Kathryn, Thanks so much for the message. I added this to my favorites list. I am in the Army and unfortunately getting ready to move to a new duty station so I do not get to check my E-Mail much anymore. Hopefully will be better when we get situated at our new posting. Again, thanks! Are you one of my Wamsley "cousins"? Paul Thompson -----Original Message----- From: Kathryn Bassett <kathrynb@ix.netcom.com> To: WAMSLEY-L@rootsweb.com <WAMSLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 12:14 PM Subject: [WAMSLEY-L] How to Search Wamsleyweb archives >The Wamsley list (with Wamsleyweb issues) is archived on the server. You can >"search" the archives, and find the past messages that way, and use this >technique to find things that have been posted about specific names for >which you are looking. > >To search the archives, go to web page: > >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >and type in WAMSLEY (case doesn't matter) as the "name of list" > >When you get the next screen >...Search the Archive of Messages for WAMSLEY Mailing List >...Examples of searches: >...Keithley >...Lycurgus and Bell >...(Mary and Jones) or (Jackson and County) > >put the word DIGEST (caps don't matter) in the Query box to see ALL the >messages and click search. See below for how the examples above work. > >Now, I'm not sure why the order is the way it is, but if you look at the >Filename of each message you will see see that each has a number. Near as I >can tell, the filename is the name of the digest. So, you find filename >number 1, then click on [Full] and you will see the digest. If you want it, >you can copy/paste it to your word processor, email, or whatever. > >You can read them in any order, or find 1 and read it, then 2, then 3 etc. > >As for the samples on searching for a particular combination - If I want to >find Samuel Wamsley and Catherine Groendyke in the same message, my query >would be: >(Samuel Wamsley) and (Catherine Groendyke) >Notice the placement of the parentheses. The items in parens keep the words >together versus finding >Samuel and Catherine >would just find messages with both the word Samuel and the word Catherine, >but not neccessarily connected. > >Or, if you are looking for Jesse Wamsley in Randolph county, you could put >(Jesse Wamsley) and Randolph >or >Jesse and Randolph (note no parens this time as you just want to find Jesse >and Randolph in the same message. > >Have fun searching! > >-- > Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) > kathryn.bassett@switchboard.net > "genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" > http://pw2.netcom.com/~kathrynb/kathryn.htm