More than 55,800 links. 43,550 links categorized and cross-referenced in over 100 categories. Another 12,200+ new links in the works.

This is the leading online resource for tracing family history, making accessible through one simple search more than 400 million names contained in the most comprehensive and diverse collection of online genealogical databases available

Access to extensive genealogical resources gathered by The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (known as LDS or The Mormons). Ancestor Search searches: Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index, and web sites (by last name only)

Somewhere on the Internet, there may be information about your family, and their innovative Internet FamilyFinder makes locating it much faster and easier.  Just type in a name, and Internet FamilyFinder searches through hundreds of thousands of genealogy pages across the Internet and gives you links to likely matches.  Family Tree Maker software is one of the easiest ways to keep track of your family information.  It is widely available.

The Forum Finder is used for finding forums (message boards) within their web site.  It cannot find specific messages.

The RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) is a list or registry of surnames.  Associated with each surname are dates and locations, and information about how to contact the person who submitted the surname.

This is a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.

 

Here you can enter almost anything in the search box and come up with information. Put in the surname you are researching and you'll be amazed as to what you'll find.
To refine your search you need to use quotes and plus's and minus's in any search engine, like the following:  "william randolph hurst" +born +Virginia
(Notice that all lower case should be used, and always put a space before the + or - or ", but no space after those signs.  If this is confusing, refer to books by Robert Ragan or see his Web site.)

Type  “genealogy societies” (with quotes) in the search area and press “Fetch.”  This will bring up over 100 genealogy and historical societies categorized by location and topics, such as “National and Ethnic Genealogical Societies”, which you can click on and research online.

You can find interesting genealogy/computer information and sign up for his newsletter.  He is in Jacksonville, and has written numerous books about this subject.