New Family History Web sites that were given at the Computerized Genealogy Conference at BYU.

www.zapmeta.com is a new search engine. It has a history of what has changed on the site. It also has the capability of showing what the site looks like before going to it. You must turn on that view, click on results snapshot.

http://www.genealogy-search-help.com/ This free site will help you use Google™ to research your genealogy. It will create different Google searches using tips or "tricks" that will likely improve your search results. The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google to find ancestry information on the Internet. Just complete the small family tree below for an ancestor and the site will set up the best searches for you, based on what you enter.

http://www.ohanasoftware.com/ PAF Insight is a program that will help you search for temple work at FamilySearch.org. It is worth the money, as it saves you time in searching for your ancestors ordinances.

http://myweb.cableone.net/kevinowen3/familysearcher.htm FamilySearcher is a free program, and will help you search the IGI for ordinance work.

http://www.gensmarts.com This program analyses your genealogy file and makes research suggestions. It will save the suggestions as “to do” items.

www.lib.byu.edu/fhc Family History digital library. This collection has been established to provide genealogical researchers throughout the world with access to a rich repository of histories created by families to record and celebrate the lives of their ancestors. The repository is hosted by the libraries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joseph Smith, the founder of this Church said, "The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead." The intent of this digital archive is to help people everywhere identify ancestors and learn from their legacy.

www.lib.byu.edu/online.html This is an Online Collection at the Harold B. Lee Library. Look for the Overland trail connection, there are history of pioneers. There is much more at this site, keep searching.

http://immigrants.byu.edu/english/default.asp This is a very new site and not much has been added yet. It is anticipated that as time moves on there will be a lot to search on this site.

www.cpe.uchicago.edu Extensive Study of Civil War Soldiers (BYU project) – not live yet. You have to register to use the site, however it is free.

http://www.pro.gov.uk/online/docsonline.htm Documents On Line allows you online access to The National Archives’ collection of digitized public records, including both academic and genealogical sources. We are committed to providing online access our records, and DocumentsOnline forms a key part of this strategy. Searching the index is free, and it costs £3 (about $4.50 US) to download a digital image of a document.

http://eindhoven.digitalestamboom.nl/ Welcome to the 'Digitale Stamboom' (Digital Family Tree) of the Regionaal Historisch Centrum Eindhoven, region of The Netherlands. If you are a genealogist looking for ancestors that have lived in the Eindhoven region you can use this index to search a collection of baptismal, marital and funeral registers up to 1811 and the registers of births, deaths and marriages from 1812 of the Eindhoven region.

http://alanmann.com/byu/ This web site lets you access the written text of Alan Mann’s three classes. It also has websites available.

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/ Hugh has done a great work that helps researchers use the IGI more effectively. You can search batch extraction numbers and find all the people that were in a said extraction.

www.zroots.com Barbara Renick's home page. She was one of the speakers and she has her own home page. There is a link for all the genealogy sites she has collected.

Want to take a class at your leisure? Check out www.familysearch.org. Click on the Library tab, then click on Education , then on the left click on University and Home Study courses.

If you have any problems with any of the links or how to use a site please contact Cathie Owens.