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naturalization petitions, 177–178
naturalization records, 220
navigation bar, 356
NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society), 228, 324, 356, 358
Netherlands, online resources, 225–226
Network Information Center (NIC), 356
networks
backbone, 349
firewalls, 47–48, 351
wireless, 30–31
networks, social. See social networks
New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), 228, 324, 356, 358
New York Public Library, 211
New Zealand, online resources, 232, 245, 314
Newberry Library, Chicago, 211
news feeds. see RSS feeds
news reader, 348
NewsBank, 215–216
newsletters, 71, 119, 278–279, 283, 305
newspaperarchive.com, 302
newspapers, 18, 168, 174, 302
NGS (National Genealogical Society), 255–260
awards/competitions, 259–260
Bible Records, 258
calendar, 260
conferences/events, 259
educational resources, 150, 256–258
Member Ancestry Charts, 258
overview, 77–78, 256
publications/videos, 258
sharing information, 18
standards/guidelines, 20, 52, 60
store, 260
website, 256–258
NGS Magazine, 258
NGSQ (National Genealogical Society Quarterly), 68, 258
NGSQ Articles Online Study Groups, 68
NIC (Network Information Center), 356
Nitrite site, 34–35
No Story Too Small blog, 310
Nolo.com website, 57
Nomina search, 227
Non Paternal Event (NPE), 146
Norwegian ancestry, 230–231. See also European entries
NPE (Non Paternal Event), 146
O
obituaries, 8, 96, 175–176, 216. See also death records
OCCs (online card catalogs), 204–212
offline, 356
Ohio Valley history, 212
Olden Times website, 317
One Rhode Island Family blog, 308
online, 356
online books, free, 320–321
online card catalogs (OCCs), 204–212
online chat, 99–110. See also forums
AfriGeneas Chat Center, 241–242
described, 350
GenPals, 108
instant messaging, 107–109, 353
lurking, 355
Second Life, 130
Skype, 105, 106–107
Twitter, 100–105
video chat, 361
VoIP, 105, 107
Windows Messenger, 107
Yahoo! Messenger, 107
online communities. See forums
online courses, 67, 75–76, 356
online data, 13–19. See also data
online genealogies, 15–19
Online Historical Directories website, 72
Online Historical Newspapers website, 72
Online Public Access (OPA), 167
online public access catalog (OPAC), 356
online publishers. See genealogical publishing house
online storage services, 24
Online Terms of Service, 53
Ontario, Canada, 318
Ontario GenWeb, 6
OPA (Online Public Access), 167
OPAC (online public access catalog), 356
The Open Directory Project, 86
Open Library, 321
Origins.net website, 96
Ortega, Gena Philibert, 308
Oxford Ancestors website, 313
P
PAF (Personal Ancestral File), 37, 185
paper documents, 5–6, 24
paper sources, 5–6, 24
Past Sheriffs of the United States, 93
PDF (Portable Document Format), 355
PDF files, 6, 7, 58, 357
pedigree charts, 357
Pedigree Resource File (PRF), 185, 357
PERiodical Source Index (PERSI), 213–215
PERSI (PERiodical Source Index), 213–215
Personal Ancestral File (PAF), 37, 185
personalhistorians.org, 306
phenotype, 357
phishing, 357
The Photo Detective blog, 310
photographs. See also images
American Memory, 162
Bible Records Online, 179
considerations, 7
FamilySearch.org, 182
Filson Historical Society library, 212, 324
Fold3, 177, 316
Google Image Search, 91
handling, 333
The Photo Detective, 310
presidential, 178
repositories, 319
World War II Japanese photos, 178
Pierre-Louis, Marian, 72, 310
Pinterest, 262
Pitcairn Island website, 317
place searches, 178
plagiarism, 53, 58
platting deeds, 81, 170, 357
POD (print-on-demand) publishers, 283, 291–292. See also publishing
podcasts, 69, 71, 310, 357
Pointer, Caroline Marshall, 139
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), 357
Pomeroy, Chris, 312
Portable Document Format. See PDF
portals, 85
Portuguese ancestry, 229–230. See also European entries
posts, 357
Potowami online resources, 252
Powell, Kimberly, 26, 53, 302
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol), 357
presidential photos, 178
PRF (Pedigree Resource File), 185, 357
printers, 31
print-on-demand (POD) publishers, 283, 291–292. See also publishing
prison records, 63, 93, 232, 253
privacy issues, 51–56
professional organizations, 77–81
ProGen Study Groups, 68
ProGenealogists.com website, 231, 303
Project Gutenberg, 321
Projekti L önnrot, 321
