Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Top 25 most popular 2009 genealogy blogs

Your Grandmother is absolutely beautiful! We are c...

2009-04-25T21:14:00.000-06:00

Your Grandmother is absolutely beautiful! We are certainly related.

You are wearing glasses after all!

Look forward to meeting another member of the family in LA in June. See you then!

-fM

I can see there is a fair amount of Google Search ...

2009-04-16T09:40:00.000-06:00

I can see there is a fair amount of Google Search expertise in this blog's readership, but there still may be some tips I can share. Here's a good one for finding new sources on a topic. You can find where the buzz is coming from by getting Google Alerts on anyone who links to a popular genealogy blog. For example, ExpertGenealogy.com is high ranked. You can have Google tell you when someone links to this site with the following Alert, and then follow those alerts to find new sources of info:

link:expertgenealogy.com -site:expertgenealogy.comI hope you find this useful. For more tips like this, you can try my free Google Alerts Tutorial:
http://www.alertrank.com/google-alerts-tutorial.html

You may be surprised to know that there are 1,006,...

2009-04-16T07:02:00.000-06:00

You may be surprised to know that there are 1,006,398 blog entries indexed by Google (as of 16April2009) that reference Genealogy or a word similar to genealogy.

Using the similar words feature (e.g. ~genealogy), you can sift through all blog pages indexed, but filter them to just get family history related items.

This is just one of more than a hundred tips and techniques that I outline in my book Google Your Family Tree and featured on DearMYRTLE on 08Jan2009.

Enjoy -
Dan LynchAuthor
Google Your Family Tree

don't just search "family history" - if you use th...

2009-04-16T06:57:00.000-06:00

don't just search "family history" - if you use the tilde before the word ~genealogy it will include all synonyms in your search.. Bet that will raise the numbers!

Dear fM Anonymous, Gosh! I had never put it toget...

2009-04-15T22:01:00.000-06:00

Dear fM Anonymous,

Gosh! I had never put it together until this very moment. Now that you mention it, I can see the resemblance between you and my grandmother. Click here to see her picture; can you see the resemblance?

-- The Ancestry Anonymous

DearMYRT, ThankYOU! It is an honor being on the s...

2009-04-15T21:15:00.000-06:00

DearMYRT,

ThankYOU! It is an honor being on the same list as you. And thanks for your blog post earlier today. Now we know the rest of the story...

-- The Anonymous Insider

Thanks to the list I now know we're cousins, shari...

2009-04-15T20:42:00.000-06:00

Thanks to the list I now know we're cousins, sharing the surname "Anonymous."

-fM

You may be interested in my blog posting: http://...

2009-04-15T18:08:00.000-06:00

You may be interested in my blog posting:

http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2009/04/ancestry-insider-google-alerts-top-25.html

Myrt :)

Thanks for reminding me to use those "quote marks"...

2009-04-15T10:05:00.000-06:00

Thanks for reminding me to use those "quote marks" to narrow down the Google Alerts to "FamilySearch".

And congrats on being a top 25 blogger.