Resources to Search for your Ancestors

After you have exhausted your collection of information from the personal archives of close relatives, you are ready to begin utilizing your computer to continue THE SEARCH. A wide range of tools are available for the serious student of genealogy. These include:

Social Security Death Index
Historic Newspapers Online
Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates!
View Census Records Online at Ancestry.com!
Obituary Collection

and many more...

The best software on the market today is Family Tree Maker 2008. This product is used by most genealogists today to record and organize all of the information you collect on your family – create tree charts, reports, calendars, and scrapbooks. The price has recently been reduced and expanded to contain analytical tools and visual images & maps to enhance your genealogical quest.

Genealogy Portals

In Internet jargon, a portal is a "launching" Web site which contains a large number of links designed to assist the online genealogist to locate areas of interest. Portals are easy to navigate, and contain broadly-based indexes, each of which contains hundreds of related links. Some portal sites like Ancestry.com! include how-to articles and links to other portal sites to aid online genealogy research. This site far surpasses the rest in its wide-ranging ability to educate, provide the necessary databases to search for relatives, and perfect the software to easily organize and store your records. A free trial is available.

A wide range of Genealogy Portals are available... many have free trials associated with them. If you're unsure where to start, visit all of them and, after testing them with the free trials, select the one that best serves your individual needs.

Family Tree Maker will automatically search the largest online collection of family history information for your ancestors based on the information in your tree. You can then record and organize all of the information you collect on your family to create tree charts, reports, calendars, and scrapbooks.

World Vital Records has many exclusive databases. They specialize in collecting international data from all over the world and collecting information that no other site has and are committed to being your genealogy partner and helping you get everything you need to succeed.

Ancestry World Tree

The Ancestry World Tree service is Ancestry.com's newest family tree resource with over 400 million names and growing. Ancestry World Tree links family history records together for you, eliminating the time spent filtering through dozens of records one by one. Find multiple generations of family members. One name match could add several generations to your family tree.

Genealogy.com

Genealogy.com's online data collections can help you find your family's history. With their exclusive content, monthly updates, and the convenience of searching from home, they're hard to beat. They currently have over 1.8 billion names in their data collections and are adding new records every month. As their collection of records grows, so does yours! You always have new resources to search for your ancestors.

Legacy Family Tree 

The full-featured professional genealogy program that helps you track, organize, print, and share your family history. Includes sourcing, reports, merging, To Do list, slide shows, multimedia, Web pages, spell checking, import and export and much more. Up to eight Family/Pedigree View windows can be opened at the same time. This allows you to view different parts of the same file at one time. You can have two different Family Files open simultaneously. This lets you compare two files side-by-side and copy information from one to the other.

OneGreatFamily!

OneGreatFamily has developed a technically advanced online genealogy service for any person interested in researching genealogy or extending a family tree. OneGreatFamily has created a way for individuals to easily store their genealogical information, collaborate with others, and watch their family trees grow over time.

Genealogy Today

This site has been serving genealogy enthusiasts since 1999 with original articles from experienced genealogists, its unique collection of databases and innovative search tools, and a marketplace with hundreds of products for family tree building. With more than 39,000 registered members, Genealogy Today helps connect researchers with common family lines, while providing time-saving resources to stay abreast of new information.

Genealogy Gateway

Family Tree Guide is a quick, simple and free way for you to share your family history. Within minutes, you can have a dynamically driven website that creatively portrays your family tree. Invest a little more time, and you can add pictures, stories, gravestone photos, and more to bring your family history alive. All for free!