Family Tree Frog

I won't pretend I don't love Google . I must use it a dozen times a day...at least..and then some.   But are you using it properly and is there more to the web than google?  Wanna brush up on your internet searching skills? Here are some online lessons . Or here . Or here. Or here.  See if your public library membership card allows you acess to courses on Lynda as well. If it does there's another course here. If you want to take your searching the web to the next level I can recommend you read Maureen Henninger's The Hidden Web . She'll introduce you to directories, portals, vortals and gateways.  Well worth reading. Other books to guide you on the internet are: The Genealogist's Internet by Peter Christian ... and Cora Num's three guides Internet Family History, Irish Research on the Internet and eRecords for Family History.  I have to confess that I still have GRDs or Genealogical Research Directories still on my shelves although the...

I is for Indexes and the Internet  Index from J E Theriot on Flickr   Creative Commons licence is here. What would we do without indexes?  And God bless the folk that create them. I confess to getting a bit cranky these days if I borrow a non-fiction book and it doesn't have an index - what were they thinking?  Of course, indexes are not just in the back of books. Researchers can find them in libraries and archives. They might be created by archivists and librarians or volunteers like the members of QFHS and wonderful individuals like Judy Webster.  They are fantastic tools or finding aids that help you navigate a sea of information.  I am a bit chuffed because today I received my very own copy of Brian Papardallo's Tracing Your Naval Ancestors.   It contains many tables showing what records exist in The National Archives and if personal name indexes exist for them. Now, if only I could get to them thar Archives!   ...