Kathy, Thank you. I should have looked at the advanced searching techniques. I didn't know that Boolean searches and wild cards would work. With Moloney I will need to try M*lo*n*, if I can get away with that many wild cards, as it is spelled so many ways. My father and my brother, who were both in business, used to list their name in the phone books with both the MA and the MO, to make sure they were found, and I have a friend with a completely different spelling but sounds the same. I have saved the genealogybank pdfs to folders in my genealogy program, but I would really like to be able to save the text. Have you found any quicker way to get the text of the articles into your genealogy program other than printing out the pdf and then scanning them with OCR software? (Or retyping - bah, humbug!) I haven't found any Irish obits, but I do have those of my Ireland-born great-grandparents. I'll take a look at that site you mentioned and see if they would be useful. Ann In a message dated 4/15/2012 12:30:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, little.house.antiques@comcast.net writes: Ann, I use a lot of the advanced techniques for searching (Boolean searching, wild cards, etc). Go here for an explanation of how to do these: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/information/help/advanced_techniques.html The wild card might help you a bit as the E in Moloney is often dropped? In other words if you search for Molon* you'll get Molony as well as Moloney back. Hope this helps! Happy Hunting! Kathy Rhodes PS If any of you on this list are digging through newspapers for obits think about contributing these records to the Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives. It's easy to do with the online Record Submission Forms at http://www.genrecords.org/irfiles/obituary.html and that helps all of us as it gets them out there on the web in a SEARCHABLE format.

Not sure how many wild cards you can get away with. Try it and see. I am a re-typer; it's less trouble to me to type fresh than it is to try and edit the many O CR software induced errors (or at least the errors that my not so great OCR software produces.) The obits of your Irish born grandparents certainly qualify! Some of my biggest breakthroughs genealogically speaking have occurred not because I found info on family members, but because family members researching their branches of our mutual trees have found data online that I posted and have contacted me. So posting as much info as you can in text format (which makes in engine searchable) the better your odds of making that breakthrough that we all dream of! Kathy Researching SHANAHAN and LUBY in Co Limerick Co Tipperary Co Waterford Co Cork ----- Original Message ----- From: AnnL7777@aol.com To: irl-limerick@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 7:11:12 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] GenealogyBank.com Kathy, Thank you. I should have looked at the advanced searching techniques. I didn't know that Boolean searches and wild cards would work. With Moloney I will need to try M*lo*n*, if I can get away with that many wild cards, as it is spelled so many ways. My father and my brother, who were both in business, used to list their name in the phone books with both the MA and the MO, to make sure they were found, and I have a friend with a completely different spelling but sounds the same. I have saved the genealogybank pdfs to folders in my genealogy program, but I would really like to be able to save the text. Have you found any quicker way to get the text of the articles into your genealogy program other than printing out the pdf and then scanning them with OCR software? (Or retyping - bah, humbug!) I haven't found any Irish obits, but I do have those of my Ireland-born great-grandparents. I'll take a look at that site you mentioned and see if they would be useful. Ann