And if You are interested in East European Family History Societies, FEEFHS FrontPage Newsletter is an absolute MUST! While on the subject of Europe, maybe You have material that needs translating? Old Church Records etc? Try Genealogical Translations Homepage!
It's never wrong to check out what Yahoo has to offer, and I really want to recommend Archives.com (Formerly The Genealogy Home Page) as well as The Denis Beauregard Genealogy Page. One great source of information is, of course, The Family History Library. The FHL has one of the most impressive collections of genealogical material in the world. They have also created the GEDCOM standard for genealogical data interchange. Paul B. McBride has that document, as well as many other interesting facts on his genweb home page.
Less nicely formatted, but as a single file, You can reach the document as 55gedcom.html, and, for the previous version, gedcom54.html. Also, there is a postscript data model chart, download as 55model.ps.
The GenServ has more than 2,000,000 names of GEDCOM data online as of December 1995.
Michael T Andrews has built a GEDCOM FTP & Email Genealogy Research Site:
"A new genealogy research site is now on line and ready to recieve GEDCOM database files. We are matching GEDCOM files against the second largest collection of GEDCOM databasefiles in the world. Today we have 2.3 million names [that was 2 years ago -- it's now 12 million names] for our automated research process to find pedigree links. Most of these database file have arrived from users around the world via floppy disk and have never been matched within Tiny Tafal for GENTECH database programs. For more information about this automated research process, send an Email requesting our Users Guide to mike@star4.kindredkonnections.com or check out http://www.kindredkonnections.com -- Kindred Konnections. The above quote is several years old, so if anyone who reads this has more up-to-date figures, please mail them to me! Stephen Wood wrote Oct 23 1995 in soc.genealogy.computing:
The anonymous FTP site ftp.cac.psu.edu ([128.118.2.23]) has an area devoted to genealogy in the directory /pub/genealogy. This area is for genealogy database programs and other genealogy software as well as various text files that may aid in genealogy reserearch. This collection of files also includes copies of the ROOTS-L files archived at mail.eworld.com.
The same machine also hosts "The Genealogy Home page", a World Wide Web viewable introduction to genealogy related stuff on the internet. [The Genealogy Home Page has moved to http://www.genhomepage.com/, so it's not true that this is on the same machine anymore.]
Sometimes one can find relatives using the Internet Address Finder, http://www.iaf.net.
Family File is a subset of PAF (Personal Ancestral File) built on the NIC (Nucleus for Interactive Computing) user interface management system at The Interactive Software Systems Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University.
The BYU-ISSL - Family History Research is working on new software architectures for sharing family history information over networks.
LifeLines is likely the most powerfull genealogy program availible today, free, and runs primarily on Unix. It is intended, though, for "power users". LifeLines is written and maintained by Tom Wetmore. His private email address is ttw@shore.net.
The basic philosiphy of Lifelines is that you run a report program for desired output. Scott McGee has written programs that understand LDS specific data.
Try http://maceggertj.atc.ll.mit.edu/ and click on 'how I run my home page' to find out how to use LifeLines to produce HTML.
Some families have their own genealogical resources on the www, as a complement to a newsletter, that can be either electronic or snail mail, or a combination. One example is the Lacy Family Homepage. Read about their strategy in their Lacy Family Homepage - Introduction.
It can be educating to see how the author of LifeLines, Thomas T. Wetmore IV, is running his Tom Wetmore Ancestry page.
About the LDS religion. Ditto. KC's LDS Linked Page.
Introduction to the LDS religion by Jeff Lindsay.
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