General Meeting -- October 13, 2011

Last month, Lisa Louise Cooke gave a wonderful lecture on using Google.com as genealogical research strategies.  She talked about:

• Basic Google searches
• Advanced Search Operators, such as the tilde (~), asterisk (*), and numrange search
• Advanced search strategies such as Google's advance search, related searches, and site searches
• Google Books searches
• Google News Timeline

She has a wonderful book which explains this and much more.  The Genealogist's Google Toolbox.  Check it out at http://www.genealogygems.tv/GoogleforGenealogy.htm.

This month our speaker, Corey Oiesen will speak about “Identifying and Citing Genealogy Sources."  This is always a good topic.  Citing our sources is very important.  I'm looking forward to this lecture.

General Meeting -- September 8, 2011 -- Lisa Louise Cooke

We have a special treat this month. Lisa Louise Cooke will speak about how to make better searches using Google.com. The meeting starts at 7:00 P.M. and is located in the LDS Church, 1360 Alberta Way, Concord, CA.  See below for details of our speaker:

Ultimate Google Search Strategies

Summary:
Frustrated by thousands of irrelevant search results when you search for your family using Google? Do you want to achieve better results in a shorter amount of time? Learn the art of online search with Genealogy Podcaster and Google Expert Lisa Louise Cooke, author of the book The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox. In this class you will expand your Google search repertoire and learn techniques, tricks and tips to achieve better genealogical search results.

Bio:

Lisa Louise Cooke is the Producer and Host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, a free online genealogy audio show at www.GenealogyGems.com and in iTunes. She is the author of the books Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies and The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox, and the Google Earth for Genealogy DVD series, an international conference speaker, and writer for Family Tree Magazine in the U.S.