Chris Paton - Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians - Second Edition

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First published in Great Britain in 2011
Second edition 2013 by
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Copyright Chris Paton 2013

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CONTENTS

GLOSSARY

INTRODUCTION

W hen the first edition of this book was published in early 2011, it attempted to pull together some of the main online genealogical resources that could help those wishing to research their family history within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. By the very nature of the remit, not everything could be covered the worldwide web is, in a classic definition of understatement, just a wee bit big. The book did, however, identify the key online resources the genealogical gateway sites, the mainstream vendors, and many of the simply brilliant amateur sites that have come from a collective volunteer community across our four nations.

A lot can change in the world in two and a half years, and the online genealogical scene is no exception. The rise in online Irish resources, for example, has been dramatic enough to warrant a sister title to this work, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, published in early 2013. Many of the sites recorded in the first edition of this book have changed some by simply moving to a new web host, others beyond recognition whilst a few have simply disappeared. Cyberspace has moved on, and this new edition once again takes the pulse of online genealogy in a new environment.

Many new types of genealogical tools are also emerging. A good example is websites linking maps to genealogical datasets, allowing extraordinary new ways of carrying out research. In London, for example, . As with society, the internet will not stand still.