Google is very useful. I start with Ancestry.com search, then I enter the surname in Google for other genealogy pages, discussion forums, family websites and living descendants. This requires patience. Different results come up if I enter the just the surname, surname Family, surname Genealogy, surname+the state, etc. White Pages.com is a free source of addresses and phone numbers. The other people searches require payment, but we can see cities, related persons, etc., without paying. With Ancestry, spelling does not have to be exact, but with the others, you have to enter spelling variations as separate searches. In come cases, Ancestry.com has Public Records with people's addresses and phone numbers up to about 1993. Then I enter living people's full names into Google to check if they have Facebook or individual websites, and, if I know where they grew up, check Classmates.com, which requires a subscription. Linda On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:00 AM, freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com wrote: When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. ***FREEPAGES HELP & FAQ*** <http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/fpindex.html> Today's Topics: 1. Google+ For Genealogy Research (lrlaskey) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:33:00 -0600 From: lrlaskey <lrlaskey@gmail.com> Subject: [FreeHelp] Google+ For Genealogy Research To: Freepages <Freepages-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <4F1861DC.2050906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello all, Has anyone used Google+ in their research? If so, how? I have been using it for other purposes but would love to use it for Genealogy. Lorrie ------------------------------ To contact the FREEPAGES-HELP list administrator, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the FREEPAGES-HELP mailing list, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com . __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7 ********************************************
Google+ appears to have awesome potential to gather groups of genealogists together who would probably never do so in real life. Imagine being able to discuss research, visually share family images and treasures and more. If anyone ever uses it, I would like to hear. Lorrie On 01/20/12 11:45, Linda Kelley wrote: > Google is very useful. I start with Ancestry.com search, then I enter > the surname in Google for other genealogy pages, discussion forums, > family websites and living descendants. This requires patience. > Different results come up if I enter the just the surname, surname > Family, surname Genealogy, surname+the state, etc. White Pages.com is > a free source of addresses and phone numbers. The other people > searches require payment, but we can see cities, related persons, > etc., without paying. With Ancestry, spelling does not have to be > exact, but with the others, you have to enter spelling variations as > separate searches. In come cases, Ancestry.com has Public Records with > people's addresses and phone numbers up to about 1993. Then I enter > living people's full names into Google to check if they have Facebook > or individual websites, and, if I know where they grew up, check > Classmates.com, which requires a subscription. > > Linda > > On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:00 AM, freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > > When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to > which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your > reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it > coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. > ***FREEPAGES HELP& FAQ*** > <http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/fpindex.html> > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Google+ For Genealogy Research (lrlaskey) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:33:00 -0600 > From: lrlaskey<lrlaskey@gmail.com> > Subject: [FreeHelp] Google+ For Genealogy Research > To: Freepages<Freepages-Help-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID:<4F1861DC.2050906@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hello all, > > Has anyone used Google+ in their research? If so, how? I have been using > it for other purposes but would love to use it for Genealogy. > > Lorrie > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the FREEPAGES-HELP list administrator, send an email to > FREEPAGES-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the FREEPAGES-HELP mailing list, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com > . > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7 > ******************************************** > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message