Random Find! ( Search the internet regularly! )

[scintilla]

You can use Google Alerts where you can register a name or a phrase and any new occurrence will be alerted to you by e-mail. You can set the frequency you want it checked, I have some set up for daily checking, then you don't have to remember to do it. Only works if the name is fairly unique! Put it in quotes just to pick up that exact name rather than the individual parts of the name.

[BettyofKent]

Don't just use Google. Different search engines throw up different results.

Bing, for instance, didn't give me many results, but one was new & proved very interesting.


Betty

[jc26red]

I put my dad's cousins married name into google (very unusual name) and it came back with her war time account  when she was stationed  in Portsmouth which she had written for the bbc history site!
My dad and uncle were really chuffed to bits to read it, their cousin used to visit my uncle as he was stationed on the Isle of Wight during the war. 

[marysma]

I love googling .

Googling my family name came up with an artical written in 1832 by the Chairman of the Local Health Board for Tranent and Prestopans by a H Cadell.

In the article he writes about Peter Horn aged 10yrs of Cockenzie who made a remarkable recovery from Cholera.Peter's brother Adam 18mths is also mentioned.

Marysma

[kooky]

You used to be able to specify England or UK, in Google. I always did this, otherwise I got a lot of American stuff which was not relevant.
Now it does not give you that option.
Kooky

[Teddles]

You used to be able to specify England or UK, in Google. I always did this, otherwise I got a lot of American stuff which was not relevant.
Now it does not give you that option.
Kooky

If you search for say "John Smith" england your search will eliminate lots of the US ones .... using the quotation marks around the key words and then the country etc ... still works for me

Teddles

[kooky]

OK!
Kooky

[Salvia]

With my Google account, on the first page of results for a search, on the left are some options, one of which is 'pages from the UK'.  I just click on that.

Salvia

[Seoras]

I put my grandfather's name in to find he was convicted and hanged for murder.However being only 9 at the time I am fairly certain he didn't do it