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Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Power Searching with Google

In his Online Genealogy Newsletter today, Genealogist Dick Eastman reviewed the recent learning opportunity offered by Google called "Power Searching with Google". I registered for the classes and attended the lessons as they were offered in July. They were Excellent!
Here follows Dick Eastman's recap of the classes:

Want to become an Google Expert? There is one organization that will show you how: Google.

Google_slide_1Google used to conduct occasional live "webinars" that taught the finer points of using the search engine. In the past, you had to be seated at your computer at a designated time to participate in the live seminars. The company has now "canned" those lessons and made them available at any time of the day or night. There are six 50-minute classes, free for anybody to try.

The lessons include:
  • Class 1 - Introduction
  • Class 2 - Interpreting results
  • Class 3 - Advanced techniques
  • Class 4 - Find facts faster
  • Class 5 - Checking your facts
  • Class 6 - Putting it all together
  • Power Searching with Search Experts Video
  • Hang Out with Search Experts Video
The lessons are available as a video, in text, or as a slide show (in Google Docs, of course).
I'd suggest you take a look at the lessons. You’ll be pleased at how much easier it is to find what you’re looking for once you learn a few tricks.

"Power Searching with Google" is available at http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/course.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

At FamilySearch TechTips, Devin Ashby has posted a new and very informative video about Publishing Your Family History with tools provided by Google, including Google Sites, YouTube, and Blogger. Here's a link to the video:  https://www.familysearch.org/techtips/2011/11/publishing-with-google

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Google for Genealogists on YouTube

I often advise our Consultants to have a Google account. Today this short paragraph was published in the Logan Family History Center newsletter:
Google for Genealogists on YouTube
Google is a "MUST" for genealogy research. To get the most out of Google, there are a series of 5 videos on YouTube that will help you learn how to use this powerful tool.  Part 1 discusses basic Google searches, Par1 2 explains techniques for finding genealogical information on the web.  Part 3 & 4 talk about organizing your genealogy and part 5 discusses publishing it.  Submitted by: David Winkler

Monday, October 17, 2011

Google Alerts and Google Books

On Oct 6 I posted a short video about using Google for our genealogy research. Here's a link to that article: http://canoncityfamilyhistorycenter.blogspot.com/2011/10/on-excellent-tech-tips-section-of.html.

Today, Devin Ashby has continued his instruction about using Google Alerts and Google Books in this video at this link:  http://goo.gl/rJ0Kl. Or you can view it here:

Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Google Genealogist

On the excellent Tech Tips section of FamilySearch, a new video was provided today by Devin Ashby called "Google Search Tips for Genealogists". It's a brief 10 minute video --the first of a series Devin will present--and offers some good tips that will help with successful searches for genealogy. We  recommend this short lesson so the time we spend searching online can bring better results. Click HERE to check it out!