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How To Fit Into Your Tightest Genes!

Advantages: Good value for money, helpful, good search engine
Disadvantages: A bit confusing at first, need to put some work into it yourself!

NOTE: Genes Connected is now called Genes Reunited. (No doubt, helping itself along by its more famous sister site Friends Reunited.) The new URL is - http://www.genes-reunited.co.uk 2004 saw the launch of the TV series ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ ...

KarenUK 06.01.2005 · Read full review
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Want to sit on my branch ?

Advantages: You may discover a filthy rich relation
Disadvantages: The search engines are very time consuming

When my grandma became ill in January and had to go into a nursing home she became very depressed and felt useless to the family, so I decided to do something to lift her spirits and let her know just how much she really was needed. Although her body was ...

Birky 23.10.2003 · Read full review
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Branching Out Your Family

Advantages: Build tree, contact others, message boards
Disadvantages: None

A Synopsis on Genealogy I’ve been doing family trees for the past eight years. This has been family names on my mum’s and dad’s sides. People tend to think that genealogy is all names, places and dates, but when you get involved in the real research si ...

solarflare 28.12.2004 · Read full review
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Building The Nation's Family Tree

Advantages: Great idea, gradually improving.
Disadvantages: Still relatively new, not at it's best yet.

...Over the past couple of months GenesConnected.co.uk has become one of the websites that I visit most often. It was created by the same people who run the FriendsReunited.co.uk website, and it was from an advert on that site that I first found out about it ...

Izzy_Lizzy 25.06.2003 · Read full review
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Science we can all understand!

Advantages: A wealth of information
Disadvantages: Pay to get to some areas.

I stumbled onto this site, when my physics teacher recommended I read a book (the Last Word) by New Scientist. I was impressed by this and hunted out New Scientist on the web. Easily enough I found it. When you get to the hompage there are basically fr ...

the_aussie_george 08.10.2004 · Read full review
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