Sometimes, especially when working on your family history, it's handy to``know how to describe your family relationships more exactly. This site``helps you understand lesser known relationship terms such as 'second``cousin' and 'first cousin, once removed.'
Billing itself as "The Oldest & Largest FREE Genealogy Site," RootsWeb includes search engines and databases, family trees (over 70 million names), surname and geographical mailing lists, and message boards. The site also hosts other volunteer projects such as the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild and Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness.
The WorldGenWeb Project is a non-profit, volunteer based organization dedicated to providing genealogical and historical records and resources for world-wide access.
