What can you find on the web?

• Help and how-to information . . .
  How to get started.
  How to get birth and death records.
  How to get census records.
  What to do when you get stuck.
  Genealogy classes.
  ....
  mostly free

 
• Addresses, phone numbers, maps . . .
  Of relatives.
  Of genealogical societies.
  Of libraries.
  Of cemeteries.
  ....
  mostly free

 
• Books and supplies . . .
  Library card catalogs.
  Bookstore catalogs.
  Forms (family group sheets, pedigree charts,
       census records, research logs, ...).
  ....
  mostly free

 
• Primary source material . . .
  Census records.
  Birth, marriage, death records.
  Cemetery records.
  Military records.
  ....
  MOSTLY HAVE TO PAY

It's a moving target - today's presentation is out of date tomorrow.

It's kind of like a library - they keep buying new books (and possibly disposing of books people don't check out).

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Comments and suggestions should be sent to:
email: sturges@iastate.edu
phone: 515-294-6242.

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© 2001, Leroy D. Sturges
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