Here are my top 5:
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch - for International databases
British Newspaper Archive for my British ancestry
Library and Archives Canada for Canadian databases
Trove (National Library of Australia) for Australian & British ancestors
It was difficult to narrow my top sites to 5 as I have about a dozen that I use frequently (meaning at least once a week). They include GenealogyBank.com, FindMyPast.com, OliveTreeGenealogy.com (yep I snuck my own site in this list but I do use it frequently), OurOntario.ca, TheShipsList.com and others.
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FamilySearch
Ancestry
FindMyPast.co.uk
Old Fulton Postcards(NY newspapers)
OliveTreeGenealogy
& then...
Mocavo
NEHGS (AmericanAncestors)
old history books online anywhere, including WorldCat libraries
And with 2 big screens I often have several open at the same time, checking them against each other. So useful.
Cheers
- Celia
Ancestry
FamilySearch
Institut Drouin (I'm French Canadian)
New York City vital records on Italiangen.org
Library and Archives Canada.
The first two open automatically when my browser opens. The rest are frequent go-tos. The hardest part is limiting myself to five! Thanks for the challenge.
My top five:
Ancestry.com
Fold3.com
FamilySearch.org
Rootsweb.com (yes, I know it's the same as Ancestry but I find the family trees easier to use ad when I'm just starting on someone I usually go there first)
AmericanAncestors.org
Also high up on the list would be Newspapers.com
And there are still 22 people who are my third and fourth grandparents that I can't "find", except for a name and sometimes a birth and death date.
My top 2 would be ancestry.ca and FamilySearch. Then, because I have mostly French Canadian roots, the next 3 would be PRDH (subscription site) at
http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/leprdh.htm, Fichier Origine (free) at http://www.fichierorigine.com/index.htm and PREFEN (free)at http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/prefen/formPion.php?p=0.
Celia, thanks for reminding me about Fulton postcards. I am there at least once a month!
And thanks for the support of my site! (grin)
Lorine
Maureen thanks for mentioning Institut Druin. It's really helpful to hear from others as to what genealogy sites they use the most!
I totally agree with how difficult it was to limit the list to 5 and am thinking I might do a Top 10 or even a Top 25. Maybe by categories - International, Canada, American, etc
Janice - I've never used AmericanAncestors, will have to check it out. I do have American roots prior to the American Revolution
Jackie thanks for listing those French Canadian sites! I have Quebec ancestors but only prior to 1650s
Lorine, my top 5 gene. sites depend on whom I'm researching, but for my French-Canadian ancestors, it's Ancestry.ca, Genealogie Quebec (Institut Drouin), PRDH, BMS2000 and Mes Aieux (Your Folks). Running a close 6 and 7 are LAC and FamilySearch :)
My top genealogy web sites are
Rootsweb (I have a personal web page hosted here and love the transcribed records submitted by dedicated contributors), Ancestry, FamilySearch, GenealogyBank, and AmericanAncestors. There is also Find-A-Grave, FindMyPast, FreeBMD, GenesReunited, ScotlandsPeople, US (and World) Genweb Project, Newspapers.com, and of course, Olive Tree Genealogy.
Lorine - NEHGS (American Ancestors) has been increasingly moving into coverage of NY.
See:
http://newyorkancestors.org/
and
http://www.americanancestors.org/new-york/
Also, they have online back issues of The American Genealogist (TAG) now up thru vol. 82. This alone is almost worth the cost of membership to me.
My top five are Ancestry, FamilySearch, Steve Morse's pages, JewishGen.com, and Facebook. Facebook is great for finding living relatives.
I'm new to research in England and didn't know about "The British Newspaper Archive". Thanks for sharing that tip!
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