ROOTSWEB AND USGENWEB
©Copyright 2009 by Donald R. Snow
Sections of the Class Notes
This page was last
updated 2009-03-29.
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, or the St. George Regional Family History Training Center Home Page .
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION TO CLASS
ROOTSWEB -- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ or http://rootsweb.com (old URL, but still works)
USGENWEB -- http://usgenweb.org/index.shtml or
http://usgenweb.org/ (old URL, but still
works)
- Volunteer effort for FH data about every US state
and every county in every state (about 3000 counties in the
US) -- rich source of FH information and links
- Click on a state, e.g. Utah, and look at all the
information and links
- Can also click on the word STATES at top and get a map
of the US to click on the state
- Shows county websites, research aids,
searchable databases, maps, lookup assistance (RAOGK = Random Acts of
Genealogical Kindness)
- Many special projects that volunteers are working on,
e.g. Archives Project, Genealogical Events Project, Kidz Project, Lineage Project (descendants of an invidivual),
Census Project, Digital Maps Project, Marriage Project, etc.
- Click on Site Map (lower right-hand side of Home Page) to
get an overview of USGenWeb and its projects
- Search engine for entire website -- see Search USGenWeb
link on lower right-hand side of Home Page
- Project Achives, National and State
pages (see upper left side of home page)
- Click on Researchers for lots of helpful information
about FH and how to do it
ASSIGNMENT
- See if there is an email list for your surname hosted
at Rootsweb. See what procedure you would go through to join it.
- Do a search on Rootsweb for some ancestor and see what
comes up.
- Select some county in the U.S. that you are interested in and see
what databases and links USGenWeb has for it.
Return to the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group Home Page , or Don's Class Listings Page
, or the St. George Regional Family History Training Center Home Page .