From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jun 29 08:13:48 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 k5TEDmjb003154; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:13:48 -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 k5TEDkm2026673 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:13:46 -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 k5TBatFI014426 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:36:55 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k5TBati8014425 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:36:55 -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 k5TBW9FI014332 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:32:09 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k5TE8pTG032029 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:08:51 -0600 X-Envelope-From: omchodoy@gmail.com Thu Jun 29 08:08:51 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 k5TE8pjb032016 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:08:51 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5TE8lUZ023261 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:08:48 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so366139uge for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:08:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=jHc53AT8QTclxrI5Dq3j3F3nY+crM/612HnF93y/wZMTLb9DKi/8sKmV3L/FZk+3bEcey4tcKYREGWW3Y3XA4yzJED9ZV5tlATDDR1oNEVXxNkVUr8mVlWB0a2DsD78vvx3NVtIee5kN9RnKarTV5wTQt2R7cPkpk+6iJYd/JzE= Received: by 10.67.26.7 with SMTP id d7mr1923360ugj; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.220.16 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:08:47 -0700 From: Colleen To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Search tips Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I remember in school learning the rules of sentence structure. Remember the exercise of diagramming sentences that required you to identify the subject, predicate, articles, adjectives/adverbs, etc.? Those same concepts can help in a search of the web. The tips provided here refer to using Google, but it works the same in any web browser. If you are seeking information on something, identify the subject of your interest. For example, if you want to know how to preserve a photograph, open the web browser and type in Photo Preservation. Easy. Yes, you'll have some commercial sites appear to sell you their preservation services, but you'll find a ton of sites that tell you the basics of it so you can do it yourself. If you want something more specific, such as how to remove photos from the old black scrapbook paper our ancestors used, be a little more specific in the search. For example, typing in "Removing Black Paper from Photos" resulted in 7,460,000 hits. The second entry was from the National Archives http://www.archives.gov/preservation/family-archives/detaching-photos.html. There are more. Go look :). The point here is not to be afraid to break the search term "rules" of only putting in one or two words. If the main terms of the subject of your research doesn't net you what you want, try just putting in the search field the question you want. Typing in "How do I remove black paper from photos" nets me 19,400,000 results; however the ones most pertinetn are still in the top 20 or so. The Nat'l Archives result above? Still the second entry. Some browser may not be able to sort that "finely", but the good ones can. Also don't worry about small words in your search, like "From" "with" etc. The browsers will weed them out themselves. Try it next time you have a question about how to do something. You might just find your answer withing minutes! -- Colleen www.omchodoy.blogspot.com www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com www.izziesworld.blogspot.com