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You can't expect stellar results from stellar Web sites unless you know how to mine them effectively. Conduct more-successful web searches by following these 5 tips.
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Advanced Book Exchange www.abebooks.com Find county histories, biographies and state history books at this umbrella organization for hundreds of used book stores. You can search for tomes by keyword, author and title. Newspaper Abstracts www.newspaperabstracts.com News of your ancestors may appear in this site's article abstracts...
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AncestorNews: Search Engine Strategies Premium
For those of you who've read my book, Finding Your Roots Online, you'll know that one of my favorite ancestor-finding tools is a run-of-the-mill search engine. Using search engine "math"—1Boolean operators such as or, + ( which means and) and - (means not)—genealogists can construct complex searches...
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Scouring the Web for pictures from your family's past? Broaden your search beyond faces and you may be surprised at what you'll find.
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AncestorNews: Portals to Your Pedigree Premium
Use portal sites to get to ancestral information online.
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Find, Post or ID Photos online Premium
Photo Reunion Sites Please be aware that not all of these sites are nonprofit: • Ancestors' Lost & Found www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/ancestors/: Part of the Nebraska GenWeb project, this site allows individuals to post photographs they've found as well as photographs that need identification. Photographs must be Nebraska-related. • Ancestral...
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Social Networking for Your Family Tree Premium
Genealogists are getting into the social networking trend with the Web 2.0 generation of family history sites.
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Where to Look for Cousins Premium
If you think the odds of meeting online cousins are slim, think again. By the time you go back 15 generations, you have more than 32,000 ancestors. Since some of them had 10 or more siblings, the number of potential cousins alive today is staggering. Suddenly, the odds are...
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