Directory to 2,935,350 Genealogical Resources

It's been more than a year since I've posted about Linkpendium,
and during that time we've been locating and adding an average of
roughly 150,000 sources of genealogical information every month.

Linkpendium now has links to 2,935,350 sources of genealogical
information. It is numerically by far the largest directory of
genealogical resources on the Internet. In fact, Linkpendium is
one of the largest human-edited directories of *any* kind on the Web.

The links are categorized either by:
o Surnames WORLD-WIDE (2,497,496 links).
o American localities, generally county-level (437,854 links).
We do not yet provide world-wide locality coverage, though we plan
to phase in world-wide locality coverage as resources allow.

Robert G. Eldridge...

When the path to the "WORLD-WIDE" resources is:

the expectation of non USA content is not very high.

singhals...

I suppose it kinda depends on your interpretation of a World-Wide
Resource. If the resources are in Australia, Japan, and Brazil,
even if they're talking about US families, it qualifies.

Cheryl

singhals

Dr. Brian Leverich...

The fact that "USA" appears in the surname URLs is irrelevant --
it's a historical artifact that dates back to when Linkpendium
was a much, much, much smaller directory.

We've been planning to change the surname URLs, but it's going
to make a mess out of our search engine listings. ):

Truth be known, the surnames are not (yet) fully world-wide.
They are heavily biased toward family names originating in
Europe. - B

The URL is:

Webmasters are welcome to link to either our homepage or deeply into
the pages that might be relevant to visitors to your sites. Web-
masters of locality sites, like USGW and ALHN county coordinators,
and Webmasters of one-name-study sites are welcome to "steal our
links" for use on their own sites. All we ask is that you include a
link to us somewhere on your site. See our "Acceptable Use Policy"
for details.

We are actively searching the Internet for genealogy sites which
should be added to the directory. If you are a Webmaster, List
Administrator, or Board Administrator for a genealogical resource,
or if you are a researcher who knows a particularly useful Internet
data source, *PLEASE* check the appropriate Linkpendium category and
use the Add-A-Link tool if we haven't included your resource yet.

We don't want to miss your resource!

And everyone, if you like what we're doing, please tell other folks
about us on the lists and message boards.

Thanks all, and enjoy! -B