
There are two different search engines available on this site. One is a full text search that searches all available text including names, personal details, place names and miscellaneous notes with one search action. This is a very useful search method, but can sometimes return too many results.
The second search engine allows for a more focused search, and requires that people, places, notes and so on, be searched individually.
Each of the engines employs different search methods which are described in the "search Tips" section below.
Full Text Search |
Focused Search |
Search Tips for Full Text SearchBy default the search engine tries to locate pages which have exact matches for all of the words entered in your search query. If that fails, it then tries to locate pages which contain any words in your search query. If that happens a short message is displayed at the top of the search results indicating this has been done. In addition, there are several ways to modify the default search behavior.
All of these techniques can be combined: +alway* -ne??r* |
Search Tips for Focused Search
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