Jonathan Bacon's Web Site

12345 College Blvd
Overland Park  KS  66210-1299
913-469-8500 extension 3530

 

Tracing Your Family Tree: In Person & Virtually on the Web

General Purpose Web Sites:
Cyndi's Genealogical List http://www.cyndislist.com/
Everton’s Genealogical Helper Magazine site http://www.everton.com/
Family Search, Internet Genealogy Service http://www.familysearch.com/
Family Tree Maker http://www.familytreemaker.com
The Genealogical Gateway is located at http://www.polaris.net/~legend/bookmark.htm
Genealogy Toolbox http://www.genealogytoolbox.com/
GenForum site http://genforum.genealogy.com/
The Lineages, Inc Web site at http://www.lineagesnet.com
WorldGenWeb http://www.worldgenweb.org/
A Genealogical Experience http://communities.msn.com/AGenealogyExperience/homepage 

Family History Software
Comparison of genealogical software http://www.cagenweb.com/~rwilson/comparison.htm 

Maps
Counties of England, Scotland & Wales prior to 1974 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/BRITAIN2.GIF
AniMap: Finding old towns and counties http://www.goldbug.com/AniMap.html
Map Quest http://www.mapquest.com/

US Census Gazetteer http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
United Kingdon Street Map http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

Finding People Search Engines
Switchboard http://switchboard.com/
Four11 http://home.netscape.com/escapes/whitepages/frame_four11.html
People Search http://people.yahoo.com/
WhoWhere? http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
Big Foot http://www.bigfoot.com/

Canadian Genealogy
Archives Association of Ontario http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/people/affiliated/aao/index.htm
Archives of Ontario http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/
British Columbia Archival Union List http://library.ubc.ca/WWW.0.archbc/view+GRoup+code=UCCBC
Canada GenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/
National Archives of Canada http://www.archives.ca/index.html
Ontario Genealogical Society Home Page http://www.ogs.on.ca/

Paper Resources:
Building an American Pedigree by Norman E. Wright (Brigham Young University Press)
Finding Your Roots by Jeane Eddy Westin
Genealogy Online: Researching Your Roots (Web Edition) by Elizabeth Powell Crowe (McGraw-Hill)
Genealogy Online for Dummies by Matthew L. Helm and April Leigh Helm (IDG Books)
Genealogy Via the Internet by Ralph Roberts (Alexander Books)
The Handy Book for Genealogists by The Everton Publishers, Inc.
How to Trace Your Family Tree by the American Genealogical Research Institute Staff  (Dolphin Books)
To Our Children’s Children: Preserving Family History for Generations to Come by Bob Greene and D. G. Fulford (Doubleday)
Virtual Roots: A Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web by Thomas Jay Kemp (Scholarly Resources, Ic.)