Saturday, April 3, 2010

Genea-Bloggers Challenge #14

Week 14: Use a different search engine for your online genealogy research. Google is quite popular, but other search engines may provide different results. Try Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com/), Bing (http://www.bing.com/), Ask.com (http://www.ask.com/), Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/), and even Clusty (http://clusty.com/). Pick an unusual surname and search it in different engines. Make note of the top 10 page returns for each. If you’re a genealogy blogger, share your observations on this experience.


I decided to pick my great grand-father William McKee because I don't know who his parents are.  I think I picked a name that was to common.
I tried Dogpile first because I've never heard of it. This is what I found:
Official Birth Index
1837 to 2005 find the birth entry and order goverment certificate.
www.BMDindex.co.uk/
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Free Birth & Death Search
Obtain Any & All Birth / Death - Records ! Birth Search Takes 2 Sec.
DeathsRecords.com/BirthRecords/
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Birth
Find Kentucky Birth With Online Local Search.
Kentucky.local.com/
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Michael Huckabee - RoyalWeb
Lula McKee was born 22 May 1878 in Arkansas, (perhaps in Nevada County ... Kentucky in 1868 when their son William Thomas Elder was born there that year. ...
www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Michael...
• Found on: Google, Bing, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com
William Born Products
Deals on William Born Products Compare 10+ William Born Products.
Born.OhDeal.com
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Joseph McKee
He was born Feb 26, 1796. Died Nov 23, 1878. ... He was born May 30, 1808. Died Nov 1, 1833 ®3 in Liberty, Adams County, Pennsylvania. ... He was born 1812 in Kentucky. Children of CLA...
www.twillastinytreasures.com/familyMcKee/familyMcK...
• Found on: Google, Bing
We Found William Mckee
Current Phone, Address, Age & More. Instant & Accurate William Mckee
www.Intelius.com/
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Kentucky Birth
Search for Kentucky Birth Find Kentucky birth
www.Ask.com/
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Duncans in Lincoln Co. KY
1878 "The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the ... Pg.632: William McKee Duncan, lawyer, born May 19, 1849 at Lancaster ...
homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dobson/ky/kylinco...
• Found exclusively on: Google
Jefferson County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society
Bud's father was Stanton McKee Hervey who was born the 1st of May 1893. ... Their son, William was born near Lisbon and Sisfield, County Down, in ...
www.jeffcochapter.com/Hervey.html
• Found exclusively on: Yahoo! Search

And I tried yahoo and this is what I found:

  1. Husband George William McKee 6. Born: 13 May 1912 6 Christened: Died: ... William FUNK b 1798 (Washington, KY) m 5 Oct. 1820 d 1860-70 (Washington, KY) Mary Polly ...
    www.e-familytree.net/f7371.htm - 50k - Cached
  2. William Thomas Elder was born 12 Jul 1868 in Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky to ... Lula McKee was born 22 May 1878 in Arkansas, (perhaps in Nevada County where ...
    countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Michael_Huckabee - 107k - Cached
  3. daughter one of William McKee. 26. iv. daughter two of William McKee. 27 ... daughter three of William McKee. 28. vi. daughter four of William McKee ...
    twillastinytreasures.com/familyMcKee/familyMcKeeJoseph.htm - Cached
  4. John William ALEXANDER. 1827-1904. Hodgenville, Hardin County, KY. McCamey Clark ALEXANDER ... 1800-1878. Barnwell County, SC. William BEACH. 1802-1862. Litchfield ...
    www.migrations.org/surname.php3?migname1=JOHN - 1018k - Cached
  5. KY. William ALLEN. 1792-1872. NY. William ALLEN. 1819-bef. 1889. Edgefield ... 1878- Knox County, KY. Solomon CARTER. 1816-abt 1900. Bracken County, KY. Thomas J CARTER ...
    www.migrations.org/surname.php3?migname1=ALL - 475k - Cached
  6. Maintained by Bill Kinnaird - Contact details. Descendants of William & David Kinnaird, ... 8 Patsy McKee Kinnaird b: 01 February 1948 in Lexington, Kentucky .
    www.kinnaird.net/family25.htm - Cached
  7. William McKee Dunn, Brigadier-General, U. S. A.; a memoir - Woolen, William ... McKee; Chord Substitution, Part III, by Bill Irwin; Arranging Workshop, by John ...
    www.archive.org/search.php?query=mckee - 68k - Cached
  8. Priestley/Priestly family of Rockbridge Co., VA - No Summary ... The two witnesses, John McKee and William McKee, had moved to Kentucky and gave their sworn testimonies ...
    members.fortunecity.com/mommybare/id25.htm - 681k
  9. Mckee - 1920 United States Federal Census ... William McKee. name. city, Laurel, Kentucky. abt 1878. location. race. relation. View Record. Cretia McKee. name. city, ...
    search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=&gst=&...&pgoff=11 - 87k - Cached
  10. 1878 in MO James MAIZE Son Sex: Male Born: 1880 in MO Benj FORD Head of ... Born: 1812 in KY Elisha RAINHOLD Son Sex: Male Born: 1846 in IN William RAINHOLD Son Sex: ...
    www.idexer.com/schuyler/Fabius.htm - 98k - Cached
     
    I think I need to remember how to do specific searches.  I'm going to listen the the podcast about that.  
    The different search engines definitely come up with different results.  Amazing!
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