Smith Editorial Services: Links for Genealogists

Smith Editorial Services:
Links for Genealogists

There are plenty of link lists out there that are no more than that: Undifferentiated lists of hyperlinks. We would like to give the visitor (that's you) a bit more than that, so we have reduced the number of links to those we genuinely think are the most useful and we have added brief annotations. If there's a web site you think is a special stand-out, we'd sure like to know about it. . . . Meanwhile, enjoy!

Cyndi's Genealogy Sites on the Internet is the most important jumping-off point you can find. You almost don't have to know about any other genealogy site except this one. Cyndi provides you with more than 22,000 carefully organized, usually annotated, constantly updated links in 70 categories, major and minor, to every subject and related topic any genealogist can imagine!
The Genealogy Calendar is a continually updated register of upcoming events in the family history world, including regular local society meetings, classes and workshops, the air times of local genealogy radio shows, and so on. Links to state and local society homepages also are included where they exist. Every organization with any Net-awareness at all keeps its listings up-to-date here and you can browse or search it chronologically or geographically.
Almost certainly, the most important new use of the Net by and for genealogists is the U.S. GenWeb Project –– and it's only about a year and a half old. Think of a separate web site devoted to every single county in every state, with relevant queries posted by other visitors, bibliographies of useful books, a capsule history of the county written by a local expert, the names and the e-mail and snailmail addresses of the County Clerk, the local library, and the genealogical or historical society, and links to the web pages of other researchers who are interested in that same county . . . and the project is quickly becoming international, too!
Matt Helm's Genealogy Toolbox is busily evolving from just-another-personal-page into a full-service genealogist's jumpstation. Of particular interest, this site includes The Journal of Online Genealogy, an important monthly publication devoted to new Net resources and research methods.
Now hosted by the Ancestry corporate site, Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter is a weekly publication not to be missed. Dick has been doing genealogy with computers, first on CompuServe and then on the Net, longer than almost anyone –– and if he doesn't know about it, it probably ain't happenin'. Read it! Better yet, be lazy and subscribe to it by e-mail!

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