http://rootsweb.com/ The Internet's Oldest and Largest Genealogy Site Home of ROOTS-L (founded 1987) and Home of the surname List (founded 1988) Support RootsWeb -- Please Contribute Now! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what's a RootsWeb, anyway? The RootsWeb project has two missions: To make large volumes of data available to the online genealogical community at minimal cost. To provide support services to online genealogical activities such as USENET newsgroup moderation, mailing list maintenance, surname list generation, etc. RootsWeb's own genealogy runs back more than a decade to the days of net.roots. RootsWeb folks have been involved since the early days of ROOTS-L and the RootsWeb Surname List, and more recently were among the founders of the RAND Genealogy Club. We created the RootsWeb site to continue to support the genealogical community as the needs of the community outstripped the ability of RAND and other organizations to host the genealogical community on a guest basis. Support RootsWeb! Contribute Using Our Secure Server -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More about RootsWeb | RootsWeb is international Who pays for RootsWeb? Contribute to the Cooperative and Support Internet Genealogy How to provide data | What's new -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RootsWeb Search Engines RootsWeb is really about search engines -- databases and software married together to let you search for records online. You'll find we already have enhanced search engines for the 568,617-name RootsWeb Surname List and the Roots Location List. As resources allow, we'll be bringing more databases like the Social Security Death Index, census extracts, and county history indices online. Guest Home Pages RootsWeb freely provides space on our servers for 3,395 homepages of genealogical and historical societies and to groups such as US GenWeb. The Olive Tree Genealogy Homepage, with its ship lists and other resources, was one of the first to join us at RootsWeb. Who else is here? Pay a visit to our guests page to find out. We would like to freely provide space to individuals, but we aren't sure at this point whether we'll have the resources to handle that activity. Comprehensive Links to Other Online Data Sources The links on these RootsWeb pages point to actual information and data sources, and not just to other Web pages that just point to yet other Web pages. The ROOTS-L Resources The ROOTS-L State Pages Cyndi Howells' List Downloadable Files This area contains more than 1200 megabytes of files that are available over the Web by FTP transfer or by the archive function of the mailing list software. ROOTS-L Archives USGenWeb Archives (Absolutely awesome!) User Mailing Lists We've installed the SmartList mailing list manager, which enables us to support user lists with 10 to 1,000,000 subscribers. RootsWeb currently hosts more than 4,913 mailing lists. If you're a RootsWeb sponsor and would like a mailing list for your genealogical society, family association, or whatever (and if you or another volunteer are willing to handle the not-too-difficult chores of being a listowner), there is a Mail List Request Form to assist you. Contributor Services While all of RootsWeb's databases, mailing lists, and other activities are open to the public, selected services that are conveniences (like automatic notification when your surnames appear in new material uploaded to RootsWeb) are available only to Contributors and Sponsors. Some services that are expensive to provide (like personal Web space or Web serving of personal GEDCOM files) are available at a nominal extra cost to Sponsors. Webmasters and Listowners If you are the Webmaster of a site hosted at RootsWeb or Listowner of a mailing list served from RootsWeb, you'll find FAQs and other useful things by following this link. Please Give Us Feedback! Comments, suggestions, and especially bug reports are more than welcome -- just send them to RootsWeb HelpDesk. Please be patient if it takes us a bit to respond, though, because we're all hacking away at the RootsWeb search engines and registries.