I am writing a webpage system for a genealogy library. It will not be on-line to the internet. It will do two things for the library. Reduce shelf space; and help in introducing researchers to the use of web based systems and how to use them. My problem, I am unable to do a "search" of all the files, as you would on an on-line system. I am stumped as to how to accomplish this. Any ideas out there? tia greg

You might try http://www.freefind.com/. Your site would have to be on the internet though. If you are running a Windows based system, you may be able to use the Windows Search feature. If you are using MS Frontpage to create your in-house web site, look in HELP for SEARCH and you will find: About search forms You can create a search form to let site visitors search your web site for specific words or phrases. When site visitors enter text in the search form and click the search button, they will get a list of your web pages with content that matches their search criteria. Microsoft FrontPage carries out the search and returns the names and locations of your web pages that contain that text. The easiest way to create a search form is to create a new page based on the Microsoft FrontPage Search Page template. You can customize the template with your own introductory text, copyright information, button labels, and so on. And it continues.................. You might also look for the GENEALOGY SOFTWARE newsgroup and post a question there. "Gregory Hernandez" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > I am writing a webpage system for a genealogy library. It will not be > on-line to the internet. It will do two things for the library. Reduce > shelf space; and help in introducing researchers to the use of web based > systems and how to use them. > My problem, I am unable to do a "search" of all the files, as you would > on an on-line system. I am stumped as to how to accomplish this. > Any ideas out there? > tia > greg

"Gregory Hernandez" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > I am writing a webpage system for a genealogy library. It will not be > on-line to the internet. It will do two things for the library. Reduce > shelf space; and help in introducing researchers to the use of web based > systems and how to use them. > My problem, I am unable to do a "search" of all the files, as you would > on an on-line system. I am stumped as to how to accomplish this. > Any ideas out there? > Google sells a search engine: http://www.google.com/services/