> I don't make a practice of recommending specific sources, but I was recently > tipped off to a new one (to me) that has actually provided me with several new > pieces of information and useful contacts. I would like to pass this one on > for anyone who may not be familiar with it. > > The website is http://www.gencircles.com/ > Welcome to GenCircles! > > If you haven't already tried it, I suggest you check it out. It is a free > site, you can do a search for individuals. But the best part is it offers what > it calls "smartmatching." You can submit a GEDCOM, with you making the > decisions as to what will be shown. For example, you can set it to show no notes or > sources if you wish. It then matches it against every other GEDCOM anyone > submitted and gives you a menu listing to select from. The menu lists every one > of your names that has a match in someone else's submission, and will show > you the two side by side. I have found and contacted over twenty other new > researchers so far that link to the same individuals I am researching. Bottom > line, it is worth your looking at.