Sometimes we forget to tell others about some very basic stuff. RootsWeb Review this week had this which some of you may not know about. 1c. TIPS FROM READERS: Searching a Large Page of Many Names? Thanks to C. C. Traylor Afraid you will miss the one name you're hunting on a page? Solution: In many programs look at the top left of the computer screen (monitor) and click on EDIT, which will provide a drop-down menu. Select FIND ON THIS PAGE, which gives you a small box with a search window. Enter the search word or words in the window and hit ENTER. The search will find all the words on that page that you requested -- one by one. Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. Search: To look for specific data or occurrence of text in a file. When you are browsing you can use the find on this page feature listed above. When searching, you will see a box for you to type something in and then click search or go. When searching use of keywords can really help. For instance, say I am looking for Joe Blow in Hackensack, NJ. The search box lets me put in his name and the state but Joe Blow is a pretty common name. I can narrow the search by putting Hackensack in the keyword box. There are a lot of uses for this. Try anything and you may surprise yourself with success. Brand-new mailing lists can be found under OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS until moved to their proper categories. For information and an index to the more than 28,200 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ When searching the net for a person, put the name in quotes like "Joe Blow" and it will give you only those instances where the two words are next to each other. You will be absolutely amazed at what is out there about you and your person. Don't forget state archives. They have a wealth of information and much online data. Go to your home page and in the search box put in the name of the state and then library or state archives. You may have to try both and some states have both. University libraries also are online and have lots of good information. For places, try searching for the name like Tucson, Arizona history, and also try the US National Monument or Park Service history pages for many, many places. In AZ, we have a National Park historian that has translated and put online the earliest records in AZ (Tumacacori National Park http://www.nps.gov/tuma/home.htm). Bette