Genealogy Online

Part 1 The basics: get your motor running - a look at hardware and connections; head out on the highway - a look at software; looking for adventure in whatever comes our way - life online. Part 2 The Internet: FTP; usenet; mail lists; World Wide Web; chat. Part 3 Specific online resources: ancestry.com; FTM (family tree maker); the National Genealogical Society BBS; Everton Publisher's BBS and Web site; online library card catalogues; the Library of Congress online; the Church of Jesus Christ of Letter-Day Saints. Part 4 Commercial online services: America online's genealogy forum and related forums; CompuServe's roots forum and genealogy support forum; Prodigy's genealogy BBS; appendices - the Genserv project - books about online genealogy, forms of genealogical data, Internet error messages.