FamilyTreeDNA.com charges a fee, but I found it worth mentioning here. The Jefferson-Hemmings case built on DNA testing and published in 1998 was one of the catalysts of what later became the field of Genetic genealogy. So, does your DNA match the Jefferson line? A lot of people are taking the DNA Genealogy highway these days.
CastleGarden.org is Cool!!! Americas first immigration center, Castle Garden offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892 (the year Ellis Island opened). Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestry to Ellis Island, now go further! Castle Garden hosts 10 million records! Yeah, pretty handy resource!
UFTree.com is a place for Family Tree Software templates, forms, charts, searches, free trials, and more.
FamilyTreeGuide.com Sign up for free with optional upgrades for a Family Tree maker site. More free charts can be found at Genealogy.About.com.
Visit the HaileFamilyTree.wetpaint.com site for a mass of cool Genealogy Clip Art links!
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Genealogy is such a time intensive, exciting, historical adventure and it seems to be a very popular quest for families to find their history.
We are listing some of the free to sign up and use Genealogy social networks, blogs, and other sites to help you in your Internet searchings to get your family tree filled up. Many of these sites also have an upgraded version, but always go free first, then if you just can’t live without the upgrades and you are sure this is the site for you, then consider it or jump right in 🙂
Groups at MySpace and Facebook are also a place to network with and locate information or other lost cousins or people who know them. These groups have an abundance of link information as well to assure that you never run out of family “leads” or come to a dead end “)
Facebook has many Genealogy groups but one stood out (over 5,000 members) International Genealogy. With resource links for global searches to genetic research, making contacts, getting started (for the very new even :), Military and Religious records, Census information and much more. A definite useful resource for Family Histories. A tutorial group for beginners is listed here as well.
The group that stood out over at MySpace was called Genealogy. This group has a healthy forum for surnames and a list of good genealogy site links.
How about some great existing blog sites on Genealogy? We found Cyndis List of Genealogy Sites on the Net 🙂 Cyndi has a major list of relevant sites to help you on your way through your families genealogy.
Where to go to find a great “Create My Family Tree” sort of site online? I began my journey at MyHeritage.com which is a free family tree maker site and is “medium” for me in the “happy navigation” meter but could rate higher for you as everyones “happy” is very different where navigating sites are concerned 🙂
For example, I prefer Wetpaint sites over Ning (as a creator of these sorts of sites) but others prefer Ning over Wetpaint 🙂 as far as navigating the construction and even navigating as a visitor. Speaking of the Wetpaint and Ning sites, we found a few very good examples of Genealogy networks that you could either join or for an example to start your own 🙂
This is our family site (we just began construction, so a work in progress 🙂
Keywords can be very important when creating a “public” site. You will open a highway for Genealogy historians like yourself to actually find You! instead of always being the one on the lookout, people will be able to seek you out given the right set of keywords for your sites. Choose a base 5 keywords first that you will always use on most every post, article, or photo. Use your Last Name, Full Name, the words Genealogy, Family Tree, and your region ie: Germany, USA, Virginia, Bolster County. Possible less work for you searching alone can turn into others seeking an finding you 🙂
Visit BlogFinder.Genealogy.com to search for more Genealogy sites. When I used this, I did not get any sites, but when I switched to searching for posts by clicking the post button, I found quite a few on the last name Haile 🙂
Interment.net is The Cemetery Blog a Free Online Library of burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the World for historical and Genealogy research, thanks to Steve Johnson and Maggie Rail. We have the Worlds cemeteries at our fingertips here.
Many more sites for Genealogy enthusiasts coming in our next post right here at BlogsAndSocialNetworks.com 🙂
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