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 system, Google Books, Google News, Google Translate, YouTube, Google Earth, and more. These tools can help the Genealogist improve and expand their research. But, does one learn to use all of these tools? More so, how can these tools be used together for research synergy? The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox is the perfect guidebook to successfully using all the above listed Google tools in your family history research.
According to author Lisa Louise Cook, this volume is “right up to date,” giving the latest information about using the features of Google. This is a great guidebook, in that it’s heavily illustrated and geared toward showing the genealogist how to use many of the free online “tools” that Google has made available to us. The use of the “tools” is laid out in a step-by-step manner that anyone can follow. The first 5 chapters all deal with Google’s Search abilities, followed by chapters on Google Alerts, Gmail, iGoogle, Books, News Timeline, Translation, YouTube & Video, Google Earth (in all its glory!), Family History Tour Maps, and an amazing “How to” index at the back.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 — Caffeine & Search Options Column
Chapter 2 — Basic & Advances Search
Chapter 3 — Search Strategies for High-Quality Results
Chapter 4 —Site Search & Resurrecting Web Sites
Chapter 5 — Image Search
Chapter 6 — Google Alerts
Chapter 7 — Gmail
Chapter 8 — iGoogle – Your Personal Genealogy Homepage
Chapter 9 — Google Books
Chapter 10 — Google News Timeline
Chapter 11 — Google Translate & Translation Toolkit
Chapter 12 — YouTube and Google Video
Chapter 13 — Google Earth Overview
Chapter 14 — Google Earth – Ancestral Homes and Locations
Chapter 15 — Google Earth – Organizing, Naming, and Sharing
Chapter 16 — Google Earth – Historic Maps and Images
Chapter 17 — Google Earth – Plotting Your Ancestor’s Homestead
Chapter 18 — Google Earth – Fun with Images and Video
Chapter 19 — Family History Tour Maps
Appendix — Find it Quick: The “How To” Index
Order your own copy of, or give as a gift, The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox from Family Root Publishing; Item #: LU01.