Search Engines - Family
History Tricks and Treats - by using the Internet wisely
1.
How Search engines have helped me
- Dunfermline, Fife - Young
- Ireland - Civil
Engineering
- Wiliam Maxwell, John Algie,
Lisduff House, Ballinasloe
- Lisduff House - real Estate -
photos
- search every 6 months -
important
- I had to be tactful and able to
read source code
- Algie - land records - plus
Maxwell - Farm Designer in East Galway, after the potato
famine
- Methods I use with search
engines
- Alta Vista - Shows me the number
of hits, Google is similar
- Use double quotes "Hugh
Reekie"
- Note that Google is more
aggressive in "listing" new pages with its 'spider'.
- GEDCOM-generated FH pages may
not get listed on search engines
- If over 50 hits, don't read - do
another search - either:
- More specific - add another
specialized word
- Retain generality, but force a
sort
- add a simple word - e.g
Scotland or "Family history" - and read the first 20 or
so
- Read up on the "rules" under
advanced search
- Hors* horse, horses,
horsemanship etc
- More and more people are finding
me because my web pages are on Google and they are interested
in what they see
- Not just family history - other
pages, too
2.
GENUKI documents
- Specialist lookups
- Books have detailed indexes
produced
- Various GENUKI volunteers are
prepared to help
- Central Wales - Dyfed, Cardigan,
Pembroke is well set up for personal e-mail replies
- Good for background on trades - 1820
era trade directories, searchable, available
-
2A.
Other specialist information
- Many "mini" 1851 census lists
availble - esp for Scotland - permitted by SRO
- Dumfries and Galloway have a
searchable 1851 Census - not widely known
- Be careful about name
spellings
- Paterson, Patterson &
Shawbrae
- Kirkcaldy Kirk Session minutes for
1650 -1790 available at
- A downloaded file- from Fife fam
Hist Soc - 1.1 meg kirkaldie.pdf . .
- Kinross Cleish 1841 census at:
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~andes/cleishx.html
- Other Kinross 1841 Census
available - see
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~andes/scotland.html
- A Scots census index is at:
www.scotsgenealogy.com/library/census.htm
- who has transcribed and published what
3.
Place names - GENUKI search
- Started in January 2004 - very
powerful and convenient
- Shows realated places, especially
parish names, and chaples/churches in the area
- convenienty iner-related to church
photos and summary record information
4.
County Family History Societies
- Many BIFHSGO members haver present
and back copies of quarterly County FH soc newsletters
- contain very useful, specialist
infomation
- Cardiganshire- Victorian School
registration lists available
- especially "members interests;"
listing that are constrained geographically
- GRD is an annual publication of
merit
- GENUKI County names lists are very
poweful
- Let's start an informal "exchange"
with available newsletter indexes
- Many Family History Societies will do
"lookups" from specialized documents
- The documets are usually listed on
web site
- Usually a fee for
non-members
- For members, the situation
varies
- Looking at atricle titles may
match up either a family or trade
- In my case, Williams, Blaen
Pennal, Cardiganshire, and Drover matched up
- The articles were VERY
interesting, but the author insisted that the is no family
connection!!
- Scottish Family History Society - In
addition to a shop a dna research centre in Edinburgh,
- existing genealogies ion filer are
listed at:
http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/fhi/fhi_m.htm
5.
Local History Societies and pages are useful
- Schools - Dollar Academy
- Trades - apprentice lists
etc
6.
How I store information
- Simple text files, suitably
named
- Cut 'n paste
- define sources, date
accessed
- Be careful to define what you
have, and have not, selected
- Wills, sasine, trestaments, church
session records, census searches etc
- I summarize gathered information onto
a web page - whether published or not!.
- Bennoch
- Williams & hymn
writers
- Drovers of Central
Wales
7.
Find a book
- Abebooks.com - Victoria BC
- Use it for information
- Book descriptions often have
useful information in the description
- Libray searches
- US Library of Congress
- Many books - older non-copyright -
available - image scan
- Playford's dance
manuals
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HughReekie-
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