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Dennis J Yancey

SEARCHING FAMILYSEARCH MEMORIES

 

I dont know how many of you received an email from FamilySearch - related to this apparent "campaign" to make more people aware of the treasures you can find in FS Memories (of images/documents/pdfs that have been posted by others)

 

Here was the text of the email:

 

Family, your family name may be in our image collection

Family, discover photos with your family name!Do a quick search for your last name in our millions of free images and documents, and see what you discover. Some of these individuals may even be your relatives!Search by Name

 

Doing a surname search of FS Memories is a cool thing - you can find lots of interesting info.

 

HOWEVER - MOST users have common enough surnames that the query result - ends up in THOUSANDS or TENS of THOUSANDS of results. With so many gazillion items that people have uploaded in FS Memories - it is difficult to find an item with a specific topic using just one search term.

 

Usually a specific item you want to isolate may take 2 or 3 search terms all existing on the item in question - for you to actually find such an item.

 

Thus It is important that you know how to do a COMPOUND search query

 

Compound Search Queries (looking for items with BOTH terms)

you can execute using either use the AND function or the "+" option

example - for searching for a Yancey Family Bible

YANCEY AND BIBLE (AND in upper case)

OR

+YANCEY +BIBLE ( no spaces after +)

 

it is also important that if you use the AND operator - that you type it in UPPER case

True - "AND Compound searching" requires that the AND be in upper case

 

Here are some sample searches (using the Yancey name - that you can replace with YOUR surname of interest)

 

YANCEY AND BIBLE

YANCEY AND FAMILY

YANCEY AND LETTER

YANCEY AND PROBATE

YANCEY AND CENSUS

YANCEY AND HISTORY

YANCEY AND IDAHO

YANCEY AND CAMPING

YANCEY AND WILLIAM AND HENRY

YANCEY AND WEDDING

YANCEY AND FUNERAL

 

Here is the link where you can execute the search

 

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/find

 

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Tiffany Farnsworth Nash

Very useful info as always Dennis! Thanx for your work!