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Lists sites of archives, libraries, institutions, genealogical and historical societies, and family associations around the world
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About the Author
Thomas Jay Kemp is the author of numerous books, including The 1995 Genealogy Annual, The International Vital Records Handbook, and The Connecticut Researcher's Handbook. He is the head of the Special Collections Department of the University of South Florida Library in Tampa. Prior to his current position, he was the library director of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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One needs a solid work to sort through all the Internet books for local historians, and this is it. Although a popular guide like Elizabeth Crowe's Genealogy Online: Researching Your Roots (McGraw, 1996) does walk net-wise family historians through the genealogical maze, others?notably David Hawgood's Introduction to Using Computers for Genealogy (Federation of Family History Societies, 1994)?are dated. But Kemp's work is exceptional. A well-known librarian who has written several respected books in the field, e.g., The International Vital Records Handbook (LJ 2/1/95), Kemp has produced a succinct guide that allows readers to pinpoint precisely all contact points for any web site. Better yet, he highlights the best in each category. One cavil: Readers looking for Welsh sites under "England, Wales and the Channel Islands" won't find any. Perhaps Kemp was waiting for prepublication information that never arrived. Despite that, this is arguably the current premier guide in the field.?Gail Benjafield, St. Catharines P.L., Ontario, Canada
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