Genealogy on the Internet

The Internet is now an essential resource for anyone looking for genealogical information.  The following are some good starting places for genealogical research. These sites are only a sampling of the many available.

Library and Archives Canada maintains the Canadian Genealogy Centre. This site provides good introductory material on genealogy research for Canadians and a complete listing of resources available: http://www.genealogy.gc.ca

Largest collection of Canadian family records http://www.ancestry.ca

Genealogy Home Page is a great general starting place. Guides to genealogy research are included.
http://www.genhomepage.com/
Genealogy Search Online is another place to start: http://www.genealogy.org/

Rootsweb is billed as the Internet’s oldest and largest genealogy site: http://www.rootsweb.com/
You can find Pictou and Antigonish County information at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~pictou/
The Nova Scotia GenWeb project is also on this site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~canns/

Antigonish County Genealogical Website is at: http://www.antigonishrda.ns.ca/genealogy/
Pictou County Roots Society home page is found at: http://www.parl.ns.ca/roots
Pictou County Genealogy & Heritage Society website is found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nspcghs/

GENUKI is an interesting site for primary historical material provided by the UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service. http://www.genuki.org.uk/
U.K. family records can be found at: http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/

The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid provides a searchable database of Ontario cemeteries. Numerous links to other Canadian sites are included. http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/homepage.html

The Alberta Family History Society has an extensive listing of starting points for all parts of Canada as well as other countries.
http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Cyndi Howells has compiled a list of genealogy sites on the Internet. Cyndi’s list has over 190,000 links categorized and cross-referenced under more than 150 categories! http://www.cyndislist.com/

Information on the wealth of genealogy information available from the Family History Centers of the Mormon Church can be found at: http://www.familysearch.org

Information on Acadian genealogy and Stephen White’s Dictionnaire Genealogique des Families Acadiennes can be found at this University of Moncton site: http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/genea.html

The Scottish Archive Network provides Internet access to the written history of Scotland: http://www.scan.org.uk/
Clan crests and tartans can be found at this site: http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/  
Information about heraldry can be found at: http://www.heraldica.org/

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