You Need a Search Strategy: Maximizing Your Results with Online Genealogical Databases

Mike Mansfield
Jun 18, 2018
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About this webinar

In the past 20 years, online search systems, databases, and image collections have revolutionized family history and genealogical research making our work faster, easier, and more convenient. However, these databases are not without limitations and quirks. This webinar will discuss some limitations we face and present strategies for more effective searches across a spectrum of websites and online services.

About the speaker

Mike Mansfield works for MyHeritage.com as the Director of Content Operations. Previously Mike has worked for Ancestry.com and FamilySearch and has been active in the genealogy and family history doma...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    A lot of material but vital to for maximizing search results in genealogical databases. \n\nAlways good to learn about My Heritage information\n\nanother great webinar\n\nAs always, a wonderful presentation. I'm still hoping I have the time to actually put all I'm learning into action. Maybe I need to start doing rather that learning.\n\nAwesome material. I could listen to Mike talk about genealogy all day. He is very clear as he discusses information with his audience. THANK YOU, MIKE!\n\nAWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nclear explanations and examples, very thorough\n\nClear, concise presentation\n\nClear, concise, complete\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent\n\nexcellent !!!\n\nExcellent explanation of proper search techniques. The BEST!!\n\nExcellent presentation\n\nExcellent thanks!\n\nExcellent webinar with lots of very useful information and ideas to further my researches, Brilliant.\n\nExcellent webinar! Excellent presenter!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent. Thank you.\n\nExtremely helpful. Hope Mike agrees to do a webinar on woman's names. Thanks\n\nFabulous. Mike is wonderful!\n\nFor me, I felt like I've been through the experiences of index issues, paleography issues etc..so not too much new news....but helps to confirm I'm 'on track'! thank you!\n\nGave me really good search tips which I'll use immediately. Thank you.\n\nGood hints on filtering searches.\n\nGood overview of search strategies\n\nGood research pointers!\n\nGood tips about searching\n\nGreat beginner material.\n\nGreat details shared; this will improve my searches. Thanks so much!\n\nGreat information on how to broaden one's search. Always helpful to learn of different avenues of research that we don't always think of.\n\nGreat information!\n\nGreat information.\n\nGreat presentation with good helpful tips. Thank you! :)\n\nGreat tips and techniques. I found the statistics about census records very interesting. Thank you.\n\nGreat tips for finding elusive genealogical information.\n\nGreat webinar! We need to know information like this to be successful in our research.\n\nGreat webinar, please do follow up on Women's married Names and maybe even a webinar about record content on my Heritage\n\nGreat webinar. Thanks!\n\nGreat! Will be very helpful in searches. Thanks :)\n\nHad to cut out early due to an appointment. The part I heard was great & very helpful, & I'll definitely go back & listen to the whole thing when it's posted. Thanks to Mike & Geoff! \n\nHe covered a lot of territory in a succinct manner, not wasted on idle chit-chat. Everything presented was pertinent to the topic and very informative. Thanks big time!\n\nHope a replay is available; great info, but needs a few more replays to remember some of it. Thanks very much for this very well-organized and presented webinar. \n\nI always look forward to learning more tricks & tips to help with my family tree research. Thank you...\n\nI look forward to his next webinar.\n\nI wish there was more time to write down everything he was saying. I hope there is a copy of the webinar that I can review. But the content was very good.\n\nI’m new to My Heritage and am now psyched to use the databases \n\nIt was interesting to see how knowing about the collections can help with better searching. Thank you.\n\nIt was very informative and since I won one of the free MyHeritage subscriptions I am very happy!\n\nLearned new ways to access information. Interesting section on the people who actually interpret and index the old documents. Thanks!\n\nLots of good information and suggestions for researching.

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