In a message dated 7/23/2006 10:17:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, Egrdn@aol.com writes: If I Google for my great grandmother, "Vallonia Renshaw", I find several postings about her on both lists and boards. (All the postings were made by me, unfortunately.) If I Google for "Renshaw, Vallonia", I do not have any hits, although removing the quotes gives me responses. Let us remember that Newbies are quite likely to use Google to search the boards and lists. The question is, will they put the name is quotes? If we were sales people, we would use the approach which would give us the greatest number of "sales". I receive the messages in digest form, so if this topic has been covered already, my apologies. Eleanor Gordon Yeah--I should specify that my earlier comments on search capabilities were strictly speaking of searches done within the boards--not Google searches. Quoted phrases in searches mean you are looking for an exact match (phrase matching) and changing the order with a search engine that has phrase matching capability will mess up searches as Eleanor notes above. Joan