Offers professional research services, message boards for genealogists, and searchable databases.    Requires a subscription fee.

 

FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service

www.familysearch.org

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints provides this site, which lets you search their “Ancestral File,” “International Genealogical Index,” “Pedigree Resource File,” and Web sites (by last name only).

 

The Genealogy Home Page

www.genhomepage.com

Organized into topics such as “Genealogy Help and Guides,” “Libraries,” “Maps,” “Newsgroups and Genealogy Societies.” The Genealogy Home Page also has a list of new genealogy links that is updated daily.

 

RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative

www.rootsweb.com

Many databases, services, and downloadable files are available only through subscription.

 

The U.S. Genealogy Web Project

www.usgenweb.com

Volunteers working to create a center for genealogical research for every county in the United States. All counties have an area for you to post queries and links to the state page and archives.

 

McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society

http://www.mcigs.org/

From the website: “The McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society is a non-profit, tax exempt organization of family history researchers from all over the United States, Canada and Germany. . . . The purpose of MCIGS is to foster an interest in genealogy, provide instruction in family research methods and practices, and preserve early McHenry County records.”

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Genealogy                                                           United States--Genealogy

This pathfinder was complied with the help of 100 Ready-to-Use Pathfinders for the Web:

A Guildbook and CD-ROM written by A. Paula Wilson.

 

Pathfinder created August 2005.

 

Johnsburg Public Library

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