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Guidelines for Publishing Web Pages on the Internet Recommended by the National Genealogical Society

Appreciating that publishing information through Internet websites and web pages shares many similarities with print publishing, considerate family historians.”

* apply a title identifying both the entire website and the particular group of related pages, similar to a book-and-chapter designation, placing it both at the top of each web browser window using the

* explain the purposes and objectives of their websites, placing the explanation near the top of the title page or including a link from that page to a special page about the reason for the site.

* display a footer at the bottom of each web page which contains the website title, page title, author's name, author's contact information, date of last revision and a copyright statement.

* provide complete contact information, including at a minimum a name and e-mail address, and preferably some means for long-term contact, like a postal address.

* assist visitors by providing on each page navigational links that lead visitors to other important pages on the website, or return them to the home page.

* adhere to the NGS "Standards for Sharing Information with Others" regarding copyright, attribution, privacy, and the sharing of sensitive information.

* include unambiguous source citations for the research data provided on the site, and if not complete descriptions, offering full citations upon request.

* label photographic and scanned images within the graphic itself, with fuller explanation if required in text adjacent to the graphic.

* identify transcribed, extracted or abstracted data as such, and provide appropriate source citations.

* include identifying dates and locations when providing information about specific surnames or individuals.

* respect the rights of others who do not wish information about themselves to be published, referenced or linked on a website.

* provide website access to all potential visitors by avoiding enhanced technical capabilities that may not be available to all users, remembering that not all computers are created equal.

* avoid using features that distract from the productive use of the website, like ones that reduce legibility, strain the eyes, dazzle the vision, or otherwise detract from the visitor's ability to easily read, study, comprehend or print the online publication.

* maintain their online publications at frequent intervals, changing the content to keep the information current, the links valid, and the website in good working order.

* preserve and archive for future researchers their online publications and communications that have lasting value, using both electronic and paper duplication.

© 2000, 2001 by National Genealogical Society. Permission is granted to copy or publish this material provided it is reproduced in its entirety, including this notice.

Standards for Sharing Information With Others Recommended by the National Genealogical Society

Conscious of the fact that sharing information or data with others, whether through speech, documents or electronic media, is essential to family history research and that it needs continuing support and encouragement, responsible family historians consistentlyâ€”

* respect the restrictions on sharing information that arise from the rights of another as an author, originator or compiler; as a living private person; or as a party to a mutual agreement.

* observe meticulously the legal rights of copyright owners, copying or distributing any part of their works only with their permission, or to the limited extent specifically allowed under the law's "fair use" exceptions.

* identify the sources for all ideas, information and data from others, and the form in which they were received, recognizing that the unattributed use of another's intellectual work is plagiarism.

* respect the authorship rights of senders of letters, electronic mail and data files, forwarding or disseminating them further only with the sender's permission.

* inform people who provide information about their families as to the ways it may be used, observing any conditions they impose and respecting any reservations they may express regarding the use of particular items.

* require some evidence of consent before assuming that living people are agreeable to further sharing of information about themselves.

* convey personal identifying information about living peopleâ€”like age, home address, occupation or activitiesâ€”only in ways that those concerned have expressly agreed to.

* recognize that legal rights of privacy may limit the extent to which information from publicly available sources may be further used, disseminated or published.

* communicate no information to others that is known to be false, or without making reasonable efforts to determine its truth, particularly information that may be derogatory.

* are sensitive to the hurt that revelations of criminal, immoral, bizarre or irresponsible behavior may bring to family members.

© 2000 by National Genealogical Society. Permission is granted to copy or publish this material provided it is reproduced in its entirety, including this notice.

Genealogy Groups

Genealogy Research Club
Genealogy Club 1
Surname Forum
Ancestor Hunters
A Genealogy Experience
Genealogy Network
GenHaven
GenHaven Family Genealogy
Olive Tree Genealogy
DEADFREDdotCOM
Genie-Angels
GenPals
GenMates
Lost Ancestors
Lost Ancestors / Social Aspects
Genealogy and Family History
Searching for our Ancestor's Journal
Internet Genealogy Groups
UK Genealogical Researchers
Tribal Heritage
Sephardic Forum
Scots Origins
Preserving Our Heritage
Ontario Genealogy
Native American Genealogy
LDS Genealogy
Italy NW
Historian Channel
Genealogy Computers Chat
FamHistorians
California Genealogy
Brickwall
Australian Genealogical Researchers
Genealogists in Second Life
Genealogy Nuts
Genealogy Wise
Red Nation Gathering
Genealogy Network
Looking 4 Kin

