My worst names for searching are POOLE, CAMBRIDGE and WAKEFIELD which brings up thousands of unrelated sites. I have tried so many things to get around this but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "edd73" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] [Irl-Dublin]Genealogy Tip by Joan Young fromRootswebReview, 9 March 2011 Hi Das: Thank you for posting that article to explain what some of us researcher have to go through when looking up ancestors, but the dedicated surname field is only as good as the Search Engine, and the worst one for me is the Atomic SE., The (3) three Surnames that give me the most trouble are. 1 )Mortimer especially from England because there is a location in England called Mortimer and ...........also all those with the given name Mortimer. 2 )Manuel which also produces written manuals as in books........... and 3 )Parent which always returns " the parents of " Now that you can edit your previous entries, it begs the other question I always had, which is are you able to change your E-mail address, ( as so many of us have done over the years ) so that someone reading an entry from say 1999 or 2005 can actual respond to your current addie. Edd Sinnett in Florida

Hi Marg and all First thing to say is that there is not one absolute search that will work in all cases the same way Where you are searching the likes of google and similar try the first and last name as follows John.SMITH (fullstop between, with no gaps) Or "John SMITH" (also works for phrases) In some publications such as the Gazettes & Directories names are often recorded reversed so try SMITH.John or "SMITH John" Some use initials or a title so try "Mr J SMITH" or just "J SMITH" etc If you know your man was a silversmith for example a combined search of "John SMITH" and Silversmith OR "John SMITH" + Silversmith OR "John SMITH" + Silversmith + Dublin May help You can also use the minus sign to try and exclude unwanted words Such as CAMBRIDGE - Shire Although that can bring up some odd results Worth playing with though Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > My worst names for searching are POOLE, CAMBRIDGE and WAKEFIELD which brings > up thousands of unrelated sites. I have tried so many things to get around > this but nothing seems to work. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Marg

Thanks Nivard...............I will give it a try. Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> Hi Marg and all First thing to say is that there is not one absolute search that will work in all cases the same way Where you are searching the likes of google and similar try the first and last name as follows John.SMITH (fullstop between, with no gaps) Or "John SMITH" (also works for phrases) In some publications such as the Gazettes & Directories names are often recorded reversed so try SMITH.John or "SMITH John" Some use initials or a title so try "Mr J SMITH" or just "J SMITH" etc If you know your man was a silversmith for example a combined search of "John SMITH" and Silversmith OR "John SMITH" + Silversmith OR "John SMITH" + Silversmith + Dublin May help You can also use the minus sign to try and exclude unwanted words Such as CAMBRIDGE - Shire Although that can bring up some odd results Worth playing with though Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)