I have been very impressed with Google Translate for a while.  The ability to translate chat’s, and pretty much anything is changing the way I can do research at work and especially for my family history.

I recently started getting more into family history, but my family roots come from Holland.  I speak German, but that is only good to a small extent.  A distant relative in France sent me several books, but some of them are written in Dutch.  I tried reading them, but could only get the basics.  I pasted the words in google translate and was able to easily follow the story.  Granted, it’s not the best translation, but you certainly can follow it!  Awesome!  

Today I read about a new Firefox extension today called gTranslate.  It allows you to select text on any page and translate it to any of the languages that GoogleTranslate supports.  That could be useful…