Mailing list administrators, surname researchers: This is a great place to find information. Zona@cyberservices.com --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DearMYRTLE@aol.com To: DEARMYRTLE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:52:06 EDT Subject: [DearMYRTLE-L] USGenWeb's National Search Engine Message-ID: <dd.890b872.26ceede6@aol.com> DearMYRTLE's DAILY GENEALOGY COLUMN BEST of the Internet for Genealogists Award! USGenWeb's National Search Engine DearREADERS, Finally, a few hours with decent weather (AKA no lightening!) so I've been browsing around and finding some neat genealogy things to report. Of particular interest is the USGenWeb National Search Engine which is located at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm When I clicked on the "National Search Engine" I found a search screen illustrated below. [See graphic in the web version of this column.] >From this you can see I may search all the USGenWeb text archives for: -- any/all -- long/short presentation of "hits" when looking for ancestors anywhere in the country! To illustrate the process, I typed in the surname WEISER, clicked the "Search" button and received the first eight of 498 matches. I scrolled down and double clicked on the blue underlined hyperlink to a text file which was described briefly as: "[bell0001.txt] ... THE SUSQUEHANNA - INDIAN TRIBES - THE SUSQUEHANNOCKS - DELAWARES - ALLUMAPEES - THE SHAWANESE - THE IROQUOIS - SHIKELLIMY - INDIAN TRADERS - CONRAD WEISER - MISSIONARY EFFORT A COMPREHENSIVE survey of the topography..." Since I recognized the CONRAD WEISER as my ancestor, SHIKELLIMY as the Native American who befriended him, and the other tribes as part of those my ancestor had shared experiences with, I decided to click on that entry. I DISCOVERED TH ELINKED PAGE WAS QUITE LENGTHY, Bell's History of Northumberland County, PA - THE COLONIAL PERIOD. (Chapter 1) a file contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tony Rebuck. IT PROVED DIFFICULT TO find the reference to WEISER, so I had to take a different approach. I decided to employ the "Find" option of my web browser, located under "Edit" on the menu bar. In my illustration, I've used AOL 5.0 but it works similarly with other web browsers. [See graphic in the web version of this column.] If you want to "FIND" a word on a web page, the steps include: 1. Click EDIT on the web browser's menu bar 2. Type in the word you want to search for, in my case the surname WEISER 3. Click the FIND button 4. You'll be taken to the first "hit" or "match". As you click the FIND button again, you are taken further down the page to the next reference, and so forth. In my case, I found the following reference: "...on the 20th of July, 1747, Conrad Weiser wrote: "Allumapees would have resigned his crown before now, but as he had the keeping of the public treasure (that is to say, the council bag), consisting of bolts of wampum, for which he buys liquor, and has been drunk for this two or three years almost constantly, and it is thought he won't die so long as there is one single wampum left in the bag." I can COPY this write-up, along with the: -- author -- book title -- web page address (URL) -- and contributor's name and PASTE it into notes for my ancestor CONRAD WEISER in my genealogy program. This process should be done on each of my ancestors. That will most certainly keep me busy for a while! Myrt :) DearMYRTLE, Daily Genealogy Columnist AOL Keyword: roots or myrtle www.DearMYRTLE.com -------------------------------- copyright 2000. All rights reserved. An easier-to-read web version of this column appears at: http://www.dearmyrtle.com/00/0814.htm To post a message on this topic, go to Myrt's Message Board located at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Special/DearMYRTLE Can't Click? Copy and paste URL to your web browser. ==== DEARMYRTLE Mailing List ==== THANKS to RootWeb for sponsoring this mail list! http://www.rootsweb.com