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Another Mocavo offering --By on November 3rd, 2011

Mocavo is embarking on a new extension of their already exceedingly useful services; one where they conduct automated [...]

Google Search “Tricks & Tips” --By on May 29th, 2011

Internet searching can be a wonderful adjunct to your genealogy efforts. Unfortunately most folks seem not to [...]

Google Search “Automated Tricks” --By on June 10th, 2011

Randy Majors has created a genealogy Google query tool that seems quite helpful. His search  tool attempts to [...]

Image Search “Google Tricks” --By on June 4th, 2011

So you search for images as well, you say. I know I do. I find the search [...]

Kick-starting your genealogy efforts --By on July 15th, 2011

I have put this little reminder checklist together to help me and others quickly examine our obvious options [...]

Mocavo Genealogy Search (Free) --By on May 27th, 2011

Mocavo is a wonderful genealogy search site! 
A reader sent me a message describing this powerful and well focused, [...]

Polish Archives --By on July 10th, 2011

For those interested in such things, a number of ‘online’ Polish Archives have recently come to my attention.  [...]

Searching for Texts (online) --By on May 25th, 2011

Finding obscure, out of print texts covering low interest topics is an essential part of conducting genealogy research. [...]

The best non-genealogy genealogy places #1 --By on March 6th, 2010

Some of the most useful genealogy sites and locations, often are not genealogical in nature, include the following:

Internet [...]

The best non-genealogy genealogy places #2 --By on March 17th, 2010

Books offer some of the best information! Personally, I find history texts and map books to especially helpful [...]

Where & how to search the Internet --By on June 23rd, 2011

This small post is largely borrowed from Southern Oregon University.  Hopefully the pointers and links are useful reminders [...]

WW1 German Casualty Lists – 1.WK Armee-Verordnungsblatt Verlustliste --By on July 6th, 2011

dlibra in Poznan is in the process of electronically disseminating German Casualty lists from WW1.  As of this [...]