Marsha -- Google is a web search engine. The URL for it is www.google.com. It isn't specifically for genealogical use, but I have found it to be unbelievably helpful! You just put in the surname you are looking for. Unless it's unusual, this will generally get you a lot of results. That is where the "Search within results" option comes in. You find THAT by scrolling down to the bottom of the page (it's on the lower right) click on that, and you get another page in which to add a term. The search engine then goes through ONLY the already selected sites, and excludes sites which don't ALSO include this term. By repeating this step (up to a string of 10 words) you can winnow out most (NOT ALL) irrelevant sites and end up with a workable number to look at. If you enter all the terms on the original page, you get sites which have ANY of those words! NOT what you want LOL! Also, enclosing a pair of words in " " will look for sites with that PHRASE. Example "Onslow Co., NC" will look for sites with that phrase, not just sites with Onslow or just Co., or just NC. You have to be careful, however, because people don't always put the whole phrase on their website. "Civil War" however, is a good phrase if you are researching that era. It takes awhile, but eventually you will figure out for your research what are the best terms to try. I always try several combinations, and I repeat the searches every three-four months, because people are adding to webpages and adding webpages to the Net every day. Good luck! Anne