The Internet has been a boon to genealogists, enabling them to read queries, cemetery information and family lore that would have been inaccessible just a decade or so ago.

But amid all the hoopla about the cyber age, one inescapable fact remains: Huge quantities of data have never been put online. A complete job of research, therefore, still involves sitting down with a book and reading it, just as our ancestors would have done.

Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA