Hi Guys!! I have been cleaning up my saved bookmarks anyway so w/ the request for bookmarks sent to the list, I thought I would just send them along. Some of these are good GENERAL urls, several NC/KY urls and some specific to our research in SW_VA. I am going to use hyperlinks because it is easier for me, but if you can't receive these or you want a few of the urls typed out, just e-mail me directly and I will be glad to do so. Hope this is useful. NancyS <A HREF="http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/mark.html">A Barrel of Genealogy Links</A> general <A HREF="http://www.afrigeneas.com/">AfriGeneas ~ African Ancestored Genealogy</A> researching black ancestry <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/6445/">Alden Williamson Descendants</A> Alden was b. in New Kent Co.,VA, d. Martin Co.KY and lived near Tazewell, VA Lots of other surnames connected. He is my 4th ggrandfather. <A HREF="http://www.rootsquest.com/~amhisnet/topic/app.html">The American Local History Network - Appalachia</A> <A HREF="http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/">ANYDAY Today-in-History PAGE of SCOPE SYSTEMS.</A> Put in any date and you will receive a long list of things that happened on that date. I have done one for many members of my family and put them in the genealogy. Gives a neat perspective to their lives. <A HREF="http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/">Appalachian Center at Univ. of Kentucky</A> <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/BJ_Dillon/Appalachiack.htm">Appalachia Creek Family History & Research</A> <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/Appalachian/index.html">Appalachian Mt. Families/Collins</A> <A HREF="http://www.melungeons.org/mel_wchs2.htm">The Appalachian Quarterly, Wise Co. VA Histor...</A> <A HREF="http://www.ask.com/">Ask Jeeves!</A> an easy to use general search engine, just write the query as a question and Jeeves will answer you <A HREF="http://www.hypertext.com/blackirish/">the Black Irish Myth</A> we have talked abt this on our list before <A HREF="http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/blkysc82.html">Blue People of Kentucky</A> a very interesting site abt a group of KY families who skin color was BLUE. <A HREF="http://web.superb.net/boy/age1.html">Boy the Bear's Age Gauge</A> You input a birthday into this site and you will be given a list of well known people who are either younger or older than you, and a list of some important events that happened during your life and how old you were when these happened. Interesting for family and children to have in their memory books and for genealgy books. Am not sure how far back this goes. <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/rarebk/"> Cherokee Genealogy Books, Indian, Carter...</A> <A HREF="http://rosecity.net/cherokee/blackdutch.html">Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana...</A> <A HREF="http://www.gensource.com/common/">Common Threads</A> <A HREF="http://www.sanbachs.com/cdi.html">THE COMPUTERIZED ANCESTOR</A> <A HREF="http://www.costumes.org/">The Costumer's Manifesto, your one stop site ...</A> this site is made for theater use in designing period costumes, but if you go to the time period that one of your ancestors lived, you can find a picture of what your ancestor might have been wearing. I copy and paste the picture into the genealogy scrapbook. <A HREF="http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html">Current Value of Old Money</A> <A HREF="http://www.cyndislist.com/">Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet</A> <A HREF="http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp?action=process">dMarie Time Capsule </A> this site is similar to Boy's above, but gives you top headlines for the time period around the date, top songs that quarter, how much things cost around that time. One of my all time favorite songs is September Song. Through this site I found that it was a top hit in the time period surrounding my birth!! Important? No, but really neat and interesting.:-) <A HREF="http://dar.library.net/">DAR_LIB</A> <A HREF="http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html">Deciphering Old Handwriting</ A> <A HREF="http://www.dogpile.com/">Dogpile</A> General search engine - good <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/RoadTrails/roadtrai.html">Early American Roads and Trails</A> <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~rosters/index.html">EARLY NC - TN - SC- RECORDS - MILITARY- MARRI...</A> <A HREF="Familyhistory Online">Family History Online</A> <A HREF="http://familyhistory.flash.net/links.html">The Family History Show</A > <A HREF="http://www.martygrant.com/gen/origins.htm">Family Origins</A> <A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/ifftop.html">Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Internet ...</A> <A HREF="http://32.96.111.13/default.asp">FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service/LDS</A> <A HREF="http://www.alltheweb.com/">FAST Search: All the Web, All the Time</A > <A HREF="http://mcrcr2.med.nyu.edu/murphp01/open4em.htm">The Gateway Kiosk: Open Topic Forum</A> <A HREF="http://www.gengateway.com/genalogy.htm">Genealogy Gateway To The Web by Steve Lacy</A> <A HREF="http://posom.com/hl/">Genealogy Helplist</A> <A HREF="http://genealogy.miningco.com/">Genealogy - Home Page</A> <A HREF="http://www.citynet.net/mostwanted/">Genealogy's Most Wanted - Help in locating yo...</A> <A HREF="http://genforum.genealogy.com/">GenForum</A> <A HREF="http://www.google.com/">Google</A> an excellent general search engine <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gowenrf">Gowen Research Foundation</A> searching many different variations of that surname including Goins/Goings/Goens etc. Also excellent history. Membership required for total access, but there are areas where you can read articles of general interest to SW_Va researchers. <A HREF="http://www.ls.net/~newriver/swva/swvahs.htm">Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia</A> <A HREF="http://www.gensource.com/archives/">I Found It! Genealogy Archives Search Engine ...</A> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/1594/melungeon/melungeon.html ">I'm Homeward Bound</A> <A HREF="http://www2.privatei.com/~bartjean/mainpage.htm">"In Plain Sight"</A> an archeological site that discusses folks who were in America who weren't supposed to have been here but were. Absolutely fascinating drawings and topics <A HREF="http://www.doitnow.com/~moravia/ky.html">Ky Census Documents</A> <A HREF="http://genweb.net/Kentucky-Roots/">East Kentucky Genealogy</A> <A HREF="http://moon.ouhsc.edu/rbonner/census/kycounty.htm">Kentucky County History</A> <A HREF="http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm">The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program</A> <A HREF="http://www.vsla.edu/">The Library of Virginia</A> More later if you'd like. NancyS THE MELUNGEON HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK: http://www.melungeonhealth.org SPARKS Genealogy: http://SparksGenealogy.net