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My name is Herb Scott and I volunteer to administer this message board as part of the RootsWeb project. I hope by using this board you will be able to find connections to your ancestors and increase knowledge of your family histories. On this page you will find announcements and hopefully hints to help you make better use of the boards.
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MESSAGE FROM THE ROOTSWEB HOME OFFICE
by Jake Gehring, RootsWeb Executive Producer
My comments regard the search features in the new system.
We hope that you are impressed with the new search features. The new system shows search results ranked by relevance -- meaning that the system will display the best hits first. For example, messages that contain all of your terms are ranked higher than those that contain only some. Here are a couple of additional search tips:
Wildcard Searching. The new message boards allow wildcard searching as long as the user specifies at least the first three characters in the word (i.e., users can search for "gehr*" to find "gehring, gehrig, gehrke," etc.).
Search Operators. New functionality allows users to add powerful operators to their search terms to affect results. These operators, the plus and minus signs, are placed just before your search terms and function like popular Internet search engines Yahoo! and AltaVista.
For example, a search for "+gehring heinrich - baden" will return only those hits that contain the word "gehring" but not the word "baden", and in this group any messages containing "heinrich" will be displayed before those that don't.
The Search Results Screen now shows: the message title, author, date posted, the board on which it was posted, and a brief blurb from the message itself. This will often allow users to make decisions about the importance of individual messages to their search without viewing each message in full.
The new system can now be used without enabling cookies in your Internet browser. This is not recommended, however, as any login or admin features will not be available if cookies are disabled. Users will still be able to read and post messages using the new anonymous post feature.
You can search the Message Boards by typing the name you seek in the SEARCH _________ window and choosing either ALL BOARDS or
a particular board (a surname board, for example).
Click on the ADVANCED SEARCH option to narrow those options to more specifics, including dates of messages you wish to
check. On the ADVANCED SEARCH page, in the window that says "POSTED IN THE LAST ________" choose one of these options:
Anytime, Week, Month, 6 Months, Year.
Use the FIND A MESSAGE BOARD window to locate a board by locality, surname or topic.
Try out these new search features. Happy hunting!
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