My Family History Fair Topic: Best Internet Sites for Genealogy

First Chapter:
Best Internet Sites for Genealogy:  Websites = Internet technology to find our family history.

However, did you know that finding the right website or a list of websites is often accomplished by:

• reading a good book?...Publications that are fairly recent in date and written by prominent and/ or established authors, can be helpful in pointing the way to online resources!  So access your library's online library catalog to get hold of those titles.  You can also find such books listed at bookstores in your community or at www.Amazon.com.  Use the search box at the top of the Amazon page and enter the search term/phrase "genealogy books".

•  Another "directory" that you want to explore (and for this you, again, will need your computer...), are the many, many, articles online regarding genealogy/aka "family history".  I've attached a list of online publications (sometimes it may even be in the form of a "Blog").  Subscribe to a blog (usually a free resource), newsletter or other online publication for genealogists; these will contain more websites than you know what to do with! Subscribe to a genealogy magazine.

• Next, familiarize yourself with "search engines".  The one search engine that comes to mind is Google.  There are even certain tricks you can utilize in "Google" to find your specific relative, the specific resource you need to find your relative and so forth! 

•  Join a genealogical society (and a historical club, while you're at it)!  You will often get a wealth of suggestions from the other members in their journal or newsletter or face-to-face!

• Take a genealogy class, attend a genealogy conference, or GO TO ROOTSTECH!  These types of experiences will keep you up to date on the latest internet sources for your genealogy research.  You can sit at home and be on the computer all the time but your family history will be much enriched if you get out of the house and see what others are doing in that area!

•  For more suggestions/hints/stuff, Check in for MORE on Best Internet Sites.  We've barely begun!