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"People will not look forward to posterity
who never look backward to their ancestry."

Edmund Burke
1729-1797

Beginner’s Guides to Genealogy
AncestorNews http://www.ancestornews.com/
Resource center for beginning Internet genealogy
Family Tree Maker Online’s Genealogy
"How To" Guides
http://www.familytreemaker.com/mainmenu.html
Getting Started in Genealogy and
Family History
http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/
Treasure Maps http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/ 
How-to get started on your family history.
"Where Do I Start?" from Italy WorldGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~itawgw/cont/howtore/start1.htm
Beginner's guide to Italian Genealogy.

General Charts / Forms
1900 U.S. Census Extract Form http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1900.pdf?sourceid=
00392187258917938426
   
Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1910 U.S. Census Extract Form http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1910.pdf?sourceid=
00392187258917937502
   
Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1920 U.S. Census Extract Form http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1920.pdf?sourceid=
00392187256901189868
 
Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1930 U.S. Census Extract Form http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/1930.pdf?sourceid
=00392187256901182000
 
Must have Adobe Acrobat on your computer
1930 U.S. Census Extract Form
Download
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kipke/
oddend/1930census.htm
  
•  Download a 1930 US Census form in MS Word format.
-You MUST have MS Word on your computer-
Paper size: Landscape, 8.5 x 14 legal.
Blank Census Extract Forms http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/census.htm?rc=
locale%7E&us=0
 
 
Everton http://www.familyhistorynetwork.net/other_services/
free_downloadable_chart.php
 

 Pedigree/Family Group Chart - for recording a direct lineage.
  
Family Group Record
http://a1356.g.akamai.net/f/1356/2383/4h/www.ancestry.com
/save/charts/famgrec.pdf
 
Family Relationship Chart
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/chart.html  
• Download this Family Relationships Chart and identify the relationship between two individuals in your family tree.
Genealogy Forms
(FREE)


BY: Mary (Hagstrom) Bailey and  Duane A. Bailey











http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/genealogy/

Note: These forms require the Adobe Acrobat reader. Most browsers already have this installed.

pedigree chart This is a cross from a version found in Reunion and a chart from the LDS. It's main feature is that it's simple.

pedigree fan chart This is a request from our genealogy friends. Holds 8 generations (255 people)!


family record sheet. This sheet is what we use to keep track of per-family unit data. It features references for each piece of information.

research log sheet. This sheet is fairly standard. It keeps track of research you're performing on an individual in a particular locality. (We've done a lot of work with westward-moving pioneers. This research is problematic, but these forms are the best approach we can think of.)

correspondence log sheet. This sheet looks similar to the research log, but keeps track of letters you've sent to others for information. The document number refers to letters and responses you've sent out. We've not used this much, but it's invaluable for keeping track of, say, foreign correspondence.
Ship Manifest Extract Forms
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpip1gs/manifest_extract_forms.htm 
1893-1906
Post 1906

Interviewing
Along Those Lines
http://www.ancestry.com/columns/george/04-03-98.htm
Interview Absolutely Everyone! by George Morgan
Shaking Your Family Tree
http://www.ancestry.com/columns/Myra/Shaking_Family_Tree12-25-97.htm
Linking Past Holidays to the Present, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley
Shaking Your Family Tree
http://www.ancestry.com/columns/myra/Shaking_Family_Tree02-19-98.htm
Preserving Your Family Stories, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley
Tips for Oral History Interviewing
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/tips/66.asp
By Kip Sperry

Organizing
Getting it Together
by Liz Kersten
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/together
/d_p_1_archive.asp
 
Spring Cleaning
by Juliana Smith
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/compass/587.asp

Search Engines / Search Sites
All the Web http://www.alltheweb.com
Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/ 
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com
Electric Library http://ask.elibrary.com/ 
EuroSeek http://www.euroseek.com
Excite http://www.excite.com
Galaxy http://www.galaxy.com 
Genealogy Search Engines http://www.genealogysearchengines.com/   
GenSearcher  http://www.gensearcher.com
All-in-One Genealogy Search Page
Google http://www.google.com
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com
Infospace http://www.infospace.com
LookSmart http://www.looksmart.com
Lycos http://www.lycos.com
Munky http://www.munky.com/main.php  
My Virtual Reference Desk http://www.refdesk.com/
NetFind http://search.aol.com/aolcom/index.jsp 
Netscape Net Search http://wp.netscape.com/escapes/search/netsearchv1.html 
Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com
Profeta http://www.profeta.it/ 
Italian Catholic Search Engine
Ready Reference Collection http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR
The Internet Public Library
Searchbug http://www.searchbug.com 
SurfWax http://www.searchwax.com 
WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com
What U Seek http://www.whatuseek.com/
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com

Meta Search Engines / Search Sites
Beaucoup Search Engines
The Big Page
http://www.beaucoup.com/
BIG Search Engine Index http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/ 
CNET Search.Com http://www.search.com 
Debriefing http://www.debriefing.com/
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com
Highway 61 http://highway61.com
IXQuick http://ixquick.com/
Langenberg http://www.langenberg.com/
Mamma http://www.mamma.com
McFind http://www.mcfind.com/index.html
13 types of searches
Metacrawler http://www.metacrawler.com 
Metagopher http://www.metagopher.com/
ProFusion http://www.profusion.com
Search Engines Worldwide http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/searc1.html 
This metasite is an extensive list of search engines and directories. There are 850 search engines from 130 nations and they are listed alphabetically by country.
Use It
http://www.he.net/~kamus/use2en.htm
Categories: Internationals, Europeans, Italian, Business, News, and Computers.

