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Claiming to be one of the most advanced genealogical research sites in the world, this is the online presence of the Family History Research Center in Utah (but don't mistake this for the IGI/Mormon index). It does not appear to be always possible to download pages and then work offline, so you may prefer to print out some of the basic information offered in the left-hand column before getting too involved. Current subscription rates are $5 for ten days, rising to $100 per year, with a one-off offer of a free month if you submit a GEDCOM file of your own family history containing at least 15 families and 60 individuals. Click on Free Hour or Month, however, and you can have a trial run for an hour before registering. Incidentally, this big, stylish site may prove slightly too wide for your screen; by scrolling right or left at the bottom of the page, however, you can probably adjust it to the point where you can see everything you need to see.


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Free Services offers a Demo Room, which may be a useful way of exploring the possibilities of the site, while FAQs will be found under About This Site. Yet again, the information available is dependent on what individuals have submitted. So, the 1871 Cornwall, UK, Census, for instance, happens to be available because someone has put it there, but there is apparently little other UK information.


How to Contact Us is valuable not so much for the contact details as for what follows further down the page: a brilliantly clear article headed What is a GEDCOM File? This has to be about the simplest description of what GEDCOM means and how you use it anywhere on the Net. It alone would make the site worth visiting.


Site Map is not in any sense a map but a list of services which, at the bottom of the page, offers Other Web Sites.