Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society Index to the G.R.O.W. column in The Livermore Roots Tracer November 2000 through November 2009

In over nine years of producing the GROW column for the Roots Tracer I examined literally thousands of genealogy web sites. In selecting sites for the column I tried to balance them by geographical location, broadness of coverage and by what I thought would interest L-AGS members and others. Over those nine years I also have worked as a docent at the Pleasanton Library and the Livermore Family History Center. As a docent, I sometimes found myself remembering that I had seen a good site which might have helped my patron if only I could have remembered how to find it. This led me several years ago to go back through the GROW columns and create a list of the sites I had used. I organized these primarily by geographic location within the US states and by foreign countries. Of course, nothing ever fits exactly, so there are a couple of general categories-USA for things like The Library of Congress, UK for a site of England & Wales and a General classification for things like newspaper sites.

I did not include the Internet link for the sites in this index, since these links change quite frequently. Rather I indicated the month and year of the Roots Tracer in which I described the site in a GROW column. I could then go to the appropriate Roots Tracer online, see the comments accompanying the link, copy the link and attempt to retrieve the site. If the link had changed or been removed, I still had some information I could use in attempting to retrieve the site using keywords in a search site like Google.

Frank Geasa
November 14, 2009