It's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for tonight. Our mission, should
we decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:
1) What are your
"Favorite" genealogy websites?
What ones do you have in your web browser "Bookmarks" or
"Favorites" bar or listing?
2) Please list them in
your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link to your work in a comment
on this post.
Here’s mine:
I probably use the
following websites for genealogy research at least every day :
- Ancestry.com
- FamilySearch: mostly the catalog and the wiki
- Google.com (keyword search, images, translate, maps, books)
More often, I use:
- The Portal to Texas History, mostly the newspaper images
- Newspapers.com
- GenealogyBank.com
- Chronicling America
- FindAGrave
Depending on what I’m
trying to research, I’ll use the following:
- USGenWeb.org
- Bureau of Land Management (glorecords.blm.gov)
- Missouri State Archives
- Mississippi State Archives
- other state archives websites
- A Century of Law Making for a New Nation, Library of Congress
- Online Archive of California
- Internet Archive
For learning about
new resources or methodology:
- FamilySearch Wiki
- Legacy Family Tree Webinars
- Board for the Certification Genealogists, for wonderful work samples
Bookmarks
I don’t really use bookmarks in my browser, though I have
them. Ancestry, FamilySearch, and FamilySearch Catalog have a direct bookmark
and there are many other links I have bookmarked but don’t use much. I can
usually find what I want by typing in the browser address bar and it pops right
up. Chrome remembers where I’ve been before!
I also collect website links and categorize them in my
genealogy toolbox I keep in OneNote. I have to admit I don’t open it as much as
I used to. Searching in a browser usually turns up what I’m looking for.
Copyright © 2020 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.
Although I don't have them bookmarked, I've used and loved Portal to TX History and the FamilySearch Wiki is fabulous. BLM records are great, too, and Missouri has done a wonderful job digitizing records. Great list!
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to list everything we use--there are so many wonderful sites.
DeleteI don't use USGenWeb as much as I used to. Not sure why that is. It's still a very useful site.
ReplyDeleteI have fond memories of the site, as I used it often before Ancestry came along. I don't think it's supported much anymore. But I used it as a resource for writing letters to repositories.
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