One of the things that I like about the Google search engine is that it saves a cached copy of the web pages it has found while exploring the internet. When I get a page not found error message, that page will ususlly be available in the Google cache. You can also focus searches on places. For instance, Shinn West Virginia produces about 300 pages. Unfortunately, a town in West Virginia bears the name Shinnston and, therefore, produces unrelated results.
Most search engines have provisions for narrowing the results that are received.
By modifying the search to Shinn West Virginia -Shinnston the result is trimmed slightly, down to about 280 pages. The minus sign is a signal to the search engine to ignore pages that have the word Shinnston in it. In looking at the results for the last search, a large number of the pages are genealogy or history related. Results can be found for other types of topics as well. For instance a search of Shinn obituaries results in 315 pages, many of which have current and not so current obituaries.