Be Sure to Visit my new 1900 Galveston Storm Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootseb.com/~barnette 

mic@barnettesbooks.com

http://barnettesbooks.com

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BOOKS ABOUT THE INTERNET

Bonner, Laurie and Steve SEARCHING FOR YOUR CYBER-ROOTS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Genealogy on the World Wide Web $16.95

Cosgriff, John and Carolyn, TURBO GENEALOGY: An Introduction to Family History Research In The Information Age $14.95

Howells, Cyndi NETTING YOUR ANCESTORS $19.99

Kemp, Thomas Jay VIRTUAL ROOTS: A Guide To Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web $24.95

Renick, Barbara and Wilson, Richard S. THE INTERNET FOR GENEALOGISTS: A Beginner's Guide $19.95

Howells, Cyndi CYNDI'S LIST $49.95

Schaefer, Christina INSTANT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: US $9.95

Schaefer, Christina INSTANT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: British Isles US $9.95

NETIQUETTE

Read FAQs

Lurk and Listen

Don't SHOUT!

Keep it short

Do not send attachments to groups

Send personal messages to people, not groups

Avoid "me too" notes

Use humor :) :(

Sign Correspondence

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PARTS OF A URL: (Universal/Uniform Resource Locator)

http://cyndislist.com

Beginning http:// gopher:// ftp:// telnet://

Domain Name (DNS) cyndislist

Extension .com, .gov .edu

E-MAIL ADDRESSES:

barnette@neosoft.com

barnette (recipient, usually login name)

@ neosoft(receiving computer)

.com (extension) Could also be edu., .gov, .net, .org

Other extensions could be country locations such as

.au (Austrailia), .ca (Canada), .fr (France),

.uk (United Kingdom), .ie (Ireland),

COMMON SEARCH ENGINES

Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com

Lycos http://www.lycos.com

HotBot http://www.hotbot.com

Excite http://www.excite.com

Webcrawler http://www.webcrawler.com

Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com

Dog Pile http://www.dogpile.com

Copernic http://www.copernic.com

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FINDING AIDS-     (Houston)

Houston Public Library- http://www.hpl.tx.us/hpl/index.html

Houston Public Library-Dial Cat (card catalogue) http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/hpl/index.html

Clayton Library, Center For Genealogical Research Home Page: http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/hpl/branches/cla_hom e.html

http://hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton/

Clayton Library Friends (meetings, newsletter, helpful articles) http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton/clf.html

Clayton Library Finding Aids http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton/fa001.html

Harris County US GENWEB Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~txharri2/

COMMERCIAL WEBSITES WITH GENEALOGY GROUPS

AOL

ANCESTRY

COMPUSERVE

PRODIGY

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COMMERCIAL SITES WITH DATABASES

Ancestry http://www.ancestry.com

Everton http://www.everton.com

Broderbund http://www.familytreemaker.com

GenealogyDatabase.com

http://GenealogyDatabase.com

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NON COMMERCIAL WEBSITES AND DATABASES

Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites http://www.CyndisList.com

LDS http://www.familysearch.org

Rootsweb Main Page http://www.rootsweb.com

Rootsweb Mail Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist

MyFamily.com

http://www.MyFamily.com

GENEALOGICAL NEWS (Local, State, National)

Mic Barnette's Column in Houston Chronicle http://barnettesbooks.com

Dick Eastman's Newsletter, Myra Vanderpool Gormley's and Julie Case's Newsletter, Dear Myrtle

all on Ancestry's Home Page http://www.ancestry.com

Dick Eastman's Newsletter Subscription Send E-mail to subscribe@rootscomputing.com (in message, write: subscribe)

Myra Gormley and Julie Case's Newsletter subscription Send E-mail to Julie_Case@prodigy.com (in message, write: subscribe)

Family History Show (No longer available-Show disbanded) http://familyhistory@flash.net

National Genealogical Society http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/

Federation of Genealogical Societies http://www.fgs.org/

E-Zine of Family Tree Newspaper http://www.teleport.com/~binder/familytree.sh tml

Journal of Online Genealogy http://www.onlinegenealogy.com/

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GENWEB PROJECT

World Genweb Project http://www.worldgenweb.org/

US Genweb Project http://www.usgenweb.org/

Click on Texas http://www.usgenweb.org/ga For any state, add state abbreviation http://www.usgenweb.org/(xx=state abrev)

Harris County Texas Genweb Project~http://www.rootsweb.com/~txharri2/

Click on Harris Co For any county Go to State, click on County

ROOTSWEB PROJECT

Rootsweb Main Pagehttp://www.rootsweb.com/

Rootsweb Mail Listshttp://www.rootsweb.com/ Click on Mail Lists

Rootsweb Surname List http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist

PEOPLE FINDERS:      (Live People- Businesses-Email)

Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com/

Bigfoot http://www.bigfoot.com/

555-1212 http://www.555-1212.com/

WhoWhere http://www.whowhere.com/

Texas Births-General Index http://usersdb.rootsweb.com/tx/birth/general/s earch.cgi   

Texas Births-Summary Index  http://usersdb.rootsweb.com/tx/birth/summar y/search.cgi

Texas Marriages http://usersdb.rootsweb.com/tx/marriage/sear ch.cgi

Texas Divorces http://usersdb.rootsweb.com/tx/divorce/search .cgi

Rootsweb Vital Statistics Databases

http://searches.rootsweb.com/

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 PEOPLE FINDERS:    (Dead People)

Social Security Death Index on Rootsweb Webpage http://www.rootsweb.com

Texas Confederate Pension Records Index http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/pensions/index.h tml

Texas Deaths                 http://userdb/tx/death/search.cgi

Lacy's Online Obituaries http://www.gengateway.com/

The Political Graveyard-Tells where dead politicians are buried http://www.potifos.com/tpg/

National Cemeterieshttp://www.cem.va.gov

Arlington National Cemetery http://www.mdw.army.mil/cemetery. htm

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SURNAME /PLACE and WEBSITE FINDERS

Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites http://www.CyndisList.com

Internet Family Finderhttp://www.familytreemaker.com Click on Internet Family Finder

Family Finder Index http://www.familytreemaker.com Click on Family Finder

PERSI (Periodical Source Index) by subscription http://www.ancestry.com

NUCMUC http://lcweb.loc.gov/catalog/

Geographic Name Serverhttp://www.mit.edu:8001/geo

Library of Virgina http://leo.vsla.edu/lva/lva.html

Library of Va Database http://image.vtls.com:80/bible/virtua- basic.html

Bureau of Land Management http://www.glorecords.blm.gov

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MAJOR PROJECTS

United States Internet Genealogical Society http://www.usigs.org/

International Internet Genealogical Society http://www.iigs.org/

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Miscellaneous Websites:

Texas Research Helps-Texas Genweb Page

http://rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/helps.htm

Lone Star Junction

http://www.lsjunction.com

Afrigeneas Webpage http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/history/afrig en/index.html

Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/online.html

National Archives http://www.nara.gov

National Archives Gen Page http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html

National Archives Data Base http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail/nailgen.html

Texas State Library http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/

RAND Genealogy Club http://www.rand.org/personal/Genea/

Hollywood Cem-Richmond,Va http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/richci ty.htm

Family History Library http://www.familysearch.org

Surplus Direct http://www.surplusdirect.com

Gen Links for Historians http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-preservation/ge nea.html