For instance here are a few sites I have found since the seminar. Yahoo has a list of Genealogy Sites already for you in a list format. Most of those below are listed there. Then there is the National Archives and Records Administration's Genealogy Page . Neat spot. After Chistmas I found a really interesting site. Lines and Lineage
New site I found in March, 98. is called Gedcom to HTML ... It creates on a home page all your surnames that click to info about how the name fits into your family tree. Looks really neat. Check it out.
And here is a search engine you can access right from this page. Please
note that it will show where there is information regarding the name you
put in the search.. There are some free places like the WWI Draft Papers
that are free. Access to all the files can be purchased with a membership.
June 98
The Big Dummy's
guide is a complete dummys book with a great explanation of the functions
of the internet for newbies and old timers alike
BIG
DUMMY'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET This is a full Dummys book, give
it time to load.
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This site is a store selling books. You can put in a surname and it shows you the name of the book they have regarding that surname. http://www.higginsonbooks.com/surnameb.htm Found this in Aug, 98.
And again here in August of 98 I found a search engine that seems to run really well for genealogy searches. http://www.goto.com/?Promo=flyeye20.7_23
I put in the search box the work genealogy followed by the name I was interested in finding. Give it a shot.
Here we go.....
We really
are casting out lures into the waters of the internet and trying to catch
an ancestor or two. Sometimes we troll and sometimes we use bait
We use bait by using a HOME PAGE. So create a homepage and
get the home page linked to as many sites as possible, thus spreading the
word. A homepage will set there just like a trot line and maybe get
a response or two.
I have found that search engines, if I put a surname and the word genealogy, will bring up my homepage and other homepages. Try say,"Greenlee Genealogy", as the words to search for in your search engine. I highly recommend WEB FERRET as a topnotch search engine .
DEJANEWS is a search engine for the Newsgroups. Type "genealogy" in the search space. There will be a great many sites shown. After you look them over you will notice that people have sent the same message to many different news groups asking folks to go to there homepage to check for ancestors. This certaily has the effect of advertising the homepage.
While in Dejanews put in the surname of an ancestor, you might get lucky.
Now here are some ways we can troll the net doing all the work ourselves.
THE PHONE BOOK
IS A BEGINNER METHOD TRUE. BUT IS VERY PRODUCTIVE.
HERE IS A URL
OF A PROGRAM CALLED SWITCHBOARD. It is free.
http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?MG=
Put in the surname,
then an area such as a state. This will give the names and addresses
of all those surnames in the state. I did that for Peregoy
in Virginia and found forty two Peregoys listed. We sent the same
snail mail letter to all these folks telling of our search for Great Grandmother
Peregoy. We received about ten replies and found a lost
cousin and a Peregoy Newsletter. It was well worth the effort.
Oh yes, we found Great Grandmother's family and many ancestors.
THIS IS THE INTERNET
ADDRESS OR URL OF ALTA VISTA. A GOOD SEARCH MACHINE.
Alta
Vista This is the master search page and you can find all
the potential of Alta Vista here.
After loading, put the surname you are looking for in the search bar and
enter. If too many answers come back, put in a first name.
Or add a + sign and type the name of the state or county. This
will find references to the name in that state or county. Many times
online genealogy sites come up that include your name. You
need to put the name in quotes as say "Joseph Peregoy"
THIS IS THE MAIN
HOME PAGE OF GENSERVE..
http://www.genserv.com/
Reviewing this
site will answer most of your questions and tell you how to become a member.
In order to
use the site below, you must first become a member.
THIS IS THE WORKING
SITE OF GENSERVE Requires $ and gedcom.file
http://cruiser.ProgCons.COM/gs3/
A new working
site in the genserve system is called MATCH
. This allows you to put in one surname at a time and then it will
check all of the databases against yours and come up with all the surnames
in the data base that match your data base with in one year on the birthdate.
Really cool.
