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Google Your Family Tree: Tips & Tricks

This talk looks at basic search strategies and how researchers can maximise their search results. It also addresses more advances searching using Alerts, Library, Images, Videos and Maps.


Finding Pictorial Sources Online

This talk looks at the range of online resources for locating illustrations, photographs and other pictorial sources for family and local history research.


Demolishing Brick Walls: Tips & Tricks

Everyone comes up against a brick wall at some point in their research and this paper outlines some search strategies that might assist in getting past that brick wall.


Genes Reunited: Family trees and historic records

Genes Reunited was created on Guy Fawkes Day in 2002. It was the first British website set up to connect people searching the same family lines and in 2010 was ranked the #1 family website based on market share of visits among all UK sites. Since its acquisition by brightsolid in 2009 various historic records from the findmypast collection have been added - now it includes the complete 1841-1911 census collection, BDM records, Military records, passenger lists, and recently 35 million parish records.


Mapping your ancestors

The use of maps can add a lot to your family history. There are many different kinds of maps showing geographical features, parish boundaries, Poor law Unions, political boundaries, historical maps, tithe maps and now Google Earth. This presentation will show how maps can be used to enhance your family history.


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