RootsChat is a free to register, high volume, message board site, organised into the counties of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with other specialist boards on the armed forces, occupations, emigration and immigration, travellers, one-name studies, and photograph restoration – the range is extensive.
While much of the business on RootsChat is focused on look-ups and information exchange, there is lively and informed discussion and debate about research issues and resources in general. And although the focus is on the British Isles, there are members from all around the world.
The site has a surname interests database and offers free webspace for family history sites. It also hosts a site featuring Victorian and Edwardian photos of unknown people, a site devoted to traveling people, and a site where you can donate transcriptions of the 1901 census.
There is a private message system and also an active chat room.
RootsChat was started at the end of December 2003, and since then has registered over 43,000 members who have made over a million postings in total on over 19,000 topics.
What do you think about RootsChat – is it worth using, have you had success stories, are there any catches etc? Please leave a comment.
While much of the business on RootsChat is focused on look-ups and information exchange, there is lively and informed discussion and debate about research issues and resources in general. And although the focus is on the British Isles, there are members from all around the world.
The site has a surname interests database and offers free webspace for family history sites. It also hosts a site featuring Victorian and Edwardian photos of unknown people, a site devoted to traveling people, and a site where you can donate transcriptions of the 1901 census.
There is a private message system and also an active chat room.
RootsChat was started at the end of December 2003, and since then has registered over 43,000 members who have made over a million postings in total on over 19,000 topics.
What do you think about RootsChat – is it worth using, have you had success stories, are there any catches etc? Please leave a comment.
1 comments:
What can I say! It's free to use and populated by enthusiastic, helpful obsessed genealogists just like me!
What do they do in their spare time, discuss all manner of issues about family history and genealogy and the best bit is if you have a query, an ancestor you just haven't been able to find, someone out there will have the resource available to track them down and it's amazing sometimes how quickly the response comes back.
Plus you can even get a free webspace to post all your information on with a family tree for others to find you.
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