General Queries

• Ancestry Message Boards 
  • Localities 
  • Topics 
• C. More Bones' Query Page - From the Skeleton Closet 
• Family Tree Genealogy Message Board 
• Family Workings 
  • Family Workings Genealogy Chat Room 
• Genealogy Web - Post Your Surname Queries 
• GRD - The Genealogical Research Directory 
  The world's largest listing of surname queries published annually in bookform, now on CD-ROM.
• Helm's Genealogy Toolbox - Query Boards 
• IIGS - International Internet Genealogical Society Queries  
• Long Lost Family Bulletin Board 
  Search for lost relatives and missing friends and check to see if someone is looking for you.
• Looking 4 Kin - Message Boards / Queries / Forums 
• Lutherans Online: Message boards, Genealogy 
• National Genealogical Society - Queries 
• Quaker Queries 
  Submit your queries for free to this publication. Search the online index to one of the recent issues.
• SURNAME-QUERY Mailing List 
  For users to send queries on specific surname searches.
• Tree Tops Family History Pages 
  Family Tree Query service, broadcasted on SKY NEWS TV throughout the UK, Ireland & Europe.
  • TREETOPS-NEWS Mailing List 
    A mailing list created to go hand in hand with the Tree Tops Family Tree and We'll Meet Again Query service which is broadcast on SKY NEWS TV throughout the UK, Ireland & Europe and also on CHANNEL 5 (UK) TEXT Pages 488 & 489, thus increasing exposure to the general public. The owner receives messages from all over the globe and the list will provide news to users and those interested in the service.
  • TREETOPS-OVERSEAS Mailing List 
    Free service from Tree Tops aimed at those who are researching in the areas which are not covered by the British Television Teletext (UK, Ireland and Europe). This is a read-only list.
• The Village at GenDir.com: Genealogy Message Board 
  Genealogy message boards.
• YourFamily.com - The Genealogy Message Board 

How To

• 6 Steps to Writing a Successful Genealogy Query 
• Ancestry.com - Writing Effective Electronic Queries 
  By Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS, CGL.
• David's Genealogy Discussion Lists Homepage - Writing a Good Query 
• Genealogical Queries - The Art of the Query 
• Genealogy.com - Internet Genealogy Lesson 2: Creating Effective Queries 
  From an online course by Marthe Arends.
• How to Write a Productive Query 
  Genealogy queries are an effective way to locate others who are researching the same family names that you are and to share information with them. Creating a productive query is a simple process if you keep a few specific requirements in mind.
• Lineages.com - Write Successful Genealogy Queries 
• Michael John Neill's articles in the Ancestry Daily News 
  • After You Post 
  • Before You Post 
• NGS | Hints on How to Write a Good Query 
• St. Clair County Michigan Sample Queries 
  A humorous and instructive guide to how NOT to write a query. Provides excellent advice on how to compose an effective query. Applicable for all queries in any locality.
• Writing Better Queries 

Locality Specific

• Alabama Queries 
• Australian Family Tree Connections - Missing Ancestors 
  Missing Ancestors entries in this month's magazine.
• Bedfordshire Family History Society - Member's Interests 
  A list of surnames being researched by the members.
• Chinese Surname Queries 
• CuriousFox UK Genealogy Message Boards - Villages, Towns, Local History, UK Maps 
  Pinpoints every village and town in the UK and Ireland (over 50,000) with the exact location on modern maps and old maps. This is the village by village contact site for anybody researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland. Every UK county, town and village has a page for family history, local history, surname and genealogy enquiries.
• Dallas County, Texas QueryBase 
  Postings thru present date.
• Everything Newfoundland  ~ Canada
  Newfoundland Forum, post anything about Newfoundland Genealogy, History, Search for family members and old friends...... EVERYTHING Newfoundland.
• Free Queries for Atlantic Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland 
  Rooters searching in Atlantic Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland can post a free query to Missing Links, a weekly genealogy newspaper column written and managed by Sandra Devlin. Queries should be to a maximum of 35 words PLUS forwarding address. Don't forget your snail mail (mandatory), and optional fax or voice mail, e-mail addresses. Send queries to: devlin7@attglobal.net.
• GENEALAND - Query Board - Forum de Discussion 
  Surnames, history, heraldry and genealogy.
• genealogyforum.co.uk 
  A web forum for the discussion of UK genealogy. Subsections include General Discussion, Census, Civil and Parish Registration, Trade and Occupations, Poor Law, Medical and Software.
• Gibson County, Indiana Queries 
• Grey County Queries  ~ Ontario, Canada
• HGSNY'S Query Boards 
  Hispanic Query Boards from the Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York.
• Huguenot Street Forum 
  Discussion forum for Dutch and Huguenot Descendants and those interested in Dutch and Huguenot history. Huguenot Street, a National Historic Landmark, is the site of a collection of colonial and early National period stone houses owned and operated as historic house museums by the Huguenot Historical Society in the Village of New Paltz, New York.
• ItalianGenealogy.com » Forums 
• Jaded's Pennslyvania Dutch Society 
  Dutch recipes, Dutch history, dutch forums, and more.
• Kentuckiana Genealogy - Message Boards  ~ Kentucky & Indiana
• KY Jackson Purchase Surnames 
  Surnames from the eight counties of the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky for the exclusive use of subscribers to the KYJacksonPurchase-L, KYGraves-L, KYCallow-L, KYMarsha-L, KYHickma-L and KYBallar-L mailing lists.
• Lanark County Genealogical Society Members' Queries  ~ Ontario, Canada
• Litchfield County, Connecticut QueryBase 
  Postings thru present date.
• Lonestar Genealogy - Texas Surnames 
• Manx Genealogy Bulletin Board 
• Monroe County NY. Query Forum  
• New Brunswick Queries  ~ Canada
• New Haven County, Connecticut QueryBase 
  - Postings thru present date.
• Pennsylvania Dutch Genealogy...Surname Query Boards 
• Queries on The Coshocton Page - Ohio 
• RootsChat.com - Genealogy, Family History, Local History, Messaging Forum and more 
  Free messaging forum for everyone researching their family history or local history. The emphasis of the site is on the United Kingdom (Britain) and Ireland.
• Scanian Genealogy Homepage Efterlysningar 1997 / Queries 1997 
  Queries from the Swedish province of Scania.
• South African Genealogy Queries and Surnames 
• Stark County Ohio Genealogy - Email Lists, Queries & Message Boards 
• Surnames By Town 
  Surnames, classified by town, appear as e-mail links to the submitter researching them under that town.
• Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Queries Index  ~ Washington
  Queries from 1994 to present.
• Virginia Genealogical Society Queries 
• Washington Co., PA - Queries  ~ Pennsylvania
• WGS Queries - The Wichita Genealogical Society  ~ Wichita, Kansas

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