Genealogy Research and Computer Tools Resources
Research
| RESOURCE | LINK | NOTES: |
| Ancestory.com Genealogy Research | http://www.ancestory.com | Large site with access to the huge LDS databases. |
| How to Start Your Family History | http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/Welcome/frameset_information.asp | LDS Search engine |
| RootsWeb Genealogy Portal | http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ | Numerous search and tools links |
| Library servers on the Web throughout the world | http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/ | Catalogs of books, links to web pages. |
| National Genealogy Web sites around the world | http://www.dsenter.com/ | Lists and links |
| Ft. Wayne, Indiana library extensive Genealogy section | http://ft-wayne.com/ | Enter genealogy in the search box |
| Genealogy.org searches, lists, and links | http://www.genealogy.org/ | Large list of links and databases |
| Documents to search on Footnote.com | http://blog.eogn.com/ | Newsletter with links |
| The Genealogy home page | http://www.genhomepage.com/ | Large list of help, searches, sites |
| About.com reference site | http://genealogy.about.com/ | Software, how to, lists, articles |
| Wikipedia reference site | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy | How to, lists, links |
| Cyndi's Genealogy list - authoritative site | http://www.cyndislist.com | Huge list of lists, links, articles |
| Museumstuff.com | http://www.museumstuff.com/family-history/ | Provides an interface to many names listed in the US Census data |
Software
| NAME | LOCATION | NOTES: |
| Family Tree Maker | http://www.familytreemaker.com/ | Flagship Product from Generations Network, the largest Genealogy Organization in the World. Owned by the LDS Church. Perhaps the most Comprehensive Software available. Cost About $ 36. |
| Legacy Family Tree | http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ | FREE with upgrade to Deluxe Version available. Download page bottom has dozens of add-ons. Includes an Interactive Research Guide. |
| *LDS PAF Software | http://www.familysearch.org/ | FREE Family History Software PAF v5.2 several free add-ons also available. |
| *McMartin's GEDReporter | http://www.dmcmartin.com/index.html | FREE database recorder and web page generator |
| Surgeon General's Family History Initiative project | http://hhs.gov/familyhistory/downloads/MyFamilyHealthPortrait.zip | FREE profiling and reporting software, links |
*Note: Gedcom and PAF are special computer storage formats for genealogy information. Genealogy software processes and converts this directly. If you have a computer background Gedcom is like a limited XML for genealogy.
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