About Genealogy
genealogy.about.com
This great portal site, part of the About.com network of "guided" Web directories, offers a wide range of family history topics with a how-to focus. Each major category contains links to articles or databases. Besides a host of "genealogy 101" lessons, you'll find links to genealogy clip art, heritage scrapbooking and preservation techniques.

Cyndi's List
www.cyndislist.com
The Net's best-known genealogy portal is a virtual card catalog to the top family history-related Web pages. Cyndi Howells' site boasts more than 126,750 links in 150 categories; it's been visited by 27 million-plus genealogists.

The Genealogy Home Page
genhomepage.com
The Genealogy Home Page may be short on Web design, but it's long on great links. In addition to the standard portal categories, you'll find daily updates on new genealogy pages. The list of Religious Genealogy Resources is particularly good. Don't miss the link to the Genealogy Anonymous FTP Site, where you'll find free software and a treasure trove of miscellaneous goodies.

GenealogyLinks
www.genealogylinks.net
True to its name, this site is the place for 10,000 geographically arranged genealogy links, primarily to ships' passenger lists, church records and cemetery transcriptions. It also provides some links to military and census data, including Civil War rosters and the Revolutionary War Index to Loyalist Muster Rolls.

Genealogy Pages
www.genealogypages.com
Although Genealogy Pages has only 14 categories, they'll lead you to useful resources. You'll easily find your way through this well-designed, easy-to-navigate portal. Check the Top 5% page to see Genealogy Pages' most popular listings.

Genealogy Resources on the Internet
www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html
Here you'll find links to mailing lists, Usenet newsgroups, gopher sites, telnet sites, e-mail sites and World Wide Web sites. The e-mail category provides great links to family newsletters and organizations. Among its Web resources are state, federal and international genealogy sites, as well as surname and special-interest sites.