From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Jul 29 19:04:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6U14Xjb024708; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:04:33 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6U14VLw026547 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:04:31 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6TMPpFI008766 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:25:51 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6TMPpgg008765 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:25:51 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6TJiBFI008440 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:44:11 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6TMMepW000632 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:22:40 -0600 X-Envelope-From: omchodoy@gmail.com Sat Jul 29 16:22:40 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6TMMejb000621 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:22:40 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6TMMJvc017931 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:22:19 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so244171uge for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:22:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=e5mHcQvTjDNCkTOgdAKgPuDTUqKeGXmi8N5paHixMhrnl+PkQUR7S/UsZzp+oQdjNAN1M+Jfh4DTUqkgi9RQgA9Ccu/pZU8OiyJcJZavRZTnRi9VHUIORoOWn78fVB5yG2QdK0sWTRDBv9WhwXed6j3sOTYf7Ir7ERljOXMHsSU= Received: by 10.67.89.5 with SMTP id r5mr1027527ugl; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.220.16 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:22:19 -0700 From: Colleen To: "Justtrubl@aol.com" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re:ancestry new look Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <556.42f899a.31fd07de@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <556.42f899a.31fd07de@aol.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com To avoid getting results that show the first name of a person in one entry and the surname in a second entry, try using quotation marks in your search terms. "John Smith" means you want results that show those words together and not mingled up in different parts of the result. Be warned, though, that this can limit the search too much; what I do is I search without the quotes first and if the first few results do list the two names in different entries, I go back and add the quotes. Other tips; On google or other browsers if you want to know about John Smith in Pennsylvania try searching John Smith + Pennsylvania , or "John Smith" + Pennsylvania (include the + sign, as that means you want both subjects in the same result). Basically the quotes mean you want those two words to appear next to each other and the + sign adds that you want results that have the word(s) following it somewhere in the same article. Other example: "john Smith" + Pennsylvania + Genealogy. If you want to find images of a landmark or something, use the same search terms you'd use for text results, but click on "Images" in your browswer if it has that feature. I know that Google does. That way you get pages with images of your subject (doesn't mean there won't be text on the pages too; just that there are images on the result pages that appear). On 7/29/06, Justtrubl@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 7/29/06 3:59:32 PM !!!First Boot!!!, > ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > When they upgraded last time, they surely did "fowl up" reading any of > the > > newspaper items. Mary P. > > > Mary; I contacted ancestry about the newspaper issue several times; I > found > that when you typed in a name say just as an example not one I have used > before > but "Anthony Grimes", it would give you false hope of finding newspaper > obits > by showing that name and yet when you went there it only showed Grimes > highlighted or Anthony highlighted; so nothing there at all....grrrr I > too cannot > afford a yearly subscription so if this is in error would be interested in > knowing that so I can call and cancel what I do have. > Thanks Mary > > > > > -- Colleen www.omchodoy.blogspot.com www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com