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 ==== Step 7  ====
-*Once you find the old webpage, go to Google and searching for the new URL. Try taking the beginning portion of the URL to locate a possible page. Also try googling some key words on the old page along with the first part of the URL. &nbsp;'
+*Once you find the old webpage, review the old page and determine key words to use for when you use Google to locate the new URL.
-*For the broken link: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/marriage.html from the Wayback Machine you see the words: the name of the website: Illinois State Archives and the database it’s linking to: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900
+* Go to Google and search for the new URL.
-*Type in google: Illinois state archives statewide marriage index 1763-1900
+**Try taking the beginning portion of the URL to locate a possible page.
-*Try out each of the URLS until you find a good match. For this example, the correct match is: http://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/marriagesrch.jsp
+**Try googling the title of the page with quotation marks around it to narrow down your results
+'''EXAMPLE'''
+*For the broken link: <nowiki>http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/marriage.html</nowiki> the Wayback Machine gave the original [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206022737/http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/marriage.html web page]
+*The title of the page is: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 and you can see it is on the Illinois State Archives
+*Type in google: Illinois state archives "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900"
+*The first result on the list is: <nowiki>https://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/marriagesrch.jsp</nowiki> and you will see that it is the same page as found in the Wayback Machine.
 ==== Step 8  ====