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    1. [CRECELIUS] New Archive Search Method for Rootsweb Mailing Lists
    2. George W. Durman
    3. The old search engine for the Mailing List Archives at Rootsweb has been replaced by a new one. There is no longer a page for each Mailing List; instead, there is ONE page, where you can type in the name of the Mailing List in the search window. Here's how to get to the proper page at Rootsweb: Log on to Rootsweb: <http://www.rootsweb.com> Under "SEARCH ENGINES & DATABASES", click: "INDEX OF ALL SEARCH ENGINES AND DATA BASES " Under "OUR MOST POPULAR SEARCHABLE INDEXES:", click: "ARCHIVER SEARCH" (Or, you can go directly to the search engine at: <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search>) Click on the "ADVANCED" Tab. You MUST do this! If you do a search from the "KEYWORD" Tab, you will get hits from every Mailing List at Rootsweb. (You will get MILLIONS of hits!) Unless you want EVERY email ever posted to a specific List, you need to choose a date in the last box. This new Archiver Search engine takes a little getting used to, but it really works better and faster than the old one. Example of how cool this new search engine is do the following search: Body: (Leave blank) Subject: Ludwig Fischer From: (Leave blank) List: (The actual name of the List, e.g. Germanna_Colonies, Broyles, Klug, Claar, etc.) Date: (You can select a day: 12 Mar 2007 A month: Mar 2007 A year: 2007 (Or leave blank for ALL hits. You don't want to do this.) Just thought some of you might become confused if you tried to use the old way to do an Interactive Search. Regards, Sarge

    03/15/2007 03:13:36