Genealogy Help
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Easy Google Genealogy Searcher, Part II , a companion to the original Easy Google Genealogy Searcher, offers additional Google genealogy specialized searches. Use the Genealogy Searcher to make your intenet genealogy searching more effective.

Can’t remember all the Google tricks you’ve heard for genealogy searching? Want to learn some things you probably had no idea Google could do? Here are some ways the Easy Google Genealogy Searcher can make your genealogy searches more effective…

After less then two months online, Family Tree Guide has taken off as a popular place to plant your family tree. It’s time for a master search of that data! At this time this search indexes only about 2/3 of the websites hosted by Family Tree Guide, but the index, like the site, grows every day. So check back often!

First posted in response to a question on a mailing list on October 23, 2004
Q: I have been on the temp free list for Ancestry.com I did a search under Richard W. BILKEY and soundexed it. It came "Zero Results" Are you saying there is another index I can look under
A: When using […]

I’ve recently discovered a great new tool for using Google for genealogy queries.
Google Alerts lets you automate your Google genealogy queries, sending you an email whenever any new content about your query is added to the Google database. This makes it easy to keep up with your Google genealogy searches and not miss any new sites.

You may have used the RootsWeb searches without even noticing that drop-down box that gives the option of using “exact name”, “metaphone”, or “soundex” search.

Metaphone? Soundex? What do they mean, how are they different, and how can they help your research? Learn more…

Steve Morse of One-Step Search Engine fame has come up with a single search method for the SSDI (Social Security Death Index) that combines all the desirable features of the various SSDI websites…..

The U.S. Social Security Death Index is an index of almost seventy million deceased people who had social security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration.

Here is how it can be useful in your genealogy research…