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Not long ago I helped a friend trace her family tree. After writing down some basic information, I went online and searched the "usual suspects." I began my search on the databases of FamilySearch at www.familysearch.com and the WorldConnect Project at worldconnect.rootsweb.com. Between the...
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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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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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