Linkpendium

Cyndi's List

Facebook Genealogy Groups

Hispanic Genealogical Society.... Facebook chapter
Genea-Bloggers
Russian nobility | Noblesse russe | Русское дворянство
IRISH CLAN
Genealogy People On Facebook
Quebec Family History Society Facebook Page Puget Sound Genealogical Society Bulletin Board
Genealogy Names - Are We related?
Cemetery Explorers
Genealogy Blogs
Decendants of Commoners
Family Home and Genealogy on WebRing.com
Canada's History Magazine - Formerly known as The Beaver
Facebook Genealogists
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You Might Be Addicted To Genealogy if...
International Genealogy
Southern Italian Genealogy Network
Authoring101 - Bluewater Publications
The 150th Anniversary of the Civil War!
Surnames - Meaning, History & Origin of
UK Surname Groups on Facebook
British Isles Genealogy
We Are WebRing
Family Tree Builder Genealogy Program
Military History - Genealogy Ireland milgenire
Scottish / Alba Genealogy
Genealogy Addicts United
Republic of Ireland Genealogy
Northern Ireland Genealogy
We first met on Find a Grave
Family History Family Trees
Genealogy Among Friends
TNGenWeb -- the BEST place for on-line Tennessee genealogy & history
Lancaster Family Genealogy
US GenWeb Project
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)
The Channel Islands / Îles d'la Manche - Genealogy
The Global Geneological Tree!
Genealogy Links for Research
Genealogy Addicts
International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG)
Genealogists do Facebook
German Genealogy
We're Related Family Genealogy Social Network

GeneaBloggers

Join a group of genealogy writers and share your family traditions, folklore, and stories.

50 Popular Genealogy Sites

1.Ancestry.com $ - Ancestry.com is the leading genealogical data site, with some articles, instruction, and reference help.
2. RootsWeb.com - Rootsweb is a major data site, with free instruction and reference help.
3. MyHeritage.com - MyHeritage focuses on genealogy community building and networking.
4. Genealogy.com $ - This is major data site, with instruction and reference help.
5. FamilySearch.org - This is a major data website sponsored by the LDS Church and includes with instruction and reference help.
6. MyFamily.com - Hosts family websites for sharing photos, genealogy, and more.
7. FindAGrave.com > - A database of cemetery inscriptions and photos.
8. Footnote.com $ - In conjunction with the U.S. National Archives, Footnote offers data, original records images, and more.
9. OneGreatFamily.com $ - This is primarily a family trees sharing and collaboration website.
10. WorldVitalRecords.com $ - WVR is also known as Family Link, and represents a major data website, with instruction and reference help.
11. GenealogyToday.com - Genealogy Today includes instruction, reference articles, and includes some unique data collections.
12. AncestorHunt.com - A site consisting of collected genealogy links.
13. AccessGenealogy.com - A website that includes references to helpful articles, especially for Native American information, and some data.
14. EllisIsland.org - Database of passenger lists that is free to search. Actual passenger list images can be purchased.
15. CyndisList.com - A huge website dedicated to cataloguing genealogy website links.
16. Interment.net - Transcribed and indexed cemetery inscriptions.
17. USGennet.org - Historical and genealogical web hosting service.
18. Geni.com > - Web 2.0 and focuses on genealogy community building and networking.
19. KindredKonnections.com $ - Grassroots created data site with compiled family Trees, and some extracted records.
20. FamilyTreeMaker.com > - Homepage for Ancestry.com&rsquos genealogical software.
21. SearchForAncestors.com - Interactive directory of free genealogy websites and data.
22. DistantCousin.com - An online archive of genealogy records and images of historical documents.
23. CousinConnect.com - A large free queries website.
24. GeneBase.com - A DNA ancestry cataloguing project
25. TribalPages.com - Family trees hosting and charting program.
26. SurnameWeb.org - A collection of surname website links online since 1996.
27. FamilyTreeDNA.com - DNA testing service focused upon family history test types.
28. JewishGen.org $ - Jewish, reference, instruction, coordination, and databases.
29. ObitCentral.com - Obituary database for finding obituaries and performing cemetery searches.
30. GenCircles.com - Upload and share your family trees.
31. DeathIndexes.com - Lists of links to United States death records, by state.
32. Genuki.org.uk - Large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Irelnd, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.
33. Daddezio.com - Website focused upon Italian research, with instruction, information and more.
34. PoliticalGraveyard.com - Comprehensive source of U.S. political biography that tells where many dead politicians are buried.
35. Linkpendium.com > - A collection of genealogy links categorized by region and surname.
36. Geneanet.org - A collection of family trees, community, and submitted records.
37. US-Census.org - Census abstracts (U.S. GenWeb Census Project)
38. AncientFaces.com - Share genealogy research, community pages, family photos & records more for free.
39. HeritageQuestOnline.com $ - Census, PERSI (the periodical index), books.
40. CensusFinder.com - Links to free census records.
41. GenealogyBak.com $ - Database with index of newspapers and early books.
42. GenWed.com - Online marriage records, where to order, some indexes, and more.
43. GenealogyLinks.net - Links to free sites, arranged by state and county.
44. WorldRoots.com - European nobility and German reference material.
45. ProGenealogists.com - Website created by professional genealogists with links, instruction, data, and reference aids.
46. Census-Online.com - Links to censuses and census abstracts.
47. FamilyTreeMagazine.com - Website for magazine publisher that includes shopping, links, and research tools.
48. KindredTrails.com - Links to genealogy and data websites.
49. USGenWeb.com - A group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.
50. FindMyPast.com $ - Indexes to British records of many types.

