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Please pay careful attention to your Match options. If you are looking for a name like 'Fred Dalwood', you should select 'All words' or 'Exact Phrase' (or place the name between " characters) - 'Any word' will find every page containing 'Fred' as well as every page containing 'Dalwood', which would be all of them!

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Use multiple words: Example: dalwood birth montacute
Use similar words: Example: william will Wm
Use appropriate capitalisation: Example: William Dalwood
Use quotation marks: Example: "stoke sub hamdon"
Use plus (+) or minus (-): Example: +"south australia"

Use field searches: Examples: title:transcription desc:"family history" keys:genealogy body:parish alt:"try now" url:family target:Atomz
Use wildcards: Examples:
Da* "wi* dalwood" 17*-19*

Spelling - Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. The search engine will, if the option is selected (and this is the default), attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms - but it is always best to spell the search terms correctly.

Use Multiple words - This will return more refined results than a search from a single word.

Use Similar words - The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant results will be to the words that you are searching for.

Use appropriate capitalisation - Capitalise proper nouns such as the name of a person. Lowercase words will match any words of any case.

Use quotation marks to force exact matches, especially for phrases. For example, search for "George & Augusta".

Use Boolean plus (+) or minus (-) operators - Precede a search term or phrase with a plus (+) sign to indicate it must appear in a search result. Precede a search term with a minus (-) sign to indicate an undesirable search term or phrase that must not appear in a search result. For example, searching for +dalwood -fred will return results that are about Dalwoods, but not including Fred.

Use field searches - Field searches allow you to search for words that appear in a specific part of a document such as the body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta description (desc:), meta keywords (keys:) or URL (url:). The field name should include the colon and precede the search word or phrase with no spaces between them. For example, searching for title:transcription will find pages with transcription in the title of the page.

Use wildcards - Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character. For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh.Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.

Search facilities are provided by Atomz - see the Atomz search hints page for more details

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Please contact me at ian@dalwood.org with your comments. Maybe we can help each other, or share our experiences, particularly with Dalwood or South Australian research.