Home     Search Help Using the search facility: You may type beyond the confines of the search window. The text will scroll ahead Many common words such as all, again, any, at, never, often, and some, are ignored. Please note that the searches are not case sensitive. Example: manhattan will yield the same result as Manhattan. The more words you enter, the narrower the search. By default, the search assumes that all of the words entered must appear in the document sought Example: A search for Amsterdam will find hundreds of resutls. But search for Amsterdam Manhattan farmhouse architecture will find only a few files. If you place your search terms in quotation marks, the search facility looks only for those documents having those words adjacent to one another. Example: "queens county" will find fewer results than queens county. To exclude words use not. Example: manados not delaware would narrow a search for manados Or can be used as a means of finding items with different spellings or in different languages. Example: hempstead or heemstede will find more than either word alone. Search terms can be nested. Example: manhattan "wall street" not ("native americans" or settlement) will yield a relatively narrow resut. Adding more terms will further narrow the search. Wildcards. The asterisk may be used to indicate any number of following letters. It may be used only at the end of a word. Example: netherland* will find netherland, netherlands, netherlandic and netherlandish.