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Searching the Internet for your own genealogy can be difficult and time-consuming if you don't know where to begin. The resources listed below can get you off to a fast start - and in touch with both information and fellow researchers.
HINT #1: Try most or all of them.
HINT #2: In several places below, the name KUYKENDALL is used as an example. Just substitute the surname you're researching.
David's Links - I have a large and growing set of links, especially for related family names.
Ancestry Mailing Lists - connect to others researching your family lines.
Genforum - On Genealogy.com a forum may already exist for exchange of information about one or more of the surnames you're researching.
GeneaNet - free search from France with huge resources.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - well-organized links to over 37,000 genealogy-related sites on the Internet.
HINT: Skip her main page, and go direct to her index of
Personal Home Pages
Genealogy Gateway - another of the major genealogy links sites, fairly well organized, with links to "More Than 15,000 Surname & Family Homepages"
Meaning of Names.com Surnames - another Ancestry Genealogy site for web-wide Surname sites
Rootsweb Mailing Lists - share information by e-mail, based on region or surname. It has hundreds of lists (groups) and you may find your surname listed.
HINT#1: Carefully follow their simple instructions for e-mailing your request to join a group.
HINT#2: Don't join a bunch of groups all at once, unless you really have nothing else going on in your life.
US GenWeb Project - Search by geographic location, organized by states and counties. You can post a query to attract other researchers, or search for queries posted by others.
Online Genealogical Index - covers England, Wales and Isle of Man.
Soundex - an explanation of Soundex, and how to use it to find your Surname with a slightly different spelling.
When you are searching for a particular name, you may miss the ones you are looking for if the name was misspelled when it was originally recorded or transcribed. In order to check for all names of variant spelling, the Soundex system was invented. This system transforms a name into a number code that is based on phonetics. The Soundex system is a method of indexing names in the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 US Census. Soundex can also aid genealogists by identifying spelling variations for a given surname.
Return the soundex code for the entered surname, plus other surnames/spellings sharing the same soundex code.
Search Engine HINTS
HINT#1: Using search engines is possibly the most time-wasting and least profitable way to start your genealogy searches.
HINT#2: Using search engines is possibly the most valuable way to start your genealogy searches.
AOL NetFind - At the AOL page, also accessible from the Internet, click on 'AOL NetFind' in the red bar at the top of the page.
HINT: On the 'NetFind' page, enter 'kuykendall AND genealogy' (capitalize the AND)
Caution
ONE FINAL HINT: Here is a word of caution about the internet: avoid giving out information about living individuals. Your correspondence may get passed along to someone else, and the information may later end up on someone's web site, or on a CD that is sold - without your permission.
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