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Search Tips |
- Use AND, OR, NOT, and ( ) to narrow or broaden your search:
- “expenditures, public” and “county finances” [narrows search to records having both terms]
- "political ethics" or "misconduct in office" [broadens search to records having either term]
- marriage not license [narrows search to records having the first term but not the second]
- (forest or parks) and recreation [retrieves records with either of the parenthetical terms and the term outside the parentheses]
- Use * to truncate and search varying forms of a word:
- transport* (will search transport, transporting, transportation, etc.)
- If you enter terms into more than one box, the search will retrieve records matching both search terms.
- To search a date range, use "to" between the beginning and ending dates.
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Types of Searches |
Keyword - any type of term (name, subject, title, word in a note field, etc.) found in any field of the catalog record |
Subject - topical areas (topics, places, occupations, functions, etc.) covered by records in the series or record group |
Title - the name or variant name of a series, record group, container, file folder, or item |
Creator - state agency, county, municipality, organization or person that created or received and maintained the series |
Personal name - name of an individual or family |
Corporate/conference name - name of any government, government agency or office, institution, religious body or church, private organization, or conference |
Genre/form - physical or intellectual form of records (deeds, will, photographs, maps, diaries) |
Date/date range - a year or range of years covered by the records |
Series number - unique indentification number assigned to each series or record group. There are 8 broad categories or collections of records, each with a different letter designation. Use the correct spacing between the letters when searching by series number
- B 800100 (one space) British Records
- C 700001 (one space) Confederate Records
- F 602306 (one space) Federal Records
- L 01001 (two spaces) County Records
- L1027001 (no space) Municipal Records
- O 800201 (one space) Other Governments
- P 900176 (one space) Private Records
- S 165015 (one space) State Records
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