I don't know why I never tried it before. Now I have numerous searches to perform all over again at Genealogy Bank.The screen shot in this blog entry shows part of the screen from a search I just conducted today for good old Philip Troutfetter.
It is much easier when one enters Boolean search terms in the keywords box. I do not know why it never dawned on me to use those before.
With all the variants of trautvetter, this was a much easier search to perform. The word "taylor" was added as it was the last name of an alias Philip used. The ? as a wildcard operator was used in Troutfetter to catch some variant spellings. I need to modify it though as sometimes the two "t"s at the end get read as "l"s. However, this makes my searching much easier.
I wanted to find references to the last name of Troutfetter, etc. withinn 4 words of the word Taylor. This is why the "near4" command was used.
We will be playing (err.... experimenting more) with the searches at Genealogy Bank and letting you know what we find.
