Other Helps
- Lessons and Research Guides
- Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree (31 lessons at RootsWeb)
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http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/
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- Research Helps and Research Guidance at familysearch.org
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http://www.familysearch.org/ Search tab, then Research Helps or Research Guidance
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- Newsletters - RootsWeb Review (weekly updates with success stories and new acquisitions)
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http://e-zine.rootsweb.com (more than 1,000,000 subscribers)
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- Other Useful Web Sites
- Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (keep up to date with technology in family history)
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http://www.eogn.com/home/
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- Using Google.com to Find Genealogical Information -
http://www.google.com/
- Basic Searching
- Use + attached to the front of words or phrases to indicate they MUST be present
- Use - attached to the front of words or phrases to DISALLOW them in the search results
- - example: +george +kodak -film -camera
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- Use ~ (tilde) attached to the front of a word to find synonyms of that word
- - example: ~genealogy
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- Use OR between words or phrases to allow for variations in names
- - example: Dorothea Daeublin OR Taeublin
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- Use ..between numbers to find any number in the range
- - example: 1820..1830
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- Use quotation marks to offset a phrase that must be exact
- - example: "George Kodak" or "George J. Kodak" or "Kodak, George"
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- Google does not care if you use upper and/or lower case letters in search terms. The site
does not allow the use of asterisks (*).
- These techniques can also be used on the Advanced Search screen.
If you have questions or comments please contact me at
gruf@xmission.com
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