SEARCH ENGINES

The web has many good general search engines to help genealogists find families. The more common search enignes include:

• Google - Generally regarded as the best search engine, this is a super resource for surname searches, especially when the word Family follows the surname. You can also find people using the images tab. I found a cousin in Alabama that way, searching for images of cousins with a particular surname.
• Altavista
• Yahoo! - Also check out YahooGroups for surname lists and chatrooms.
• Infoseek
• HotBot
• WebCrawler
• Excite

Using Search Engines

Use the search engines above to search for family names, family home pages, people with the same last name and information about localities:

• To find out all the people in phone books with the last name being researched, also try Yahoo People Search formerly known as Four11.
• Searches can be conducted for names, addresses, and even email addresses using this search engine.
• To find maps of localities, use Map Quest
• To find listservs containing genealogy information, try Yahoo!
• Some of the new metasearch engines find even more than the millions of pages indexed by the above search engines. Dogpile is a good example of a metasearch engine. It is especially good for name searches.

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This website written and designed by:
Sharon Marie Centanne,
Genealogy Research Instructor and Internet Trainer
Please direct any questions to:
Sharon.

This page updated May 3, 2008

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