Prologue magazine, 168
proof, 13
ProQuest Obituaries, 216
protocols, 357
province/state gazetteers, 10
public domain, 56–57
publishing
BookLocker, 295
CreateSpace, 284–289
Creative Continuum, 296–297
e-books, 283–284, 295
Family Heritage Publishers, 297
Family Roots Publishing, 292–293
genealogical publishing houses, 281–298
genealogy books, 282–289
genealogy information, 24–25
Heritage Books, 294
on Internet, 24–25
iUniverse.com, 296
Lulu.com, 295–296
Martin Genealogy Publishing, 293–294
Modern Memoirs, Inc., 297
print-on-demand, 283, 291–292
Shortrunbooks.com, 297–298
software for, 24–25
success story, 284–289
vanity presses, 296, 297
push technology, 357, 363
Puzilla, 188–189
Q
Quaker genealogy, 250
Quebec, Canada, 226–227, 247
queries, 12, 20–22, 358
R
radio shows, Internet, 69, 247
Ragan, Robert, 140
Railroad Retirement Board, 176
Random Genealogy blog, 73
Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (RGPL), 213
Really Simple Syndication. See RSS
records. See also data; vital records
AIS Census Indexes, 173
best practices, 19–20
birth, 7, 159, 278, 311, 312
census. See census records
court, 18, 168, 174
death. See death records
divorce, 156, 157
FamilySearch.org, 184–185
fraternal, 19
graduation, 7
keeping, 5–6
local, 173–175
marriage, 7, 159, 278, 311, 312
military. See military history/records
National Archives. See National Archives
protecting, 19–20
sources of, 18–19
state, 173–175
reference books, 10–11
regional resources, 323–324
register style, 358
registry files, 220
remote access, 358
Renee’s Genealogy Blog, 73, 310
repositories, 319
Republican Calendar, 352
research log, 358
Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy, 11, 291
RGPL (Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature), 213
Richley-Erickson, Pat, 4, 55–56, 68–69, 129
Robbins, Miriam J, 72
Romani/Romany, online resources, 249–250
Roots and Rambles blog, 72, 310
ROOTS-L Library, 275
ROOTS-L mailing list, 278
RootsMagic program, 37–39
RootsTech, 69, 70
RootsWeb, 271–279
adoption discussion lists, 305
Ancestry.com and, 271
databases, 273, 275–276
files/databases, 275–276
freepages, 278–279
general information, 271–272, 273, 301
getting started with, 273–274
Help Desk, 279
history, 271
message boards/mailing lists, 277
navigating in, 273, 274
newsletters, 278–279
overview, 271–272
searching in, 95–96, 273, 275–277
success story, 272–273
surname searches, 275–276
websites sponsored by, 278–279
WorldConnect Project, 24, 275, 276
WorldGenWeb Project, 223–224, 245, 275
RootsWeb mailing list, 113, 115
RootsWeb Search Thingy, 95–96, 276
RootsWeb Surname List (RSL), 275–276
Rothwell, Cheryl, 307
Royal Family, 303
RSL (RootsWeb Surname List), 275–276
RSS (Really Simple Syndication), 34, 358
RSS feeds, 72–74, 104, 358, 362
RSS readers, 348, 357
Rudolph, Kay, 68
Russell, Judy G., 51–54, 147–149
Russian ancestry, 163, 248. See also European entries
S
Safari browser, 33, 34
The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, 80–81
Samford University Library, 210
Sanborn Maps, 215, 217
SAR (Sons of the American Revolution), 211–212, 317
Scandinavian ancestry, 230–231. See also European entries
scanners, 31
Schneider, Dale, 223
Scottish ancestry, 231, 314. See also United Kingdom
Search Engine Watch, 84
search engines, 83–97. See also searches
described, 84, 358
Google. See Google searches
maps/geography, 322
spiders, 84, 359
terminology, 84–86
tips for, 86–88, 116, 117
websites for, 92–96
Yahoo!, 322
Search for Ancestors site, 7
search sites, 92–96
Search Thingy, 95–96, 276
searches. See also search engines
address, 178
census records. See census records
Ellis Island Online, 196–199
FamilySearch website, 184–185, 191
images, 91, 316
for immigrants. See immigration records
institution, 178
land patent, 169–179
narrowing, 87–89
obituaries, 96
online card catalogs, 204–212
PERSI, 213–215
place, 178
reference number, 178
RootsWeb, 95–96, 273, 275–277
ship passengers. See ship’s passenger lists
surname. See surname searches
tips for, 86–88
vessels, 178
Seaver, Randy, 310
Second Life, 126–130
secondary sources, 8
seminars, 77–81, 358–359. See also conferences/seminars
Sephardic Genealogy site, 251
Sephardim.com, 251
servers, 33, 359, 361
shareware, 359
Sharlot Hall Museum, 172
Shields Up website, 47–48
ship manifests, 197–198
