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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 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. | 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. | ||
Robinson also demonstrated the use of <ctrl>-p and <ctrl>-f to print a webpage or find a word or phrase on a webpage. | |||
'''''Google'' ''Images''''' | |||
Robinson did a ''Google'' search on one of her relatives and clicked on Images. She found a photo she had never seen that someone had posted on a Flickr website. She would have never found this if she hadn't looked in Images. This will pull up images from other countries, but they will be after all the US sources. | |||
'''Using Quotes''' | |||
When searching in ''Google'', for example, searching for James Jubal Robinson, Google will present a list of every webpage with James, Jubal, and Robinson. To restrict your search, place the search item in quotes: "James Jubal Robinson" which will return only items with all three of these words together. | |||
'''''Google'' ''Alerts''''' | |||
This only works if you have a ''Google'' account, and you are signed into your account. It allows you to specify a phrase for ''Google'' to look for on a regular basis, and ''Google'' will email you when someone posts something with that phrase. This does a worldwide search. | |||
'''''Google'' ''Earth''''' | |||
This is useful for finding cemeteries, especially private cemeteries where homesteaders buried family members on their private land. An attendee said he used it for finding parcel records. Note that digital photos nowadays have GPS coordinates encoded into them, so you can use ''Google Earth'' or ''Google Maps'' to locate where a photo was taken. | |||
'''''Google Books''''' | |||
Search for book authors or books that contain ancestor names. Books published by Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), SAR (sons), and CAR (children) and the Huguenot Society are all big into genealogy. Most books on ''Google Books'' will no longer be copyrighted since the copyright expires on very old books. But others may still be copyrighted, and you will have to request that they send you a copy of the page that your ancestor is on. | |||
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