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For those of you who've read my book, Finding Your Roots Online, you'll know that one of my favorite ancestor-finding tools is a run-of-the-mill search engine. Using search engine "math"—1Boolean operators such as or, + ( which means and) and - (means not)—genealogists can construct complex searches...
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When I put together my family history book, I tried to add as many photos as possible. Having all the data was great, but photos added that special touch. Most of the time I import my own digital photos or old slides that I converted to digital images. At...
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