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World Wide Web Links to History Resources
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University of California, Riverside

Genealogy Links for Historians



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Go to Genealogists' Research Services Board
Let genealogists know of the services you can provide for them.

Go to Surname Register
Register surnames on which you're doing research. Other persons can easily contact you.

Go to Help Wanted / Genealogy
Place an ad for help with your genealogical research. Vendors can easily contact you.

How Horus Selected These Sites
Horus Discusses Purpose of Genealogical Surname Register BBS - Genealogy
Calendar of Genealogical Events
Commercial/ Fee-based Consultant Services
Curiosity Value
Family Periodical and Surname Publications Directories
Federation of Genealogical Societies
General Periodicals / Newsletters Online
Jewish Genealogy
LDS Resources
List Servers
Miscellaneous
National Genealogical Society
Non-U.S. Genealogical Sources / Services
Software
Soundex
Surname Searches/ Histories
U.S. Name Genealogical Databases
U.S. State and State-level Genealogical Societies/ Resources
World Family Tree Project
Genealogy Directories
See Also

How Horus Selected These Sites

Horus' main purpose in compiling this collection of genealogical links is to introduce academic historians and history students to the diverse resources for primary historical research developed for and by genealogists and available on the Web. Historia ns do not routinely use sources dedicated to genealogy for disciplinary research. Horus believes, however, that genealogically organized data (if Horus may be permitted so to phrase it) has great potential value for disciplinary research in historic pre servation, family history, and demographic history, among other special fields. Placing the history of homes in the context of genealogically defined family history, for instance, would permit historians to understand better ethnic and regional vernacula r home culture. Similarly, placing the social history of medicine in the context of genealogically defined family history would let historians study folk medicine and alternative therapeutics.

Genealogists, including commercial genealogical companies, are industriously organizing their own resources on the Web. Horus has not tried to duplicate this effort - indeed, could not do so; there aren't enough hours in the day! The top one hundred or so most important sites are, however, listed in this article. As an ongoing project, Horus intends to fold individually listed genealogical sites into directories, as the genealogists create them. Eventually, this compilation should provide reasonably co mplete top-down hierarchical access to the world wide data.
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Genealogical Surname Register

Register surnames which you are researching. In the registry, your web page (if you have one) and your email address will be hyperlinked, enabling other persons interested in your surname research to contact you easily.

Complete a separate form for each surname, even if all your registrations have the same web URL.

Check out surname resources on the web by scrolling through the database.

Will you help Horus? Horus is not trying to duplicate the wonderful genealogical databases and list servers on the internet. Horus is experimenting with databases. He believes that genealogists will give this database a workout. Hopefully, this web sur name register will provide a service and entertainment to genealogists, while Horus learns how to design http databases. Your use of the registry has already provided invaluable experience to Horus in designing a browser independent entry form and in des igning split databases! Thanks!

When you scroll the registry, you'll notice that many of the entries list Horus as the provider of information. These entries are written this way because Horus entered them from individual html entries on the genealogical page (Horus knows - don't say it), not because Horus is doing all those surname searches. Go to the surname resources to meet the actual providers. Thanks, genealogical community!

Go to Registry

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