Italian Search Engines / Search Sites
Arianna http://www.arianna.it/
Libero http://www.libero.it/ 
Lycos Italia-Ricerca http://www-it.lycos.com/
Nikos http://www.nikos.com/italyweb/
Shinyseek, Italy http://www.shinyseek.it/
Virgilio http://www.virgilio.it/edit/index.html

Online Directories
411Locate http://www.411locate.com
555-1212.com http://www.555-1212.com/
Great for area code lookups. Also a general search site.
Australia411 http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/ 
AT&T World Net Service http://www.att.net/find/
Bigfoot http://www.bigfoot.com/
People, web pages, yellow & white pages and e-mail.
Canada411 http://www.canada411.ca/ 
FoneFinder http://www.primeris.com/fonefind/
U.S. and Canada
Free People Search Engines http://www.free-people-search-engines.com
Its links are still growing, but the Free People Search Engines pages are already an excellent introduction to the world of online searching, for both the living and the dead.
Infobel http://www.infobel.com/world/default.asp 
InfoSpace.com International http://in-110.infospace.com/_1_4IB4TEG03NL7E2L__info/index_ppl.htm
Internet Address Finder http://www.iaf.net/
For International -
Phone Directories on the Web
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/ 
Nedsite Search Center http://www.nedsite.nl/search/search.htm  
Paginegialle Italy: Yellow Pages http://www.paginegialle.it/
PayPhones http://www.payphone-directory.org/
The Pay Phone Project http://www.payphone-project.com/ 
Reverse Look Up Directory
by InfoSpace
http://in-132.infospace.com/_1_260770243_info/reverse.htm
Semaphore http://www.semaphorecorp.com/default.html
All United States addresses, ZIP+4 codes, mail carrier route.
Old addresses to new forwarding addresses for free.
SuperPages http://www.superpages.com
http://www.bigbook.com
http://www.bigyellow.com/
Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com/
Find a person, business, or e-mail.
US Postal Service http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/
ZIP code lookup and address information.
Usenet Address http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu/
E-mail addresses
WhoWhere by Lycos http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
E-mail, phone & address, and on the web.
WorldPages.com  http://www.worldpages.com/
http://www.worldyellowpages.com/
Business, people, government, e-mail, and web.
Worldwide Yellow http://www.worldyellowpages.com
Yahoo People Search http://www.four11.com/
Yahoo Reverse http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/suppress.html
The Yellow Pages http://www.theyellowpages.com
http://www.yellowpage.com 
Topic, keyword, phrase, or category.

Medical Terms
Archaic Medical Terms http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm 
List & Glossary of Italian Medical Terms http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/IT/lijst.html
Old Names of Diseases http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/8380/illness.htm    

Italian Profession & Given Names
D’Addezio.com http://www.daddezio.com/genealogy/italian/names.html
Italian first name translator.
Everything You Wanted to Know About
Italian Given Names
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~torchia/names/
italiannames.htm
Italian Genealogy Homepage http://italiangenealogy.tardio.com/html/index.php 
Italian given names and their English equivalents
Italian Names and the History of Italian Names http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/pearlsofwisdom/italynames.html  
Ken's Genealogy Home Page http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8783/italjobs.html
Professions

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8783/givename.html
Italian given names and their English equivalents

Italian Genealogical Definitions
FamilySearch.org Italian Genealogical Word List http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/WLItalia.ASP   
Felice's Italian Genealogical Sezione http://users.ids.net/~felice/Dictionary.html  

Libraries, Archives & Research Centers
The Internet Public Library http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ 
LDS Family History Centers http://www.genhomepage.com/FHC/
Librarian’s Index to the Internet http://lii.org/
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov
OR
http://lcweb.loc.gov
Libweb- Library Servers via
WWW
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
NAIL - Home Page -
NARA Archival Information
Locator
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html 
Database of selected holdings of the U.S. National Archives.
National Archives & Records
Administration-
( NARA )
http://www.archives.gov/index.html 
The Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org/
New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/ 
Public Libraries of Europe http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/eurolib.html
WebCats: Library Catalogues on
the World Wide Web
http://www.libdex.com/ 

SOUNDEX - Converter Sites
Genealogy Online- Soundex http://genealogy.org/
Surname to Soundex Code http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/Genea/soundex.sh
University of Rochester, Department of History http://www.history.rochester.edu/jssn/page4.htm  
Example of a soundex card.
Yet Another Soundex Converter http://www.bradandkathy.com/genealogy/yasc.html 

Maps
Animated US Growth http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/us.gif
Mapblast http://www.mapblast.com/
MapQuest!
Interactive Atlas
http://www.mapquest.com
Locate a city anywhere in the world, or get driving directions to wherever you need to go.
Maps On US http://www.mapsonus.com
Microsoft Expedia Maps http://www.expediamaps.com
Using "place finder" type in a town to locate it anywhere in the world. Use "address finder" when you have a specific address.
My Facts Page - Atlas & Maps http://www.refdesk.com/factmaps.html
Historical Maps of Europe: The Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/
history_europe.html
Oddens’s Bookmarks http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html
Over 14,000 links
U.S. Gazeteer
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
More current maps. 1990 U.S. census information can be found for specific locations at this site.
USGS National Mapping Information http://mapping.usgs.gov
U.S. Surname Distribution http://www.hamrick.com/names/

Language, Dictionaries and Translations