Popular speaker and creator of GeneaBloggers.com, Thomas MacEntee, has been Legacy Family Tree’s most prolific guest webinar speaker. His presentations are easy going and easy to follow. One of his ever popular presentations was Google for Genealogists, which is available on CD for revisiting at any time. In Google for Genealogists, MacEntee examines the familiar [...]
One of the many great tools, beside web searches, provided by Google is Google Earth. But how can Google Earth help you as a genealogist? Google Earth has the power to geographically document your ancestor’s lives. Lisa Louise Cooke, producer and host of the popular Genealogy Gems Podcast, has a developed a tutorial video series called [...]
I begin virtually every search with Google. I don’t own stock in Google, or have any particular love for the search engine; however, there is no denying the overall search power of Google and the simple ease by which anyone can use the tool. That said, Google offers more than just basic search engine. There [...]
I begin virtually every search with Google. I don’t own stock in Google, or have any particular love for the search engine; however, there is no denying the overall search power of Google and the simple ease by which anyone can use the tool. That said, Google offers more than just basic search engine. There [...]
I was messing around on Google, the other day, looking at some of the tools I have not used in a while and hoping there might be something new. While looking around I was reminded of Lisa Louise Cooke’s The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox. Her coverage of Google tools useful to genealogists is exceptional and, Google [...]
Family Roots Publishing is offering a great Christmas promotional for Google Your Family Tree. The book has been previously reviewed on this sites (click here to read) and continues to be a popular title. Author Daniel M. Lynch is working diligently on a second edition of the book due out next year. However FRP doesn’t [...]
Earlier in the week, we looked at a DVD from Lisa Louise Cook entitled Google Earth for Genealogy, Volume I. As mentioned, the DVD is part of a set. Here, we look at Volume II. One of the many great tools, beside web searches, provided by Google is Google Earth. But how can Google Earth [...]
One of the many great tools, beside web searches, provided by Google is Google Earth. But how can Google Earth help you as a genealogist. Lisa Louise Cooke, producer and host of the popular Genealogy Gems Podcast, has a developed a tutorial video series called Google Earth for Genealogy. The video series is a two [...]
Ten years ago, when I wrote Mastering Search Engines, Google was in its infancy. Back then, Google was known for the volume of Internet pages it had indexed, about 3 billion at that time. However, search results were not as well ordered and accurate as they later became. Advanced searching was anything but. Google did [...]
Google is far more than a basic search engine. While it may have started as a basic engine, the additional tools Google provides for free makes Google an excellent, all-around research assistant. Google Alerts for up to the minute web tracking, free email for all through Gmail, iGoogle is a search dashboard for your own [...]
Google Map Maker now allows Google users to edit the maps in Google Maps and Google Earth. It’s meant to allows people to add and modify things they know about on the maps. I’ve got to wonder if there is an historic aspect to this… The following is from the website. Introducing Google Map Maker [...]
The following teaser is from an article posted at searchenginewatch.com: Google’s Street View mapping service infringes privacy, a Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court has ruled. Google must blur all faces, license plates, and ensure the complete anonymity of people near sensitive facilities. “According to the recent ruling, everyone has the right to their own image. So [...]
We’ve been selling Dan Lynch’s Google Your Family Tree at the Family Roots Publishing website, and at conferences since last December. The book is a wealth of information, and it’s not surprising that the book has turned out to be one of the genealopgical best sellers. The following is what I wrote about it last [...]
It seems that the Google folks would like to know how many books they are attempting to digitize, since their goal is to digitize all the books in the world… Using a complicated formula, which reads for paragraph after paragraph on their “Inside Google Books, they have come up with a number. When you are [...]
Google has now made agreements with the Austria National Library to digitize their 400,000 out-of-copyright books. This should be of significant help to those of us doing European research. Very exciting! Following is a teaser from the article found at “The Economic Tmes.” VIENNA: Austria’s national library said on Tuesday it has struck a 30-million-euro [...]
