Genebase.com

Footnote.com

Ancestry.Com is by far the best geneology site. Couple that with their software Family Tree Maker and you will have a world of info available to you.

I was given a free account on Ancestry.com for a year, and I managed to build a fairly complete family tree back about seven or so generations. I got bored, and never went back, but I did print out what I found and shared it with some of my cousins for their research.

For subscription sites: Ancestry.com - WorldVitalRecords.com - Footnote.com For free access sites: Rootsweb.com - Cyndislist.com - local USGenWeb sites - Familysearch.org and newer one from their labs with all the transcriptions and scans - and FindaGrave.com For good measure, there are a LOT of genealogy blogs out there now. Subscribe to any/all via RSS and you'll have a nice selection of personal family history sites, genealogy news sites and good old fashioned research/history/life stories/tips and resources blogs. Look for and sign up for historical society or genealogy society blogs too - or history blogs - or repository blogs. The Library of Congress has a nice one, for example. So also with the subscription services and all the genealogy magazine publishers) LOTS of good places on the Web. And I didn't even get into any of the social networking sites or family tree sharing sites or writing/journaling sites or any of the genealogy software vendors! :) Happy hunting! Deb

Revisiting this one, since you said you have a family tree posted at the Geni site. That was back in Oct 2007 and it's now June 2008, but GENI is currently in the news, so thought I'd share. ---- Geni.com has made the list of "50 Best Web Sites" for 2008 in TIME Magazine's annual list. You can read the article here: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1809858_1809955_1811437,00.html or Go directly to the Geni listing and description here: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1809858_1809955_1811437,00.html ---- Note it's not in the "Hobbies" section, but in the "Handy Tools" section of sites. Assume this is because it's a tree-building application rather than a full blown social networking site - or a free or subscription based published databases site - or resource and reference site of articles, tips, links or such? Whatever the case, have 3 more links for you .. "round and about" in genealogy blogs .. showing the word going out to the genealogy community: ---- http://genealogy.about.com/b/2008/06/18/genealogy-reaches-top-50-status.htm ---- http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2008/06/timecnn-list-genicom-among-top-50.html ---- http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/06/time-magazine-n.html ---- Are you still on and active at Geni.com? There are lots of "tree building" sites out there now .. or even side chambers to do that at sites that have other features, functions, purposes. Nice to see these kinds of heritage sites and applications "in the public eye". I see Ancestry commercials on television now! And now this in TIME Magazine. TV program in the UK gets lots of publicity. Footnote and WorldVitalRecords have really stepped up to the plate on the commercial publishing side of things and FamilySearch.org continues to evolve. An exciting time for the genealogy and family history world! :)

Familyorigin.net is one new and most innovative site out there today. It teaches you how to look up your family lineage through the most effective ways that are discussed in the website.

Genetree.com

My favorite pay site is ancestry. Free sites: I prefer the local USGenWeb sites. Most are very helpful in obtaining information for my County of interest. (www.usgenweb.org) I also love the normal, run of the mill *My Ancestors* personal home pages. These are run by a single person and contain a little or a lot about their personal ancestry, including different family lines. To find these I simply go to google and type in my ancestors name in parenthesis. ("Levi Borden") Then see what google finds. Sometimes I find no personal home pages, only data pages. Other times I do find that a cousin has put up their own site with a treasure trove of information and data. I guess this means my overall favorite genealogy website is Google. Though they have no genealogy posted, Google can get me to the pages I want like no other search engine can. :-)

I have had Ancestry myself and never could find anything much useful there on my husbands family. I did find some on my side. Its as if his side has fell off the face of the earth after 1880. We have search all the libraries and there is not a paper trail,not even at LDS. Moved around so much I guess they were always between the census,been looking 10 years tring to get passed 1880. But love genealogy so much and so trees for friends sometimes.

i use ancestry.com