GenGophers.com Doubles its Online Library to More
Than 80,000 Digital Genealogy Books
GenGophers also adds the option to let users skip the daily Google
Consumer Survey by paying a small fee, and a new fee waiver program for
referrals
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LAKE CITY – Genealogy Gophers has broken additional new ground in genealogy
research by launching an enhanced website that doubles the size of its original
online library. GenGophers.com now
provides online over 80,000 genealogy books and periodicals that are searchable
and downloadable by Genealogy Gophers’ users for free. The online genealogy library has been built
through a partnership with FamilySearch, and includes books and periodicals
from their partner institutions such as the Allen County Public Library, the
BYU Harold B. Lee Library, the Church History Library, the Family History
Library, and the Houston Public Library.
The updated
GenGophers.com website has also recently been redesigned to include additional
search features that make it easier for users to search for ancestors by name,
date, and place, as well as to launch searches for and within specific family history
publications.
At the
same time, Genealogy Gophers has launched a new offer to skip the brief
once-per-day Google Consumer Surveys that helps keep the website, library, and
search tools free to users. Requested by
many GenGophers users who would like to avoid the surveys, this $19.95 option
lets them skip the entire survey process for a full year. Simultaneously, Genealogy Gophers announced a
referral program that waives that $19.95 fee for users who refer others to the
site. Details for both programs are
fully described on the GenGophers.com website.
The
growing scale of Genealogy Gophers’ digital library is complemented by its
unique search tools. The GenGophers.com website
continues to employ the industry’s most advanced search technologies, allowing
users to quickly and easily search through the online library. User-defined searches return “snippets” from possibly
relevant pages found in publications contained in Genealogy Gophers’ online
library. This snippet feature enables family
history researchers to perform quick relevancy checks on their search results
before downloading entire books. Each
snippet displays the publication’s name
and highlights the search terms that are found. Example:
A search for “Joseph Hoole” in “Illinois” returned:
Once a
snippet is reviewed and confirmed by the researcher as being possibly relevant,
it can be selected and the entire page from the publication with the highlighted
search terms is displayed. The page and the
entire publication can then be further searched and downloaded for free by
users.
“In
addition to focusing our online searches only on our massive library of genealogy
books, our search engine also employs a completely different approach than
those used by other book-searching websites”, said Dallan Quass, founder of GenGophers.com. “While other websites can only search for
specific words contained in books, our engine uses artificial intelligence to
first identify and index all people mentioned in a publication and then allows
specific searches for names, dates, and places associated with them. This approach significantly increases the
chance of discovering extended family connections, stories about the lives of
ancestors, and bringing family histories to life.”
GenGophers.com is a
free website, financially supported by ads and Google Consumer Surveys. Those surveys ask users several market
research questions once per day, allowing them to view the GenGophers library
and use the search tools for free. Users
also have the option to pay a $19.95 fee to skip the survey process entirely
for a full year.
About Genealogy Gophers:
Genealogy
Gophers provides the most easily searched and retrieved family history books on
the Web, with users able to access a growing online library that now includes
more than 80,000 genealogy publications.
Search tools based on artificial intelligence algorithms significantly
increase the chances of finding relevant search term matches compared to
typical word search engines. Relevant pages and books can be downloaded for
free from the GenGophers.com website.
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