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Google has several databases and functions that we can search and/or use, such as Google Books, Google Scholar, and others that are useful to us as genealogy researchers. This is an overview of some of these databases and functions:
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One reply on “Beyond the Search Engine: Using Google Databases for Genealogy Research”
Doctor, I wanted to mention that sometimes for surname research, especially to see if an unusual surname was a dictionary word at a time in history; I use online corpora. Google has a corpora for its Books database in American, British and Spanish. Another Google database; a database of a data-mined database. https://www.english-corpora.org/googlebooks/