Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The Coryell County Genealogical Society will meet on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m., at the Gatesville Public Library. The public is welcome to attend the meeting.
A program on the pioneer genealogy website created by Cyndi Ingle will be presented by Caroline Windham.
Long before there were subscription genealogical websites, such as Ancestry.com, the genealogical presence on the internet was dominated by free websites. Cyndi’s List was one of the first; and it was a forerunner of all internet search engines.
The unique concept of listing all genealogy research sites at a single, convenient internet site was a popular introduction to using the World Wide Web for genealogical research 25 years ago. Today, the website has links to nearly 320,000 research possibilities, and it is still free.
Genealogists have traveled from courthouse to courthouse in search of their ancestors for centuries. Using internet technology changed genealogical research dramatically.
Now, we let our fingers do the walking and driving, thanks to pioneer websites like Cyndi’s List. We hope many will attend this informative trip into internet history.
