Random Find! ( Search the internet regularly! )

[Mark1973]

I was googling a distant relative who died at sea in 1915 so i always assumed he was a soldier, finally found information about his death on a Grimsby Trawler forum!

[RedMystic]

I've only had a modicum of luck with these types of searches, but admittedly I'm not very good at them. Any hints at how to enter the search info?

I've searched Google, Google News, & Google Books. Do I need to separate them out like this or should I just use the main search engine?

I've been using the surname in quotations, country or community, and then (when searching in Google news) limiting the dates i.e. 1900-1930.

Is there a better way to do this to get better results?

[Nick29]

I prefer to put minimal search information in, and do the filtering myself 

[BettyofKent]

Tracking Great Uncle Alexander from Poland to Nottingham, I discovered he had connections with Canterbury in Kent.  Searching for just surname+Canterbury gave a couple of hits for Canterbury, New Zealand. It turned out he had a son who had emigrated, so a useful find I wasn't expecting.


Betty

[Teddles]

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

Well, fancy that, George was once ONLY 9 .... and already well accomplished on the keyboard, a slave to Geggle ... Well of course being such an accomplished chap, George would not have any forebears who at age 9 already had fathered a child as well as having faced a jury, and been found guilty of murder and had missed having such a sentence of death by hanging then remitted to one of servitude in prison or in a penal colony or otherwise dealt with ... Pardoned perhaps .

[Seoras]

 

I wasn't 9 at the time Teddles,the grandfather was and I am sure had no moustache like the chap in the photo.I of course was also once only 9,well outside,inside I guess I have been 9 several times(especially in the brain department )

ps.I put another great grandfathers name in and it appears he was a baseball player or a senator both in the USA or a magician.To get to the USA and back in between a stint down the coal mine for the first two he would have had to be the third and to be the third he would have to be 117 years old

Seriously though,I have found a couple of relatives in a roundabout way through Googling.

[Hodgkiss]

When on ebay ( which is how this thread started ) I always search for the place name my family came from. I search with the box ticked for searching title and Description and then filter it by collectables.

it seems to be a good way of bringing up alot of photographs of that area. or people of that area.

I found the group photo which included my GGGran by chance, and i only have one other photograph of her that was sent to me at the beggining of the year! Amazing coinsidences.

photo only cost me £4!

[Seoras]

A lucky find Hodgkiss and worth far more to you than the £4 spent.

[coombs]

I check Google regularly for info on ancestors. I type things such as "Richard Taylor" Wimbish and see what comes up.

Today on SEAX I found a settlement examination for my Taylor ancestors from Barkway to Saffron Walden. SEAX collections come up in Google searches.