Chapter 5

Revving Up Search Engines

As I write this book, I am pointing you to the best genealogical resources on the Internet as I know them. I am aware that you may find some of the links are broken. By the time you read this, untold numbers of sites may have been created, or deleted, or changed from wonderful to not-so-much, and vice versa. Keeping track of all this is made much easier by search engines and portals. Search engines and portals offer ways to send changes and news stories that match certain keywords to you via e-mail or push technology, and I will show you how to take advantage of that.

Certainly, as a genealogist, you’ve experienced the thrill of discovering things for yourself—it can be quite a kick to find a website or ...

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