<p> Google Your Family Tree</p><p>Ann Lamb, Family History Expo, Nov 6, 2010</p><p>The book:</p><p>“Google Your Family Tree : Unlock the Hidden Power of Google”</p><p> By Daniel M. Lynch — 1st Edition — Provo, UT : FamilyLink.com, Inc. </p><p> Copyright © 2008 by Daniel M. Lynch  ISBN: 978-0-9820737-1-1  $34.95 USD  Library call number: 025.069291</p><p>Website: www.googleyourfamilytree.com</p><p>SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED:</p><p>1. Use Basic and Advanced search operators to filter results</p><p>2. Find published information about your family history using dozens of powerful techniques</p><p>3. Discover visuals to help illustrate your family story using Google Images and Video</p><p>4. Explore your ancestral homelands – from countryside to neighborhood – with Google Maps and Google Earth</p><p>5. Conduct research in historical newspapers using Google News Archive</p><p>6. Set up automated searches using Google Alerts</p><p>7. Use Language Tools to find and translate foreign content</p><p>8. Search within a site</p><p>9. Make the most of the top free websites for genealogy</p><p>10. Using "and more" (lots of useful free programs)</p><p>1 1. Use Basic and Advanced search operators to filter results</p><p> Quotation marks: “edward lynch”  Asterisk for Wildcard: * “edward * lynch”  Minus sign –: waterbury –vermont  Similar words, tilde ~ : ~genealogy  OR - “edward lynch” OR “lynch, edward” http://www.googleyourfamilytree.com/genealogy_powersearch.php </p><p>2. Find published information about your family history using dozens of powerful techniques</p><p> Select “More”  then “Books”  Search subject, title, author  Also includes other published material</p><p>Google Books: (or www.books.google.com )  Goal: to digitize 15 million books  Goal: to make the content easily available  Enter search term: “…………”  Returns: List view Limited preview and full view Cover view Full view only All books Public domain only</p><p>Sidebar: Other places to find digitized books</p><p> The Gutenberg Project - www.gutenberg.org  FamilySearch.org/Search/Historical Books: www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php  Public Library ebooks: http://www.kcls.org  Public Library: http://www.kcls.org  “Items in the eCollection”  Databases/ Heritage Quest /history & genealogy books  Ebooks http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ft/EBooks.asp</p><p>2 3. Discover visuals to help illustrate your family story using Google Images and Video</p><p> http://www.googleyourfamilytree.com/genealogy_powersearch_image s.php</p><p> Gives number of results, links to primary keyword  Also image sizes, thumbnail & description  Uses same commands & syntax as regular search</p><p>4. Explore your ancestral homelands– from countryside to neighborhood – with Google Maps and Google Earth</p><p> Maps.google http:// www.maps.google.com  Download Google Earth (Google/more/and more - Google Earth) http://www.googleyourfamilytree.com/genealogy_powersearch_maps.php</p><p>5. Conduct research in historical newspapers using Google News Archive</p><p> Google.com Left side: select Archive  Select time period  Select News  Search</p><p>6. Set up automated searches using Google Alerts  www.google.com ..more…even more...Alerts  Set up a well-defined query  Register it with Alerts  Get email updates on topics of your choice</p><p>7. Use Language Tools to find and translate foreign content  www.google.com > Language Tools  1. Search across foreign languages (query in your language, find pages in another, results translated  2. Translate your text input</p><p>3  3. Translate web page content  4. Use Google in nearly 120 languages  5. Access localized versions of Google  6. Translate words via the Google Toolbar</p><p>8. Search within a site, in blogs and gedcoms  Helps if site does not have a search function of its own  Also search blogs (www.google.com / more /and more/ Blog Search)  Practice blog search for genealogy at http://www.googleyourfamilytree.com/genealogy_blogs earch.php Example: site: eogn.com “ new haven county ”  And search Gedcoms: Example: “ patrick lynch ” connecticut filetype:ged</p><p>9. Make the most of the top free websites for genealogy  Eastman ’s Online Genealogy Newsletter www.eogn.com  Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records www.ellisisland.org  Family Search www.familysearch.org  Immigrant ships Transcribers Guild http://www.immigrantships.net</p><p>More top free websites:  One Step Tools by Stephen Morse www.stevemorse.org  Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness www.raogk.org  Wayback Machine (web archives) www.archive.org  Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org  US Genweb www.usgenweb.org  World Genweb www.worldgenweb.org</p><p>10. Google’s “Even more”</p><p>And your favorite…. ? ______</p><p>4</p>