Ancestry.com site and Message Board - is now a pay to use website. Come to the LARFHC and gain access to the entire huge website of searchable databases FREE!
GenForum Queries
Rootsweb
Top 10 Free Surname / Pedigree Databases
Linkpendium - very big site of surnames
USGenWeb (featuring sites for every county in the U.S.)
WorldGenWeb (featuring sites for every region in the world)
Distant Cousin
The SurnameWeb
Hamrick (shows concentrations of surnames in U.S. per year)

Localities

Linkpendium - very big site of localities - USA

Some of the Better Sites Specializing in Compilations of Genealogy on the Internet

Cyndi's List
Genealogy Pages
Genealogy Home Page
A Barrel of Genealogy Links
Matt Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
Tips on how to search easily.
Census Finder

Assorted Sites

Geni.com is used for building a family tree, creating data for the future and for connecting with your family.
See it at http://www.geni.com/

101 Best (Genealogy) Web Sites on Family Tree Magazine's Web Site at
http://familytreemagazine.com/101sites/2007/ for 2007 and
http://familytreemagazine.com/101sites/2006/ for 2006

Civil War Photographs Online Catalog is explained at http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/07/american_civil_.html#more

WWII Army Enlistments Online Searchable Database of  9+ million names is explained HERE and linked to HERE.

The great Sanborn Maps for only California cities may be accessed from the Los Angeles City Public Library's website at: http://search2.webfeat.org/la.html You need a Los Angeles City Public Library card number to access the maps. Enter your card number, Submit, Click on S-T databases and find and click on the Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 link. Then click Browse Maps, Select State, Select City and Select Date. Search the sheets for the street and address. Suggest you use city directories to find the address. For the best printed copy I suggest you do not choose "Print Current View" but choose "Download Map" and print the Acrobat Reader PDF image or right mouse click on the image and "Save Picture As" to a file and print. If you need the free Acrobat Reader to read PDF files you can download it at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

VA Offers On-Line Nationwide Gravesite Locator
"More than 3 million records showing where veterans have been buried in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemeteries are now available online. The innovation will make it easy for anyone with Internet access to search for the gravesite locations of deceased family members and friends." You can access this resource by using the link "The National Grave Locator" on the left at http://www.cem.va.gov/

The wonderful Heritage Quest website with it's U.S. Census resources may NOW be accessed from the Los Angeles City Public Library's website at: http://search2.webfeat.org/la.html You need a Los Angeles City Public Library card number to access the Heritage Quest website. Enter your card number, Submit, Click on "H" database and find Heritage Quest and finally click on Heritage Quest link.

The BLM (Bureau of Land Management) website with GLO Records is at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

Twenty Ways To Avoid Genealogical Grief

Blogs

Genealogy Blog Finder
Genea-Musings

Computer Related Sites

Computer Internet Security is at http://www.encinojon.com/comintsec/
Learn how to install the security you need in your computer.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

PAF 2.31, 3 and 4 users may wish to upgrade to PAF 4 and/or 5.
PAF 2.31 users should upgrade to PAF 4 and then PAF 5.
See www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf for more details.
You may also download these free PAF 4 and 5 programs
from the Salt Lake Website.
User's Guides for PAF 4 and 5 are in red 3 ring notebooks
are to the right of the entrance to the Microfilm Room.

Latest Genealogy News Sites

http://eogn.typepad.com/
http://www.topix.net/hobbies/genealogy
http://genealogy.about.com/library/blnewscenter.htm

Sites for LARFHC Patrons

Afrigenease - African Ancestored Genealogy
African-American links
Anillo de Genealogía Hispana
California African-American Genealogical Society
African-American Census Schedules Online
African American Society of Northern California
BIFHS-USA compilation of British Isle research websites
Hispanic Genealogy-AOL
Hispanic Genealogy Center
Hispanic Genealogy links
Immigrant Genealogy Society - German Research
Jewish Genealogy Info File Index
Jewish Genealogy links
Native-American links