Search Engines

Search engines have really transformed the internet into a fabulous research tool. Google has created a search engine to assist you in finding genealogy information. There is also the RootsWeb Ancestry search engines as well as IxQuick, Yahoo, Free Find, Pico Search, and downloadable more personalized search engines are available, too, like Zoom.

Library search engines vary as to what type of search is offered to its patrons via the internet or via the library's own computerized databases. You should read up a little on how search engines operate. There are boolean searches, exclusive searching and inclusive search options. I would conduct a search for search engines in Europe, Australia, and other countries in order to broaden your searching options. You may search for all words in "quotes". There is the AND OR option where you may find the occurences of two words or each individual word. Search engine technology is truely facinating and evolving. Many people fail to utilize the variety of search engines via the internet. There are more search engines than just Google, Yahoo and Ixquick! You should try finding different search engines for the different countries of your ancestry. It's an option you shouldn't pass up.

Surname Database

*Database is down August 14, 2011 Please go to the back up site and utilize the submit your surnames at center. Internet Genealogy Groups - Database Archive: Surname Search in Genealogy Groups. If you have a favorite genealogy group that isn't listed, register, confirm your email, and we would be happy if you would submit a link to the group. If you are a group owner and would like to submit your surnames or just have a question or suggestion, please contact me.

Search DATABASES - beta

Cyndi's List

Cyndi's List is such a massive site that it deserves its own spot here. There is much to find buried in the depths of her site. You can get lost in the amount of intformation that is offered! It is well worth a visit to begin exploring genealogy at her site.

There are several ways to begin researching with The Genealogy Box. We would love it if you would share your research ideas with us. So would many other folks.

You can share your surnames or research resources at the Research Center.

You may join us at The Genealogy Network Family Lobby.

You can email a query or question to be posted to the group.

You can network with others interested in genealogy.

You can create or join a Surname mailing list on RootsWeb.

You can create a family website. -please share it with us!

You can get help with your brick walls.

You can request a free look up.

You can read a genealogy blog.

RootsWeb Mailing Lists and Message Boards

Researching your family tree effectively should involve a mailing list of some sort and a message board. Message boards on Ancestry.com are quite popular. Most of the Ancestry message boards, either by state, county or surname are gatewayed to a RootsWeb mailing list. This means that the information that you post to the message board also gets posted to the mailing list. The funny thing about the message boards is that not all of the message boards are gatwayed to lists. That gives mailing lists a slight advantage. If you post to a RootsWeb mailing list, it does not mean that your messages appear on the Ancestry message boards. The message boards post to the mailing lists, but not vice versa. RootsWeb offers free mailing lists for your family or surname and boast over 30,000 lists to date. The great thing about mailing lists is that the list archives are searchable just like your email inbox. If you need help subscribing to a mailing list on RootsWeb, please contact us here with your question. We will be more than happy to assist you OR if you prefer, you may contact the help files on RootsWeb, too.

