The way you were doing it, it was searching Sarah (first word it saw) I redid your search for you three ways and found nothing. Laura CNIDR Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 Operation Summary Query: (Sarah and Jane and Furman) Matching Record Count: 0 Total Retrieved: 0 Interpreted Query: ( Sarah and Jane and Furman ) Total Database Records: 544 Query Time: 1 seconds No matches found. CNIDR Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 Operation Summary Query: (Sarah and Furman) Matching Record Count: 0 Total Retrieved: 0 Interpreted Query: ( Sarah and Furman ) Total Database Records: 544 Query Time: 0 seconds No matches found. CNIDR Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 Operation Summary Query: Furman Matching Record Count: 0 Total Retrieved: 0 Interpreted Query: Furman Total Database Records: 544 Query Time: 0 seconds No matches found. -----Original Message----- From: Marita Gladson <maritag@earthlink.net> To: WASHINGTON-L@rootsweb.com <WASHINGTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:38 AM Subject: [WASHINGTON-L] US Gen WEb >I found the following information at this site... >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm >I used the search engine to enter Sarah J Furman.. >Below is what came up. I went throught 177 files and didn't find her >What am I doing wrong??? >Thanks Marita > >This is a copy of the screen: > >Operation Summary > >Query: Sarah Jane Furman > >Matching Record Count: 177 >Total Retrieved: 50 >Interpreted Query: Sarah Jane Furman >Total Database Records: 544 >Query Time: 1 seconds > >Filename: ioof-ac.txt >Match Number: 1 of 177 >Score: 100 >Headline Field [HEADLINE]: ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY (I.O.O.F.), Tumwater >Select: [Full] [HEADLINE] > >Filename: ioof-mq.txt >Match Number: 2 of 177 >Score: 79 >Headline Field [HEADLINE]: ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY (I.O.O.F.), Tumwater >Select: [Full] [HEADLINE] > >Filename: ioof-rt.txt >Match Number: 3 of 177 >Score: 75 >Headline Field [HEADLINE]: ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY (I.O.O.F.), Tumwater >Select: [Full] [HEADLINE] > >Filename: ioof-dg.txt >Match Number: 4 of 177 >Score: 70 >Headline Field [HEADLINE]: ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY (I.O.O.F.), Tumwater >Select: [Full] [HEADLINE] >