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You are right there are a lot of people doing geneological research on
the interenet and their are some excellent sites. However, I do not see
how students using computers at school can do this. The time involved
is great and it is a labor of love not a school assignment. Unless your
school site has the luxury of having computers for every student and a
site where the computers are available for many hours beyond the class
day, I do not recommend such an assignment. In fact, I think that we
need to be very careful about the type and nature of assignments that we
recommend using the internet. We have to be very careful about the
amount of time we are willing to allocate for internet research and the
amount of time we are willing to demand from students to do this
research
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I've done a lot of genealogy on line. On my web page I list 8 good
sources for genealogical information on line:
My home page is: home.att.net/~bgottlock
There are plenty of other places to go as well.
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here is one:
Immigrant Wall of Honor
http://www.wallofhonor.com/
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I have been doing genealogy like crazy on the Net for about 9
months and I'd have to say, it's not easy! First of all the initial
preparation and understanding of what you are looking for is tough and
THEN, no 'real' info is available that's free. There are great web
sites for almost every state posted by something called US PEN WEB (I
think) that are run by volunteers and these will 'lead' people to
physical locations to contact - like where all the churches or
cemetaries are in a particualar place, and they list other people
posting queries, but i've recieved only 4 or 5 responses to my queries
in all this time and they were not what I needed. Maybe there's
someth8ing for kids I don't know about but I think it's WAY too
involved.
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Feel free to look at the list I have begun of genealogy web sites on my
web page at http://204.98.1.1/high/awest/lmc/ and scroll down to the
Curricular Links and click on Ethnic Studies (Is that obscure? I wasn't
sure where to put it.) My mother and my husband are avid family tree
researchers, and so far consensus is clearly that the LDS church has the
most comprehensive information. You can buy CDs of their info, but I
don't know the cost; likely prohibitive for the purposes of one
assignment. You'll notice when you start looking around that many sites
are put up by individuals who are just publishing their own family
research. My guess is that students' results will be very spotty.
Unless you happen to be related to someone who has put their family
history online, it may be a frustrating proposition. Just a warning, in
no way intended to discourage the project. You may well do a better job
than I did at finding sites to point them to. Good luck.
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Genealogy is huge on the web. Use any of your favorite search engines
and type in genealogy. You'll be amazed. Also have the students type
in their last names. There is bound to be somebody out there with the
same last name that has a home page. You might even discover that you
are related somehow, by reading down through their family tree stuff.
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To really do genealogy....the students need to start with themselves,
fill in their parents info, grandparents, and great grandparents. There
are ready made four generation sheets with blanks to be filled in. There
aren't many places that have "current" info on the web (privacy, etc).
There is a USGenWeb site that offers help throughout the US. Ancestry.com
has the Social Security Death Index.
Yes, there are sites where folks have placed their genealogy. BUT you
need to start with yourself and work back one genberation at a
time........
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Try these sites for starters:
<A HREF="http://www.kbyu.byu.edu/ancestors.html">Ancestors</A>
<A HREF="http://www.lib.byu.edu/resource/catalogs/catalogs.html">Brigham
Young University Library Catalogs</A>
<A HREF="http://www.cogensoc.org/cgs/cgs-cool.htm">Cool Sites for
Genealogists</A>
<A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/index.html">Family Tree Maker
Online</A>
<A HREF="http://icg.harvard.edu/census/">Historical Demographic,
Economic and Social Data of the US</A>
<A
HREF="http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/immigrant/immpass.html">Imm
igrant
and Passenger Arrivals</A> - National Archives
<A HREF="http://www.umn.edu/ihrc/">Immigration History Research
Center</A>
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The International Internet Genealogical Society has a website at the
following URL. The URL points to their IRC page but you can access
their home page from there. Cyndi's lists are fabulous but can be
overpowering if you don't know what you looking for or how to look.
The IIGS 'University' has genealogical lessons.
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It more than worthwhile to use genealogy in school, it is a must. With
all the single parents in our society today, genealogy gives the student
a sense of place and belonging. The best site on the Web is Cyndi
Howell's genealogy page. The address is
http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/index.htm
It's an award-winning site with links to all sorts of genealogical
information. The only tip I have is to have the interested teacher come
in and explore the net before he brings in his students. The site is so
interesting, it is easy to get side-tracked.
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I do genealogical research on the Web all the time. Although you can use
a search engine to locate information on a sepecific name, i.e.
Bettencourt + (family or genealogy), you might have them start from one
of the more standard geneaological sites.
Ancestry Search http://www.ancestry.com/ offers some free databases as
well as others for a fee.
Cook Memorial Public Library's Online Genealogy
http://www.cooklib.org/gene.html
The Genealogy Home Page http://www.genhomepage.com/full.html
and Root Diggin' Dept. http://www.janyce.com/gene/rootdig.html
There are others of course, but these are good start.
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Jody Gerlock, Librarian, Upper School phone (609) 924-6700 ext. 241
Princeton Day School fax (609) 924-7278
P.O. Box 75, The Great Road email: Jody_Gerlock@pds.k12.nj.us
Princeton, NJ 08542
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