How To Use Online Resources
Online research is getting easier every day. The Internet has made it possible for researchers world wide to share their documents, resource and reference information, and other types of recorded material.
Some good place to start your research include:
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative has an interactive search engine to search their RootsWeb Surname List (over 500,000 surnames). Please read the instructions on how to submit your surnames to this list - it is a great resource tool.
Genealogy.Com has an interactive search engine to search their InternetFamily Finder database (over 325 million surnames) as well as other websites, CD's and databases. Note: this feature is SLOW - so be patient as it searches for a related surname.
Other Helpers
- How To Start Your Research - Some tips by Carol Hepburn
- Getting Started - From the National Genealogical Society.
- Family History-- How Do I Begin - From the LDS Family History Center. An excellently prepared, short, concise instruction guide on exactly how to take those first steps. Includes blank pedigree charts and blank research logs that you can print out.
- Using On-Line Genealogical Information - From the National Genealogical Society.
- Info and Tips for Beginning Genealogy - A series of worldwide web pages maintained by the people on the ROOTS-L mailing list.
Email Discussion Groups
If you are new to genealogy or new to Internet genealogy, there are two email discussion groups especially for you: GEN-NEWBIE-L and NewGen-L.
For instructions on how to subsribe and participate in these groups, see the www.rootsweb.com website.
Join the OHMUSKIN email discussion group for Muskingum Co., OH.
There are also genealogical discussion groups available on Yahoo.com and other email services and news groups.
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This county is part of the USGenWeb Project, a non-profit genealogical resource web system, and is maintained by Denny Shirer
Last Revised: January 26, 2002
This section is authored by Carol Hepburn, Somerset Co., PA webmaster with revisions by DSS.