Here are this week's 101 Best Web Sites highlights. See the rest of the list at FamilyTreeMagazine.com:

• FamilySearch Labs is where you can access cool new tools that one day will be part of the main FamilySearch site. That includes the Web-based tool volunteers all over the world use to index digitized records, a family tree application (currently being rolled out to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ locations) and the Record Search Pilot. Webmasters recently added a global map that lets you search records from particular areas of the world.

• Search results from the free indexes on the Florida Memory Project link to digitized originals Spanish land grants, Confederate pension applications and WWI service cards. The Florida Photographic Collection has 143,000 online images.

In 1919, as part of an effort to preserve the stories of Virginians in the Great War, a governor-appointed Historical Commission sent questionnaires to the state's returning WWI soldiers and nurses.  

A full narrative of the completed questionnaires was never published, and the records ended up with the Library of Virginia.

Now they’re in a database of more than 14,900 records, one for each respondent, linked to digitized images of each questionnaire page plus any accompanying photographs or other material.

The completed questionnaires hold a wealth of data, including names, dates, places, educational and religious background, and military service details. Soldiers also answered questions about their wartime experiences and how war affected their personal values. See the library Web site for more on this collection.

You can search on a keyword (such as a name or hometown) or phrase, or enter a word to browse alphabetically adjacent records.

Search results come in table form; click the number on the far left to bring up the catalog entry. Next, click the URL next to the document icon, then click the link to a page of the questionnaire.

Several members of the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum have mentioned fundraising as a challenge for genealogical societies.

If you register with the shopping site GoodShop, your society can earn money when people select it from a list of charities and schools, then shop on participating Web sites (including eBay, PetSmart, Target, J. Crew and more). The retailer then donates a designated portion of the purchase (averaging about 3 percent) to your group.

How do you add your society to the potential beneficiaries? If the group is a registered nonprofit, you can submit it for participation. The approval process takes a couple of days.

GoodShop has a search engine called GoodSearch that works similarly: A Web surfer selects a charity and then does a search (powered by Yahoo!), and the charity gets a small donation from advertisers on GoodSearch.

I counted at least 15 genealogical societies already on the GoodShop/GoodSearch list. See if your society is one of them here.

Attention around the world is already turning to Beijing, where the 2008 Summer Olympics begins this Friday. To get you in the sporting mood, we've collected some great resources on Olympics history.

The New York Times has a great audio slideshow about legendary Olympians. The interviewees include John Carlos (the runner who raised a gloved fist during the awards ceremony in 1968), Nadia Comaneci and Mark Spitz.

Britannica.com has an in-depth history of the games, and Kodak shows great Olympics moments in pictures.

The New York Times' Olympics blog also has a roundup of past official songs of the games complete with YouTube videos. Some are very memorable (like Gloria Estefan's "Reach")—others I'd much rather forget I ever heard.

More current Olympics information:

• Sports Illustrated/CNN coverage of the games
• New York Times Olympics 2008 page
• Trivia at the official US Olympic Team page
• NBC Olympics
  

Among our 101 Best Web Sites for 2008, this week we're highlighting the Library of Congress and Diigo:

• The nation’s library has digitized more than 9 million documents, photos and maps here—access them through American Memory or the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (which lists the library’s entire collection; results for digitized items link to the image). Need to find a book? The library catalog has just about every book in existence. Click the Researchers link for many other resources including bibliographies and collection guides, information on genealogical materials, links to research databases, and international resources.

• Diigo, short for Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff, is a tool that lets you highlight and annotate parts of Web pages for yourself or for sharing with other researchers. You can organize and search your bookmarks, and it all works in your favorite Web browser.