Expand Your Searches

SHOESTRING GENEALOGY: Google — Expand Your Searches: "Pay attention to the details. Although Google™ often runs singular and plural searches automatically, try both forms of a word if you're not sure which is more appropriate for your query. The order of keywords is important, because Google™ considers the first word most important, the second word next, and so on. Thus, Brown Family gives you genealogy sites, different from the results Family Brown, which shows a musical band. Google™ ignores most small words, or stop words, such as the following:"