Family names are alphabetical within each Index. For example within Probate Court, you would go to the listings for "McCombs". Then under McCombs surname the listings are oldest to most recent. Google will not search these pages, as these are scanned images of the original Indexes. - Tim -----Original Message----- From: scgreenv-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scgreenv-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jane Gillespie Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:48 PM To: scgreenv@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCGREENV] Old Deeds in Greenville Co. > In Greenville County you can check the indexes online at > www.greenvillecounty.org then go to departments; choose h and under h > historical documents. You can check deeds in Register of Deeds and Wills > in Probate Court. Then you will know if there is a reason to contact the > archives or you can make a copy at the offices in Greenville, SC. > > n Could anyone tell me what is the best way to search this site?? Do I have to go page by page?? For example if I am searching for "McCombs" can I jump around until I find the Mc's page. Does anyone know if under the different span of years indexed if all the Mc's are together or are they scattered around?? Also I used the following Google search formula that was posted by Greg Mathews other day: 3) How to restrict a Google search to a single web site or domain: We all use google or similar search pages to find things related to our genealogy research, but how often do we get TONS and TONS of results that are of no interest to us? A lot. Wouldn't it be really useful if you could restrict a search to a single web site? Let's say you only want to search rootsweb (sure they have search links for everything, but I don't think they have a single search to look at everything at once) or you only want to search the forums at genealogy.com. There are several different ways to search for different things so I'll show all the ones that come to mind with examples for each: The first again uses my web site to search for the surname "Pace": site:bluntrazor.com Pace The search returns 11 results and the search box on my site returns 12 so google does pretty good with that one (always remember that google can only return results for pages that it has indexed and there is no guarantee that it has indexed every single page on a web site.) I used the Greenville Co site web address instead of the above and looked for McCombs.. said it found nothing. So I really don't know if nothing was there or I did it wrong.. Any help appreciated!!!! Visit the Greenville County, S.C. GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~scgreenv/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCGREENV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message