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Search Engines Guide

Search Engines
What's In Them Where to Find Them How to Use Them***
Almost always include:
  • Fields for searching by keywords

  • May also include:
  • Additional fields to refine your search
  • Cyndi's List of search engines:

    April and Matt Helm's
    Genealogy SiteFinder!
  • To find your surnames, places, ethnic group, record type, military event, software, or other specialized topics of interest
  • To find compiled records on the Internet - or references to ones in printed or CD form
  • To search the catalogs of libraries, archives and societies
  • To narrow your search to sites likely to be of true relevance to you
  • To find appropriate mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.
  • To network -- find others interested in the same subjects
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    *** Please share your suggestions for other uses of information found in family records here

    For more information on these important records, be sure to catch the Computer Records episode of Ancestors on your local PBS station.