From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 1 03:53:58 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k719rwjb011881; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:53:58 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k719rvjf024006 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:53:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k717F8FI031937 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:15:08 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k717F8ue031936 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:15:08 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k712tEFI031448 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:55:14 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k715XpLS009368 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:33:51 -0600 X-Envelope-From: rednecktx@cableone.net Mon Jul 31 23:33:51 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k715Xljb009359 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:33:47 -0600 Received: from S1.cableone.net (s1.cableone.net [24.116.0.227]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k715XiQM020847 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:33:44 -0600 Received: from RobertLong (unverified [69.92.16.48]) by S1.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S1) with ESMTP id 69081911 for multiple; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:34:04 -0700 Message-ID: <024801c6b52b$dfd2e780$6501a8c0@RobertLong> From: "Robert" To: , References: <20060731.133926.3483.562162@webmail12.lax.untd.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Go to GOOGLE for Genealogy. Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 00:32:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 32, in=69, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 69.92.16.48 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com The trick to finding what I'm looking for (and not 400,000 irrelevant hits) on google or any other search engine is using the right search text. How do you select the "right" search string to ensure getting genealogy/history info and avoid the garbage? Bubba ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:39 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Go to GOOGLE for Genealogy. > > I'm an old subscriber returning to genealogy and rootsweb after a 4 year > absence. And I'm wondering if I might be the only one who hadn't used > GOOGLE to find GENEALOGY? > To my amazement, I received 10 sheets of 10 - 40 resources on each, > including ethnic, census, pensions, ships etc. If you haven't tried it > you might like it. > Delta > >