AT LAST!!!! The poll results!!!!!

After many months of gathering and processing the information, I've FINALLY came up with the results.

When asked which were YOUR favorite Genealogical Websites (Free and Paid), here are the responses I recieved (as well as my own.)

I wanted to list them in order of favorites, but this became too difficult and confusing. I WILL make personal notes, some on the ones which were recommended by several different responders.

If anyone can suggest some that are not listed here, please contact me and I will add them in a follow-up post.

I also need to add that I have not tested ALL of these links. If some are dead or broken, please tell me.

Now, in no particular order:

FREE SITES

Tribalpages.com (Note: One of my own personal favorite sites. A unique and fairly new site with many great features. BUT, a subscription fee is charged for higher services and space.)

Google pages (I use to write out details on my ancestry)

One EXTREMELY kind soul even gave me this VERY detailed listing:

GENERAL SEARCH SITES:

FAMILY SEARCH – PILOT
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0

FAMILY SEARCH (*My personal note: This (and the one listed above) is the famous Latter Day Saints site, which, contrary to how it sounds, is a site COMPLETELY independant of their chuch-not that there's anything write with it....)
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

US GENWEB (A popular one)
http://www.usgenweb.org/

ROOTSWEB (This one AND Ancestry.com both rated very high, but now they've joined together...)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

GENCIRCLES http://www.gencircles.com/login/

OUR BRICK WALLS (SW PA & W MD) (Note: I know the woman who runs this, she's very nice and helpful!)http://ourbrickwalls.com/sitemap.html


CEMETERY & GRAVE SITES:

FIND A GRAVE http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
GENEALOGY PITSTOP (TRI-STATE BOARDER COUNTIES in OH, PA & WV)http://www.genealogypitstop.com/cemeteries.htm

CEMETERY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS (ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PA plus A SURROUNDING COUNTIES)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njm1/tombs.htm

MINERAL COUNTY (WV) CEMETERIES
http://www.wvgenweb.org/mineral/cemetaries.html

WASHINGTON COUNTY, OH CEMETERY INDEX
http://www.wchs-ohio.org/cem_index.htm

ARCHIVE & DIGITAL HISTORY SITES:
WV ARCHIVES & HISTORY (BIRTH, MARRIAGE & DEATH)
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx

GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVES
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search

VA LAND GRANTS http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas30&local_base=CLAS30

ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND
http://aomol.net/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html

PA STATE ARCHIVES
http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp

HERITAGE PURSUIT (DIGITAL LIBRARY of OH COUNTY HISTORIES)http://www.heritagepursuit.com/index.html

HISTORIC PITTSBURGH (DIGITAL LIBRARY)http://digital.library.pitt.edu/p/pitttext/

MAKING of AMERICA (DIGITAL LIBRARY)http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/

IOWA HISTORY (DIGITAL COUNTY HISTORY LIBRARY)http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/

MISSOURI DIGITAL HERITAGE
http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/collections.asp

INDIANA STATE ARCHIVES
http://www.in.gov/icpr/2301.htm

IMMIGRATION SITES:

CASTLEGARDEN http://castlegarden.org/

ELLIS ISLANDhttp://www.ellisisland.org/

Paid Sites

Tribalpages.com (Note: One of my own personal favorite sites. A unique and fairly new site with many great features. BUT, a subscription fee is charged for higher services and space.)

Genealogy.com (Another one that ranked high)

Kindred Connections http://www.kindredkonnections.com/

ANCESTRY (*Note- Probably the #1 favorite of most of those polled)

http://www.ancestry.com/

FOOTNOTE http://www.footnote.com/

NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx?gclid=COzN3sj3xJYCFQSPFQodvCRZyg

I hope this is useful to many of you!!!!

I will be adding more later. Many that I belong to and personal faves.