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The popularity of looking for ancesters among dusty documents and dark archives may seem strange to anyone who hasn't caught the excitement of finding a missing piece of family history after digging for days, months or years. The draw may be to discover your roots to create a secure place in this modern whirlwind society or to find out about the royalty or infamous men and women in your family's background.

No matter what gets you started on the quest to trace your genealogy, one you begin it captures you. Like the draw of a well written novel that you can't put down until you've read the last page, once you begin researching your family history it can be difficult to stop the search. The fun of finding out that people you know are actually related to you; the discovery of a secret romance in your great-grandparent's lives; the twisting branches that lead to unexpected frustrations and revelations all are part of the excitement of digging into your family's past history.

Use these resources to begin researching your family history. Find missing relatives, explore your roots and reconstruct your family tree with some of the most user-friendly and best organized genealogy sites online.

The Genealogy Home Pages - A comprehensive directory to frequently updated North American and global resources including mailing lists and newsgroups, libraries, guides, and lots more.

Cindi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - A one-woman tour de force with over 190,000 searchable, cross-referenced and categorized links to everything you ever wanted to know about e-searching your roots.

JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy - A top site for researchers of Jewish heritage offering discussion groups, success stories, and a variety of databases to help mine thousands of files on family names and towns.

GENUKI - Search family history in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, plus news of genealogical events, advice on researching from abroad, links to world genealogy, newsgroups, bulletin boards, FAQ, newsletter..

Australia Genealogy Today - With more than 42,000 listings searchable by topic, location and surname, plus feature articles and and extensive list of related resources.

Canadian Genealogy & History Links - Well over a thousand links to national and provincial resources, census and burial records, related organizations and societies and more.

Italian Genealogy Homepage - Everything a family history site should be with deep background to Italian history, databases to names and towns, active forums, chat, image galleries and lots more.

AfriGeneas - Nicely organized so you can dig right into searchable databases of surnames or what's being discussed in the mail list, plus feature articles and news briefs, and a weekly chat.

German Genealogy - genealogy.net - Everything you need at your fingertips with several searchable databases, links to personal homepages, organizations, mailing lists, emigration info, a FAQ, messageboards and more. In English and German.

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