Hi Everyone, Now... that everyone knows about the mail lists and the message boards, I thought you might like to look at some of these sites. There are several organized groups working to put genealogy data on the internet free. This might be census transcriptions or cemetery transcriptions or marriage records or wills or whatever. First of all, am betting that many of you already know about USGenWeb. Here is the URL to the mail USGenWeb site. From this page you can select a state and then county. In many cases the state pages will also include state wide projects. http://www.usgenweb.org/ ......................................... Also associated loosely with the USGenWeb project is the USGenWeb Archives project. Use this URL to get to the archives site. Again, you can select a state and then a county. It is important to note that the county USGenWeb sites and the county USGenWeb Archives site do NOT necessarily have the same data. Nor does a search of one get you information from both sites. So make sure you check both. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ .................................................. Other groups working to provide free genealogy data can be found at this site: http://www.usgennet.org/ This is the main page for USGenNet. Scroll down to the Private Domain Websites and check out the American History and Genealogy Project, the American Local History Network, and the USGenWeb Census Project. Note: the USGenWeb Census Project listed here is different from the one that you will get on the USGenWeb Archives Site page listed earlier in this message. So make sure you check both. And finally, this URL will take you to a search site that searches all the USGenNet data. http://www.usgennet.org/search/ Take some time to play around with all of these. You will be surprised at the amount of information out there for your use. All placed there by very nice volunteers who are kind enough to transcribe all this material for the rest of us. Hope you enjoy all these sites. Perhaps some of you can share other sites as well. Take care - Emma