Google For Genealogists

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    Thank you. Today I would like to talk about one of the most effective genealogy tools of today. Genealogists have long used whatever tools were available that helped our research efforts. We have used old records, microfilm, microfiche, copy machines, typewriters, word processors, specialized software and more. Indeed, we have always used whatever tools were available, whether they were designed purposely for genealogy or were generic general-purpose tools that could be adapted for our use. Today's topic is one of the most powerful genealogy tools available: Google. Google is a search engine. In fact, it is the "king of all search engines." Google receives over 200 million queries each day through its various services. Web search is the most popular service that Google offers. It is a free service that helps Internet users find relevant information by performing keyword searches through an incredible amount of data.

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    1. Genealogy Searches on Google
    2. Today’s slides are available at:
      • http://www.eogn.com/handouts/google
    3. Google's mission statement
      • “ Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
    4. As of March 2006, Google users can:
      • search through approximately 11.3 billion web pages
      • search through approximately 1.3 billion images
      • Read millions of messages
    5. If printed:
      • the pages being indexed would result in a stack more than 700 miles high.
    6. Google
    7. So how does Google make money?
    8. Google’s Motto
      • Don’t be evil
    9. Basic Concepts
      • static web pages
      • dynamic web pages
    10. Google Searches
      • Google will find most of the information that you and I post on the web, along with more information published by tens of thousands of other individuals and societies.
      • Google will not find the information stored within the databases of the big sites: Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org and others.
    11. Two popular types of search engines:
      • searchable subject indexes
        • Yahoo is a searchable subject index
      • full-text search engines
        • Google is a FULL TEXT search engine
    12. Google searches by words
      • Boolean logic
      • Upper/lower case is ignored
      • “ Trivial words” are ignored: I, a, the, of, etc.
    13. Boolean AND is Assumed
      • A search of: John Smith Denver Colorado
      • Is the same as: John AND Smith AND Denver AND Colorado
    14. This can be changed by specifying Boolean terms
      • "John Smith" AND "Denver, Colorado" (the AND may be omitted)
      • This search will return results that contain both phrases
    15. Other Boolean searches can help
      • (John OR William) AND Smith AND Denver AND (Colorado OR CO)
          • John Smith of Denver, CO
          • John Smith in Denver, Colorado
          • William Smith Colorado Mining Company in Denver, Texas
    16. Genealogy challenges
      • A search for Washington Harvey Eastman
      • Will produce many “hits” relating to photography in Washington, DC as well as references to many people named Harvey or Washington!
    17. Genealogy challenges
      • A search for “Washington Harvey Eastman” (with the quote marks)
      • Will not produce references to:
        • Washington H. Eastman
        • Washington Eastman
        • W. H. Eastman
              • Etc.
    18. Genealogy challenges
      • You can use a minus sign, meaning “NOT”
      • A search for:
        • Washington Harvey Eastman –Kodak
      • Should eliminate most references to photography
    19. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • intitle:
        • Restricts your search to the titles of Web pages
          • Example:
            • intitle:”george bush”
    20. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • inurl:
        • Restricts your search to the URLs of web pages
          • Example:
            • inurl:help
            • Will return: http://www.eogn.com/helpfile.html
    21. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • intext:
        • Searches only the body text, ignoring link text, URLs and titles.
    22. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • inanchor:
        • Searches for text in a page’s anchors (links).
          • Example:
            • inanchor:”Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter”
    23. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • site:
        • Allows you to narrow the search by a site or a top-level domain
          • Examples:
            • familysearch.org
            • Ancestry.com
            • edu
    24. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • link:
        • Returns a list of pages that link to the specified URL
          • Example:
            • link:http://www.eogn.com
    25. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • cache:
        • Finds a copy of a web page that Google indexed even if that page is no longer available today or has since changed its contents.
          • Example:
            • cache:www.eogn.com
    26. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • daterange:
        • Limits your date to a particular date or range of dates that a page was indexed.
            • Note #1: It is the date that the page was INDEXED by Google, not the page CREATION date!
            • Note #2: Date format must be in Julian dates
    27. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • filetype:
        • May specify to search only for PDF, Word (DOC), PowerPoint (PPT), Excel (XLS) or other file types.
    28. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • related:
        • Finds pages that are related to other pages.
          • Example:
            • related: www.eogn.com
            • Returns a list of genealogy newsletters as well as a list of other newsletters owned by the owner of eogn.com.
    29. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • info:
        • Provides a page of links to more information about a specified URL
    30. Google’s Special Syntaxes
      • phonebook:
        • Looks up telephone numbers
          • Example:
            • phonebook:remling syracuse ny
    31.  
    32. Advanced Search
      • Query Word Input
      • Language
      • Filtering
      • File Format
      • Date
    33. Advanced Search
    34. Setting Preferences
      • Language
      • Filtering
      • Number of Results
      • Results Window
    35. Setting Preferences
    36. Search news groups
    37. Google Books
    38. Google Books
    39. Google Books
    40. Google Books
    41. Google Books
    42. Need more information?
      • http://www.google.com/support
      • or
      • http://www.google.com/help

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