Sunday, May 17, 2009

challenge 4

ok- I finally did 5 and now 4 and I'm caught up.......I was able to add the RSS feed (with just a little fumbling; it's been a while). I found some very cool astronomy blogs - some a little complex for me as a layperson - love the pics though.

thanks for your guides and patience !

catching up bit by bit.....

well, I absolutely learned some interesting things about Google. I didn't realize there were so many options. I used the Everday essentials to see what the weather in Boston is today (Sam's fiancee is graduating from law school !) (the weather's bad. hopefully the day is joyous though)

I didn't know you could add site:gov or site:edu like that and it helped to clarify some medical searches. I was surprised to see that the NJ govt. site had the underground railway document you mentioned.

I used the reference tool to track down an old college roomate - which led me to join Facebook.
at last.....I'm working a bit backward here. this blog relates to challenge #5, with #4 to follow. the newspaper search was fascinating. the first search (Tuckerton) in Americas Newspapers brought up 28,867 worldwide hits. they included regional papers such as the Central Record in Medford.....a little broader, with the Trenton Times, and so forth. Going into the search by "lead" there were 5,160 hits - but some were from more prominent papers - i.e. Phila. Inquirer.

doing a "headline" search cut the number of hits by over half, and the papers were more regional generally. adding "ocean" brought them down to 502.

a search for Elaine McConnell nationwide brought up 2582 hits (including a GA paper). adding "librarian" trimmed this to 50 -- the OC Observer, AC Press, APP, New Egypt Press etc..

Then I played with a personal search, with "Osborn family NJ". by adjusting the limits (dropped NJ, added MN etc) I found an obit for Judith Kempf of MN...It was in the Duluth News Tribune. at her funeral, the pastor was : Sharon Osborn !