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For-profit genealogy company. Databases include Find a Grave, RootsWeb, a free genealogy community, and Newspapers.com. Archives.gov: US National Archives and Records Administration. Free online repository with a section dedicated to genealogical research [1] BALSAC: Population database of Quebec, Canada Cyndi's List
The site started in March 1997 as a personal web page called Cemetery Interment Lists on the Internet and was simply a list of links to websites with cemetery records. In 1998, the site started accepting cemetery transcriptions directly; to stop the personal website from being overwhelmed, the page author registered the domain name "interment.net" in December 1998 and moved to a separate web ...
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of human and pet cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com.Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience."
GenealogyBank was founded in 2006, as a subsidiary of NewsBank offering a consumer product for family history researchers. [3] Since 1972, NewsBank has served as a newspaper reference tool for libraries. GenealogyBank leverages NewsBank's existing newspaper reference tool into a web based searchable database for genealogists.
Logo of the Genealogical Society of Utah. GSU, the predecessor of FamilySearch, was founded on 1 November 1894. Its purpose was to create a genealogical library to be used both by its members and other people, to share educational information about genealogy, and to gather genealogical records in order to perform religious ordinances for the dead.
This resulted in about 162 initial articles, of which 86 were front-page articles, with each linked to around 25 related topical sub-pages. For example, the front-page article New Jersey Genealogy was linked to the New Jersey Biography, New Jersey Cemeteries, and New Jersey Census pages. Much of the early structure and phrasing of the wiki can ...
The International Genealogical Index (IGI) is a database of genealogical records, compiled from several sources, and maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Originally created in 1969, the index was intended to help track the performance of temple ordinances for the deceased.
MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services, introduced by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. [2] [3] [4] Users of the platform can obtain their family trees, upload and browse through photos, and search through over 19.9 billion historical records, among other features.