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                                                   both the Dickson Genealogy Web and the Kelsall Web


Use the form below to search for documents in this web containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples. Note that the search feature does not search Acrobat pdf or Zip files so the Census extractions will not be searched. To search a census extraction or other pdf / zip file you must first open the document and use the document search facility associated with the actual file. After submitting your search request scroll down to see results.

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Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. Here are some examples:

information retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval
same as above

information and retrieval
finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS
finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*
finds documents containing words starting with 'web'

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