Don't Reinvent the Wheel
Double check all information you're given, but see if others are researching the same family
- Guild Of One Name Studies – http://www.one-name.org/register.shtml
- Genes Reunited – http://www.genesreunited.co.uk (free to search, costs to join & send enquiries)
- (Rootsweb) World Connect – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
- Australasian Genealogy Databases – http://www.anzgdb.com (searching your own records free, submission of data gives subscription credit)
- (Ancestry) One World Tree – http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/trees/owt/
Copyright does matter
- Australian Copyright Council advice – http://copyright.org.au/find-an-answer/browse-by-a-z/
- "Mistake or misdemeanour?" – http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/Article.aspx?id=1557
Internet and the World Wide Web
Use a localised search engine to restrict hits to your country of interest - eg try google.com.au or google.co.uk rather than the more general google.com
Also, try adding into your search "family history" (in quotes) or genealogy (even mis-spelling it 'geneology' finds a few)
- http://www.google.com.au
- http://www.searchwhateveraustralia.com.au/ (Genealogy search Australia)
- http://bing.com
- http://www.alltheweb.com
- http://au.altavista.com
- http://www.anzwers.com.au
- http://www.hotbot.com
- http://www.google.co.nz
- http://www.google.co.uk
- Google Alerts – http://www.google.com.au/alerts?hl=en
- Google Genealogy Searcher – http://www.searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html (useful, but be wary of disguised links to Ancestry.com)