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Family-Finding Tools

• Family Finder ^TM
  Type a name to quickly search hundreds of thousands of genealogy Web sites for your family information.
• Data on CD-ROM
  Find ancestors while researching at home. We offer 371 different groups of records on CD, with selected titles also online.
• Social Security Death Index
  Names, birth dates, death dates, Social Security numbers, and more about over 55 million people.
  
• World Family Tree Diamond Collection
  Family trees contributed by genealogists like you! Subscribe to the World Family Tree for fast and easy tree downloads.
• Genealogy Library
  The Web's richest collection of genealogy databases, including census microfilm images. Genealogy Library grows by 3 new databases every business day!
• Family Tree Maker Software
  The #1-selling genealogy software, and the easiest and most complete resource for building your family tree.
• Helpful Web Sites
  Tens of thousands of links to genealogy Web sites, all neatly categorized to help you find what you need, brought to you by Genealogy.com.
• Civil War Ancestry Projects
  Union data and Confederate data online.
• Reference Library
  Thousands of library, association, and county addresses and phone numbers, step-by-step research instructions, a dictionary, and much more.

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• FREE Home Pages
  With Family Tree Maker 3.4 or later (3.02 for Mac), you can create your own Web page to share family history with relatives near and far. It can include text, up to five reports from your Family Tree Maker file, and with Family Tree Maker 4.0 or later, a box-style InterneTree^TM using innovative Java^TM technology! Family Tree Maker 4.4 or later users can also add Family Tree Maker books to their home pages.
• Virtual Cemetery
  Post a photo to create an online memorial and perhaps help others find family. Also search the archives to find valuable names and dates for your ancestors.
• GenForum Genealogy Message Boards
  Share your genealogy tips and tricks and tap into the collective experience of thousands of other family historians.
• Contact a World Family Tree Contributor
  Get contact information for someone who contributed their tree to the World Family Tree.
• Success Stories
  See how your fellow genealogists are doing!
• Events in the Genealogy Community
  Upcoming conferences from around the country.

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• Online University
  Sharpen your genealogy skills with our fun, self-paced, online classes.
• Genealogy "How-To" Guide
  Thousands of library, association, and county addresses and phone numbers, step-by-step research instructions, a dictionary, and much more.
• How-To Articles from Our Back Issues
  A growing collection of informative genealogy articles written by professionals! Visit often to see what's new. Brought to you by Genealogy.com.
• Biography Writing Assistant
  Over 5,000 Writing Ideas make it easy to record special family memories.

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For Fast Results:

• To search for names on the Internet and in CD-ROMs, use Family Finder.
• To search for keywords, such as "land records," use the Site Search.
• To search for names in the Social Security Death Index use the Social Security Death Index.

When You're in Less of a Hurry:

• Go to our Home Page. This is the best place to start browsing, because it has links to all of the great resources here at FamilyTreeMaker.com.

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