When looking for a specific ancestor is can be very helpful to have the pages you turn up only be ones that focus on that individual alone. Example: site: “wilcox, james” –note that we didn’t place a space between ‘site:’ and the url and that we didn’t include the ‘ part either. Use ‘site:SITEURL’ before a term or terms to do this. Would you like to get search results only for a specific website, such as FamilySearch?
This works to exclude specific sites as well (-rootsweb). Just make sure that the minus sign is placed directly before the term with no space in between. The minus sign can be placed in front of many terms to further refine results ( -dunbar -somerset -1907) or term strings (-“Wilcox, James Robinson”). Place a minus sign before a term to exclude these unwanted results (Example: “wilcox, james” 1837 mahala -somerset). He’s definitely not our guy, so we’ll exclude the term Somerset. For instance, a James Wilcox who lived in Somerset keeps coming up for us. Oftentimes when we are searching for ancestors, especially those with common names, we may find that a certain person or location we’re NOT looking for turns up again and again, clouding our results.
Register to get access to the lessons now. Want more advanced Google search tricks? An entire section of our online Genealogy Course is dedicated to this topic. We are using an example ancestor - James Wilcox, married to Mahala and born in 1837 - to illustrate each trick.įor those who may not have spent a great deal of time searching Google for family history, we’ve included 3 important and somewhat common tricks, as well as the more advanced tricks in our list. Luckily, Google is a pretty smart search engine and can help you reveal just what you’re looking for - if you know the “secrets.”īelow we have walked you through 6 of these hidden search tips that will help you locate your ancestors much more quickly. This is great news for research, but turning up relevant pages is tricky. Even if you’re careful to enter specific details into your searches you may not successfully limit results to the ones you want. While this is true for all inquires via search, it is especially true for family history searches because many sites have published long lists of names and dates, including family trees, transcribed book pages and records.
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