Footnote.com has improved its search. Unfortunately, there's a slight problem--at least for me.
I try and search for Samuel Rhodes. Footnote also includes Rhode in my search results, giving me numerous results for the state of Rhode Island, which I do not need.
I try and search for "Samuel Rhodes NOT Rhode" thinking that I will eliminate all the hits on Rhode Island. Unfortunately when I search using that approach, I get no results.
The database I was using was the Revolutionary War pension files at Footnote.com . I know there are results in there for Samuel Rhodes as I located them before the search changed. And now I can't find them without paging through every Rhode Island reference....
If I'm missing something, hopefully someone can enlighten me.
It drives me nuts when search engines do that. I search for "Matthews" a lot and several search engines will return "Matthew". For you I would suggest adding either -"Rhode Island" or NOT "Rhode Island", whichever way they let you do it. Hopefully nothing you are looking for has Rhode Island in the document.
ReplyDeleteI added NOT "Rhode Island" to my search and it appeared to help. I really wish that NOT "rhode" would have done the same trick. Fortunately the guy I need was NOT in the state of Rhode Island. Michael
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