Hi all, After all these years on the web, I just recently found out about alltheweb.com and boy was I pleasantly surprised! Just out of curiosity, I did an informal survey between the two best search engines (IMHO) to see how they compare with genealogy search words. I wanted to see how many total pages were indexed for each one. You may be surprised at the results: SEARCH WORD(S) GOOGLE.COM ALLTHEWEB.COM ============== ========== ============= marriages 6,240,000 8,690,000 obituaries 55,400,000 39,600,000 "death notices" 2,620,000 4,200,000 "marriage records" 848,000 877,000 "ship passenger lists" 910 2,070 "census transcription" 361,000 28,200 "birth records" 388,000 692,000 Now when you put "Illinois" in with the phrase, you can also see which one produces the most results. I've been using Google all this time...and probably still will, but I can see now that I've been missing out on a very good resource with AllTheWeb.com. Hope this research helps someone else as it has me. Bill GenealogyBuff.com http://www.genealogybuff.com