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Use Google Alerts for Family History Research
Jill Holmes
Let your fingers do the walking. How many of you remember that ad slogan from the Yellow Pages? Google Alerts should adopt that slogan. Since all you do is type…
Request Patriarchal Blessings Online
The new LDS.org has a lot of cool new features and tools, some of which we’ve illuminated in the past. One great new feature is the ability to request your personal…
FindAGrave.com – The Virtual Cemetery
In your search for ancestors, the hunt on the internet can be daunting. Sometimes too much of a good thing can be overwhelming, but this site is definitely a keeper.…
Attention Church History Buffs: Use Footnote to tag primary source documents
Footnote is a neat web service that allows you to access millions of historical original documents and add tags to different parts of the document. It uses Flash so the…
Build your family tree with Gini
Over at Lifehacker, they’ve done a write up about a great online family tree collaboration site called Geni. (It also looks like Sustaind has picked up on it to.) How…
Use Google Maps in Genealogy
Map Your Ancestors is a neat service that integrates Ancestry.com and Google Maps. You can make plots on Google Maps that show where your ancestors have lived. You can also…
Use Gmail as a journal
We’re supposed to keep a journal. That’s what the prophets both anciently and today have said. People have different preferences: some like the feel of pen and paper, others like…
