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'Core' or Essential Reference Tool Survey: Genealogy
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3. What are the essential 3-5 print Genealogy reference sources that
you can't work without in answering reference questions (e.g., laws,
codes, statistics, etc.)? The Top 8 - some Reference Tools tied in
votes.¬Ý The top 2 Categories received substantial votes - in fact
most repondents mentioned the types of resource in the #1 position
1.Local archives, files, microform, indices for census data,
newspapers, city directories, vital statistics, church records,
cemetary records, maps, and atlases
2. State archives, files, microform, indices for census data,
newspapers, city directories, vital statistics, church records,
cemetary records, maps, and atlases
3. Handybook for Genealogists (Everton)
4. International Vital Records Handbook (Kemp)
5. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources and The
Source : A Guidebook of American Genealogy
6. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (Dollarhide)
7. Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives, The
Genealogists Address Book (Bentley), and Township Atlas of the United
States
8. Filby's Passenger & Immigration Lists, The Ancestry Family
Historian's Address Book, and The Census Book : A Genealogist's Guide
to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes
4. What are the essential 3-5 Web-accessible or other Genealogy
databases that you can't work without in answering reference
questions (e.g., laws, codes, statistics, etc.)? The Top 9 Genealogy
Web Sites - Some sites tied in votes:
1. HeritageQuest Online
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/(UMI-Library version)
http://www.il.proquest.com/products/pd-product-Genealogy.shtml
HeritageQuest public Web site http://www.heritagequest.com/
2. Ancestry.Com or Ancestry Library Edition (was
AncestryPlus)http://www.ancestry.com
3. FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.org
4. Cyndi's Genealogy Homepage (aka Cyndi's List)
http://www.cyndislist.com and RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
http://www.rootsweb.com
5. USGenWeb Project http://www.usgenweb.com
6. Social Security Death Records Index (SSDI)
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
7. American Family Immigration History Center
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ and Vital Records Information for
All States and Territories of the United States & International.¬¨’ÄÝ
http://www.vitalrec.com/
8. Local and state historical and genealogical society Web sites
and/or locally produced local information databases e.g., Ohio
Historical Society Death Index, Illinois State Archives Online
Databases, etc.
9. NARA National Archives and Records Administration Genealogy Page
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy*
*NARA votes were for specific databases at the NARA site - I totalled
all the mentions of specifically NARA materials and gave them to the
entire site.
Cordially,
Diane
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Diane K. Kovacs - Web Teacher http://www.kovacs.com
"Genealogical Research on the Web: Reference, Networking, and
Archives" Web-based Workshop http://www.kovacs.com/genweb.html
Genealogical Research on the Web. 2002 Neal-Schuman
http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/1/281.html
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