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Submitted by GFL George@aol.com

This month we are talking about Records and What's Available. When I started this forum about 14 years ago this month, there was very little available to do research with on computers. The easiest tools available then to work with genealogy data were spreadsheets and word processors. Since then we have seen the development of powerful genealogy programs like Family Tree Maker, Reunion, Personal Ancestor File, the Master Genealogist and Legacy to name but a few. We can now talk to people around the country and the world about where to find records and how to use them by visiting our chat rooms and message boards. Major data bases are showing up at a rapid pace in places like Genalogy.com, Ancestry.com, NEHGS.com, and Familysearch.com to name but a few have brought the primary and secondary records to your computer. Other things that have become available are the numerous CD ROMs that are available today.

I suggest to you that this is the golden age of Genealogy and the Golden Gate Genealogy Forum is your beginning and ending point of your daily and weekly research. I ask you to let us help you find where the information is and how to use it. And we you have found something, come back to the chat rooms and share your joy with your friends in the chat rooms and message boards.

George Ferguson
Genealogy Forum Leader

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