kpaavola
13-09-03, 03:28
For those searching for a difficult ancestor, try one of the best search engines I personally have found: www.google.com
Some of the techniques that I've used searching for ancestors on google include using the last name of a husband and the maiden name of the wife, ancestor's last name and a birth/death year, ancestor's last name and the parish name, if known.
Many times this will return more results than is reasonable to browse through so by strategically using quote marks ("") helps to narrow it down. For example: A search for Kevin & Paavola may return 1000 records but a search for "Kevin Paavola" may only return 100. Whatever is within the quote marks will be returned only if it appears exactly on a web page.
Using this method is how I stumbled on Hasse Nygard's web page. Of course I had to run it by June, for verification, before I contacted him! :)
Happy searching!
Some of the techniques that I've used searching for ancestors on google include using the last name of a husband and the maiden name of the wife, ancestor's last name and a birth/death year, ancestor's last name and the parish name, if known.
Many times this will return more results than is reasonable to browse through so by strategically using quote marks ("") helps to narrow it down. For example: A search for Kevin & Paavola may return 1000 records but a search for "Kevin Paavola" may only return 100. Whatever is within the quote marks will be returned only if it appears exactly on a web page.
Using this method is how I stumbled on Hasse Nygard's web page. Of course I had to run it by June, for verification, before I contacted him! :)
Happy searching!