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Genealogical Society of Marion County, IndianaPodcast
Podcast is "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio (or video) player."
Mailing list benefit
Join a Mailing List so E-mails about subjects of the list will come to your e-mail box. Be sure to subscribe to the GSMC list.
pay sites and free sites
There are pay sites and free sites. The major pay site is ancestry.com, but also WorldVitalRecords, Archives and many others. The major free sites are familysearch.org and Rootsweb.com
Internet findings may be incorrect
Information from Internet on-line services may be passed on in good faith, but does not mean it is correct. Look for sources and documentation, and then check them.
Internet as secondary source
All material found on the Internet should be considered a secondary source - even scanned images.
internet as 1 genealogical tool
The Internet is not the "be all/end all" of genealogy. It is just ONE of the tools in the genealogy toolbox.
Wiki
Wiki is a website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content in a collaborative manner.
Blog
Blog is an abbreviated version of 'Web log', a term used to describe Web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. See blog.eogn.com and www.genealogyblog.com
deed indexes
When looking at deed indexes, be sure to look at both the "Grantor Index", an index to those selling the land and the "Grantee Index", an index to those buying the land.
searching depends on keywords
When searching on Google, your results and the number of results, will depend upon how you enter your keywords.