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Genealogy by Google
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Google came into being in 1998 as a web search engine. It soon became known for its amazing speed and its ability to return relevant results - and over the years, it has expanded its range of products so many times that it would be hard to imagine using a computer without using Google as well. It is one of most important tools available to family historians. We should expect its usefulness to increase in the years to come, because Google continues to evolve and expand. Web searches: Genealogy in the news: Often, neat discoveries, new resources, conferences and the like will make the news, at least somewhere. Google News will help you to find what you're looking for. Also, try these pages, based on an handy Google News aggregator. Newspaper reports from Canada Newspaper reports from the United Kingdom Newspaper reports from the United States Geography: Google Maps Images and video: Google Images Google Video Youtube Blogs: Use Google to help you find the blogs of interest. You can also create your own blog using Google's tools, and aggregate your blogs of interest using Google Reader. Digitized books: Google Books Social networking Find cousins, find people working on your areas, share gossip, find out that some relative you don't really care about enjoys her morning java. Google+ (Plus) -- Relatively new, competing with Facebook Social media and genealogy File sharing and backups: Google Docs Google -- It's much more than just a search engine! Use it for mail, for sharing documents, for sharing photographs, for storage and so on Competitors are Skydrive and Dropbox. More! More!: Google -- Use it for translations, for finding old books, for discovering about local areas, and much more Other search engines: Ask (Teoma) ¦ Bing ¦ Gigablast ¦ Lycos ¦ Mocavo ¦ Snap ¦ Yahoo! Updates? Corrections? Better examples? Send an e-mail to Dave Updated October 16, 2011 |
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