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List members,
You are receiving this message because you are on one of my genealogy
surname lists. I however also administer the FRANCO-AMERICAN-L list that
deals with issues faced by descendants of French Canadians who are now
living in the US. I am here as a first generation FA but most readers
are second, third and fourth generation FA.
I sometimes will post FA related messages on this list but f you are
really interested in following up on issues facing FA, I strongly
suggest that you join the FA list. Do this by linking to
http://www.francoamericanconnection.com/fa-list.html
You may also want to browse The Franco-American Connection website which
I also administer at
http://www.francoamericanconnection.com/
And lastly, please remember to resubscribe to any list you belong to
when you change your email address as the list administrator cannot do
this for you. After three messages to you which are refused by your
provider (because you are no longer a member), your name will be removed
from the list.
All my lists are on RootsWeb. To learn about or join any of their other
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If you have friends that may not have heard about this list, feel free
to forward this message to them.
Have a good day.
Jacques
List administrator
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Jacques L'Heureux, Columbia, Maryland
Personal website: http://www.happyOnes.com/
Scientific website: http://Jacques.happyOnes.com/
Genealogy website: http://genealogy.happyOnes.com/
Franco-American website: http://www.FrancoAmericanConnection.com/
Translation website: http://world.altavista.com/
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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
Vol. 9 No. 12 – March 22, 2004
-New Genealogy Search Site
Dick Eastman, New England Historic Genealogical Society
It does seem unique that two announcements regarding genealogy search
sites are received in the same week, almost the same day. The day after
I received notice about GENDEX, I also received an announcement about a
brand-new free genealogy Web site that uses Google as the search engine.
The new Web site proclaims:
This free site will help you use Google™ to research your genealogy. It
will create different Google searches using tips or "tricks" that will
likely improve your search results. The different searches will give you
many different ways of using Google to find ancestry information on the
Internet. Just provide what you know about an ancestor and the site will
set up the best searches for you, based on what you enter.
The Genealogy Search Help site offers fill-in fields for the desired
ancestor's first and last name, father's name, mother's name and
spouse's name. Other fields include place of birth and place of death.
Obviously, you fill in only the information you have and leave the
remaining fields empty.
I decided to try the site and compare it side-by-side with a regular
search for the same names on Google. I first entered one of my "end of
line" ancestors' names, a person whose parents are unknown to me. I only
know his full name and place of death. The Genealogy Search Help site
found several references to this person, but unfortunately, all those
references were written by me, either in this newsletter or in online
queries. I must say that I was not too surprised.
I then picked a different ancestor, Samuel Harmon, born in 1709. This
time I did have full information about his parents, spouse, and
children. I simply used him as a test case. I entered his full name,
spouse's name, and his place of death, but did not enter his parent's
names. I wanted to see if the Genealogy Search Help site would find him.
Indeed, it did. Several references to this person were identified, and
most of them listed his parents' names.
I attempted to conduct essentially the same search manually on Google.
For those who are not familiar with Google's inner workings, this could
be a challenge. Simply searching for Samuel Harmon resulted in 365,000
hits! For example, I found a present-day photographer in Ohio and a
realtor in Virginia, both named Samuel Harmon. There were many others as
well.
I narrowed the search by typing "Samuel Harmon genealogy." This time I
"only" received 22,000 hits. I next went to Google's advanced search
page at http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en and experimented for
a while with other terms, such as his wife's name and the town where he
died. Indeed, I did eventually narrow the search to the point where
almost all the "hits" were related to my ancestor, Samuel Harmon.
So what does the Genealogy Search Help site offer that Google does not?
The answer is one word: convenience.
The Genealogy Search Help site does not find any data that you cannot
find by yourself on Google. However, it does help you quickly narrow
your focus in what would otherwise be an ocean of data. This service is
especially good for Google novices who have not yet learned to use
Google's more advanced features.
I will caution you that you still will want to conduct searches the
old-fashioned way, both on Google and elsewhere. The new Genealogy
Search Help site is a convenience, but not a definitive tool. If you do
not find your ancestor using the new search tool, try again and again
elsewhere.
Webmasters will note that there is a capability to build ancestor search
pages into your own Web site by cutting and pasting a few lines of HTML
code.
The Genealogy Search Help site is supported by advertising, and there
seem to plenty of ads to go around. You can experiment with this new
service at: http://www.genealogy-search-help.com/
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Jacques L'Heureux, Columbia, Maryland
Personal website: http://www.happyOnes.com/
Scientific website: http://Jacques.happyOnes.com/
Genealogy website: http://genealogy.happyOnes.com/
Franco-American website: http://www.FrancoAmericanConnection.com/
Translation website: http://world.altavista.com/
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Looking for information on this couple...Arthur born abt. 1860-70...possibly Canada..Cora born Abt. 1878-1879 Michigan. They were married abt. 1891 in Manistee County Michigan. Cora would be abt 13 at the time of their marriage. In 1910 they were living in Osceola County Michigan..and in 1930 they were in Pontiac Michigan. Trying to find death dates..they had at least 3 children that I know of according to the census records..Arthur Jr., Earl and Florence..Thanks...Violet