Posts Tagged ‘Internet Archive’

Mocavo- Genealogy Search Engine

Posted: June 14, 2011 in family history, Find A Grave web site, Library of Congress, Mocavo, National Archives, research, search engine
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English: Storage hallway at the National Archi...

English: Storage hallway at the National Archives I building. This was taken with permission at the Wikipedia 10 Washington D.C. event. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What’s new in genealogy today? How about a free search engine called Mocavo, that is specially geared towards genealogists and other people that are interested in their families history? The Mocavo search engine enables the researcher to include more than 50 billion words, names, dates and places in the search bar. Mocavo fills this need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family history research. Can you imagine having your hands on all the free genealogy resources? All of the related results from industry sources such as genealogy message boards, family trees, state and local historical societies, the Library of Congress, National Archives, Ellis Island, Find A Grave, the Internet Archive, various U.S. state archives, and the thousands of genealogy sites that are built by individuals will be displayed on this site. This is so exciting! I can’t wait to see what this site has to offer.


When searching particular names, it is better to put quotation marks around the name as it yields better results, just an FYI in case you didn’t know. So lets see what kind of results I’ll be getting! 
Let me know how your search goes! Any success stories you could share would be great!


Have a blessed day!


Mocavo Home Page

Google Archives- A Great Resource

Posted: June 12, 2011 in archive, Google, keywords, newspaper, time period
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English: Google Logo officially released on May 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

While researching my family, I was looking for old newspaper articles that may have had the Cornett surname  included. I found Google Archives; you can search a time period specifically related to your particular search criteria. Very interesting! 


Google News Archive


Once you have entered your search criteria, a list of web pages comes up for you to explore. How great is that? I have included a sample based on my own search for Cornett, you can see the link for it below. I hope Google doesn’t get rid of this archive service. There are more people than I know of that are in search of their family roots. Many are searching the Cornett surname, as I have seen on many forums across the web. This is a great tool that will give you a peek into history as it was back in the day. For my search, I included the search from the year 1800-1900 and this is just one of the pages that came up.


Sample Archive


Will Google abandon their newspaper archive? I have seen some websites that say they will. It’s a good idea to take advantage of this service just in case they do abandon it. There aren’t many web pages that I know of that offers a free service like this. Mostly, from what I have seen are paid subscriptions. I don’t feel that I should have to pay for a subscription, that I wouldn’t use much except in my genealogy research. Do you think we should have to pay for something like this? Would a paid subscription really be worth the money? What if you don’t find what you are looking for? It would be money wasted.  What are your thoughts on paid subscriptions such as these?