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| The wonderful and talented Irene Winterburn! |
First off I need to thank the ladies from the Phoenix Family History Library that attended Irene Winterburn's presentation "Google Tips and Tricks for Finding Treasures" - not only were you the nicest folks but the fact that you thought I was ten years younger than I am - well, we are friends for life! Irene's presentation reminded me of a few Google tools I tend to forget to use and opened my eyes to a few tricks I need to start using. Please visit her blog http://jirenegen.blogspot.com/ for some wonderful genealogy tips. One such tool I forget to use on Google is the ~ (tilde) which when included in a search will find similar words. For example Skibbe~genealogy will also find Skibbe family history, family tree, genealogical, etc. Irene and I also attended Jason Harrison's "Mark Twain's Death Solves Mystery: The Value of Using Newspapers in Research". His presentation was well done and informative. Now I just need to block out everything else I should be doing and starting searching the papers. I had a wonderful time and I hope everyone else did too.
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| Michelle Goodrum (turning-of-generations@blogspot.com) and I at a presentation |
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| Colleen McHugh (omchorations.blogspot.com) and I at the Friday's banquet. |
