I just spent the whole weekend working on my genealogy. It was a perfect weekend to do research, single digit temperatures, snow, and a holiday. Luckily, I finished my papers on Saturday, so I was able to spend the rest of the weekend doing research. Most of my work was done on my Ancestry.com family trees, but there are other sources that I dig into as well. I thought it would be good to share with you my frequent links stored on my “bookmarks”.
Ancestry.com is the biggest name in American Online Genealogy. So much so, they have bought up several of the sites I used to use that the database negates the use of any of the others. There are a couple of websites under their umbrella that has Military Records and Newspapers, but they are linked into the Ancestry subscription, so at this time, there is not much use in having them separate. If you are new to Genealogy, I definitely recommending starting here. This is where I spend most of my time.
Midwest Genealogy Center is a wonderful genealogy library that I have had time to visit recently, but even before my visit, I used their resources. One of the most useful areas for me are the Family History Forms for at the bottom of the resources page.
Ancestry Academy is Ancestry.com’s training site. I have not used this as much as I would like. But, I am looking forward to viewing several of their free resources as I move through my projects.
Rootsweb is a longtime genealogy community, now run by Ancestry.com. This site is a large forum of family historians around the world. Rootsweb is a great message board full of knowledgeable people.
FindAGrave.com is another website recently bought by Ancestry.com. I will be interested to see how they update this already powerful site and community. FindAGrave.com is a resource that stores information from cemeteries from across the country. I have been able to see the graves of many of my ancestors by simply searching their site. The new linkage between ancestry and findagrave has already given me the opportunity to find even more.
These are the links that I use in my research. There are many other small sites out there, but honestly, I have my hands full by what I have here.
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