Two New Search Engines to Help You Use Free
Genealogy Search Methods to Make Your Personal
Genealogy and Family History Research Easier cont..

NOTE: This is the second part of a two part online lesson.

See part one: Free genealogy search.

Another good free genealogy search tool is the Gigablast search engine.

Go to the Gigablast search engine and type in the key word-- genealogy

Click on the "blast it!" button.

This also clusters, gathers, categorizes (or whatever you want to call it) the information from the results for you. Gigablast calls theirs, "Giga Bits."

Click on the link (which here is a Giga Bit) called-- "Genealogy Resources" and examine the results.

You will see the results for the category genealogy resources. No surprise there.

Scroll down to the bottom of your screen. You will see that the key words are in the search box already--AND you will see that from here you can do the search from the Google, Yahoo, Alltheweb, Dmoz, AltaVista, Teoma or Wisenut search engines!

Clusty and Gigablast are helpful and have potential for genealogy researchers. At this point in time, I still consider the Google search engine to be the king of the hill.

As I've taught countless thousands (millions if you count the DearMYRTLE Internet radio show), you can do so much by fine-tuning your online genealogy searches using Google--and each search will usually take three to five times as you adjust the key words.

Try using these keywords (from the example shown in part one) on Clusty and Gigablast. Or use your own:

+ragan +born +duval

In Google there were 157 results. In Clusty - 97 (they are still Beta, though). Gigablast only returned 15 results for some reason.

Experiment with these two new search engines and have fun. I'm sure that they will only get better.

With the Clusty and Gigablast search engines, you've seen genealogy broken down into topics.

You can see in the above example that genealogy software is a very popular topic in the genealogy world so let's use it as an example.

You can click on the genealogy software cluster on Clusty or Gigablast's genealogy software giga bit as shown above. But don't forget about the current king of search engines--Google.

Try researching genealogy software and other genealogy topics in all three search engines. You can start with Google from this page:

Be sure to see the features of the Family Tree Maker 2006 genealogy software.