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 Kraus reiterated that sources are very important. Without sources, anything you have in a person's record is really just a guess. Make sure you back up everything with sources.
+=== How to Use ''Google'' to Your Advantage (July 26, 2023) ===
+''(Handout will be posted when I receive it.)''
+Tamne Robinson taught this class. She is a third-generation genealogist, and both her mother and grandmother have published books on their family genealogy. As a child, she remembers assisting her mother and grandmother by visiting libraries and family history centers and searching for microfiches.
+Robinson stated that ''Google'' is the largest search engine in the world. She lamented at how ''Google'' has changed to a commodity-based browser, meaning that their priority is making money. This makes it difficult to access foreign genealogy websites because ''Google'' can tell what country you are in and will display a list of websites that are in the language of your country first. The actual foreign websites will be listed last. Her example was looking for Italian websites, and she could tell if a website was Italian by a URL ending in "it".
+Robinson covered the different features of ''Google'' including Images, Alerts, Translate, Earth, and Books. She demonstrated the use of special characters in the search box such as " ", AND, OR, and * which can be refined by using the ''Google'' Advanced Search page. She also demonstrated the use of <ctrl>-p and <ctrl>-f on Microsoft-based computers (<command>-p and <command>-f on Apple-based computers).
+''[This recap should be completed later today.]''
 == Class notes for 2022 ==