Posts about search strategies, including how to limit or expand searches, and specific tips for searching genealogy sites and Google.
Have you tried genealogy research using Yippy.com? Yippy.com is a metasearch engine. Technically speaking, Yippy aggregates results, gathering data from many search engines and compiling the results for you. More about metasearches and how they work later. But [...]
Today's post is about Google Maps and Uncommunicative Records. I only wish I'd thought of this work-around sooner for place research. I've had a love-hate relationship with turn-of-the-(20th)-century Cook County marriage licenses for years now. [...]
In 2010, I started searching for McFadzean ancestors in Ayrshire, Scotland. More specifically, I'm searching for my husband's great-great-grandmother Janet McFadzean Mackie, in Kilbirnie. Her maiden name was spelled McFadden in U.S. records. Initially, when [...]
I searched ArkivDigital's Population of Sweden 1860-1930 database recently. Here's what I found. I'd let my ArkivDigital subscription lapse a while ago. But who can resist a free day at a great resource like [...]
