Depending on where you are searching you need to exclude words. For example in Google you can remove words with a minus sign. So for example search for: pace -blistering -fast -slow -cricket Even if the search doesn't say that it allows the minus signs, it sometimes does. Other search engines have different methods of excluding words. Some have an advanced search page with an area to write to words to exclude. In fact Google has one of these too. See the advanced search link next to the main search box. http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en Ant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Johnson" <royj@webster.edu> To: <pace@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:37 AM Subject: Re: [PACE] NC Newspapers digitized Can you find a way to do a case sensitive search? Also space before and after might help a little. Roy Johnson -----Original Message----- From: pace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jon Pace Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 8:24 PM To: pace@rootsweb.com; strickland@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PACE] NC Newspapers digitized Has anyone ever found a pattern for searching digitized documents for our surname that is useful? I was excited about these newspapers but still have the problem of searching for "Pace" and finding "...they proceeded apace..." or "...he set a blistering pace..." Jonathan A. Pace Marietta, GA -----Original Message----- From: pace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rebecca Christensen Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:56 AM To: pace@rootsweb.com; strickland@rootsweb.com Subject: [PACE] NC Newspapers digitized I just received this notice and thought there would be many interested people. Rebecca Christensen --- On Sat, 12/12/09, Mmaker52 <mmaker52@aol.com> wrote: From: Mmaker52 <mmaker52@aol.com> Subject: [NCBERTIE] New Info Available from our State Archives To: ncbertie-l@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 6:32 AM Received the following message from our NC GEN WEB. Thought I would share it with you all. Hope this will be of some interest to some of you Claudia Harrell Williams CC Bertie County I cannot contain my excitement!!!! The NC State Archives announced today that the newspaper digitization project is now available online - http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/newspaper/index.html They have digitized many papers -- from their site, "These materials include papers dating from 1752-1890s from cities like Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816) - a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message