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Nick Carver
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Searching a web site for a text string
« on: Wednesday 31 January 07 09:07 GMT (UK) »
I have a mega brick wall with my Maltby ancestors. A contact referred me to a website and said that she thought she had seen details of my ancestors on this site, but was not sure where. This site contains literally dozens of pages crammed full of text that itself goes on for page after page, in an order that does not help me with my search. I am looking for a John Maltby so there are hundreds similar, however his wife was Esther, which is less common.

Can anyone tell me if there is any way of searching for a text string across a website that does not have a search function? Even if I had to do it page by page, that would be an improvement on manually scanning the text by eye, with the inevitable possibility that I have missed something,

Thanks for any tips
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Re: Searching a web site for a text string
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 31 January 07 09:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi Nick,

Are you using IE? If you click 'edit' and then 'search' in the dropdown menu, you can let IE search for a specific word in a page ...

Not sure this is helpful  Huh  Tongue

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Re: Searching a web site for a text string
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 31 January 07 09:56 GMT (UK) »

The way to search across all pages on a website is to go Google search, put in the words you want to search for then add site:[domain name]

For example: Nick Tati site:rootschat.com

Hope it works for you. Smiley

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Re: Searching a web site for a text string
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 31 January 07 10:06 GMT (UK) »
Hi Koromo  Cheesy

Never knew that - will keep in mind  Cheesy  Cool

LOL, just done that very search - seems we share a long history on Rootschat.com, Nick !!  Grin  Grin   
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Re: Searching a web site for a text string
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 31 January 07 18:15 GMT (UK) »
Don't forget, if you are looking for text on a website (displayed on your monitor and not the whole site, then you can press 'ctrl' and 'F' at the same time.  Enter the text you are looking for and then search that way.

Works for Windows XP.

Hope I've explained it OK, and that it's useful.

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