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Searching for Genealogy
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Genealogical
Search Engines |
You
may have used genealogy directories to search for you ancestors; there are
also genealogy-specific search engines.
They work in
the same way as the regular search engines, on genealogical sites. This will eliminate the non-genealogy sites
that would
normally come up in your search results because
something on one of the pages matches your search
criteria.
Genealogy-specific search engines allow
you to look for only
those sites
which pertain to
genealogy and family history.
Keep in mind that when you
use genealogy-specific
search engines, you will not need to use words like "genealogy"
in
your search terms. These
sites, by their very nature, are
about genealogy, and
using such words as search terms will
not help to focus your results. Several good
genealogy-specific search engines are:
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Ancestry
Search - Ancestry includes a library of
databases (some free, some available by subscription), a "links
station" to 3200 other genealogy sites, a genealogy shop, and
access to GEDCOM files. |
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DejaNews
- the largest archive on the Net, which includes
Usenet newsgroups and other popular forums |
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Genealogy
Toolbox - Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
consists of seven sites
designed to provide the tools necessary for
genealogists to use the
Internet to discover their family's history.
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GenSearcher
- the All-in-One Genealogy Search Page which
offers convenient, one-stop, on-line research
with genealogy search engines,
surnames databases and indexes from the best
resources on the
internet. Browse through the 12 pages of
search engines.
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Family Finder
- Search Web Sites, Family Archives, Online
data, Social
Security Death Index, family
trees of royalty, politicians.
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FEEFHS
- Federation of East European Family History
Societies. Internet Search Engines that Can Find Genealogy Stuff. |
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Found It! - This genealogy web search
has been a free resource to the
Internet Genealogy Community since it's
inception in 1996. While
visiting the Gensource pages, be sure to make
use of all the
free
resources offered for genealogy research,
including Common Threads
and I Found It! Archives
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Nedgen.netsystem
- NedGen indexes your
family tree and
genealogy sites
in France,
Germany, United Kingdom,
Netherlands,
Belgium, Norway
and Passenger lists.
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Standard
Search Engines |
These search engines are all excellent reference
tools for finding family history Web pages, but they are
only as good as the pages that are submitted to them. For each Web site which they contain, there are many,
many more genealogy-related pages that they do not have
indexed. So how do you find those
pages? This is where learning to use the standard search
engines effectively
comes in.
Go to different Search Engines and read the help section and learn how
that particular
search engine wants you to submit your search.
Here
are a few good Search Engines but there are many more out there.
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Mailing
Lists |
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Genealogy
Resources - This is John
Filler's page on mailing lists. The mailing lists on this site are divided
into five categories. |
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RootsWeb's
- A complete index to
RootsWeb's
20,784 genealogy mailing lists! |
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Roots-L
- ROOTS-L is a mailing list for people who are interested in any or all
aspects of genealogy, anywhere in the world. We're the original Internet
genealogical mailing list, and the largest. But that doesn't mean we're
not interested in new faces, new queries, new knowledge |
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Message
Board |
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Newsgroups |
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USENET
NEWSGROUPS - many of these
newsgroups have gateway mailing lists (postings to the newsgroup are
also sent to the mailing list subscribers and vice versa) which provides
an alternative means of accessing the newsgroup postings. |
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