<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br clear="all"></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">In Today's Email</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Common Name Searching Webinar at FamilySearch Full-Text Search intro price ending</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Genealogy Consultation Sale--limited Spaces</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">NotebookLM webinar</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">--------------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Common Name Searching at FamilySearch's Full-Text Search</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Intro price of $24 ends today--regularly $40</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">--------------------------</font></div><div><p><em><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Overwhelmed by common names like Smith or Jones in your family tree? This presentation offers advanced strategies and techniques to help you effectively use FamilySearch's full-text search and find those elusive ancestors. Pre-orders have been sent--email me if you did not receive. </font></em></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="https://michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com/cart/add?product_id=247700&method_id=270565" target="_blank">Download immediately before midnight 24 November (Pacific Time) for $25.</a> After that, $40.</font></p><p><strong><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Full-Texting the Smiths and Jones:</font></strong></p><p><strong><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Strategies for Common Names</font></strong></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Using FamilySearch\u2019s Full-Text search is easier when the name is relatively uncommon. It\u2019s more of a challenge when the last name is Smith, Jones, Brown, or something similarly common. In this presentation, we will look at approaches to maximize the chance you find that common-named person. No approach is full-proof and we will not be so brazen to guarantee success. No genealogist should ever do that.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">What we will do is help give you some ideas and techniques to give you a better shot at finding your commonly named person. We can lead you through some examples and give you some ideas to modify to search for your own people. <strong>We will assume you\u2019ve got an understanding of how full-text search works</strong>. This presentation will not cover the basics of using the full-text search functionality of FamilySearch (<a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/09/05/fully-utilizing-full-text-search/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">you can watch our first presentation for that\u2014nearly two hours and an extensive handout</a>).</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The Smith-Jones presentation will cover:</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Identifying all the key elements</strong> that distinguish your ancestor from others. Your ancestor is more than a name. Crafting as detailed an ancestral profile as possible facilitates the construction of effective searches and we will see how to elicit as many of those details as possible from records you already have.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Organizing a search strategy.</strong> Making certain all relevant search combinations have been searched is key to maximizing the chance you find your commonly named ancestor. We will see how to create your own forms and outlines to do just that.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Tracking Results to Problem-Solve.</strong> Searching for common names requires the researcher to be as methodological as possible to make certain all options have been considered. It is impossible to determine if all effective means of search were used if negative results tracking is not done.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>The Name\u2019s the Thing.</strong> Last names such as Bird, Lake, and Farmer have their own issues as well. We will see some approaches that can help locate these names.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Case Studies</strong>. We will look at sample case studies common-named persons.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Please note</strong>: <em>We can\u2019t guarantee success</em>. What we can do is help to give you tools to increase your chances of success with common names.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=HQM8799ZLWSQS" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Order for immediate download at $25</a>. 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We are offering a limited number of consultations at this reduced price--normal price is $140. </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">More details about our consultations are available at:</font></div><div><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/consultations-with-michael/" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/consultations-with-michael/</font></a></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Space at this reduced rate is limited! </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Reserve your consultation today. Scheduling takes place after registration, but we are still booking in December!</font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-----------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">NotebookLM Webinar</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-----------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Easily create audio and video overviews, mind maps, reports, quizzes, infographics, and slide decks from your uploaded family or personal narratives, genealogy documents, and the like. You can also have NotebookLM integrate multiple documents into one summary. There are limitations to it. NotebookLM is not perfect by a long shot, but it may give you insight into your own research and cause you to notice something you had not noticed before. The visuals it creates can help interest others in family history as well.</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">More details--including registration information at intro rate--at</font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/24/notebooklm-at-google/">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/24/notebooklm-at-google/</a><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42)"></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Michael</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------------<br>Michael John Neill<br>Genealogy Tip of the Day</div><div><a href="http://www.genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank">http://www.genealogytipoftheday.com</a></div></div></div></div>
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