Mining Online Resources - III

Computer SIG - September 1999
by Judith Rempel
In the Beginning - Feeling Familiar - Broadening the Scope
See also Computer Special Interest Group

In the beginning

• Alberta Family Histories Society
• Cyndi's List

Submitted Family Data

• Ancestry World Tree
• Genealogy.com
• LDS - Ancestral File
• MyFamily.com

Surname Registries

• Rootsweb - add your surname for free; get regular updates in your e-mail
• AFHS - Members only
• Common Threads
• England: Cumbria , NE Lancashire,
• GenExchange
• GenConnect - Rootsweb Forum search
• GenForum - Forum style registry
• Guild of One Name Studies - UK mostly; at the game for a long time
• Surname Web

Mailing Lists

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

Extra Reading/Specialized Research Tools

• LDS Family History Center Research Outlines
• A to Z of British Genealogical Research - a surprisingly complete encyclopaedia of information
• Everyday Life in Scotland
• Welcome to Scotland
• Genealogy Portal
• Personal Ancestral File - now you can download this as freeware
• World GenWeb - a website for every country, province/state/county in the world - almost

Feeling Familiar

Transcriptions

• Ancestry.com - fee
  
• LDS - Family Search - International (most submitters are likely LDS church members)
• Social Security Death Index, Mar 1999 (60,000,000) - United States
• Social Security Death Index, Jul 1999 (62,000,000) - United States
• Census Records United States
• Free BMD - England & Wales
• Immigrant Ship Transcriber's Guild - International
• Death Indexes British Columbia - we'll hunt for John Berger

Genealogy Project Registries/Finding Aids/. . . Online

• AFHS's Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry
• Census On-Line (US)
• International Internet Genealogical Society Projects Registry
• Scottish Repositories Online

Broadening the Scope

Maps

• Hamrick's
• WorldPages - detailed maps for much of North America
• Map Inventory of the Genbow Museum
• Scottish Clan Map
• Street Maps of United Kingdom
• Expedia (Microsoft) - atlas-type maps

Newsletters

• Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - weekly & archived
• Global Gazette - most recent issue, 29 October 1999 - every 2 weeks & archived
• Rootsweb Review - most recent issue, March 1999

Other Online Resources...

• 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
• GenealogyLibrary.com Membership: $US10/mo; $US100/yr
• Citing your Sources

Still Haven't Found What You're looking for?

• Altavista
• Fast Search/AllTheWeb
• Google
• HotBot
• InfoSeek
• LookSmart
• Lycos
• NBCi
• Northern Light
• Overture
• Webcrawler
• Yahoo