I need some advice as to how to best use this site. If I put in, e.g Benjamin Thomas, it separates the 2 words, with thousands of results. Can one avoid this? I would be very grateful for help. Cathryn
The usual method of putting the name in inverted commas seems to work. If I search on BENJAMIN THOMAS then it prioritises the names together but as I scroll down the results it had matches where the two words are not near each other. If I search on "BENJAMIN THOMAS" then all the matches seem to be for the two words together. Some search engines have a 'NEAR' option where you can search for two words being within a number of words of each other but don't know if that is available here. It can be useful if there is another first name that is not always used, as in BENJAMIN FRED THOMAS. Does not seem to be available on this site. Martin Briscoe Fort William [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cathryn Davies Sent: 15 August 2013 09:25 To: glam fhs Subject: [GLA] WELSH NEWSPAPERS I need some advice as to how to best use this site. If I put in, e.g Benjamin Thomas, it separates the 2 words, with thousands of results. Can one avoid this? I would be very grateful for help. Cathryn --
I know of one database where searching for "Catherin before 2 words Morgan" would give the required result, but whether it is a universal facility I do not know. You can substitute the "2" with however many names you might expect. the "searched" to have. Gordon Reed" i ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Briscoe" <[email protected]> To: "'glam fhs'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [GLA] WELSH NEWSPAPERS > The usual method of putting the name in inverted commas seems to work. > > If I search on BENJAMIN THOMAS then it prioritises the names together but > as > I scroll down the results it had matches where the two words are not near > each other. > > If I search on "BENJAMIN THOMAS" then all the matches seem to be for the > two > words together. > > Some search engines have a 'NEAR' option where you can search for two > words > being within a number of words of each other but don't know if that is > available here. It can be useful if there is another first name that is > not > always used, as in BENJAMIN FRED THOMAS. Does not seem to be available on > this site. > > > > Martin Briscoe > Fort William > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Cathryn Davies > Sent: 15 August 2013 09:25 > To: glam fhs > Subject: [GLA] WELSH NEWSPAPERS > > I need some advice as to how to best use this site. If I put in, e.g > Benjamin Thomas, it separates the 2 words, with thousands of results. > Can one avoid this? I would be very grateful for help. Cathryn > -- > > > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Cathryn I have found that if you put in something like: Cathryn AND Davies it will report only items with both terms and certainly far fewer than if you simply enter "Cathryn Davies" which yields results apparently based on "either Cathryn OR Davies OR both" David Canberra (Aberystwyth gynt) On 15/08/2013, at 6:24 PM, Cathryn Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > I need some advice as to how to best use this site. If I put in, e.g > Benjamin Thomas, it separates the 2 words, with thousands of results. > Can one avoid this? I would be very grateful for help. Cathryn > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rowlands" <[email protected]> To: "Cathryn Davies" <[email protected]> Cc: "glam fhs" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [GLA] WELSH NEWSPAPERS > Cathryn > > I have found that if you put in something like: > > Cathryn AND Davies > > it will report only items with both terms and certainly far fewer than if > you simply enter "Cathryn Davies" which yields results apparently based on > "either Cathryn OR Davies OR both" > > David > Canberra > (Aberystwyth gynt) > > On 15/08/2013, at 6:24 PM, Cathryn Davies <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I need some advice as to how to best use this site. If I put in, e.g >> Benjamin Thomas, it separates the 2 words, with thousands of results. >> Can one avoid this? I would be very grateful for help. Cathryn >> -- >> >> To send to the list send to [email protected] >> GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html >> - >> This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ >> - >> A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be >> found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ >> >> - >> The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >