearly here and that often brings with it vacations (holidays), long weekend fishing trips, beach house visits or trips to the cabin in the mountains. All of which means time away from genealogical research, time away from your computer and your e-mail. What should you do when you are going to be away temporarily from your RootsWeb mailing lists? Depending upon the length

Start at http://familysearch.org . Click the SEARCH tab, and then the Family History Library Catalog tab, or bypass the first two steps by going directly to: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Not all browsers will load an .asp page directly, so I give the alternate steps. Once you are there, click Place Search , then type the name of the village in the top box. Leave the bottom box empty. Once you get the results, be sure to investigate all the possible good options. If you want to keep that original results page open, right-click on the various options given, and choose to open in a new tab or new window. That helps me keep organized! Once you get a list of what is available, there are a couple of interesting options that many people overlook. I put in "strasbourg" as an example, and here are the results: Place France, Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg References (Use for) France, Bas-Rhin, La Robertsau Topics France, Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg - Archives and