If you are like me, you find that you tend to use the same
websites for your genealogy research. I received an email from one of our
Society members who too, shares my downfall when researching. She stated that
she welcomes ideas about different sites or resources that she may not have
tired.
She recommends Legacy Family Tree which offers free weekly webinars
online on a wide variety of genealogy related subjects presented by many
different experts in the field, mostly on Wednesdays but occasionally on
Fridays as well. The webcasts last for about an hour to one and a half hours
long. Check out the schedule at http://familytreewebinars.com/
for upcoming sessions. I personally have attended these and learn a lot from
them. Since I normally volunteer on Wednesdays at my local genealogical library
I miss the live presentations, but they offer one week of free viewing
afterwards. However, you can purchase a membership and view hundreds of hours
of past webinars and print out handouts too.
Another site this member suggested was Familyrootspublishing.com that has an extensive offering of books and guides
about all phases of genealogy, research and history. They offer a free
Genealogy newsline email newsletter. I too found this website and subscribe to
the newsletter and enjoy reading it weekly.
She finally asked, aside from some of the standbys like
Ancestry, Find a Grave Fold 3 and other well-used sites, what are some
resources that have helped you?
Before I answer her question, I would like to say that after
volunteering in the Library and teaching some beginning classes, the only
website that most people know about is Ancestry.com. Many don’t know about Find
A Grave, Fold 3, FamilySearch.org and others.
I personally seem to use Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org and
Find-A-Grave. I have a subscription to Ancestry and FamilySearch.org is mostly
free until it directs you to other sites for the images. One of the sites it
directs you to is Ancestry and thus I am cover but the other is Fold 3 which I
don’t have. However, our Society offers Ancestry, Fold 3 and Newspapers.com on
their three computers from October through May. All I have to do is bring a
flash drive and save whatever I find.
After receiving this email, I decided to look at and revamp
the links on our society webpage at http://lhgs.weebly.com/web-links.html
. I made sure all the links still work, I group our local links on top and some
tools way at the bottom.
I find a lot of new links to try from my subscription to
Family Tree Magazine plus on their website at http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-best-websites-2014.
Just change the year in the link to 2013 or 2012 and you will find past years
links back to 2010. A lot are duplicates, and older list might have broken links to websites
that don’t exist or if they changed their address, but are still fun to look
at.
So what are some resources that have helped you?
