Genealogy

Narrow Down Your Obituary Searches With Obit Magnet

Trying to find an obituary? Obit Magnet takes a name and death date and generates date-bounded obituary search URLs for Google Books (newspapers only), Newspapers.com, NewspaperArchive.com, and Chronicling America. Enter the name of the person you’re searching and the day, month, and year of their death. Obit Magnet will generate…

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Generate and Search For Name Variants With Carl’s Name Net

Carl is a longtime Patreon, and I really appreciate him! Recently we’ve been trading emails about doing name-based searches. I was thinking about how he could get some name variation searching done when I wondered if this was a job for JavaScript. And it apparently is! Carl’s Name Net takes…

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Ditch the Firstname Lastname format with The Anti-Bullseye Name Search

Most names in English are expressed in news articles and other places like this: Firstname Lastname, or possibly Firstname Middlename Lastname. However, it isn’t the only pattern used when writing a name. TABNS takes a name and generates a Google search that searches for the name in reverse order (Lastname…

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