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Cyndi's List

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet is a categorized and cross-referenced list of links for genealogical research. The site contains roughly 260,000 links in 180 categories. Cyndi's List supplements operating expenses with affiliate advertising.

FAMWISE

FAM*WISE is a comprehensive online genealogy research and collaboration application that allows individuals and families to manage their research, set their goals, and work together to achieve them. It is not desktop-based, rather it is delivered via the world wide web. This delivery method allows for more flexible access, more rapid updates, and easier collaboration between researchers.

Family Tree Magazine

Family Tree Magazine is a publication about genealogy and family history published by F+W Publications Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1999 and has a paid circulation of about 70,000. Topics include resource guides for specific ethnicities, technology how-to articles, history and genealogy news. Its website includes excerpts of stories, online exclusives, a number of blogs and a forum.

Family Search

FamilySearch is a family history website provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It provides its resources free of charge to the public and is one of the preeminent genealogy sites on the Internet. The primary resources offered by FamilySearch are searchable databases, research guidance, and the catalog of the Family History Library. FamilySearch provides online access to several databases, which together contain over one billion names.

FamilySearch Indexing

FamilySearch Indexing is a distributed volunteer driven project established and run by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The project aims to create searchable digital indexes for scanned images of historical documents. Volunteers install free software on their home computers, download images from the site, type the data they read from the image into the software, and submit their work back to the site. The data is eventually made publicly and freely available on one of the FamilySearch web sites for use in genealogical research.

FamilyTreeDNA

FamilyTreeDNA is a commercial genetic genealogy company based in Houston, Texas. It is the world's largest genealogy driven DNA testing company with over 100,000 records; FamilyTreeDNA claims that they carry out 90% of all genealogical DNA tests worldwide. Its European branch is iGENEA. FamilyTreeDNA uses the facilities of Arizona Research Labs at the University of Arizona for all DNA extractions and Y-chromosome testing, as well as some mtDNA testing. FamilyTreeDNA is the company that formed the now widely referenced 12 marker Cohen Modal Haplotype.

Find A Grave

Find A Grave is a website allowing its users to access, maintain and expand an online database, currently totaling over 22 million burial records.

The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from all around the world. American cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps (with GPS coordinates supplied by contributors and the U.S. Geological Survey) and photographs of the cemeteries. Individual grave records contain some or all of the following data fields: dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs (grave marker, the individual, etc.), and contributor information. The vast majority of records have been contributed by dedicated site contributors, field volunteers or family members and friends of the deceased. Members are allowed to place on-line memorials for relatives and friends. There is no cost for this service and users receive editing privileges over the memorials.

Members may also request photos of graves which volunteers are notified by Find A Grave and often can fulfill.

GENUKI

GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. Its aim is "to serve as a "virtual reference library" of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland". The name derives from "GENealogy of the UK and Ireland".

It hosts a large collection of pages with genealogical information covering England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The emphasis is on primary sources, or means to access them, rather than on existing genealogical research.

GENUKI has a well defined structure at four levels. The first level is information that is common to all the British Isles.[1] The next level has information for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (e.g. England). The third level has information on each pre-1974 county of England, Scotland and Wales, each of the 32 counties of Ireland and each island of the Channel Islands (e.g. Cheshire, County Kerry and Guernsey). Then there is information on each town or parish (e.g. Antrobus, Cheshire). The contents and site map illustrates this structure. For many locations, a description is quoted from an old (and therefore out-of-copyright) gazetteer.

Genealogy.com

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Geneanet

Geneanet is an international genealogy database. The GeneaNet project was officially launched on December 2, 1996. Today the GeneaNet database holds over 135 million entries which is equivalent to over 400 million individuals.

The story of GeneaNet began in 1996 when several people interested in genealogy and computing, Jacques Le Marois, Jérome Abela et Julien Cassaigne, realized what a great instrument the Internet could be for their genealogical research. They then had the idea to share, in a single database, not the whole of their family trees but what genealogists call a liste éclair (flash list). A liste éclair is a list of surnames which one studies is one's genealogy, associated to the locations where one's ancestors have lived. That file is often enriched with the years of the beginning and the end of which one holds information about each name.

The Generations Network

The Generations Network is an Internet company based in Provo, Utah and the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world. They run a growing network of genealogy and family-related websites.

In addition to their main sites, The Generations Network operates FamilyHistory.com, which contains basic information for free, but mostly serves as a portal to Ancestry.com. They also publish Ancestry Magazine and formerly published Genealogical Computing before the magazine ceased publication in 2006. They have a presence in the United Kingdom under the name The Generations Network Ltd., whose offices are located in Hammersmith, London, England and Munich, Germany.

Geni.com

Geni.com is a genealogy-related social networking website launched in beta mode on January 16, 2007 by Web 2.0 company Geni, Inc. Over ten million profiles were created on Geni as of November 12, 2007.