Message Boards

Ancestry, GeneaNet, GenCircles, Genealogy Today sites, and GenForum all have message boards. The Genealogy Box does too! And so do many surname websites like Tribal Pages. Creating a post on a message board can be a bit scary. You should never post information about living persons on the internet. The National Genealogical Societies have guidelines concerning living people and privacy that you should become familiar with before you make your first post. The guidelines for publishing webpages are to the right. These guidelines are much the same for message board or mailing list posting. WordGenWeb also host message boards for Europe. Roots Chat is one of my favorite message boards along with Genealogy Net.

Creating an effective message board post will oftentimes involve leaving a contact email address. If you don't like being spammed, then don't post your email address. Get an email address exclusively for posting to message boards and be sure to check it often so that you do not lose your email address at your email provider. Be sure to post names, dates, locations and vital information. There are so many posts out there searching for just a name and that have no other supportive information. Three years from now you want someone to find the information you are looking for and be able to contact you. (It happens!)

Here is an example of how to create a message board post:

How to post a Message Board Query

More is Less

"More information lessens confusion. If your message is content rich and detailed, it will lend itself more toward attracting appropriate responses. For instance, if you are planning on writing a message about John Smith who married Mary Jones, you'd better list more about them than just their names in your message! Otherwise, because of the common occurrence of the Smith and Jones surnames, you'll have way too many people responding to your inquiry. So, it's important to include enough information about the people you're seeking so that everyone will know exactly who they are, or at least how to positively identify them. The greater the details you can provide about when and where your subjects lived, the greater your chance of linking up with people seeking the same individuals." Some items that will help others identify common family members include these:

Full name, including any middle names or initial
Birth, marriage, and death dates
Places where the above events occurred
Residence and migration
Names of their children and/or parents

Example: Henry Tewksbury, Jr. was born 15 Dec 1664 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, the son of Henry and Martha (Copp) Tewksbury. Henry, Jr. married Hannah _______ sometime between 1685 and 1693. They had children: Henry, Jonathan, Hannah, Philip, Naomi, Jean, John, Abner and James. I would like to know the maiden name of Henry's wife, Hannah. I haven't been able to find Henry and Hannah's marriage record in Newbury or nearby Amesbury, Massachusetts. I know that Henry was reported as "of Amesbury" in 1723 from a land deed. I also know that some of his children married in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Other than this, I have very little information on the time or place of his death or that of his wife. If anyone can help fill in the blanks, please contact me -" Extract From: from the internet, May 2008, URL YourFamily.com Message Board Query
Pro Genealogists

Social Networks

There are social networking sites that also offer genealogy research. Can you believe it? Well, My Space and Facebook are two of the most popular and I have to say that I am impressed with them both. There are many stories in the news about long lost relatives finally finding one another on My Space. Facebook has become very popular, too and in fact offers to host your family tree so that others visiting your profile my peruse your family branches. There are other social networking websites like My Heritage, Angelfire, Family Tree Circles, Family Lobby that offer both websites, journals, or free surname matching. More can be said about genealogy and social networks...it is growing.

Twitter

USGenWeb

USGenWeb was once hosted on RootsWeb. This is a long, long, very long, story. Many pages on the internet in the past year have file 404 links to former USGenWeb/RootsWeb websites. When the decision was made to place banners on USGenWeb sites hosted by RootsWeb many people balked. The Generations Network said that all sites from USGenWeb would get a redirection link. The FTP sites, were not included and were removed from RootsWeb when the URL to RootsWeb was incorporated with an Ancestry URL. Searching for archives from USGenWeb on RootsWeb can be frustrating. The best thing that I can offer is the URL to USGenWeb Archives. State USGenWeb sites are located here. USGenWeb archives for individual states are located under the state abbreviation i.e. Texas would be /tx/ , Iowa would be /ia/ the URL is http://files.usgwarchives.net/"state abbreviation"/ OR http://files.usgwarchives.org/"state abbreviation"/. Here is the URL

USGenNet

USGenNet - "USGenNet is dedicated to providing free-access online websites for educational purposes, for public research and for the study of our national historical heritage." There are many sites hosted by USGenNet. You may find a listing of those sites here. Two of my favorite projects are the American Local History Network and the American History and Genealogy Project. USGenNet also hosts the USGenWeb Census project.

