Greetings Oswego & Vicinity researchers: Recently I've been having a wonderful time finding great family history information at the Fulton Post Cards -- Fulton History website -- www.fultonhistory.com. And, if we haven't already, we sure need to thank Mr. Tryniski for taking the time to create it. What I have been looking at are the various newspaper articles that have been scanned. I've used this website before but now that I have a faster internet connection, it is much more user friendly. I have a vague memory of someone -- perhaps Russ Sprague -- taking the time to write some helpful hints to best utililize this free site. However, my vague memory is just that -- vague. And my knowledge of what selecting "boolean" will do for me when I'm searching is nonexistent. So, if anyone has some helpful hints, would you please share them? If this is a subject that has already been covered recently, please just let me know. Thank you! Warm regards from a warm Austin, TX, Marilyn Hough Stern (My Oswego and Cayuga County family names: Baggs, Buck, Demass/Dumas, Hamilton, Ostrander, Perkins, Stock, Upcraft, Van Vlack/Van Vleck)

At the Fulton site if you click on the 'Help FAQ' link, and scroll down quite a bit there is a nice section on Boolean search. FAQ is for 'Frequently Asked Questions'. I would not scroll down quickly though as there is quite a bit of useful info before you get to Boolean search. An example of Boolean search I found useful recently was 'Sprague w/5 married' and 'Sprague w/5 died' (use the words but not the quotes in your own searched. This means I want to find the word Sprague within 5 words of married or within 5 words of died. If I was searching for my own name I could search 'Sprague w/5 Russell'. Once you put the search term in use the drop down list to select 'Boolean' as the type of search. A hi speed connection can make a very nice difference. The site is images, not text and can be slow to load. Most public libraries will have pcs with hi speed connections. What you could do to become familiar with the way the search methods work is find something ahead of time on some page and then search for it using the different ways mentioned in the site help link. Hope this helps - Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland From: MarilynJStern@aol.com Reply-To: NYOSWEGO-L@rootsweb.com To: NYOSWEGO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYOSWEGO] Fulton Post Cards -- Fulton History website question Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:13:37 EDT Greetings Oswego & Vicinity researchers: Recently I've been having a wonderful time finding great family history information at the Fulton Post Cards -- Fulton History website -- www.fultonhistory.com. And, if we haven't already, we sure need to thank Mr. Tryniski for taking the time to create it. What I have been looking at are the various newspaper articles that have been scanned. I've used this website before but now that I have a faster internet connection, it is much more user friendly. I have a vague memory of someone -- perhaps Russ Sprague -- taking the time to write some helpful hints to best utililize this free site. However, my vague memory is just that -- vague. And my knowledge of what selecting "boolean" will do for me when I'm searching is nonexistent. So, if anyone has some helpful hints, would you please share them? If this is a subject that has already been covered recently, please just let me know. Thank you! Warm regards from a warm Austin, TX, Marilyn Hough Stern (My Oswego and Cayuga County family names: Baggs, Buck, Demass/Dumas, Hamilton, Ostrander, Perkins, Stock, Upcraft, Van Vlack/Van Vleck) ==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== List Administrator Bonita Shafer Northern New York Genealogy - http://www.nnygenealogy.com sagemarie98@earthlink.net ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx