tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post5653499170565536760..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: "Forrest Gump Principle of Genealogical Research" Strikes Again...Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-48610432539620633282014-10-13T22:45:28.579-07:002014-10-13T22:45:28.579-07:00You suggested that we search Google Books, and I k...You suggested that we search Google Books, and I know that I need to do more online research on lots of my ancestors. Diane said she had Googled some of her ancestors. Schalene mentioned Google Plus. That made me wonder which might be the best way to search.<br /><br />In a brief experiment, I first searched Google Books for Arthur Denny in Illinois, an ancestor with whom I am very familiar and whom I have done lots of research. Second, I tried Google. I found that Google contained all of the entries included in Google Books as well as listings from lots of websites. But, there was a lot of garbage in the Google search that not was not related to my search. (I might have eliminated the garbage with a tighter search.) Third, I tried Google Plus, where I found literally nothing useful. Fourth, I tried Bing. On Bing, I received essentially all of the entries in Google with less garbage, but it did not include the info from Google Books (at least in the 10 pages of entries I checked.) Out of curiosity, I tried Mocavo, a pay site with free look-up. It returned a long listing (I'm not sure if it included everything from Google), but there were some entries I don't think were returned by the Google search. I am not a member, so, I would have to do a second search to look up each site individually. Not efficient when Google returns most of the same entries and you just have to click to see them. <br /><br />I will use Google for my searches as it appears to be the most complete and does not require doing two searches.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03106051396616462504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-66807112120595870632014-10-13T01:57:00.811-07:002014-10-13T01:57:00.811-07:00This entry shows both the usefulness and the limit...<br />This entry shows both the usefulness and the limitations of these old "Mug" books. There is no Hubbard County in Ohio. There is, however, both a Hubbard City and a Hubbard Township in Trumbull County, Ohio which is located across the state line from Mercer County, Pennsylvania.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629740511002913794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-33139059118813806862014-10-12T14:13:45.233-07:002014-10-12T14:13:45.233-07:00Google Plus is one of my very favorite genealogy t...Google Plus is one of my very favorite genealogy tools. I found out one of my Riggin ancestors lost an Illinois state representative election to Abraham Lincoln in 1838 and that one of my ancestors was murdered in Nebraska. The article in the county history book about the murder led me to a book dedicated to the subject and several newspaper articles. And those are just my favorite two finds using Google books.Schalene Dagutishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10155315167291741937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-55676730536786887052014-10-11T19:21:05.106-07:002014-10-11T19:21:05.106-07:00That's great Randy. What fun. We really do not...That's great Randy. What fun. We really do not ever know what we will turn up unless we do a search. Have I Googled all my ancestors, or only the ones I'm having trouble with? I believe it would be the latter. So, it seems I've some work to do. <br />Never know what I might find. Thanks for the great reminder. <br />DianeDiane Gould Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15362418860289987479noreply@blogger.com