Family Tree Magazine's top sites: Tracing the Tribe

Family Tree Magazine's 101 Top Genealogy Websites for 2008 will be featured in the September 2008 issue.

The "Best for Jewish researchers" category includes Avotaynu, JewishGen and - fanfare, please - Tracing the Tribe! It is a great honor to be included in such distinguished company.

The three sites are described in the list as follows:

Tracing the Tribe
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Avotaynu
Use the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index to do a Soundex search of information about 699,084 surnames, mostly Jewish, in 42 databases totaling more than 7.3 million records.

JewishGen
Here, search the Family Finder database of 400,000 surnames and towns, ShtetLinks for more than 200 communities, and the 4 million entries in the Family Tree of the Jewish People.

The article is already online here.

Thank you, Family Tree Magazine.

Do check out all the categories for extensive online resources. The list includes Dick Eastman, Steve Morse, Roots Television, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA and many others.