GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES
The GenWeb: A Forgotten Resource?
The GenWeb: A Forgotten Resource?
Newcomers to genealogy usually access FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com, and Find a Grave.com to begin their research; and then, if they draw a blank at those three sites, they assume that all available sources have been exhausted. Of course this is not the case. Most of the USGenWeb (USGW) is still online, offering genealogical information from states, counties and cities—information that is free.
Family photographs, Civil War rosters, post cards, immigrant lists, ship manifests, newspaper articles, plat books with maps, township records, obituaries, wills, cemetery transcriptions and gravestone photos, church and school listings—the number of resources available at USGenWeb sites is staggering and includes records that can be found nowhere else, records transcribed by thousands of volunteers during the early days of the internet. Access this wonderful resource at http://usgenweb.org/.
The USGenWeb Archives is a category unto itself. It is a collection of vital records transcribed by volunteers from courthouse ledgers, old newspapers, county histories, city directories, and family Bibles, along with many other sources. Photographs and old postcards can also be found in the archives. Don’t look down your nose at the old U. S. Census transcriptions; you can use these to find people mis-indexed in the Ancestry.com database.
RESEARCH NOTE: The GenWeb began as a volunteer project 20 years ago, and it remains a valuable source of information today. As genealogy becomes “corporate” in nature, we give kudos to the USGenWeb for keeping genealogy free.
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Family photographs, Civil War rosters, post cards, immigrant lists, ship manifests, newspaper articles, plat books with maps, township records, obituaries, wills, cemetery transcriptions and gravestone photos, church and school listings—the number of resources available at USGenWeb sites is staggering and includes records that can be found nowhere else, records transcribed by thousands of volunteers during the early days of the internet. Access this wonderful resource at http://usgenweb.org/.
The USGenWeb Archives is a category unto itself. It is a collection of vital records transcribed by volunteers from courthouse ledgers, old newspapers, county histories, city directories, and family Bibles, along with many other sources. Photographs and old postcards can also be found in the archives. Don’t look down your nose at the old U. S. Census transcriptions; you can use these to find people mis-indexed in the Ancestry.com database.
RESEARCH NOTE: The GenWeb began as a volunteer project 20 years ago, and it remains a valuable source of information today. As genealogy becomes “corporate” in nature, we give kudos to the USGenWeb for keeping genealogy free.
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