Searching for phrases means that the words between the quotes must show up in that exact order, adjacent to one another. In the example below, the complete phrase "Elm Creek Fight" must be present in a document in order for it to show up on a results page. Having the words Elm, Creek, or Fight on the document is not enough -- the words must be in the exact word order as provided between the quotation marks.
Wildcard *
Searching with wildcards allows a query to search for a partial match of a word. The conditions are that a wildcard can only appear at the end of a search term, and at least two characters must be provided before the wildcard * (asterisk) argument. In the example below, all matching documents that contain words that begin with the characters Ha and contain the word Ranger will show up on the search results page:
Examples of words that satisfy the Ha*wildcard search term are: Hays, Harrington, Harter, and Hathaway. They will show up in combination with Ranger.
Search within results
Searching within results is a powerful way to narrow your search results and find exactly the information you are looking for. If for example, you are searching the surname "Smith" and do not want to wade through hundreds of results that are produced by that common name, you can narrow the results by searching within the results of your "Smith" query by adding the additional search term based upon the county in which your "Smith" may have settled. So that you would add your Texas county name such as "San Saba" to your "Smith" results (Tip: don't forget to use "quotation marks" when typing "San Saba", or you will get more results than you want - San Antonio, San Marcos, etc). This will provide you only with results indicating all the "Smiths" that were associated with San Saba county.
Just click the "Search within results" link found near the bottom of your search results page.
Searching with the "Cached" results
When your search result page comes up, quickly find your information by clicking the "cached" link found at the end of each individual search result offered. By clicking the "cached" link, you will find your search terms highlighted on the page that you will visit when you click the desired search result link.
Example: Using the search term "San Macos"
Frontier Times, Sep, 1929
Further mentions: Mrs. W. M. Stephenson * Light Townsend of San Marcos * Gen. Burleson * Gen. Nathan B. Forrest * Gen. Price * ...
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