Hi: Dr. Brian Leverich and Karen Isaacson who started Rootsweb are starting a new service which I think is really great. They are still building it and so if you see anything missing - let them know. They don't mention whether there will be a charge down the line and they are encouraging people to Link to them. So, I would guess it is going to be financed by ads. I am pasting an article about it below - from the Eastman Online Gen. Newsletter.. The URL is http://www.linkpendium.com/ click on the link directory (the third line) you then have your choice of selecting surnames or locations. I chose location and was positively amazed at what popped up at Amador Co. CA. I go to that webpage all the time but had no idea that it had so many links to other sources - all concerning that county. I then decided to go to the surname section and chose "Hinds". I am pasting below what popped up for that name. And, below that I am pasting a March 2004 article from the Eastman Genealogy Online Newsletter about the new service. At the top of each page is a place to send a link. I sent the link of my family's trail story to a surname page and to a county page in AZ where they settled for a bit before heading on to CA. Reminder: Two entries below. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ====================================== These are the links on the Hinds page at LinkPentium.com General (not specific to a USA location) Surname Information DNA Project Hinds Surname DNA Project Family Crest Hinds family crest (Source: House of Names) Introduction and Guides Hinds at RootsWeb (Source: RootsWeb) Hinds Genealogy (Source: Surname Web) Hinds Genealogy and Family History Data (Source: DistantCousin.com) Libraries, Museums, Archives Hinds materials (Source: Family History Library) Mailing Lists and Message Boards Hinds Message Board (Source: RootsWeb) Hinds Family Genealogy Forum (Source: Genealogy.com) Hinds Genealogy Queries (Source: CousinConnect.com) Hinds Surname Club (Source: GenCircles) Hinds Genealogy Message Board (Source: The Genealogy Register) HINDS-L Genealogy of Hinds HINDS-L Mailing List Homepage (Source: RootsWeb) HINDS-L Browseable Mailing List Archives (Source: RootsWeb) HINDS-L Searchable Mailing List Archives (Source: RootsWeb) Maps and Gazetteers Where were Hinds families living in 1920? (Source: Ancestry.com 1920 family distribution maps) CO Denver Obituary of Norman Ethan Allen Hinds, 1961 (Source: University of California History) IL Stephenson Biographical Sketch of Judge Andrew Hinds (Source: Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement Resources) IN Jennings Biography of Jason (John) Hinds (Source: U.S. Biographies Project) NY Jefferson Biography of Frank A. Hinds (Source: rays-place.com) OK Okfuskee Leonard Hinds Biography (Source: GenExchange) PA Beaver Biography of Jason (John) Hinds (Source: U.S. Biographies Project) This page and its subpages contain 21 links. Contact Information: e-mail webmaster@linkpendium.com Mailing address Linkpendium P.O. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 USA Telephone (voice) (661) 242-1953 Telephone (fax) (661) 242-1955 ========================= Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Standard Edition A Weekly Summary of Events and Topics of Interest to Online Genealogists Vol. 9 No. 10 March 8, 2004 LINKPENDIUM Karen Isaacson and Brian Leverich were the founders of the extremely popular RootsWeb genealogical community site. At the time of its merger with Ancestry.com in June 2000, RootsWeb had about 600,000 registered users, was serving about 100,000,000 Web page views monthly, and was delivering about 160,000,000 pieces of email monthly to the subscribers of its 18,000 mailing lists. The company had more than 40 employees and operated its own 7,000 square foot network operations center in Bakersfield, CA. Karen and Brian took some time off after the Ancestry.com acquisition, but now their friends will be pleased to hear that they have re-entered the online genealogy world once again. This week I received the following message from Dr. Brian Leverich: Hi Dick - I don't know if you've noticed, but Karen and I have finally recovered from RootsWeb and we're starting back into genealogy. We certainly aren't out to build RootsWeb again, but we do think there are things we can do that will make genealogical research go faster and be more fun. The first thing we're doing is building a directory of everything relevant to genealogy on the Web. Folks can use that directory now as it grows by visiting: http://www.linkpendium.com/ About 146,000 pages are now categorized. I would guess that the directory will cover 300 - 500,000 pages as it matures over the next year or so. Folks are welcome to submit their Web pages for inclusion, if they don't want to wait for us to find them using our automated tools. The plan is that we'll be using this directory as a basis for new research tools for everybody to use. I expect we'll be opening some of the tools up for public use within the next year. Because this directory is a stepping stone to other things, it has a different focus than CyndisList. That doesn't make it more or less useful than Cyndi's work -- just different. If you think Linkpendium might be of interest to your readers, please feel free to comment on it. I did look at Linkpendium and am impressed by what I saw. The project obviously is in its infancy. It has a ways to go, but already there are more than 146,000 genealogy-related links. I will probably write a full review in a few months as it becomes bigger. In the meantime, you can watch Linkpendium grow at http://www.linkpendium.com What Do You Think? Comments and discussion are available on this newsletter's Discussion Board at: http://www.eogn.com/discussionboard