The Ships List, 220
ship’s passenger lists
Ancestry.com, 263
described, 19
Ellis Island Online, 196–199, 200
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, 278
Mayflower passenger list, 13, 316
resources for, 220, 278
The Ships List, 220
ShoeBox app, 265
Short Message Service (SMS), 199, 359
Shortrunbooks.com, 297–298
shotgun approach, 12
signature, 359
Singapore, online resources, 225, 324
skeletons, family, 50, 51
Skype, 105, 106–107
slave data, 238, 239–244, 247
slave owners, 164, 242
Slaves and the Courts documents, 243–244
Slovakia/Slovak resources, 226. See also European entries
smart phone apps, 34, 42–43, 123, 265, 349
smart phones, 30, 43–44, 105, 355
Smith, John Owen, 315
SMS (Short Message Service), 199, 359
social bookmarking, 359
social networks, 121–136
basics, 123–126
contacts, 123
Facebook, 107, 123–126, 262, 304
general information, 122–123, 359
Google+, 130–135
Google Hangouts, 69, 105, 106, 134–135, 353
MeetUp.com, 136
member profiles, 123
Second Life, 126–130
terminology, 123
Twitter, 100–105, 262, 263
Social Security Death Index (SSDI), 175–176, 185, 276, 359
Social Security numbers, 359
software, 29–48. See also apps
Catch, 44
Clooz, 45
considerations, 30
database CD-ROMs, 45
Evernote, 44–45
genealogy. See genealogy programs
GenSmarts, 45
map software, 46
organization programs, 45
overview, 30–31
publishing on Internet, 24–25
shareware, 359
virus/worm protection, 47–48
web browsers. See web browsers
word processing programs, 45
Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), 211–212, 317
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, 313
Soundex system, 359
The Source, 11
sources/proof, 13–15
South Africa, online resources, 232
South Carolina State Library, 319
Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, 311
spam, 46
Spanish ancestry, 228–229, 247, 315. See also European entries
Spanish Heritage Home Page, 315
Spear, Elmer C., 318
speech recognition software, 284
spell checking, 141
spiders, 84, 359
spyware, 34
SSDI (Social Security Death Index), 175–176, 185, 276, 359
state ar
chives/libraries, 19, 173, 210–212
state census records, 173–175
state records, 159
State Resource Pages, 278
state/province gazetteers, 10
Steinmetz, Erik, 200
study groups, 68, 69, 360
Surname Helper, 275
surname searches
databases, 303
online resources, 324
on RootsWeb, 275–276
selecting surnames for research, 8
Surname Helper, 275
survey plats, 81, 170, 357
Swedish ancestry, 321
Swem Library, 211
Switchboard, 97
sysop (system operator), 360
system operator (sysop), 360
T
tablet apps, 34, 42–43, 123, 265, 349
tablet computer, 30, 43–44, 360
tag clouds, 360
tagging, 360
taglines, 360
taxonomy, 360
Taylor, Maureen, 310
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), 360
Teach.Net.com, 306
Telnet, 360
templates, 7
Tennessee Genealogy blog, 307
terminal server, 361
terminology, 12–13, 16, 123, 140. See also glossary
Texas state records, 314, 319–320, 1315
texting, 355
threads, message, 361
tiny tafels (TTs), 361
Tobias, Michael, 200
Top 25 Genealogy Sites, 300–303
training videos, 71
translation websites, 224–225
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), 360
Travellers, Irish, 250
Treasure Maps Genealogy, 140
Treasure Maps website, 306
trees, 185–187
Trojan horse, 361
TTs (tiny tafels), 361
Tumblr, 142
Twitter, 100–105, 262, 263
U
U.K. See United Kingdom
Ukrainian Roots Genealogy webring, 226
Uncle Hiram’s Chat Cabins, 108–109
United Kingdom (U.K.). See also European entries; specific British countries
British Civil War website, 315
census records, 172, 178
coats of arms, 26
FreeBMD Project, 231, 312
GENUKI website, 231, 324
Great Britain Historical GIS Project, 323
maps, 323
monarchy/royal family, 303
National Digital Archive of Datasets, 231
online resources, 7, 206–207, 231
Oxford Ancestors website, 313
Royal Family, 303
United States (U.S.)
American Revolution, 81, 211–212, 316, 317
census records, 170–175, 211, 322
Civil War. See American Civil War
Library of Congress, 156, 159–163
maps, 322
military records. See American military history/records
National Archives. See NARA
presidential photos, 178
United States Citizenship and Immigration Genealogy Program (USCIS), 221
United States v. The Amistad, 178
Universal Serial Bus (USB), 361
University of Illinois, 212