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*With regard to the web pages section, there seems to be confusion about state-based GenWeb vs. U.S. GenWeb Archives. With many counties, for whatever reason, there will be a regular GenWeb site with its set of online records, and a set of completely separate U.S. GenWeb Archives pages for the same county, with a completely different set of records. | *With regard to the web pages section, there seems to be confusion about state-based GenWeb vs. U.S. GenWeb Archives. With many counties, for whatever reason, there will be a regular GenWeb site with its set of online records, and a set of completely separate U.S. GenWeb Archives pages for the same county, with a completely different set of records. | ||
*Perhaps some suggestions for the "web pages" section could be provided. There are large websites with individual county pages that, apparently, are frequently overlooked or that are perhaps just unknown to most researchers that could be suggested (perhaps they won't apply to all counties). These include GenForum, n2Genealogy, Linkpendium, etc. For the "maps" section, which seems to usually be empty, Libre Maps Project provides highly detailed online topographic maps. | *Perhaps some suggestions for the "web pages" section could be provided. There are large websites with individual county pages that, apparently, are frequently overlooked or that are perhaps just unknown to most researchers that could be suggested (perhaps they won't apply to all counties). These include GenForum, n2Genealogy, Linkpendium, etc. For the "maps" section, which seems to usually be empty, Libre Maps Project provides highly detailed online topographic maps. | ||
*With printed paper-based books, the tendency has been to just supply | *With printed paper-based books, the tendency has been to just supply FS Library references. Unless the book has been microfilmed, this won't help those who are unable to use the SLC library. I have been trying to add WorldCat references, which are far more useful to those who do not live within a short distance of the FamilySearch Library. There seems to be no standard or even custom for listing different ways to access a particular book. I've been attempting to list these methods after the book citation and separated by vertical lines, as: FS Library | WorldCat | Internet Archive (complete text) | Google (limited preview) etc., with of course links provided.<br> | ||
*There really needs to be some sort of category like "Genealogies and Biographies" or "Biographies and Genealogies" or the like. This could house not only books on specific families or individuals, but substantial or significant web pages as well. (I would suggest not adding pages that are simply "trees," especially if automatically generated with little or no documentation.) | *There really needs to be some sort of category like "Genealogies and Biographies" or "Biographies and Genealogies" or the like. This could house not only books on specific families or individuals, but substantial or significant web pages as well. (I would suggest not adding pages that are simply "trees," especially if automatically generated with little or no documentation.) | ||
*I would also suggest perhaps a "Miscellaneous" category to house such items as yearbooks, old picture postcards, misc. groups of portrait photos, and the like. | *I would also suggest perhaps a "Miscellaneous" category to house such items as yearbooks, old picture postcards, misc. groups of portrait photos, and the like. | ||
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