This page includes links to other pages that we've enjoyed or found useful. It's not meant to be exhaustive, just a selection of a few places we really liked. We hope they'll help you. (If you want exhaustive, go to Cyndi's List below.)
DO A GOOD DEED--FOR FREE
You can do a kindness for nothing except a few minutes of your time. You click; the page's sponsors pay. The sites are linked to each other, so you only need to bookmark one of them.
You can make a basic donation once a day by clicking on the main "Donation" button. Pick one, two or more. Or rotate them and help different causes on different days.
The Hunger Site. Donate food to Mercy Corps (international aid) and America's Second Harvest (US aid).
The Rainforest Site. Help preserve the world's rapidly shrinking rainforest by bringing a few square feet of it under protection.
The Breast Cancer Site. You can help fund mammograms for women in the US who can't afford them.
The Child Health Site. Save children's lives and improve their health in a number of ways (described on the site).
The Animal Rescue Site. Help provide food for abandoned or abused animals.
DON'T BE A SUCKER
Inboxer Rebellion. Is that child REALLY missing? Is The Gap REALLY giving away money? Check it out here before you forward the good or bad news on. (We found this out the hard way.)
CHECK ON THAT VIRUS
Symantec AntiVirus Research Center.
Virus Bulletin.
CANADIAN GENEALOGY
Ontario GenWeb. Includes pages of genealogical, historical and general information about every county and district in Ontario. And you can get from there to Canada GenWeb and beyond to the rest of the world.
Programme de recherche en démographie historique. Everything there is to know about pre-1800 Québec genealogy. You have to pay to do anything beyond the most superficial, but it's worth every penny. This is the English version, from which you can just click to the French one if you prefer it.
The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial.
British Columbia Archives.
Canadian Genealogy and History Links.
National Archives of Canada.
US GENEALOGY
US Newspaper Links.
Social Security Death Index Interactive Search.
The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site.
OTHER SPECIFIC GENEALOGY
GENUKI--UK & Ireland Genealogy.
JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy.
GENERAL GENEALOGY
Cyndi's List. The greatest place on the web to get started on researching your family.
RootsWeb. The other greatest place on the web to get started on researching your family.
FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service. This is the genealogy site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
Obituary Central.
Obituary Daily Times.
Ancestry.com. Lots of information, but not all of it is free, unfortunately.
Reunion Home Page. The people who make our great genealogy program. And they're not paying us to say that.
On the Trail of Our Ancestors.
AOL Members' Genealogy Related Pages.
JUST FOR FUN (OR IS IT?)
Canadian World Domination.
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