GENEALOGY LISTSERVS:

Listservs are computer mailing lists which enable everyone on the list to receive all messages sent to the list. To join a listserv, you must subscribe with an email message to the subscription address. You will receive many messages each day from the listserv if it is a busy one. Busy listservs forward many messages each day. Slow ones might only give you a few messages a week. It depends on how many folks are subscribed and how often they write and respond to messages.

Genealogists have taken to the listserv like a fish to water. Thousands of listservs have sprung up to connect researchers online. Some are general surname lists and others deal with a specific surname. Some lists deal with folks from a particular birthplace. Here are some of the good ones:

ROOTS-L A good list for beginners, with a wide variety of resourses for all areas of genealogical research.
• SURNAMES-L: A general surname list. Comes in digest form and is easy to scan.

• GENUKI-L: A listserv for researchers interested in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

• PIE: A listserv for those research Italian Ancestors.

Many more lists like those above can be found using Cyndi's List, and searching for a particular nationality, location or surname.

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This website written and designed by:
Sharon Marie Centanne,
Genealogy Research Instructor and Internet Trainer
Please direct any questions to:
Sharon.

This page updated May 3, 2008

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