What on Earth Did We Do Before Ancestry.com?
January 14, 2009
When the internet was born, genealogy research exploded in the digital revolution. At first there were message boards and eventually there were sites devoted to genealogy research. Scrolling through the tidbits of other’s queries, research was still long, sometime tedious, and other times exciting when a thread that was found that related to a family line.
One of my favorite sites was the Roots-L query archives. Looking it up today, I found that the archive was still up, and delightfully, a search engine installed. While there is nothing posted since 2006, there is still plenty of tantalizing tidbits. If you haven’t visited here is the link to the search engine:
Another favorite site is the USGenWeb project. They say of themselves:
We are a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone.
With links to UsGenWeb state sites, it is probably the most comprehensive free genealogy site available. Because it is staffed by volunteers at each state and county site, information is not updated often. However, the information there is valuable, especially for new genealogy hobbyists.
If you have questions or suggestions what you would like to see on this site, please feel free to drop me a line at starrynightastro@aol.com. Also, feel free to use the comments sections to post your queries, provided that you do not use the comments to promote your own website. Who knows, you just may get lucky.
January 15th, 2009 at 7:35 am
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February 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
USGenweb is a good site to use , I have tried it and I found alot of good information