Virtual Roots 2.0: A Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web

By Thomas Jay Kemp

Revised and Updated with Free CD-ROM

Virtual Roots 2.0: A Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web is the revised and updated edition of Scholarly Resources's top-selling guide to genealogical research on the internet. The Web has made the world much smaller, communication more instantaneous, and the searching of data from the world's archives a practical reality. But with more than one million web sites and home pages on the internet, how do users narrow the search to find the sites with the valuable information they are seeking? Virtual Roots 2.0 is a detailed directory of more than one thousand of the best genealogy and local history sites on the web, carefully selected by Thomas Jay Kemp, eminent genealogist and chair of the ALA's Genealogy Committee.

This new volume not only lists websites from around the world but also outlines the important resources and guides found at each site. The accompanying CD-ROM includes hot-links to all of the sites in the book. Now users can simply click on a link and instantly be taken to the site they have chosen.

Each entry in Virtual Roots 2.0 includes an e-mail and postal address, and where available, the telephone and/or fax number for reference staff of each website. This information enables researchers to immediately contact archives, libraries or societies around the globe while still viewing the repository's website on the computer. All of this vital data is brought together in one handy directory, making Virtual Roots 2.0 the most comprehensive and easy-to-use all-in-one-guide to genealogy on the internet.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842029222
• ISBN13: 9780842029223
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.5"

Customer Reviews

Packed from cover to cover with genealogical research

This revised, updated edition to genealogical research on the Internet lists websites from around the world and the resources and guides on each which lend to genealogical research. Entries include email and postal addresses, phone contacts for the web site, and lists of archives and other data sources around the world. From special collections and historical society holdings to public and research libraries, Virtual Roots 2.0: A Guide to Genealogy and Local History On The World Wide Web is packed from cover to cover with genealogical research and reference assistance source materials.

A Guide to Useful Internet Sites for Genealogy

Pluses: This book has a number of unusual sites for Genealogical Research. It jogs the memory to new sources for the elusive piece of information needed to find your ancestor or cousin. The sites then lead to the information that you have sougth for years. It includes both domestic (US) and international sites. The latter are quite useful and otherwise hard to find.Minuses: The book was first printed in 1997 and some of the sites have new URLs. For example Cindi's List has changed. (Experienced surfers can still find this invaluable site.)