Best Websites: Celebrating 101 Best Websites – An Interview with David Fryxell

In this episode of Best Websites, Lisa Louise Cooke chats with David Fryxell about some of the highlights from Family Tree Magazine‘s 2024 list of 101 Best Websites.

101 Best Websites

There’s an ever growing number of websites out there that can help you in your family history research, but which ones are the best and worth your time? David Fryxell joins Lisa Louise Cooke to answer that question. He’s the author of the 101 Best Websites list for Family Tree Magazine.

Websites mentioned:
Ancestry.com   https://www.ancestry.com/
Familysearch.org  https://www.familysearch.org/
NY City Historical Vital Records Project   https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/ 
Library of Congress Chronicling America   https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Newspaper Navigator   https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search
Genes Reunited  https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/
Virtual Record Treasurey of Ireland  https://virtualtreasury.ie/
Riksarkivet  https://sok.riksarkivet.se/digitala-forskarsalen 
Arcanum Newspapers  https://www.arcanum.com/en/adt/
Arcanum Maps  https://maps.arcanum.com/en/

Read Where We’re Going by David Fryxell in the July  / August 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine.

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