Links

Directories

• Yahoo
• Yahoo UK
• Yahoo UK's genealogy page
• Excite
• Excite UK - no longer available
• LookSmart

Search Engines

• Alta Vista
• FAST Search (All the Web)
• Lycos
• Lycos UK
• Northern Light - no longer/li>
• Lycos Hotbot
• Dogpile
• MMUs search tools page
• Web Search Cheat Sheet
• Google
• Infoseek, now GO.com
• Lycos (advanced search)
• TheBigHub.com
• Copernic 99
• All-in-one search page
• The Cybercafé Search Engine
• Yahoo's Search Engine Page
• Search Engine Guide
• Search Engine Watch
• Guide to Meta-Search Engines

Gateways

• Cyndi's List
• - the "no frills" category index
• - the alphabetical index
• - the topical index
• Steve Lacy's Genealogy Gateway
• Genealogy Site Finder
• Genealogy Pages
• Genealogy on Excite Lifestyle
• EARLweb: Imagination & memory - no longer exists (EARL disbanded September 2001)

Other starting points

• SoG's list of "Essential Web Sites"
• Computers in Genealogy
• Relative Links [seems to have gone]
• Port (National Maritime Museum)
• UK Government site

GENUKI

• GENUKI
• List of UK family history societies

On-line databases

• Ancestry
• Debt of Honour Register Home Page Search Form
• FamilySearch
• Scots Origins
• Roots Surname List
• Gendex
• Genserv (Gedcom server)

Discussion Groups

• John Fuller's list of mailing lists
• British Isles genealogy mailing lists
• RootsWeb
• Liszt
• Deja News, now Google Groups
• GenForum

Finding Surname Interests

• UK County Surname Lists
• Roots Surname List
• Gendex
• Irish Names Research Directory
• Databases, Search Sites, Surname Lists
• Messear (surname database)

Finding Living People

• Bigfoot
• Infospace (UK directories)
• Yahoo! People Search
• Yahoo! People Search (UK & Ireland)
• Who can Find
• Telephone Directories
• UK telephone numbers

Further Reading

• Peter Christian, Using Internet Search Engines
• Ian Winship, Web search tool features
• Netskills, Searching for Information on the Internet - no longer available
• Sheila Webber, Business information sources on the internet: Reviews of search engines [no loner exists
• University of Manitoba, Evaluation Of Internet Searching And Search Engines
• Phil Bradley, Search Engines in Ariadne 20
• Nancy Sirapyan, Search Sites
  (PC Magazine on-line, October 4, 1999) [no longer free, requires subscription]
• Steve Lawrence & C. Lee Giles, "Accessibility of information on the Web" in Nature, 8 July 1999, pp. 107-109. Summary & free reprint request (Lawrence & Giles), Summary (Search Engine Watch)