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jmg1414
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this has almostly certainly been mentioned before...how to search a name without getting everything that the name is contained in.....e.g.I want to search the name Orr and am getting every post with morrison,sorry,norris,florrence etc ...am I doing it wrong?
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Berlin-Bob
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by My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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Just discovered this as a possibility:
enter your search term in an external search engine,
with site:www.rootschat.com as part of the search string.
The search engine will then only search RootsChat.
e.g.
orr in Search RootsChat search brings up hundreds results, as you are
getting everything that the name is contained in.....e.g.I want to search the name Orr and am getting every post with morrison,sorry,norris,florrence etc ...am I doing it wrong?
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orr site:www.rootschat.com just brings up results from RootsChat with the name ORR
This also means that you can use the usual search engine rules
example: Google:
Tips for using Google in Genealogy Searches
http://www.searchforancestors.com/archives/google.html
and it is much, much faster than the internal search 
and it probably means less demands on the RootsChat server, as it will search it's cached pages.
Although this might also mean that the newest entries aren't included ??
Try it and see and give us some feedback 
Bob
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Garethboxing
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Grampy Wyndham Jones (Wales v Ireland 1905)
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I daresay the original problem no longer applies (given that it was posted in January last year), but there is a simple way to avoid Morrison, Florrence, etc, coming up if you want Orr - simply key in a space before and after Orr
I would imagine that applies to any search engine around. It's not foolproof, of course, in that it would omit a reference to Orr that was immediately followed by an apostrophe, a comma or a full stop, but it would certainly get rid of the unwanted returns.
Gareth
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Scott, Dowdeswell (Merthyr Tydfil), Jones (Loughor and Merthyr Vale), Roberts (Nelson), Prichard (Collenna and Cefn Fforest); Evan Roberts (Corwen and Amlwch); Scott (Pentre); Scott (Ancrum); Thomas (Pantywaun and Bedlinog); Morgan Jones (Ystradfellte); Bowen (Loughor); Jenkins (Bridgend); Thomas Dowdeswell (b. Gloucester, 1829). Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi Gareth,
I would imagine that applies to any search engine around
Any but the one from RootsChat, it seems.
It will work on most search engines, which usually use a "complete words only" type search, but unfortunately, not on RootsChat, which is most definitely "complete word or within a word"
I just tried it, spaces an' all, and got 598 pages of Orr, Norris, Morrison, etc, etc.
This has been a major problem from the beginning, but maybe my tip with the external search engines will help.
Bob
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