Google has a number of 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:
To obtain the one-page Quicksheet pdf for easy reference of what information to look for, you can download it by clicking on the Download button below:
For all the previously published Quick Reference Guides, click on QuickSheets.
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/