Some recent developments from Search engine Google include new ways to find the image you want in an Images search. There are now a number of ways to get a more specific search - a face search, which lets you limit your search results to only images containing faces, photo search, which limits results to images that contain photographic elements, and clip art and line drawings.
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ 19-12-08
Google books are now including magazine articles as part of the search results.
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Google news to digitise newspaper archives
Google Books is a great online resource for family history researchers. Google have recently announced that their Google News search will make millions of pages of archived newspaper content available for free. The new scheme will see Google linking up with a series of major newspaper and magazine publishers to digitise their print archives. To read more about this recent announcement by Google visit The Guardian.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Surfing for your ancestors
Surfing for your Ancestors
Ivanhoe Library
Thursday 21 August 2008
10.30 - 11.30 am
Tips on using the internet for family history research
Genealogy’s current popularity owes much to the advent of the Internet. Information about our ancestors can be more accessible. The web has not only brought us the information but it has indexed it. What used to involve a lot of time and bother and expense can now be found within seconds sometimes. In essence it has certainly made light of a task that used to be difficult.
This session will briefly look at Search Engines - Databases – Online blogs or newsletters – Gateway sites – Newsgroups – Message boards and mailing lists – Useful Australian and international websites including newspapers and sites for military research.
For tips on how to use Google in your research check the following websites for tips and tricks:
Easy Google Genealogy Searcher
Free Genealogy Search help for Google
Google genealogy style
Using Google to find common surnames in genealogy search
Genealogy search in a foreign language: using foreign language search engines to locate your ancestors
Ivanhoe Library
Thursday 21 August 2008
10.30 - 11.30 am
Tips on using the internet for family history research
Genealogy’s current popularity owes much to the advent of the Internet. Information about our ancestors can be more accessible. The web has not only brought us the information but it has indexed it. What used to involve a lot of time and bother and expense can now be found within seconds sometimes. In essence it has certainly made light of a task that used to be difficult.
This session will briefly look at Search Engines - Databases – Online blogs or newsletters – Gateway sites – Newsgroups – Message boards and mailing lists – Useful Australian and international websites including newspapers and sites for military research.
For tips on how to use Google in your research check the following websites for tips and tricks:
Easy Google Genealogy Searcher
Free Genealogy Search help for Google
Google genealogy style
Using Google to find common surnames in genealogy search
Genealogy search in a foreign language: using foreign language search engines to locate your ancestors
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