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The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox, 2nd Edition, Revised & Updated; by Lisa Louise Cooke; 2015, Soft Cover; 203 pp; 8.5x11; ISBN: 9780984522903; Item #LU18

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The completely updated second addition of the national bestseller! When it comes to tracing your family tree online, you need the right tools to get the job done! In The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox, renowned genealogy podcaster Lisa Louise Cooke helps you stuff your genealogy toolbox with FREE state-of-the-art Internet tools that are built to search, translate, message, and span the globe. You’ll travel outside the genealogy community and straight to the folks who dominate the online world: Google. A lot has changed since the first edition was published in 2011, and it's all documented step-by-step in this new edition.

Following is a list of the chapters found in the volume:

• Introduction, Getting Ready to build Your Family Tree Fast
• Chapter 1: Search Tools
• Chapter 2: Basic & Advanced Search
• Chapter 3: Search Strategies for High-Quality Results
• Chapter 4: Site Search & Resurrecting Websites
• Chapter 5: Image Search
• Chapter 6: Common Surname Searches
• Chapter 7: Google Alerts
• Chapter 8: Gmail
• Chapter 9: Google Books
• Chapter 10: Google News Archive
• Chapter 11: Google scholar
• Chapter 12: Google Patents
• Chapter 13: Google Translate
• Chapter 14: YouTube
• Chapter 15: Google Earth: An Overview
• Chapter 16: Google Earth: Ancestral Homes & Locations
• Chapter 17: Google Earth: Organizing & Sharing
• Chapter 18: Google Earth: Historic Images & Maps
• Chapter 19: Google Earth: Plotting Your Ancestor’s Homestead
• Chapter 20: Google Earth: Adding Family History Content
• Chapter 21: Google Earth: Family History Tour Maps
• Appendix: Find it Quick: The “How To” Index

I like the guidebook, and recommend it to anyone who wants to get more use of the online “tools” available to them.