Encyclopedia of Genealogy

One of newest genealogy websites worth visiting is Encyclopedia of Genealogy.

This website contains a large list of words and phrases that you may see during the course of genealogical research, whether online, in books and magazines, and historical documents. Each entry has a definition. According to the website:

The Encyclopedia of Genealogy serves as a compendium of genealogical tools and techniques. It provides reference information about everything in genealogy except people. Look to the Encyclopedia of Genealogy to provide explanations of how to look up your family tree, explanations of terms found in genealogy research, including obsolete medical and legal terms. It will describe locations where records may be found. It also will describe how to research Italian, German, Polish, French-Canadian, Jewish, Black, Indian and other ancestors. In short, the Encyclopedia of Genealogy will serve as your standard genealogy reference manual.

The most interesting facet of Encyclopedia of Genealogy is that it is entirely user-created. It is based on the "wiki" architecture, which allow users to create and edit its content. If you're familiar with Wikipedia, then you're already familiar with Encyclopedia of Genealogy.

The website is operated by Dick Eastman, the author of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, one of the most widely read publication for genealogy news. At this moment, Eastman is asking for genealogists to visit the new Encyclopedia of Genealogy to add new genealogy terms and definitions.