PEOPLE

CONTENTS:

• Agoodblackman.com
• GenDoor
• Virginia Business Online

AGOODBLACKMAN.COM

Here's a site that is focused on one particular demographic group: African-American men. Agoodblackman.com features Black men who have devoted their lives to building strong communities, families and relationships. It explores, honors and celebrates Black men with profiles of community leaders, doctors, artists, scholars, teachers and inventors. The site also has links to business, legal, media and other useful sites.

http://agoodblackman.com/

GENDOOR

If you do a lot of genealogy research and you are getting overwhelmed by the number of genealogy sites on the Internet, try GenDoor, a new genealogy search engine that searches genealogy Web sites for you.

The creators of the site have developed their own software that identifies genealogy-related pages and includes them in their index of sites to search. This leads, they claim, to very relevant search results.

The site is still in Beta-test and is fairly basic. I'll give it a mixed review. I quickly found a posting from my sister-in-law in reference to some family research she has been doing. However, another search brought up seeming unrelated sites including books, journals, a review of Harry Potter from the New Republic??

Still, if you know that you want to limit a search to genealogy sites, this would be a better bet than one of the broader search engines like AltaVista -- it should cut down on false hits considerably.

http://www.gendoor.com/

VIRGINIA BUSINESS ONLINE

If you find yourself researching people in a certain state or region, you shouldn't overlook local business magazines online. These magazines love to run lists of the local highest-paid, wealthiest, top 50 or 100, or whatever, and Virginia Business is no exception. Their December issue cover story focused on The Legal Elite, the state's top attorneys as voted by their peers. The top ten leaders are profiled; others are listed under their area of practice.

http://www.virginiabusiness.com/vbmag/yr2000/dec00/index.html

Pam Patton