How does one use the Internet for genealogical research?
The Internet has had a major impact on genealogy. Every day more and more genealogical information is being posted on web pages making it easily available to all and reducing the need to travel long distances to find information. Browsers and search engines can instantaneously find information, search documents and make copies by the click of a mouse. This saves hours of boring line by line searches of documents and having to copy by hand what is found. By far the greatest impact the Internet has had is in bringing researchers together. Researchers can share their information, ideas and problems easily and then proceed to quickly and efficiently work together to advance the genealogy of the family and very often solve genealogical problems that have plagued researchers for years. We use the Internet primarily for finding distant cousins that are researching the same family lines that we are searching. We do this by • By posting our genealogies on our web pages and having those pages in
