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(PUBLIB again...-L.) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:04:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Diane K. Kovacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: publib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Report: Genealogy 'Core' Reference Tools Web/CD/Online CD-ROM, Tape, Online, or Web databases Top 8 - could not get top 10 from the data but these all had multiple votes: 1. FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.org (1880 United States Census and National Index from FamilySearch) Worldconnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ 2. Ancestry.Com or AncestryPlus http://www.ancestry.com "Ancestry Plus which is of tremendous value to our department. (We feel handicapped when it goes down temporarily.) " 3. Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.org 4. Cyndi's List http://www.cyndislist.com Periodical Source Index (PERSI) http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/periodicals/persi/main.htm 5. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3599a.htm 6. SSDI http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi 7. HeritageQuest Online http://www.heritagequest.com/ 8. USGenWeb Project http://www.usgenweb.com Also Mentioned: American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ 1900 Census Index for the Mid-Atlantic (FTM-CD) CD Civil War Center http://www.cwc.lsu.edu Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html Family Treemaker http://www.familytreemaker.com National Union Catalog of Mansuscript Collections (NUCMC)http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html Passenger and Immigration Lists (FTM-CD). Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Clevenet) and Worldcat (Clevenet) Texas Death Records Index http://searches.rootsweb.com/ Vital Records http://www.vitalrec.com Archives and Knowledge Management http://www.academic-genealogy.com/archives.htm Under Legal & Court, USA is: Electronic Access to State Court Records Relevant Comments: We just got a subscription to Genealogy Library/World Family Tree. (We first submitted our order in February 2002. We just got access�mid-September 2002.) �We are truly disappointed in this database, especially waiting for so long. The advanced search features are not very helpful. It is common to search through�hundreds of records since you can only limit the search by years�and/or places. There is no place to specify a spouse name. There is no comprehensive index and each database must be subscribed to separately. (We did not choose the census since we have access to these through Ancestry.) Very inconvenient for a library setting. We also have a subscription to Heritage Quest Online. It does not have much information, yet, but it is a promising site. Also, in a few months we will have access to a new product put out by Newsbank. It has an obituary index with access to the transcribed obituary for many newspapers across the US. Also, it has digitized images of the Akron Beacon Journal. It is a very promising subscription database. The index part will not be available until 2003. We will have access to the digitized Akron Beacon Journal within the next month. Genealogical Research on the Web 2002 Neal-Schuman http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/1/281.html Diane K. Kovacs - Kovacs Consulting Internet & World Wide Web Training Laurie Mahaffey Central Texas Library System P. O. Box 2287 Austin TX 78768-2287 512-476-1668 ext 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l For information on CTLS-L please visit: http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm
