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From: "Bonnie Kohler" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Searching WorldConnect
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:18:22 -0400
References: <a06240804c81ee8d47e30@192.168.1.2> <4BFB1E65.7030303@wvi.com> <2280605249263251683@unknownmsgid> <AANLkTinRxXjGSJyMUnGut4hc-QnjYhZnrHxPUF12vy8z@mail.gmail.com> <COL108-W327461CB75F75B06B7D4392E80@phx.gbl> <COL108-DS1B4E14C03E9924BE5E62392EB0@phx.gbl> <COL108-W15D48FEDB0EB3E2C451D0992EB0@phx.gbl> <2165992594044346831@unknownmsgid><AANLkTikKjT5tjUJafIOmL5XGgIimaXYTc_MMczJbOgdU@mail.gmail.com><000601cb00f8$d55f40b0$801dc210$@baldwin@family-passages.com>


My concern is not with genealogists searching WorldConnect because most of
us know how to do that. I'd like to see the public Web traffic make their
way there.

Bonnie
South Florida


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Baldwin at Family Passages" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 3:38 PM
Subject: [TGF] Searching WorldConnect


> I'm home, and have more time to give this thread a more considered
> response.
> Yes, you can use Google to search a whole lot of things, including
> WorldConnect, but just because you can, doesn't mean it's the best way to
> do
> it. WorldConnect has a very good interface for doing a finely honed search
> -- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi. Google has no idea
> what
> the words are that you are typing in represent (surname, place of birth,
> etc.) It hasn't been developed to search specialty databases such
> WorldConnect. The search interface that WorldConnect gives you, is
> developed
> with the structure of the database in mind. Here's a link to the help
> pages
> for WorldConnect -- http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/wcsearch1.html. I
> always advice looking at help pages so you know what you are searching and
> how to develop a search strategy.
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> Peggy
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> Peggy Baldwin, MLS
>
> Family Passages LLC
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> www.family-passages.com
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> 503-916-9410
>
> Pacific Northwest & Oregon Trail
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> From: Melinda Henningfield [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 6:27 PM
> To: Peggy Baldwin at Family Passages
> Cc: Michael Hait;
> Subject: Re: [TGF] Publishing Online: What Do You Do and Why?
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> If you try <site:wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com "any name you choose"> you will
> be
> likely to get hits from WorldConnect. Of course, you would put the name
> you
> are searching for in the quotation marks.
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> Melinda Henningfield
>
> Medford, Oregon
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