- Google -
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- At Google, you can Search the web (1). If you select "I'm feeling lucky", Google will display the first web page it finds matching your search criteria rather than show you a list of web pages that match your search criteria.
- You can Search for graphics.
- You can Search/Read/Post newsgroups (3). Most of the newsgroups of interest to genealogists are in the soc (sociology) category (4).
- Don't forget to check out the Web Directory (5) and click on Society (6) and then on Genealogy (7). Among the 5499 pages are personal pages of Google members (8) as well as links to Searchable Databases and other interesting sites.
- Finally don't be afraid to check out the Advanced Search (2) buttons on the various Search sites to search better and more accurately.
- A search for civil war and ohio (civil war +ohio) yielded 55,000 hits.
- For additional genealogy sites, search for genealogy or click on Social Science and then on Genealogy.
- To get to the genealogy pages on Excite, first click on Lifestyles (1), then on Hobbies & Interests, and finally on Genealogy & Heraldry (2).
- One of the interesting links on the AltaVista site is the Translate (1) link to Babel Fish (2). Here you can type in a word or phrase and have it translated to or from English or several other languages.
- The C/NET Search site (Search.com) (1) is a Meta-search site. That is, it will submit your search terms to several different search engines at the same time (2).
Yahoo - www.yahoo.com/ (1) (2)
Excite - www.excite.com/ (1) (2)
AltaVista - www.alta-vista.com/ (1) (2)
C/NET Search - www.search.com/ (1) (2)
Hotbot - hotbot.lycos.com/ (1)
Lycos - www.lycos.com/ (1)
Northern Light - www.northernlight.com/ (1)
Go.com - www.go.com/ (1)
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- William Minor in Iowa
- A search for a sequence of words will return a list of pages that contain any one of the words or any combination of the words. (Words like the, in, of, etc. are ignored in the search.)
- A search for a sequence of words separated by and will return a list of pages that contain any all of the words. The words can occur in any combination or any place in the page. The words need not occur in sequence or even together.
- To more easily find the words in a long page, try clicking on edit and then find in page in the menu of your web browser.
- Some search engines use plus signs in front of words rather than the word and between words. There must be no space between the plus sign and the word.
- Words contained between quotation marks must be together on the page and must appear exactly as listed.
- This listing would find pages listing "William R. Minor" in Iowa but would not find pages listing "William Minor" or "W. R. Minor".
- +genealogy +software
- +genealogy +tutorial
- +genealogy +class
- finding cemetery records
- finding land records
William and Minor and Iowa
William +Minor +Iowa
"William Minor" and Iowa
"William R. Minor" and Iowa
You will probably have more success searching for the following terms rather than searching for the names of your ancestors on public web sites.
The ultimate bookmark site for genealogists has over 100,000 links categorized and cross-referenced in over 150 major categories.
A good genealogy magazine will probably give you more good new web sites to check than any other source. Family Tree Magazine is just one of the magazines available. Six issues per year for about $20.
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