Search
There are three main directions for searching: Photos, Genealogical Records, and the entire Site.
Photos
- Browse photos - Here you can get an overview of all the photos organized by source, collection, year, grouping, keyword, people within photo, place of photo and so on
- Restrict photos - Here you can have a more intelligent browsing by specifying restrictions on which ones to view. This a versatile option and very effective (but only reflects the amount of processing of the photos that has been done so far), but takes a little bit of effort. Items to restrict by: Name, year, place, source, grouping, keyword and then they can be combined by using AND, OR, or AND NOT and also a sort order can be specified.
- FastRestrict photos - This is similar to the last one with the advantage that you might be able to find your photos more quickly, though it has less flexibility.
- Search photos - This allows one to search for a (partial or complete) string within the annotation, label, description, comments, or transcription (if applicable), or all of these. Quite handy to look for text associated with a photo.
Records
If you just want to search for a particular name (or part of a name), either first or last (or middle or married), use the Name Search page. This will return a list of names (with links to additional information) of the names of interest.
NOTE: The menu at the top has also five other ways of searching, which may be better, so use those: ByDate, ByName, ByPlace, ByType, Summaries.
Site
If you don't have success with either of the two above, try this approach. Use this page to search within the family history site. Because the site is so large, the focus for the index machine was to prioritize names, not places, so keep that in mind. Even so, there are still too many pages to index all of them. Therefore, what you find from this search you should view as a subset of all the references of a person. Therefore, you may wish to use the other menu options to search in these structured approaches.
If you click on "index", you will see the list of 'words' that have been indexed. Clicking on "sitemap" does not give much more that the menu gives you here except the static records pages. Clicking on "advanced" gives you the opportunity to submit a more complicated search pattern (including exact phrases and combining searches with AND, OR and NOT -- without needing to know these terms). Check it out or try out the "search tips" for more explanations on how to use the advanced search.
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