The Mormons are also a great resource for geneology. It has something to do with their beliefs (that we're all brothers and sisters...forgive me any Mormons if I'm butchering that), but they've spent years and years going to places all over the world, copying records and preserving them. When my mom got into geneology she went to the Mormon center in Cincinnati and was shocked at what she found -- including but not limited to extensive records from our ancestors' six-block town in Italy, which she thought she'd never be able to get. They are a terrific resource.