There are lots
of "lists" on the WWW. A list is a bulletin board place where people post
their inquiries. It is the same principle as the bulletin board at
the corner market where folks pin up a 3 X 5 card with some statements
they wish to announce to the world.
For people who
are working on a surname, these lists provide a method of getting, or sending,
information on the surname in question. Posting and reading messages
are free. Many of the lists are found on this site along with easy
instruction on how to subscribe and unsubscribe.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/
Different from
the world wide web or WWW are the IRC chat rooms or places to chat.
This site is
a master page designed to help he beginner.
http://www.rare.on.ca/users/genealogyforum/index.htm
In order to
work chat, you will need a chat program. Most use mIRC.
$20.00 and worth
it
Their homepage
is :http://mirc.stealth.net/
Once you get
the program working, use the dalnet server and when connected get into
#genealogy-help. Most of the time there are folks there ready to
help the beginner. Knicknames or nicks are used. I use
Cuyama as it represents a place I used to live. Lady with the nick
of turp is an excellent teacher.
This is
the homepage for #Genealogy-Help. The Chat page on Dalnet
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/4656/
The Broederbund
Company has a commercial venture going. They sell a genealogy program
with affiliated services such as cdrom disks full of things like census
reports etc. This is their
introductory
page http://www.familytreemaker.com/gen_faq.html
There are a great
many home pages on the internet devoted mostly to genealogy. The
Southern Oregon PAF Users Group has a home page with many links http://www.webtrail.com/sopafug/index.html.
Here are a few
more.
Cyndi's
List
http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/mark.html
Genealogy
is my Hobby
Utah
Paf Users Group
Neat site is
Four11. Just put in a surname in the power search box and put a check or
bullseye in "interests" box then type genealogy in the box below.
If you get a lot of hits on a single surname, you can also put the name
of a State in the box thus localizing your search.
Free Be
sure to enter as much material about your hobbies such as your surnames.
This makes it easier for folks to find you.. Many list the names
they are researching. Be sure and list your high school. Also list
Genealogy as a hobby.
http://www.Four11.com/
ROOTS.
A major player is Rootswebb. This is their homepage.
$ required
amount depends on services you desire.
Rootsweb Homepage
This is the "name
search" url in Roots.
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/rslsearch.html
USGENWEBPROJECT
HOME PAGE.
http://www.usgenweb.com/
This is a pay
by the month service called "Ancestry Hometown".
You may like
it..
http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm
Now we go into
new country. FTP or file transfer protocol. This a a method
of searching the net but has faster downloading for big files than the
WWW. This is also the program most of us use to upload our homepage
material to the homepage that our providers furnish. It is called
WS_FTP.
Using my student
body card privileges, I downloaded WS_FTP from
http://www.bestweb.net/assistance/upload95.html#wdownload
I will try to explain its functions as I found them... First screen we see is the "Session Properties"Screen. It is here you are able to tell the program who you want to be connected to. After you are connected you get a split screen. On the left is an explorer type screen of your hard drive and on the right is the same type screen of the site you connected to. Explore around this new site and select the files you wish to download to your hard drive. On the left select a directory where you want these files to go when you hit the download arrow. Then hit the down load arrow pointing to the left. Whiz instead of the www download rate of say 2.4, the rate can be up to 40.0 Fast. This is also the program that many people use to send and edit material to their home page.
The National
Genealogy Association ftp address is ftp.genealogy.org.
A good one is
ftp.rootsweb.com
Notice that these two are not linked or clickable as a www site. You just need to put them, one at a time, in the WS_FTP address book. (Copy and paste will work)
Dick Eastman
writes a weekly newsletter covering events in the genealogical field as
they occur.
Eastman
News Letter
And this url
is where you subscribe to the Eastman Letter.
http://www.ancestry.com/home/eastarch.htm
For the folks
interested in internet help especially in Kentucky, here is THE
PLACE
MISCELLANEOUS
SITES
http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee/genweb/
Net
Guide to Genealogy
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