1. Pedigree - a blank, printable Pedigree page. - start here first
2. Family Group Sheet - a blank, printable FGS page. - next step
   1. FGS Continuation Sheet - a blank, printable continuation page.
3. Genealogy software - a place to enter what you know. - FREE software
   1. PAF Settings - a way to customize the default settings
4. No Software - record data without a computer of your own.
   1. Sample text file - what your data could look like
   2. MakeGed - convert your data to a GEDCOM *(MakeGed)
5. GEDCOM - what is it and how to use it. - get genealogy software first
   1. GEDCOM Tags - verb structure for genealogy data exchange
6. GEDVIEW - look at GEDCOM files with this simple program - FREE software
7. Web Site - for your genealogy stuff and backup. - FREE GEDCOM space
   1. GedWeb - make your own genealogy web pages *(GedWeb)
8. Web Pages - hosting your home page web site. - FREE web page space
9. Cousins - what does "1st cousin 3 times removed" mean? - getting serious
   1. Relations - those related, but are not cousins *(Relation)
10. Splitting Large Files - keep family genealogy less than 5,000 persons
11. Reorder - set up your GEDCOM in a logical sequence *(Reorder)
12. Publishing - write a book
    1. WebBook - convert your GEDCOM to a narrative web page book *(WebBook)
    2. GedBook - convert your GEDCOM to a narrative print *(GedBook)

* FREE programs - about the free programs
   -- have been suspended to make them compatible with Windows XP

The following links will come up in a new window:

• http://www.rootsweb.com/ - RootsWeb - home page
• http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ - RootsWeb - request web space
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ - RootsWeb - world connect
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi - RootsWeb - search
• http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmuser.cgi - RootsWeb - login
• http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi - RootsWeb - town/county
• http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi - RootsWeb - SSDI
• http://www.cyndislist.com/ - best resource
• http://www.census.gov/ - US census statistics
• http://www.ancestry.com/search/main.htm - Ancestry surname search
• http://www.genealogy.com/ - more genealogy
• http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=home&htx=loginfront - start your own site
• http://www.my-ged.com/ - upload your GEDCOM
• http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/ - civil war
• http://www.civil-war.net/ - civil war
• http://www.civilwararchive.com/files.htm - civil war
• http://seniors.yahoo.com/seniors/genealogy/index.html - seniors
• http://home.earthlink.net/~thomasareed/pixelpen/ - help on HTML pages.