At the Arizona State Library Conference in 2002 two librarians presented an excellent session on genealogy research. One of their handouts, “top 10 genealogy websites” is available at:

http://www.azla.org/2002/p010a.pdf

 It gives excellent short annotations for each site and might be useful for your beginning genealogists.

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 Hoaxbusters is a great Web site at the U.S. Department of Energy that is free and open to everyone. It lists information about hundreds of e-mail hoaxes. Take a look at:

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org.

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Google has just introduced a new operator to search for synonyms. You use it by adding a tilde – it looks like ~ and is often found on the key to the left of the 1 on your keyboard  -  in front of the keyword for which you want to find synonyms.

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Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Ohio - Localities

 http://www.CyndisList.com/oh-local.htm ):

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Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - New York

 http://www.CyndisList.com/ny.htm ):

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Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. – Military.

 http://www.CyndisList.com/military.htm ):

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Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Civil War / War for Southern

 Independence.

 http://www.CyndisList.com/cw.htm ):