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How to find your roots
I dream of genealogy

So you want to find out if Bill Gates is really your second cousin. Or maybe you suspect you're descended from King Kamehameha. Or perhaps there's a reason everyone says you look just like Whitney Houston.

Could be that nearing the end of the millenium makes you a little nervous. What does the your future hold? Could it be related to your past? Could slogging through the muddy waters of your gene pool bring you to the shores of truth and light?

With perseverance, luck, and at least a little bit of knowledge of your biological parents, you can go home again -- way, way back home -- at least back to some intriguing detail about some foredad or mom.

With help from a variety of Internet resources, you can learn about those who went before you. You can also find out, once and for all, just what your connection is to Kevin Bacon.

Take six degrees of separation one step further. What used to be a preoccupation limited to spinsterly great aunts and those looking to inherit, is now fascinating to many of us. You might think it's too much trouble to see how you're related to the great or humble figures of history, but using the Net to research your family takes a fraction of the time that you'd spend otherwise, writing endless letters to libraries, historical societies, and town clerks, or traveling to read gravestones.

Thousands of civic files are abstracted for your convenience. Genealogists are on tap, ready to dispense advice on how to find the family's missing link. Heritage groups are bursting with cultural as well as contact information.

Of course, you might find some scoundrels and slimedogs while looking for glorious ancestors. Let's hope so: It'll make a great story.

-- Angela Eaton

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Angela Eaton tells how
to get it done on the Net:
How do I start?
What can I do in 15 minutes?
Is someone already researching my family?
How can I do more in-depth research?
What if my roots are obscured by war or slavery? What if my ancestral group is small or my surname rare?
What other help is available?

Snappy Picks

Climbing up that family tree
Family Tree Maker
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
The Genealogy Home Page
Searchable Genealogy Links
Genealogy Web Pages
Genealogy Lady
Surname Springboard
RootsWeb
National Genealogical Society

Genealogical look-ups
National Archives and Records Administration
Ancestry Search
Ellis Island
Immigration Lookups
The USGenWeb Project
Genealogy Helplist
Hungary Genealogy Lookups
DAR Patriot Index Look-ups

International help
Hispanic Genealogy Crossroads
Catalog of Filipino Names
Australian Family History Compendium
Francetres
Swedish Genealogy Page
The Italian Genealogy Homepage
UK+Ireland Genealogy
Native American Genealogy
JewishGen
Afrigeneas

Resources for adoptees
Adoptees Resources Home Page
Adoptee & Genealogy Page from Carrie's Crazy Quilt!
Janyce's Root Diggin' Dept.: People Searching & Adoption


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