At the website users enter names and email addresses of their parents, siblings, and other relatives, as well as profiles with various fields of biographical information about themselves and their relatives. From there users may graphically manipulate sections of their connections network to create a complete personal family tree.

International HapMap Project

The International HapMap Project is an organization whose goal is to develop a haplotype map of the human genome (the HapMap), which will describe the common patterns of human genetic variation. The HapMap is expected to be a key resource for researchers to find genetic variants affecting health, disease and responses to drugs and environmental factors. The information produced by the project is made freely available to researchers around the world.

The International HapMap Project is a collaboration among researchers at academic centers, non-profit biomedical research groups and private companies in Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It officially started with a meeting on October 27 to 29, 2002, and was expected to take about three years. It comprises two phases; the complete data obtained of Phase I were published on October 27, 2005. The analysis of the Phase II dataset was published in October 2007.

Itsourtree.com

Itsourtree.com is a social networking service for the creation of family trees launched on June 26, 2007. The free-access website is privately owned and operated by OSN Online Social Networking GmbH. Users can build their own family tree and invite relatives to participate and communicate. Itsourtree.com was founded by the online entrepreneurs Daniel Grözinger (35) and Sven Schmidt (33).

The site's main focus is on the creation of family trees, but users can also send messages, invite relatives and friends, upload photos or search for other people in the data base. It is available in various languages, the multilingual concept of the site helps to find relatives worldwide. The site supports GEDCOM import and export as well as calendar features and birthday reminders.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYGBS) is a non-profit educational institution located on 122 East 58th Street in New York City. Founded in 1869, it is the second-oldest genealogical society in the United States. Its purpose is to collect and make available information on genealogy, biography, and history, particularly as it relates to the people of New York State. To carry out its purposes, the Society maintains one of the principal genealogical reference libraries in the United States. The Society also publishes periodicals and books, conducts educational programs, maintains a Committee on Heraldry, and offers several other services.

The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a website and database that catalogues information about over 180,000 American political figures and political families, along with other information.

The database attempts to capture very basic biographical and office-holding data for its political figures. Besides where they are buried, it records dates and locations of birth and death, offices held and the applicable dates, organizational affiliations, and cause of death. It also reports their relation (at least by blood and marriage) with other politicians listed, their political party, and limited military history. The names are sorted and indexed by surname, birthplace, positions held, demography, religion, occupation, cause of death, and final resting place, with each entry usually having fewer than five lines of text.

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) is a web based genealogical research co-op that functions solely with the services of volunteers in regional areas. It was originally started by two researchers in 1999 who saw the need for such a service in their local area. However, the small site grew very rapidly from being solely a statewide offering to an international service with some 4300 volunteers located around the world and a staff of about eight, also volunteering their time. In 2007, more than 71000 requests were handled by the system, 10% of them to volunteers outside of the USA.

RAOGK has won many awards and has been featured in smaller local papers such as The Daily News, Jacksonville NC, the Lorain Morning Journal, OH, and the St. Petersburg Times, Florida — as well as AARP Magazine and the New York Times for the unique service it offers to researchers.

Volunteers from any part of the globe may offer various services to any requester such as research of birth and death records, public records, obituaries, marriage records and deed records to name a few. Other volunteers will offer to photograph burial sites, cemeteries and tombstones. Any fees requested by the volunteers are based upon actual costs involved, such as gas mileage, record fees, or postage. However, in most cases, the services are rendered free of charge in the spirit of offering a random act of (genealogical) kindness to a stranger in search of family ties. Thus the name of the organization came into being from the nature of the services offered.

Rootschat

Rootschat is a free online genealogy forum concentrating on local and family history research in the United Kingdom. As of February 2007 there were over 41,000 members with over 1 million postings in 182,000 topics. Since its creation in December 2003, RootsChat has maintained a policy of using volunteer moderators working in close co-operation with the RootsChat members in an effort to keep a friendly atmosphere and welcome new visitors. The site handles every query from finding a relative called John Smith, to locating the remaining families of airmen killed during the second world war from just a photograph found at a crash site.

United Kingdom Census 1901

A nationwide census was conducted in England and Wales on March 31, 1901. It contains records for 32 million people and 6 million houses, and was published online in 2003. The site is run by The National Archive; users have to pay to access data. It covers the whole of England and Wales, with the exception of parts of Deal in Kent. Certain parts of the records have suffered damage and therefore some information is missing, but it is largely complete.

The entries for households on the census returns for 1901 fall under the following headings and are generally the same for 1851 to 1891: Road, street, town or village, number or name of house, Whether the house is inhabited or not, Name and surname of each person, Relation to Head of Family, Condition as to marriage, Age last birthday, Profession or occupation, Whether employed or not, Where born, Whether deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, imbecile or feeble-minded. Also crews of Vessels and residents of Institutions.

The site is mainly used by genealogists, family historians, name researchers and anyone wanting to know more about their Welsh and English ancestors in 1901. It can also be used to research hamlets, villages and parishes to build a historical perspective.