Jill: I always think its worth while sharing; searching experiences bearing in mind that criteria changes and its worth trying again. I agree also the "show options" link might cause an expectation that is worth a caution. It doesn't block all the negative links we might find having clicked on that "show options" as if being led to something else is a positive excitement to information we want to find and see. Not necessarily so as others will agree with what they have experienced and found. I think we need to heed what our fellow hobbyists find. I really do think that for as much as websites might appear user friendly we should treat them with the same caution as we treat Family Search,that it might be a useful start for our searches. For the same reasons, always pursing better and more reliable record of what we are pursuing Has to be the best record we require for inserting into our GEDCOM which requires source records each year of our searches against the name of the individual. Maybe something I have said has caused someone to question what they are doing in a positive way. I think its worthwhile if we share information and how to record and substantiate the source of that record. I am willing to help where I can but I know there are people like Gill who are well able to do so also. In any event its what the hobby genealogy is all about that we join forces to help others where we can. As an example Les Horn found my Gt grandfather working as a Butler away from his birth place, and with the aid of Ancestry I was able to trace his footsteps and his finding my Gt grandmother working away from her birth place in Mull to up to the date of their marriage and stabilised marriage to be able to raise a family together to support my records, which is well worth it. Its the quality information such as this which is so worthwhile rather than finding a gap in time to the date of death without realising how they ended their last years. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hardy Plants" <farm@kintaline.co.uk> > > A recent new feature in google is a Timeline. > This throws up finds from all sorts of documents and books and such. > > beware -- a serious time eater. so many scrummy resources, put in your place > of interest and see what comes up. > > Instructions given from another group > Do the usual Google web search. When the results page comes up, you should > also get a "show options" link top left of the page. Click on that, and then > timeline at the bottom of the options. > In many places, where it referred to a Google-scanned book that they didn't > give full access to, could find the same book in full from a different > depositer on the Internet Archive

Yes, very true. I am "lurking" rather than posting almost all the time since I have had no luck with clues about my Hugh McGregor b Helensburgh 1827. Record of his marriage to Agnes Cross and children in censuses but no birth; no death. I look in Dumbarton since that was the name of the County when he was born. But also I look in Argyll since Helensburgh is there now. But I really find the posts here interesting --and learn a lot. I look at other peoples' trees on line to see if they have my missing ancestors listed. Then I try to see if they are documented. Usually they are not, either documented but no citation, or they are just copied from someone else or just guesses because someone had the same name. No way to tell the difference. Sigh. My husband & I recently joined Ancestry.com deluxe to include US & UK, and we posted a public tree under Stratton Family Tree. I added some people without checking for documentation. When "hints" come up I copy them unless I know they are wrong. Planning to check later. Best to all, Anne in AZ (USA) -----Original Message----- From: sct-argyll-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-argyll-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:00 PM To: sct-argyll@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] Google timeline Jill: I always think its worth while sharing; searching experiences bearing in mind that criteria changes and its worth trying again. I agree also the "show options" link might cause an expectation that is worth a caution. It doesn't block all the negative links we might find having clicked on that "show options" as if being led to something else is a positive excitement to information we want to find and see. Not necessarily so as others will agree with what they have experienced and found. I think we need to heed what our fellow hobbyists find. I really do think that for as much as websites might appear user friendly we should treat them with the same caution as we treat Family Search,that it might be a useful start for our searches. For the same reasons, always pursing better and more reliable record of what we are pursuing Has to be the best record we require for inserting into our GEDCOM which requires source records each year of our searches against the name of the individual. Maybe something I have said has caused someone to question what they are doing in a positive way. I think its worthwhile if we share information and how to record and substantiate the source of that record. I am willing to help where I can but I know there are people like Gill who are well able to do so also. In any event its what the hobby genealogy is all about that we join forces to help others where we can. As an example Les Horn found my Gt grandfather working as a Butler away from his birth place, and with the aid of Ancestry I was able to trace his footsteps and his finding my Gt grandmother working away from her birth place in Mull to up to the date of their marriage and stabilised marriage to be able to raise a family together to support my records, which is well worth it. Its the quality information such as this which is so worthwhile rather than finding a gap in time to the date of death without realising how they ended their last years. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hardy Plants" <farm@kintaline.co.uk> > > A recent new feature in google is a Timeline. > This throws up finds from all sorts of documents and books and such. > > beware -- a serious time eater. so many scrummy resources, put in your place > of interest and see what comes up. > > Instructions given from another group > Do the usual Google web search. When the results page comes up, you should > also get a "show options" link top left of the page. Click on that, and then > timeline at the bottom of the options. > In many places, where it referred to a Google-scanned book that they didn't > give full access to, could find the same book in full from a different > depositer on the Internet Archive ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ARGYLL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message