Learn five steps to getting started in a genealogy search and how to post a query. Also subscribe to the free monthly newsletter and get access to numerous information centers and links, including a tutorial on the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Numerous links to family and personal pages and newsgroup mailing lists and libraries are offered here. Click on the Genealogy Anonymous FTP link for free genealogy software and shareware. A fairly new Web site, this one comes from one of the nation's largest research libraries, located in Chicago.
Some sections are still under construction, but the centerpiece is the genealogy section.
You can find families from all regions of the country, but the site is especially helpful for those of you looking for families from New England and colonial America. And if royalty's an interest, check out the section on the gentry and noble families of the British Isles. Devoted to keeping genealogy information free and available to all, it provides direct links to individuals who have registered information here about specific families. With more than a million pages of data, it also offers an on-site surname list that claims to have more than 782,000 monikers, and tips on getting started with your research. Click on USA to find public records and tombstone transcripts by state.