ANY COUNTRY'S GENEALOGY DATABASES

    Type in the Google search box the  name of the country then any of the following: ~genealogy, passenger list, library, census, birth record, vital records, probate records, war records, family tree, tax records, land records, coat of arms,      
Examples:   Russia ~Genealogy,

or Cuban ~genealogy,  England passenger list 1850, Canadian migration.

Mexican civil records or Russian Church Records, or England Census, or Ireland war   or south America birth records or Russian Birth Marriage Death  or United States Census

or passenger list England "Bob Hope"  Some databases require one to search for the person after  the data base is entered.  In most cases the name can be included in the original search.  Also try the name in reverse order, last name first comma first name, with alternate spellings or with the spellings from the mother country. Note:  the Tilda (~) next to the word genealogy means anything similar to genealogy.

                 Any COUNTY or any CITY or any STATE'S GENEALOGY DATABASE

    Type the name of the City, County or State with any of the following information:  Cemeteries, Newspapers, Passenger List, websites, Genealogy, genealogy society, Library or Archives, Tax Records, Land Records.

An example of this technique:  California"Newspaper Archive"  or Chicago  Death Index

or Moscow Russia "genealogical society"   or Newspapers of Fresno California

Russian cemeteries in new York or Russian Cemeteries in St. Petersburg  or  St. Petersburg Russia Obituaries or  Arizona Obituaries or Kansas City "Probate Records" 

or Anaheim California genealogical society  or ORANGE COUNTY PROBATE RECORDS

or  Kern County California Land Records  or Arizona Probate Records

                  To search for a SPECIFIC PERSON with Google.com as the search engine.

     Type into Google search box the name of the person.  For example:  John Smith ~genealogy or "Henry * Rone" ~genealogy  Note: the * stands for any name. The Tilda has a space in front of it but not behind it.

"John L. Jonson" OR "John Johnson" ~genealogy The capital OR will search for these spellings variations. 

"John * Smith" born 1870   Note: the ( *) stands for any complete name.

"John Smith" OR "Mary Jones"  Note: This search produces either person or both

"John Smith" +"Mary Jones"  Note:  with the (+) both names must be in the search results.  The +sigh must be next to the next symbol, letter or number i.e. no spaces except in front of the plus sign.

     When there are too many search results as determined by the number just below the Google search window add more limiting factors.  Add  the first name of the spouse, then try the State, County or City.  Try the year of birth or death or range with two dot between as follows 1886..1940 or other specific information about the individual.  This is a trial and error technique.  If you see things in the search results that you do not want put a minus sign immediately before that word in the search box.  Then these things will not be in the new search results.

              HINTS AND HELPS

Check www.books.google.com   Free printouts for books that are out of copyright (before 1924).

and www.google.com/news for your family member. Google Newspaper Archive is usually free. And then using worldcat.org you might find the in copyright book in a library nearby.

Check www.worldcat.org for family member, books or newspapers.  (10,000 Libraries)

Note:  The book you want may be in a library near your zip code, so enter your zip code.  If it is far away you can make an inter-library loan and have it sent to the main library in Anaheim on Harbor Blvd. or to the Huntington Beach Library where it can be scanned and copied..

Open WORDPAD or any word processing program. Copy and paste into it the web links you intend to search as well as the web address of the Google search results page.  This helps to make a record of what you have searched and when you find something, copy and past your finding  below that link in your word processing program.  This makes an electronic record and avoids confusion.

Open a New Window or a New tab using a right mouse click and choosing from the window.  This allows you to keep your Google results page.  Some people leave many tabs open and only close a tab when it is well searched.  Some prefer to close the new window and defaulting to the results page. Note:  If you close all tabs, then the search results page also closes. Tabs can be close separately by clicking on the  X in that tab. Note: All Google searches are case insensitive.

Use the CTRL+F keys to search through the database.  This search or find command will

speed up searching for names or places or dates.   Hold the control key down and press the F key on the keyboard one time.  This opens a Find box. It will highlight the name, state or date you enter into the search box, if it is on the page or website several pages into it.  Press Enter or Click Next.

Places to search on the Web and in person.   First find the database you want to search then submit the name of the person you are researching.  Sometimes you can submit the name and the database at the same time.  I find that adding the word FREE to the some searches makes my life easier. Other words that help are INDEX and the spelled out name of the State.

MAJOR SEARCH TERMS:

Census, Vital Records, Cemeteries, Military Records, Taxation, Obituaries, Bible Records, Newspapers, Genealogy, Biography, Naturalization & Citizenship, Immigration, Emigration, Histories, Maps, Gazetteers, Probate Record, Court Records, Land & Property Records, Divorce Records, Ethnicity Minorities, Native Races, Societies, History, Periodicals, Church Records, Military Records, Telephone books, Military Retirement, Nobility, City Directories, Civil Registration, Employee Records, Taxation, Previously Compiled Genealogy, Societies, Archives, Libraries, Genealogy Societies and History Groups, NARA,