Sunday, April 26, 2009  It's almost not fair  Doing genealogy
research today is so much easier than in years past if you use
the resources available online. The software I use, Family Tree
Maker allows me to highlight a person and search online for any
record about them at with one click. Anything I find is then
added to their record in the database.  In the past you would
have to search microfilm records for hours to locate one census
record on the family you were looking for and then have to
transcribe it.  I just started using a new software program
called GenSmarts that is supposed to take my entire database of
60,000 people and locate records on them from any online source.
I haven't used it enough to figure out how well it works but the
concept is amazing.  There are so many other records online that
for most people looking for family history there is no reason to
go to a court house or library anymore. Social security death
records are published each month and put online for free.
Cemetery records are