Mining Online Resources - IV

Gensoft - March 2001
by Judith Rempel, AFHS Webster & Gordon Hulbert, GenSoft Chair
Genealogy 101 - WorkBench/Toolkit - Finding Aids - Repositories
 
See also Computer Special Interest Group

A. Genealogy 101

1. Getting Started Guides

   • A to Z of British Genealogical Research - a surprisingly complete encyclopaedia of information
   • AFHS Guide to Getting Started
   • Citing your Sources
   • Everyday Life in Scotland
   • LDS Family History Center Research Outlines
   • Welcome to Scotland
   
   

2. Broad Scope Sites

   • Alberta Family Histories Society
   • Cyndi's List
   
   

3. Newsletters

   • Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
   • Global Gazette
   • Rootsweb Review

B. Toolkit/Workbench

1. Software

   • Genealogical Software Scorecard
   • GEDCOM Standard - advanced reading
   • Legacy - basic program downloadable for free
   • Personal Ancestral File - now you can download this as freeware
   • Software Selections
   
   

2. Search Engines

   • Altavista - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Fast Search/AllTheWeb - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Google - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Yahoo - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • HotBot - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Lycos - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Snap/NBCi - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • DogPile Meta Engine - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • InfoSeek/Go - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • LookSmart - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Northern Light - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Webcrawler - Marchitto Family Test Search
   • Genealogy Portal - Marchitto Family Test Search
   
   

3. Dialogue

   e-mail Lists

   • AFHS's dist-gen
   • Collaboration Lists - from the LDS church
   • John Fuller's list
   • Rootsweb
   
   

   Web-based Forums

   • GenForum - Forum style registry
   • Rootsweb Surname Forums
   • Rootsweb Locality Forums
   
   

4. Maps

   • Italy Surnames: GENS - based on telephone listings
   • N America Streets: WorldPages - detailed street maps for much of North America
   • Scotland Clans: Scottish Clan Map
   • Surname Distribution Samples: Rempel, Canada & Rempel, USA - Make your Own
   • U Kingdom Streets: Street Maps of United Kingdom
   • USA Surnames: GENS - based on telephone listings
   • USA Surnames: Hamrick's- animated, based on Census samples
   • World Localities: Expedia (Microsoft) - atlas-type maps
   
   

5. Dictionaries

   • Dictionaries Online - Afrikaans, Aklanon, Alabama, Albanian, Algerian, Amharic, Arabic, Arawakan, ASL, Avestan, Ayapathu, Aymara, Bantu, Basa, Basque, Belorussian, Bengali, Berber, Bobangi, Brahui, Breton, Bukusu, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chinese, Cispa, Croatian, Creole, Czech, Danish, Demonh'ka, Dutch, Eggon, Egyptian, English, Eskimo, Esperanto, Estonian, Fang, Farsi, Finnish, Frankish, French, Gaelic, Galician, Gaulish, Gamilaraay, Ganda, Gbari, German, Gilbertese, Gothic, Greek, Guarani, Hakka, Halaka, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hmong, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Ingush, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kapampangan, Karelian, Katcha, Khowar, Klallam, Klingon, Kongo, Korean, Kurdish, Lakhota, Latin, Latvian, Lenape, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Lycian, Lydian, Mabwe, Malay, Maliseet, Maltese, Mandinka, Manx, Maori, Mapudungun, Masaba, Mayan, Mayangna, Mawu, Miskitu, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Nauruan, Navajo, Norwegian, Occitan, Ojibwe, Olkola, Oykangand , PA Dutch, Pahlavi, Pakahn, Pali, Pashto, Passam...dy, Pende, Phrygian, Pidgin, Piraha, Polish, Popoluca, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Prussian, Quechua, Rasta, Romanian, Romany, Russian, Saami, Saanich, Sanskrit, Seneca, Serbian, Seri, Shona, Sign, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Sranan, Sudovian, Sumerian, Swabian, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taino, Taiwanese, Tamazight, Tamil, Tarok, Tatar, Thai, Thracian, Tibetan, Tocharian, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ulwa, Uqoi, Umbrian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Votic, Vulcan, Warlpiri, Welsh, Wolof, Yemba, Yiddish, Xhosa, Zulu

C. Finding Aids

1. Surname (Registries)

   • AFHS - Members only
   • Common Threads
   • FamilyTreeMaker
   • Guild of One Name Studies - UK mostly; at the game for a long time
   • Rootsweb - add your surname for free; get regular updates in your e-mail
   
   

2. Geo-Specific

   • Canada Data: Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry (AFHS)
   • Canada Maps: - Map Inventory of the Genbow Museum
   • England Surnames: Cumbria , NE Lancashire,
   • Scotland Repositories: Scottish Repositories Online
   • US Census: Census On-Line
   • GenExchange
   • World Misc: GenWeb - a website for every country, province/state/county in the world - almost
   • World Data: International Internet Genealogical Society Projects Registry

D. Repositories

1. Digital Images

   • Early Canadiana Online -historic Canadian literature
   • Our Future/Our Past - Alberta newspapers and local histories
   • York/Toronto Public Library - York/Toronto City Directories (click on Go)
   • US Censuses - small start, but some excellent quality scans
   
   

2. Transcriptions & Extractions of Data Records

   • Ancestry.com - fee-based service
     
   • British Columbia Death Indexes British Columbia
   • Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, 20,000 settlement records, 1923-30
   • Census Records United States
   • Free BMD - England & Wales
   • Home Children (UK to Canada) Records
   • Immigrant Ship Transcriber's Guild - International
   • Immigration (to Canada) Records, 1925-35
   • International Genealogical Index (LDS)
   • Ontario Census (1871)
   • Social Security Death Index, Dec 2000 (64.5 million records) - United States
   • Social Security Death Index, Dec 2000 (65.0 million records) - United States
   • Vital Records Index (LDS) - only Mexico so far
   
   

3. e-Published GEDCOM Files

   • Ancestry World Tree - submitted gedcoms
   • LDS - Ancestral File
   • MyFamily.com - password protected GEDCOM and photo files