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Proudly Serving Free Genealogy Resources for Over 25 Years. The USGenWeb ® Project was established in 1996 by a group of genealogists who shared a desire to create free online resources for genealogical research.
This, our national GenWeb site, contains information on national genealogy records and resources. Our provincial and territorial GenWebs contain information specific to each province and territory. We also offer several special projects that focus on one Canadian genealogy resource or record.
- Looking Back
- Computer
- The Internet
- The Pivotal Years
- Internet Genealogy Takes A Giant Step Forward
- The Birth of The USGenWeb Project
- Free
- To Answer Leland's Question About Rootsweb
- Other Questions I Was Asked at The Conference
- Thank You
For those of us involved in researching our families prior to 1995, we well remember how it used to be. We spent lots of time scheming and planning for trips to far away courthouses or the ultimate place, Salt Lake City. We depended on the U.S. mail to bring us information and hoped-for connections to our family lines. We spent our time (and money)...
For many years the large IBM mainframe dominated the computer industry. With its astronomical high cost, its requirement for "key punch departments" and support staff only the largest businesses and universities could afford a computer. However, that changed in the early 1970s when Wang and DataGeneral came out with smaller, more affordable "mini-m...
In 1969 what would later be called the Internet began when four computers in different locations were hooked together. In the beginning this network of computers was used mostly by the defense department (ARPAnet) and by universities (BITNET) and ran on IBM mainframe computers. (1) It would take several years and the development of many tools befor...
The amount of genealogical information available on the Internet grew slowly until several things came together during 1993-1995. In1993 AOL and Delphi began to connect their proprietary email systems to the internet and to offer a small amount of server space to their subscribers for personal webpages. In 1994 Netscape, the first user-friendly bro...
In 1995 genealogy on the Internet took a giant step forward when two events occurred. In early 1995, Larry Stephens, a family historian with the University of Indiana, was on a genealogy email list for KY. He was impressed with the list and wanted one like it for his state of interest, Indiana. Receiving permission to use the university's email ser...
We family historians have long been used to zeroing in on a county to find information on our ancestors so the whole idea of websites devoted to genealogy for a county was exciting. During late May and early June of 1996, Jeff, Bill and a few other people kicked around the whole idea of state and county sites and out of those conversations the conc...
The USGenWeb was born into a community that, from its very beginnings, believed in freely sharing information: first academic information, then internet information and finally genealogy information. Those first volunteers for the USGenWeb were unwilling to give up the idea of freely sharing with others and those who have come after them have embra...
As I told Leland at the conference - RootsWeb doesn't own the Project nor does the Project own RootsWeb. Admittedly the close relationship between the two entities these past 10 years makes it difficult, sometimes, to distinguish between the two, but they are two completely separate groups. Karen Isaacson and her husband, Dr. Brian Leverich, were e...
Why Hasn't the Project Been Taken Over or Sold?
The Project owns nothing that can be sold or taken over. The USGenWeb Project is an association of volunteers and each volunteer agrees to his or her website being a part of the Project, but the Project doesn't "own" the sites.
How Can You Offer Your Information for Free?
That has been explained above, but to summarize: It is the individual volunteers who spend the necessary hours to make information available on-line and offer it freely because of their love for the hobby of genealogy. All of the volunteers of the Project are first and foremost family historians and they themselves use the Project sites in their own research. The more information available the better it is for all of us. The Project is, on a very large scale, what genealogy is all about, and...
Why Are Sites So Different?
From its very beginning the Project's websites have been maintained by volunteers and each volunteer, while adhering to a few Project standards, has been free to design his or her own site. These differences bother some people but for most visitors the differences are enjoyable.
Thank you for taking this stroll through the past with me. I hope you found it enjoyable and enlightening. The next time you find yourself on a USGenWeb site remember that everything you are looking at is the result of a volunteer's hard work and is being freely shared. If you find something to help you, please take a moment to tell the hard workin...
Ontario GenWeb was established in 1997 as a provincial website within the CanadaGenWeb project. Our project is a 100% volunteer effort meant to provide information about Ontario's genealogy resources in order to help you help yourself. Enjoy your visit!
Province & Territory GenWebs – Canada GenWeb. Provincial & Territorial GenWebs. Acadian GenWeb. Alberta GenWeb. British Columbia GenWeb. Manitoba GenWeb. New Brunswick GenWeb. Newfoundland & Labrador GenWeb.
Searching for Canadian records? This landing page is a guide to Canadian ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, etc.
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NL GenWeb offers free historical & genealogical data for Newfoundland and Labrador. Arranged in regions & subdivided into districts all records are accessible on the district page. Click on your region above or map on the right to find your area of research.
