Mocavo.com will let users search more the 50 billion words, including names, dates and places, within seconds. The service searches thousands of genealogic sites including national and state archives, Ellis Island, message boards used by genealogists and family trees posted online, according to a press release from the company.
“Mocavo.com has the capacity to index every single piece of free genealogy content found anywhere on the Web, and will be growing by leaps and bounds in the coming months,” Shaw said.
I have tested out the claim of indexing free genealogy content, and as of right now I can report that it’s definitely missing some stuff. I run 3 genealogy sites with free content and when searching for something I knew for a fact was on there, it didn’t bring up any of them. I got results from the ancestry message boards, genforum, and findagrave
I will reserve judgment until I see what results come up when they have been around a little longer, but it cannot hurt to check it out.
Last night while doing a search for something related to the sinking of the Titanic, I made an interesting discovery.
It seems a man named Phillip Gowan, who has done a lot of research and writing on the passengers of the great ship, has spent time collecting the death certificates of a lot of those that survived the disaster, which for some could be a genealogical gold mine, especially the passengers from other countries.
You can find copies of the certificates here Titanic Death Certificates
Faye Poss releases new book
Many of you North Georgia researchers know the name Faye Poss. If you don’t, you should. Faye has helped countless numbers of researchers over the years with the collections she publishes and for that we are eternally grateful. She takes genealogy research to a whole new level.
In the past she has released about 15 books for Clarke, Hancock, Jackson and Wilkes county and newspaper records and her newest book ‘Jackson County, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings, Jackson Herald, 1883-1885‘ has been released and is for sale on her website http://fayestoneposs.tripod.com/
I would personally like to thank Faye for her years of dedication and hard work that have proved invaluable for the information some of us just don’t have the time to get in the car to drive to find.
If you haven’t taken the time to look at her books and have research in the N.Ga area I really suggest you do so.