Links from 15 March Show

We had a great show with Myra Gormley on March 15. Her insights into RootsWeb will make us all more successful as we continue to mine that great site for more data on our ancestors. Among other things, she mentioned some instructional guides to help researchers learn more. They are posted at RootsWeb as their "Guide to Tracing Family Trees." With 31 brief guides, you'll be certain to learn new things about your family history search.

We also discussed a couple of other important websites. At NewEnglandAncestors.org, they have a few free websites for St. Patrick's Day. Our news item featured a great collection of passenger lists from England at AncestorsOnBoard.com. Meanwhile our free data site was the new site, Immigrant Servants, with it's growing list of colonial immigrants. Remember, that, and most of our free data sites are all listed on the Genealogy Sleuth page; maybe you'll want to make that your own homepage! Stay tuned for more great sites and research tips.

RootsWeb on 15 March Show

RootsWeb is rightly considered one of the most important and helpful websites for family historians. With all of the FREE data on the site, we all use it regularly, but there is much more to this site than most of us realize! It is a large and deep site with an estimated billion names or more on its thousands of pages. However, it's not easy to get the most out of this wonderful collection. Join our guest Myra Gormley as we explore this complex site, and help you find even more information there about your ancestors. Be sure to be logged onto RootsWeb as we explore it further in our interactive website segment.

Of course, that's not all of the show. Our question of the week deals with a thorny immigration issue, while the weekly news item reveals another subscription site offering FREE data for the next few days, as well as a new site with 30 million passengers. Our free data site of the week reveals an unhearlded site with information on colonial immigrants you'll want to check out.

Myra Gormley on 15 March Show

Few people have done as much to popularize Internet genealogy in recent years than Myra Vanderpool Gormley. She began her career working for newspapers, so when she started doing serious genealogy, she was a natural to start a newspaper column, "Shaking Your Family Tree" in the early 1980s. It was successfully syndicated into many major newspapers around the country. She was also an early Internet pioneer, starting in 1990 as a genealogy content provider for Prodigy, an early ISP. The growth of the Internet, and the popularity of RootsWeb led to the creation of RootsWeb Review in 1998, with Julia Case, one of the first and largest e-zines for genealogy.

Myra knows what's happening out there in genealogy, and she knows the kind of questions and problems family historians face. You can learn more about her in an article from Genealogical Computing. Come listen to Myra as we explore the world of RootsWeb, and the future of online genealogy!