American History and Genealogy Project

The American History and Genealogy Project
American History and Genealogy Project webring

Genealogy Network RingSurf

If you would like your site listed on Genealogy Network, add our link below and send an email (you can use the contact form) with your request.

http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/nr3234/

Writing Resources

Here are a few websites that will assist you with your family history writing:

Kimberly Powell

GenWriters

Genealogy.com

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American Folklore

American Local Legacies

From the Library of Congress

"The United States is home to a diverse population that celebrates its cultural richness and variety through local festivals, community events, and other grassroots activities. These community gatherings demonstrate Americans' pride in where they come from, who they are, and where they live. Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots, drawing on the Local Legacies project provides a "snapshot" of American Culture as it was expressed in spring of 2000, in communities from every state in the nation."

"The Local Legacies project was initiated by members of Congress and individuals across the nation to commemorate the Library of Congress Bicentennial and to celebrate America's richly diverse culture. For more than a year, Local Legacies teams documented the creative arts, crafts, and customs representing traditional community life; signature events such as festivals and parades; how communities observe local and national historical events; and the occupations that define a community's life. More than three-fourths of Congress and 4,000 Americans have been a part of this once-in-a-lifetime project."

"Congress registered almost 1,300 Local Legacies projects from all 50 states, the trusts, territories, and the District of Columbia. Photographs, written reports, sound and video recordings, newspaper clippings, posters, and other materials from just over 1,000 Local Legacies projects have been sent to the Library to become a permanent part of the collections of the American Folklife Center. Like a century's-end time capsule, the scenes, sights, and events of everyday America featured in these projects are a testament to the uniqueness of our nation and to the rich diversity of culture and heritage that makes us all "Americans."

Visit the LOC online collections or read more from the Library of Congress.

Select a State, Territory or Commonwealth to view its community events and celebrations.

Alabama (AL)
Alaska (AK)
American Samoa (AS)
Arizona (AZ)
Arkansas (AR)
California (CA)
Colorado (CO)
Connecticut (CT)
Delaware (DE)
District of Columbia (DC)
Florida (FL)
Georgia (GA)
Guam (GU)
Hawaii (HI)
Idaho (ID)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Iowa (IA)
Kansas (KS)
Kentucky (KY)
Louisiana (LA)
Maine (ME)
Maryland (MD)
Massachusetts (MA)
Michigan (MI)
Minnesota (MN)
Mississippi (MS)
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Montana (MT)
Nebraska (NE)
Nevada (NV)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ)
New Mexico (NM)
New York (NY)
North Carolina (NC)
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH)
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR)
Pennsylvania (PA)
Puerto Rico (PR)
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennesee (TN)
Texas (TX)
Utah (UT)
Vermont (VT)
Virgin Islands (VI)
Virginia (VA)
Washington (WA)
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI)
Wyoming (WY)

American Folk Medicine

From the American Folk Medicine website.

"For more than fifty years, folklorists associated with the University of California, Los Angeles have systematically documented beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide community of researchers and medical practitioners, the Online Archive of American Folk Medicine was established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA."

Read more about the archive of American Folk Medicine

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Genealogy Network Blog and Surname Research

There are two blogs that are associated with The Genealogy Box - Genealogy Network. Both are hosted by Blogger. One is for posting your surnames, which will be searchable by Google. This enables you to see if your surname or searchable term is available from within the linked groups. You can find posting information on the Multiply Genealogy Network or on the Genealogy Network Blog. The Surname Research Blog and Genealogy Network Blog are both experimental and will be changed soon so please bear with the construction and format changes.

Free Genealogy Websites

There are a number of places on the internet where you can upload your GEDCOM files to share your family tree research. Of course, Ancestry, My Family, and its RootsWeb World Connect are three of the most popular on the net. There are others! This site is hosted by several free internet webspace providers. One of those is 100webspace.net. They have much to offer including FTP access. The Genealogy Box on 100webspace.net offers forums, easy HTML website creation and Joomla sites. You can even host your own Word Press blog on 100webspace.net. Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod are a few of the other sites that offer cgi for mail forms, but they do not offer free FTP access. Fortune City and Top Cites offer free FTP as well as 100webspace.net. WebRing.com has recently offered FREE Webspace and blog, too. If you have a FortuneCity or Angelfire website, you may have your site transferred for free to WebRing.com. WebRing is offering free webspace and blogs. CWahi.Net is another free web hosting provider as is WebNG. WebNG offers applications like Joomla, WordPress and PhpBB forums, while CWahi.Net offers a database and domain email. You may gain more webspace on WebNG through referrals. Freewebsites offers FTP access, and a choice of domain, but they do not offer an online HTML editor, php or cgi.