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Top Favorites to Get Your Feet Wet With:

  • Family Search--   https://www.familysearch.org/ 
Free--The largest Collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world.  Don't miss other FamilySearch links such as:   Family Search Wiki--https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page
  • Tree Connect: http://recordseek.com/--Get the bookmark tool that will allow you to automatically connect a record to FamilySearch.org
  • ($) Ancestry-- http://www.ancestry.com/
Portions of the site are free without a subscription.  The World Library Edition of Ancestry is available at LDS FamilySearch Centers.  To locate a center near you, click this link:   https://www.familysearch.org/locations
  • Find a Grave--  (Remember--less information is more likely to produce results)  http://www.findagrave.com/ 
  • Also try: Billion Graves-- http://billiongraves.com/
  • USGenWeb: http://usgenweb.org/
  • World Gen Web--  http://www.worldgenweb.org
  • Joe Beine Genealogy Research Guides, Tips and Online Records www.researchguides.net/index.htm
  •   Original Wee Monster US Databases:  http://www.germanroots.com/databases.html  
  • Google--  http://www.google.com
  •  Google Translate-- http://translate.google.com/
It is important to use other search engines also:  
  • http://www.preservingtime.org/search-engines.html
  •   Internet Archive--  archive.org/
Digital Library with access to millions of Free digitized books.  MANY old histories and biographies.  Wayback Machine searches an archive of old internet sites.
  • Steve Morse--  http://www.stevemorse.org/
  • Wikipedia-- http://www.wikipedia.org/  Especially helpful: Use the search terms:  "List of online newspaper archives"
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  • Home
  • Handouts
    • Archiving and Preservation >
      • Preserving Family Treasures
      • SAVE THE BOX
      • What do I DO with the STUFF?
      • Personal History Debate/ Laying Out Page
      • Avoiding Digital Disasters
      • Clues to Identifying Photos
      • Gathering THE STUFF
      • Interviews
      • Photo Organization
      • Memory Jogger ?s for Writing Personal Histories
      • More on Archiving--The Good, The Bad and The Terrible
      • Scanning Photos and Documents
    • Journaling in a Jiffy
    • Secrets/ Not Overwhelmed by Family History
    • Beginning Research Checklist
    • Evaluating Information
    • Family History: 15 Minutes at a Time
    • Going Digital with your Genealogy
    • Limiting Internet Searches
    • Ordinances Ready as a Starting Point
    • Organize to Fit the Way YOU Think
    • Personal Research Toolbox
    • Family History Notetaking
  • Web-site Project
    • Top Favorites
    • General Sites
    • Cemeteries/ Death Records
    • Census
    • Immigration, Emigration and Migration Records
    • Land Records- United States
    • LDS Websites
    • Libraries
    • Location Specific >
      • United States
      • State Specific
      • Other Countries
    • Maps/ Address & Phone Numbers
    • Military Records
    • Newspapers
    • Other 'Web-Site Projects'
    • Search Engines
  • Toolbox
    • Good to Know Basics >
      • Good to Know-Basics
      • Finding YOUR Best Place to Work
      • Census Records
      • Clues--Finding Missing Family
      • Computer and Tech Basics
      • OCR & Online Searches
      • Ocupsyshun Census Taker
      • Relationship Chart
      • Research Checklist
    • FamilySearch.org >
      • Good To Know-FamilySearch
      • Tree Connect: Adding Sources from Outside FamilySearch
      • Browse Records-FamilySearch
      • Find/ Add People in FamilySearch
      • No Image? Maybe There Is One
      • RelativeFinder.org
    • Apps & Links >
      • BYU Family History Labs
    • Reference Article Links
    • SPECIAL EVENTS INFO: >
      • 2020 Handouts
      • 2019 Fair Handouts
      • 2018 Fair Handouts
    • Getting Started for True Beginners
    • Consultants >
      • Strengthen Teaching Skills
    • Teaching Tools
    • Save the Box
    • Scanning, VHS and Cassette Tapes
    • Handwriting Helps
  • Photos and Stories
    • Scanning Multiple Photos/ Same Time
    • Scanner Hints
  • Charts and Blank Forms
    • Relationship Chart
  • Articles, Tutorials & Classes