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- Introductions
- Computer Resources
- Genealogy Web Sites
- Genealogy Message Boards
- Search Engines
- What’s New in 2002
- Finding the Living
- Internet Hoaxes
- Other Sources
- Questions & Answers
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- Computers upgraded and networked
- 12 networked Windows PCs
- Internet Access ($0.50/hr)
- Software
- Ancestral File
- PAF - Personal Ancestral File
- IGI – International Genealogy Index (Windows Version)
- Family History SourceGuide
- Web / Internet access
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- Free from Internet
- www.FamilySearch.org à
Order/Download Products à Software Downloads - Free
- www.toomey.org/genealogy à
Download Personal Ancestral File 5.1
- Runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, not DOS
- Will upgrade your older PAF data files
- Can add photos, sounds and videos to your genealogy
- Can save as a web page
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- Favorite Genealogy Web Sites
- www.FamilySearch.org – LDS Church Site
- www.Toomey.org/genealogy – Copy of this Presentation
- www.CyndisList.com – Great Resource
- www.Ancestry.com – Paid Database Access
- www.Genealogy.com – Paid Database Access
- www.OneGreatFamily.com – Paid Database Access
- Genealogy Message Boards
- www.GenForum.com
- www.CyndisList.com/newsmail.com – List of Genealogy Newsgroups and
Mailing Lists
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- New Internet Ordinance Index
- Online 1880 Census
- Ellis Island Utilities
- Utah Valley PAF Users Group
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- October 5, 2002
- Ordinance Index is now on-line
- Only available to members of the church
- www.FamilySearch.org à IGI
- Need your LDS Member Number to unlock this feature
- LDS Member #
- Confirmation Date
- (See Ward Clerk if you don’t have this info)
- Ordinance data is current up to Sep 1, 2002
- More current than the CDs
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- Published by the Church on Oct. 23, 2002
- Contains
- U.S. 1880 Census
- Canada 1881 Census
- “British” 1881 Census
- England, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man
- No Scottish 1881 Census (see Scots Origin site)
- Web site
- www.familysearch.org à
Search à Census
- http://www.lds.org/media2/newsrelease/0,5637,203-1-13102,00.html
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- www.ellisisland.com
- Permanent home as of Nov. 2002
- www.jewishgen.org/databases/eidb
- Co-sponsored by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
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- Search Engines
- www.Google.com - Best
- www.AltaVista.com - First
- www.Yahoo.com - Categorized
- www.Lycos.com - Categorized
- www.Genealogy.com - Specialized
- Meta Search Engines
- www.Ask.com - Ask Jeeves!
- www.DogPile.com - Kids Searches, 13 Total
- www.MetaCrawler.com - 9 Search Engines in One
- www.SearchGateway.com - Directory of Search Engines
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- www.Qwestdex.com – Business & Personal
- www.BigYellow.com – East Coast Phone Book
- www.InfoUSA.com – Reverse Phone # Search
- www.AnyWho.com – AT&T Yellow & White Pages
- www.WhoWhere.com - Email, Phone & Web Searches
- www.Four11.com - E-mail & Phone Searches
- http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no - File Name Search
- www.TerraServer.com - Satellite Images
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- Common Genealogical Myths
- Myth #1: You can find your completed family history on the Internet.
- Myth #2: Everything you find on the Internet is accurate and reliable.
- Myth #3: You can find your completed family history in the files at the
LDS Family History Centers (AKA, the Mormon Church).
- Myth #4: Everything you find in books, in computer databases and on CDs
is accurate and reliable.
- Myth #5: You can learn all about your surname in mail-order books.
- Myth #6: It MUST be true because Great Aunt Matilda told me so!
- Myth #7: Our name was changed at Ellis Island.
- Myth #8: The courthouse burned and ALL the records were destroyed.
- Myth #9: The 1960 US Census is unreadable due to technical
obsolescence.
- Source: http://www.cyndislist.com/myths.htm
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- Tips
- To print, try “<Ctrl> P”
- Learn a search engine’s search tips – 15 min. investment
- Searches with “ ”
- Mixed case
- www.Ancestry.com databases are sometimes free
- Warnings
- Geneology.com vs. Genealogy.com
- www.<girl’s first name>.com vs. www.Cyndislist.com
- Mailing list overload
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- Family History Library Catalog
- Describes the Church's collection of family history materials,
consisting of 2.5+ million microforms and 300,000 books
- Family History SourceGuide
- A collection of 150+ research outlines from the Family History Library
- Will guide new researchers to original sources
- Census, Immigration, and Vital Records
- North American Vital Records Index
- British Census, 1851 & 1881
- Australian Vital Records Index
- Mormon Immigration Index
- Mexico—Central America Vital Records Index
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- Contact Info
- Harold Toomey
- 1376 N. 1100 E.
- American Fork, UT 84003
- Home: (801) 492-1526
- Mobile: (801) 671-2345
- E-mail: Harold@Toomey.org
- Mt. Timpanogos Multi-Stake FHC
- 835 N. 869 E.
- American Fork, UT 84003
- (801) 763-2093
- Appointments:
- Don Lundberg, (801) 796-5790
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