As I’ve been adding all the links between names and pages, I have used the Search box a few hundred times. In the process, I’ve stumbled upon some short-cuts:
1. A SPACE acts like the word “and”: typing Edw Tay into the Search box asks for all blogs or pages containing BOTH the string “edw” AND also the string “tay.” This will find every reference to Edward Taylor or Taylor Edwards or Edwin Tays but not Elizabeth Taylor or Edward R. Murrow.
2. Notice (above) that I flipped from Edw to edw. The Search engine doesn’t care about uppercase versus lowercase. This too can save a bit of time.
3. If a search is done for “edw tay” (including the quotation marks) then it will search for those SEVEN characters in a row, including the space. I doubt that this search would find anything.
4. Searches look at the whole page/blog, so searching for john ash deliv will list all places which mention John Ashton and also Deliverance — anywhere within the page/blog. Better still, edw tay 1710 will find only places with that exact data somewhere also. This helps in cases of duplicated names.
5. Unfortunately (?) the search engine is very, very literal about letters. In genealogy, we see dozens of spellings of various names, but this program takes what you type as EXACT. If you type “meyers” it will not find Myers or Meijers.
6. Feel fee to experiment with search keys; sometimes you’ll find nothing at all… sometimes (like when searching for e) you’ll get a ton of possibilities; sooner or later you can invent ways to efficiently find what you’re looking for.
