{"id":893,"date":"2009-07-24T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-29\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T19:00:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:00:57","slug":"weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong>\u00a0 Write about your favorite genealogy web sites. It seems like a new web site pops up every day. Tell us about the ones you like best.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have a handful of websites that I use regularly and are bookmarked in my Firefox browser\u2019s bookmark toolbar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">Ancestry<\/a> \u2013 Great starting place to find an array of information.\u00a0 From censuses, to passenger lists, to city directories, to BMD records.\u00a0 If I\u2019m just starting a search for a particular person, I typically start here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/\">Family Search<\/a> \u2013 This is usually my second stop, particularly the <a href=\"http:\/\/pilot.familysearch.org\/recordsearch\/start.html\">pilot search<\/a>.\u00a0 I have found several birth and marriage records for Cook County, Illinois (even though the collections are not yet complete) and BMD records for Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=657607&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=657607&amp;m=3\">GenealogyBank<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.genealogybank.com\/b.aspx?id=657607&amp;mm=3\" border=\"0\" \/>\u2013 Oh the number of obituaries I have found here!\u00a0 Love it.\u00a0 I will typically use this site when I have a death date figured out.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not used the historical newspapers too much, as I find searches are a little harder since it is searching an image (using OCR??) as opposed to the other collection, which searches actual text.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/\">Find A Grave<\/a> \u2013 What a wonderful concept!\u00a0 I have used this site to find gravestone photos\/transcriptions for many of my relatives.\u00a0 I am also a contributor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fold3.com\/\">Footnote, now Fold3<\/a> \u2013 I don\u2019t use this one as often (although, I should since I pay for a subscription!!).\u00a0 I have been able to find Revolutionary War information of relatives, but haven\u2019t had much luck in other resources.\u00a0 I also contribute information to this site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newspaperarchive.com\/\">Newspaper Archive<\/a> \u2013 Another one that I have a paid subscription for that I don\u2019t use too often.\u00a0 There is a lot of great information out there, but I haven\u2019t had much luck for my own research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt:\u00a0 Write about your favorite genealogy web sites. 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