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Last Week at OneGreatFamilySite Activity
Summary
229,673 new individual merges!
70,256 new individual hints!
78,235 new family merges!
15,832 new family hints!
Activity Per Group
132 average individual merges
38 average individual hints
38 average family merges
4 average family hints
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Computers Make Automated Genealogy
PossibleComputers can make every phase of genealogy simpler,
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can do the kind of research that used to take weeks of sifting
through records - not to mention thousands of dollars in travel
costs. Your computer can help you organize your findings, create a
family tree, and then share your family history with your relatives.
Although automated genealogy research can't replace talking
with knowledgeable relatives, it can streamline the process of doing
library research. Computerized databases make rare family histories
or marriage records available 24 hours a day from the comfort of
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library to archive, looking through catalogs. You can also locate
and communicate with fellow researchers who share your interests.
With an automated computer genealogy program, you can
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family trees for your relatives.
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The USGenWeb Project
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amount of information varies, this is a fine resource for
discovering what other family researchers have found.
EllisIslandRecords.org
allows you to search online for your immigrant ancestors, a vital
resource for anyone whose ancestors came to the US in the great
waves of European immigration from 1855 to 1924.
Cyndi's List of Genealogical
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