Anybody who's tried to search the Internet for information on "close" will know just what a thankless task it is. Even specifying "George Close" is only likely to return millions of street addresses.

There are a number of common (popular?) variations that may be worth trying on occasions: Clase, Clare, Clore, Closs, Clowse, Cloff, Clofe. Most of these aren't actually typos but are often based on documents that were difficult to read, or contained phonetic spellings .. so, keep an open mind and don't be afraid to try a variant or two.

Here we have, as much for a bit of fun as anything else, a series of video tutorials that may just find you that elusive Close. Some of them are more interesting than others, but .. hey ... we can, so we will.

You'll probably need Flash installed to run these but I'm sure it will tell you how to do that if you don't have it already. Just about everybody in the world uses it and it's free to install and use. It's the equivalent to Adobe's document reader (.PDF) but for moving stuff.

Use the controls under the video for volume and full screen mode.

As we find more we'll add them.

Enjoy

 
Tutorial 1 - Google Searching
Tutorial 2 - Highlights
Tutorial 3 - iGoogle
Tutorial 4 - Gather, Dump, Store (I)
Tutorial 5 - Gather, Dump, Store (II)
Tutorial 6 - Gather, Dump, Store (III)
Tutorial 7 - GEDCOM Files (I)