Monthly Archive: March 2012

Using Search Operators in Google

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Searching on Google An initial search for the family line I am researching – the Forshaw family, returned   3,680,000 results.  This post discusses how to narrow down your search results using Google operators. Quoted Phrases To search for a phrase, a proper name, or a set of words in a specific order, put them in double …

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Searching Google in 7 different ways

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Finding the war casualty

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An ancestor in the armed forces How do you find an ancestor who you believe may have died  whilst serving in the armed forces. I was looking for a great great uncle and couldn’t locate  a death certificate or any evidence of him past the 1911 census. For anyone born in the late 1890′s, there …

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