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50 Most Popular Genealogy Websites

Kory Meyerink
Mar 19, 2014
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Introduction
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Creating The List
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Kinds of Sites Included
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Kinds of Sites Excluded
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Differences in Rankings
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Observations
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Under Top 50
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Confusion. Too many "favorites" lists. Too many "Top 100" lists. Too many opinions. Indeed, that's just what the myriad of "top website" lists are: somebody's opinion. Well, it's time to make a better and truly useful list! Based on an extensive study of genealogical web traffic, here are the 50 most visited real genealogy websites. Since these are the most visited sites, they must be doing something right and providing some value to their visitors. Count them down, and learn what you've been missing!

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Kory Meyerink
Kory Meyerink is accredited in four areas (Germany, Midwest, Eastern and New England U.S.), specializing in tracing the origins of German and Dutch immigrants. He developed instructional and reference material for the thousands of Family History C
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