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December 08, 2008

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Julia

I appreciate this review. Your many reviews over the past has been one of my favorite parts but they seem to be lacking recently in the multitude of just getting out everyone's announcements about what they are doing and adding. So thanks for the review. Sounds like a great book.

Beatrix Polman

The way you tell it, there seems nothing new in there that I did not know already. Sounds like just another book about Google.

Nancy

Thanks for the review, sounds like just the book to aid me in sharpening my Googling skills. I think I do pretty well with Google, but I am always receptive to learning more. Got to find that ancestor that is there somewhere!

Woody Hardman

Dick: May I have your permission to include this article "Google your family tree" in a monthly newsletter for the Mountain Genealogy Society?

Woody Hardman

Dick Eastman

Yes. In fact, you always have permission to republish Standard Edition articles in non-profit publications and web sites. For details, look at the menus on the right side of this page and click on COPYRIGHTS.

Thanks.
- Dick Eastman

Dan Lynch

Dick - Thanks so much for the kind words. Last week, I was reviewing online sales data and noticed that the book had sold in 49 of the 50 states here in the U.S., every Canadian province, and more than a dozen countries outside North America. North Dakota was the only state without a sale - until yesterday that is! So, today I shipped a special signed copy to a young guy in Grand Forks ND.

Hope you and all your readers have a great holiday season!!

Regards,
Dan Lynch

Geezer

Well, Amazon and Borders didn't have it and the book's website WorldVitalRecords requires a username and password to order it! My password collection is already big enough. Maybe next Christmas. Or has anyone out there been able to find it at a retail outlet.

Joy Rich

Geezer, at http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/google_your_family_tree/?cpn=gyftwebsite, it says you can order it by phone. 1-888-377-0588 (M-F, 8am-5pm MST)

Carl Turner

The only concern I would have over this type of reference is that tools such as Google change so rapidly and frequently. I'm not sure how long it will retain its value for anything beyond the base concepts as new capabilities emerge.

Mary Anne  Drobnak

You can buy it on ellisisland.org. I ask my son to buy it for my birthday next month. Can hardly wait to read and use it!!!!
Thanks Dick for bringing it to your readers' attention.
Mary Anne

Joy Rich

Carl, on Dick Eastman's website at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/10/google-your-fam.html , Dan Lynch said in Comments

"As to the question about whether the book will be relevant 1 year from now - excellent question. For this very reason, I created a companion website at www.GoogleYourFamilyTree.com and in the coming weeks, will add a blog component. I won't blog in general - Dick and so many others have that covered so well - BUT, I will share via this site the updates, changes, and new features that are helpful to family historians."

Donna

I have never used google for genealogy, but I'll look to it now, thanks!

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