Genealogy Research Support

View a Yahoo! map of a selected address without having to open a new window or tab. Currently, Map+ only supports addresses within the United States (sorry).

Finally! The Desperate Genealogist's Idea Book: Creative Ways to Outsmart Your Elusive Ancestors is available for purchase. A tag-team effort by DeadFred.com and some of genealogy's top ancestral sleuths and accomplished writers, this 150-page e-book is packed with articles and case studies that reveal invaluable tips, shortcuts, resources and even step-by-step instructions on how to use overlooked research tools, conduct specialized searches and tackle brick walls with sheer ingenuity.

It’s the time of year for me to consider, like the songwriter, "what to leave in, what to leave out."As a history buff, it’s an important concept. A lot of stuff is constantly going on all around us. How do we decide what’s history and what’s not worth our attention? What do we hang on to and what do we discard?

4. Search your favorite websites from Yahoo! itself. For instance, type !wiki google in Yahoo! search box to search Google in Wikipedia.com. Other popular shortcuts are !ebay, !amazon, and !flickr. You can also execute these from the Firefox search box without changing the default search engine.

This Flickr sidebar is used for viewing and searching photo lists. You can access it by the command key Ctrl+Shift+F, the toolbar button, or clicking on the menu option View|Sidebars|Flickr Sidebar. Once you have authorized the extension to work with your flickr account, you can search through or view a full list of your photos, your favorites, everyones photos, your individual contacts, or your groups. Double clicking a photo opens it's page in the current tab. You can also use all the standard link modifiers to open in tabs and windows.

With these three plug-ins, you can search three specialized University of Michigan library collections: Mirlyn Search Mirlyn is the University of Michigan library catalog. There are three separate plug-ins, one each for general search, title search, and author search. OAIster Search OAIster is a union catalog of over 12 million digital resources, gathered from all over the world. This plug-in provides a keyword or phrase search of the catalog. Deep Blue Search Deep Blue provides access to the best in UM-authored scholarly and creative works. There are plug-ins for the collection as a whole and for the Ross School of Business Working Papers series. Once a plug-in is installed (see instructions, below), simply select it from the search box's menu (by clicking on the icon -- probably the Google "G" on most browsers) and selecting the search engine you wish to use. Type search terms as usual, and push the return key.