Get the Best Genealogy Searches for Google by Using
Your Family Tree
This free genealogy site will help you use Google™ for your research. It will
create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" that will likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using
Google to find ancestry information on the Internet.
Just complete the small
family tree below for an
ancestor and this site will set
up the best searches for you, based on what you enter. Tip: If you don't
know an ancestor's parents, but know one of the ancestor's children, use the
child's name for the First Name and Last Name below (and spouse, birth, and
death) and then enter the ancestor as the Father or Mother. This gives more
information for building a search.
Common Problems using Search Engines for Genealogy
Have you tried to find your ancestry on any search engine? If so, you might have
had thousands of results, most of which did not apply to your genealogy. This site minimizes this problem by suggesting more complex ways of
looking for your ancestors that will provide you with better results.
Many Names are Common
One problem with using any search engine for genealogy is that many last names
are common. For example, take the last name of
"Hall." Using Hall genealogy will often result in more than 500,000 results. The first ones on
the list might be best, but you run the risk of missing some results because
there are so many. This site will suggest combinations or patterns of names to
minimize the number of results and provide you with better results.
Some Words that have Similar Meanings
Another aspect of using Hall genealogy is that it would miss selecting sites that use a
different word that means the same thing. Family
history, family tree, and ancestry are just a few words that
have a meaning similar to genealogy. Finally, you need consider common
misspellings, such as geneology. This site will automatically
create searches that account for words with similar meanings to the term genealogy.
Words that Have Different Meanings
"Hall" is also used in the name of buildings (such
as "Durham Hall") or in common phrases (such as "she walked down
the hall"). This site will suggest combinations or patterns of names in order to minimize the likelihood of these erroneous results.
Bookmark this Site
Since this page will work for anyone in your ancestry,
you may want to return to it as you find out about more people you can research.
Bookmark this page so that you can easily come back to it.
Add this Genealogy Search Form to Your Web Site
If you have your own family history Web site, you can enhance it by placing the same
form as shown above into any page you wish. Click on the link below.
Link to this Site
If you think others would find this site useful, but would rather add a link to this
site instead of the form, there are several options
from which you can choose. Click on the link below.
Why Google for Genealogy?
Google has indexed more than 3 billion Web pages, which represents one of the most comprehensive collections of the most useful
Web pages on the Internet.
Privacy
This site does not keep any information about the people you entered.
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