This page offers a link-collection comprising mainly
FREE resources that may - or may not - be helpful for your family research work or also
in solving problems with our work-horses, the computers.
The links provided here are no ads! However, some will
connect to sites where apart from free offers you may also
find for-pay goods or services. Mentioning these links doesn't imply any warranty, recommendation
or endorsement of products, companies, persons or services found there.
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GENEALOGY
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| Roorsweb Review |
RootsWeb's free weekly E-zine with a circulation of more than 1,000,000.
Worth reading if you want to stay up to date and genealogically well-informed. |
| Eastman's Online Genealogy
Newsletter |
The website says "A newsletter for genealogy consumers, packed
with straight talk, hold the sugar coating - whether the vendors like it or not!" There's
a free Standard
version, where you can select to get notified of each new edition and also a fairly cheap
Plus edition with more content. |
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COMPUTER
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| LangaList |
LangaList
Standard is a free e-newsletter. You'll see how to get lots more from your hardware, software,
and time online. Here again you can also subscribe for a Plus edition with added content for
only a modest fee (that's the one I'm subsribing to). |
| Fred Langa's Browser
Tune |
Test up to 300 separate features and functions of your
favorite browser for free with Fred's BrowserTune
2000. Helps pinpoint and solve errors that you may encounter with your webbrowser. |
| Free Email |
POP Email
Services for free (well, most of them are). One of these may come handy one day - several
alternatives with short description of features. |
| Backup4all |
A widely customizable free backup
software - uses compression on your files. Works with any drive letter, mapped network
drives and UNC paths. You can back up to inexpensive CDR/CDRW media, if the appropriate drivers
have already been installed. |
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HISTORY
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| The HISTORY Net |
You may subscribe
for free to the weekly History Net Communiqué at about.com.
The editors call it ".... the history lover's home on the Internet" |
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Early Modern History |
MIS - Monthly
Information Service Subscription: A service of the WWW Virtual Library History. Links to publications,
documents, exhibitions on the web ... (seems they have not updated their archive since mid
2001?) |
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WEBMASTER TOOLS
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| Free Website Submission Service |
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After completion of your genealogy website - how can people find it? @Submit
offers free submission to 6 different search machines and directories. |
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