- Please note: This will search only files in the Virtual Tour.
- Many common words such as all, again, any, at, never, often, and some, are ignored.
- You may type beyond the confines of the search window. The text will scroll ahead.
- Please note that the searches are not case sensitive.
- Example: heemstede will yield the same result as Heemstede
- 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 Heemstde will find hundreds of resutls. But search for Heemstede Hampton 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: dutch admiral " will find fewer results than dutch admiral .
- To exclude words use not.
- Example: "dutch admiral" not mrecantile would narrow a search for "dutch admiral"
- Or can be used as a means of finding items with different spellings or in different languages.
- Example: bevers or beavers 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.
This may be used only at the end of a word.
- Example: bever* will find both bevers and beverwijck.
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