Genealogy Online For Dummies

Genealogy Online For Dummies
by Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm

Genealogy Online For Dummies
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Author: April Leigh Helm, Matthew L. Helm
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN: 0470240571
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: For Dummies

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Book Review: Genology 101
Summary: 5 Stars

Genology for Dummies is a good first book in getting started tracing your heredity. Worth the money.

Summary of Genealogy Online For Dummies

Researching your genealogy online is like being a kid in a candy store. So many neat things catch your eye that it?s difficult to decide which one to try. That?s where Genealogy Online For Dummies, 5th Edition comes in. This completely practical handbook helps you become a smart, discriminating researcher from the moment you start your investigation.

Unlike other genealogy books, this easy-to-use guide does more than show you how to access and use online resources; it lays out a sensible organized process you can follow to make your research more efficient and achieve your genealogical goal faster. You'll learn how to start your research before you go online, understand traditional methods of genealogy, identify Web sites that will be most helpful to your research, get vital information and statistics from government records, and much, much more Discover how to:

  • Use basic online and offline research techniques
  • Develop a plan for your research
  • Integrate Internet resources to achieve your genealogical goal
  • Create Web sites where family members can make contact
  • Access domestic records for births, deaths, immigration, and more
  • Research ethnic ancestry through international records
  • Verify what you find
  • Protect your research

Complete with a companion CD-ROM packed with valuable genealogy software, Genealogy Online For Dummies puts you in touch with all of the tools, resources, methods, and know-how you need to make your research into your family history a total success.


The Helms have put together an excellent introductory guide to doing genealogical research online. They've avoided the usual trap of organizing their book by resources, which may be easy for the author but makes it harder on the user. So instead of devoting this chapter to useful Web sites, that chapter to valuable newsgroups, and so forth, they've organized the book in a way closer to the way you'd organize good family research.

They begin with a series of chapters on preparation, including doing initial groundwork, developing a plan, picking the names to begin researching, and locating ancestors geographically. Next, they deal with the means for finding valuable records and then delve into getting the most from your resources. Chapter 8, for example, discusses organizing and presenting your findings, while chapter 9 deals with cooperating with other researchers so that you can all be more effective (and probably make some new friends in the bargain).

As is always the case with a Dummies series book, the Helms present a "Part of Tens" section, in this case four chapters each covering 10 top online genealogical sites, tips for designing your genealogical Web page, sites for beginners, and general tips for "smooth sailing." An enclosed CD-ROM contains nine genealogy programs plus a wide assortment of Internet tools and utilities. --Elizabeth Lewis

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