DIALOG

DIALOG

I searched for the topic of genealogy and family history in the educational category, and using it to teach history.  Without limiters, I retrieved 84 results. I added one limiter: teaching methods as a subject.  Using this limiter I narrowed it down to 30 results.

 

Since I’ve already searched ERIC Databases, I believe I’ve found these articles before, so it is a good article to use as a reference.

 

Searching other categories brings up a wealth of different information.  There are newspaper articles, magazine articles, scholarly papers, and other documents available through this site.  Wading through all the hits can take a lot of time, however.  I did find articles with lists of books about  genealogy for kids, articles on why DNA is important in genealogy, and other topical and relevant articles.  I think that the more specific your search, the better your results in this database because of the amount of information available.

 

The searching itself was similar to other databases: Boolean searching, a pop-up thesaurus, limiters and filters on the side of the page.  One nice aspect of this database is the ability to choose a category before the search actually begins, narrowing down the amount of databases that are searched.  Another nice thing about this database is that it highlights the terms that you have searched, letting you find them quickly and easily in the snippet of the hits and allowing you to judge if the hit is what you need without actually selecting the result and reading through an abstract.  This could be a good resource for genealogists as long as they are not general about their searching; the more search terms the better, but there is enough information involved that almost anything could find some results.