Somerset County PAGenWeb -- How to use online resources

How To Use Online Resources

Online research is getting easier every day. The Internet has made it possible for researchers world wide to share their documents, resource and reference information, and other types of recorded material.

Some good place to start your research include:

RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative has an interactive search engine to search their RootsWeb Surname List (over 500,000 surnames). Please read the instructions on how to submit your surnames to this list - it is a great resource tool.
Genealogy.Com has an interactive search engine to search their InternetFamily Finder database (over 325 million surnames) as well as other websites, CD's and databases. Note: this feature is SLOW - so be patient as it searches for a related surname.

Other Helpers

How To Begin Your Research - Some tips by Carol Hepburn
Educational Courses - From the National Genealogical Society.
Beginning Genealogy Courses - (scroll down to "Beginning Genealogy Courses") - - From the LDS Family History Center. Excellently prepared, short, concise instructions.
Using On-Line Genealogical Information - From the National Genealogical Society.
Info and Tips for Beginning Genealogy - A series of worldwide web pages maintained by the people on the ROOTS mailing list.

Email Discussion Groups

If you are new to genealogy or new to Internet genealogy, there are two email discussion groups especially for you: GEN-NEWBIE and NewGen.

For instructions on how to subsribe and participate in these groups, see the RootsWeb Mailing List website.

Join the SOMGEN email discussion group for Somerset Co., PA.

Check out the list of genealogical email discussion groups maintained by John Fuller.

Join the Somerset County PA Genealogy Facebook Group. This is an excelent FB group for sharing Somerset County genealogy. It's a "closed" group, so after you click the [+Join Group] button, you'll need to wait for an admin to accept your request.

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This county is part of the USGenWeb Project, a non-profit genealogical resource web system, and is maintained by April Phillips and Connie Burkett with help and information provided by other volunteers.

Last Revised: January 27, 2016