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#Alter your search approach to find information not just by name, but also by places your ancestors lived, topic (e.g., ethnicity, religion, society), time period, event (e.g., war, famine), characteristic, record type needed, or keyword. Altering your approach may give you additional information. | #Alter your search approach to find information not just by name, but also by places your ancestors lived, topic (e.g., ethnicity, religion, society), time period, event (e.g., war, famine), characteristic, record type needed, or keyword. Altering your approach may give you additional information. | ||
#The Internet is dynamic. If you don’t find it today, try again later. If you find something today, you may be able to find yet more later. This means that our searches may need to be repeated from time to time to locate new information or newly indexed or categorized information. | #The Internet is dynamic. If you don’t find it today, try again later. If you find something today, you may be able to find yet more later. This means that our searches may need to be repeated from time to time to locate new information or newly indexed or categorized information. | ||
#Did you know you can use site: or inurl: to focus on the best results? For example, I want to see if any of my STUBBS family living in Iron county, Utah appear on the USGenweb page for Iron county, but that USGenWeb page doesn’t have a search tool. So, I just type | #Did you know you can use site: or inurl: to focus on the best results? For example, I want to see if any of my STUBBS family living in Iron county, Utah appear on the USGenweb page for Iron county, but that USGenWeb page doesn’t have a search tool. So, I just type '''''site:rootsweb.com inurl:utiron stubbs''''' into my Google search, and I’ve cut hours of searching to just seconds. | ||
[[Category:Major Genealogy Websites]] | [[Category:Major Genealogy Websites]] | ||
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