Kathy, You were just sharing your knowledge on searching. Not knowing how to search an individual site, keeps researchers from finding what may be there. I have search engines on my websites. Occasionally I have looked at the log of searches and been surprised that someone might only search once with say one last name. Or try a search that is like a query. You sometimes have to work at it. Anyway, I found you guide very useful. I didn't know you could try one letter and build on it. I was trying whole names. Sometimes I have found a nickname (like Kitty) which you might never find. They really could stop the site from being searched if that was their intention. Just my opinion. :) Christina Little.House.Antiques wrote: > Thanks for posting this. I know their answer wasn't really > very helpful to you specifically; but I am glad to see it > nonetheless as I've been just a tad worried that the tutorial > I shared athttp://tinyurl.com/IFHF-Tutorial might be considered > by some to be inappropriate as it explains how to work around being > charged to do searches. (Particularly after Mr. Grenham > mentioned "a way to outwit the restrictions" in his article > published at:http://tinyurl.com/Grenham-article ) > I want to make it perfectly clear that it was not my intention > to "outwit" the site, but rather to show folks how to use the > available features of the site to limit your hits and thus to > make an informed intelligent decision as to which records to > purchase. Based on the IFHF's statement: "You can refine your > search as much as you like and as many times as you like before > you need to pay to view any results.", I feel that my tutorial > is NOT at all out of line and I hope it helps some of you > narrow down those huge chunks of data when researching common > surnames.