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Interested in better family-history research?
Improvement of your genealogical and localhistory
research skills is the goal of a specialized
program on Saturday, March 21, from 2–3:30 p.m., in the McNally Auditorium of Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center. The
Law School is at 140 West 62nd Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues.
Take the A, B, C, D or1 train to 59th Street/Columbus Circle.

There is no fee to attend, but a $3 donation is suggested
for refreshments.

Learn how to unlock the hidden power of Google, the most
robust tool available for online genealogical and historical research. With more than twenty billion pages included
in Google’s index of the World Wide Web, an understanding of specialized commands, filtering, and additional techniques is necessary to maximize the full value of this free service.

You can dramatically improve your search skills by mastering commands perfectly suited for tracking down people, places, and events and providing them with a historical context.
Find published works, documents, photographs, historical newspapers, and translation tools and even instruct
Google to search while you sleep.

Professional genealogist and technology expert Dan Lynch’s
power-point presentation will include examples from his own
Irish research and provide tips for use in genealogy, history, and
additional fields.

He is a former vice president of business development
for Ancestry, Inc. Dan Lynch now runs Mattatuck Consulting, a firm specializing in Internet marketing solutions. He is a frequent lecturer at local and national genealogy conferences. He is also the author of the newly-published 352- page guidebook, Google Your Family Tree.

Copies of the book, highly-praised by reviewers, will be available for purchase.
Details about it are at:
www.googleyourfamilytree.com/index.html.

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Event URL: http://events.irishabroad.com/event/googleyourfamilytree/