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Google Search Strategies for Common Surnames

Lisa Louise Cooke
May 24, 2013
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Welcome
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Polls
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Web History
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Search Operators
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Search Results
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Define Your Goal
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Numrange Search
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Get An Edge
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Link Search
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Related Search
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Google Alerts
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One More Tip
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Discover tips and tricks to find your ancestors with common surnames and surnames that double as common words in the English language with Google. Learn how to weed out irrelevant search results to save time and get to what you want faster. Then save and automate your searches to run for you! You'll not only improve your searches, but also improve the chances that the information you post online will be found by other genealogists facilitating collaboration!

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Lisa Louise Cooke
Lisa Louise Cooke is the producer of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, the popular and long-running genealogy podcast which has been downloaded over 3 million times! The podcast is avai
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