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[Sobil]

Hi all,

Just wanted to share my surfing experience. I've been Googling for all the names in my family to see what comes up (12 hours a day!) using all the variations i.e. "John Smith", "Smith, J" "Johnny Smith", "Smith, London" (fortunately my name is NOT Smith!). I've sent emails to all the people who have transcribed lists containing my ancesters names and been heartened by the wonderful help they have given.

However, I cannot track the thousands of sites I go through each day and despite using Google for about 8 years, I have only just stumbled across "Google Alerts" in the Options section.

It's great, I enter my more obscure family names and if anyone makes a new posting on a chat page, or it appears on a web site, Google sends me an email. How cool is that!

Feet up this weekend I think....

Sobil

[Tracey]

I've sent emails to all the people who have transcribed lists containing my ancesters names and been heartened by the wonderful help they have given...................................
It's great, I enter my more obscure family names and if anyone makes a new posting on a chat page, or it appears on a web site, Google sends me an email. How cool is that!
Feet up this weekend I think....Sobil

Hi Sobil
I have no experience of Google allerts but i did subscribed to all the obvious available message boards and it drove me nuts every few minutes i kept getting an email.......... .getting home from work there would be 20 - 30 messages but maybe that was more to do with the name i posted . But as you say your names are obscure ones and wont get bombarded like i did, so i hope you do get to put for feet up this weekend !

[rdlester]

I use the Google Alerts for many of my surnames. It really helps, although sometimes I get things that aren't genealogy related. It is a useful tool that I reccomend.
Roger

[Sobil]

I guess I'm just lucky that some of my family have daft names nobody else would ever use!