It can be very valuable to share your problems and successes in your
research with other genealogists.
Several Usenet newsgroups for genealogy exist. For more information on
a group, follow its charter or FAQ link.
For information about posting to genealogy newsgroups,
see Basic
newsgroup and mailing list "Netiquette"
- soc.genealogy.misc
- General genealogical discussions.
FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.computing
- Genealogical
computing & net resources. Charter.
- soc.genealogy.marketplace
-
For advertising goods and services of unique interest to genealogists.
FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.methods
- Genealogical
methods and resources. (Moderated) Charter.
- soc.genealogy.surnames.britain
- Surname queries for Great Britain, Channel Islands, Isle of Man (Moderated)
- soc.genealogy.surnames.canada
- Surname queries for Canada (Moderated)
- soc.genealogy.surnames.german
- Surname queries for German-speaking areas of Europe (Moderated)
- soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland
- Surname queries for Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (Moderated)
- soc.genealogy.surnames.usa
- Surname queries for United States of America and territories (Moderated)
- soc.genealogy.surnames.misc
- Surname queries for Other countries (Moderated)
- soc.genealogy.surnames.global
- Everything that appears in any soc.genealogy.surnames.* group.
FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.african
- Genealogy of Africa and the African Diaspora. FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.australia+nz
- Australia, New Zealand and their territories.
FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.benelux
- The Benelux countries of Belgium, Holland and Luxemborg.
- soc.genealogy.french
- Francophone
genealogy. FAQ.
- fr.rec.genealogie
- Francophone
genealogy in French. FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.german
- Family
history including a German background. FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.hispanic
- Genealogy of Hispanic People.
- soc.genealogy.italian
- Italian Genealogy and Family Heraldry.
- soc.genealogy.jewish
- Jewish
genealogy. (Moderated) FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.medieval
- Genealogical research AD 500 to 1600.
FAQ.
- soc.genealogy.nordic
- Nordic genealogy group.
- soc.genealogy.slavic
- Genealogy of Slavic Peoples
- soc.genealogy.west-indies
- Danish Genealogy
- dk.historie.genealogi (in Danish)
GenForum hosts many surname based
discussion groups.
Some of the above newsgroups and many mailing lists are
listed on the
Mailing Lists
section of the
Genealogy Resources
on the Internet guide or the
Genealogy Newsgroups & Listservers
page.
The Genealogy Newsgroups Finder Page lists all known genealogy
newsgroups, gives links to access them through Deja News and
has links to the archives of many genealogy mailing lists.
In addtion to the above, there are a number of BBS systems, not
directly connected to internet, that carry genealogy discussion groups and
files. Most of
genealogy
related BBS systems are connected with FIDOnet.
To discuss Genealogy in real time over the internet, see the
Home Page for #GENEALOGY
on IRC.
The The SURNAME-ORIGINS-L Mailing List is for discussion of where surnames
come from
Genealogy Friends has chat forums for
for Canada and U.S. genealogy.
The UK-Northwest Mailing List is for discussion of the genealogy of Cumberland,
Lancashire, and Westmorland counties
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