Full-Text Search Experiment: Recommendation to try
Just in case you have yet to sign up to this FamilySearch Labs Experiment, I would thoroughly recommend doing so, from the page at https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/
I have just come across documents I had either previously been completely unaware of, or had never encountered on the FamilySearch website. One related to a document showing my 3 x great grandfather as part of a ship's crew, whereas - although I knew he was a shipwright - I had been completely unaware he had ever been on any sort of voyage!
Okay, so not a question, but I felt the need to share this wonderful opportunity of finding truly elusive records relating to ones ancestors and others. How these records have been scanned and indexed is amazing - well, at least to me, who had been very cynical about the success of any such project. Here is just one example of a document I have discovered for the first time today. Until the image is blown-up the text is barely legible:
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That's great, @Paul W
I also wholeheartedly recommend Full-Text Search. I've had some wonderful finds.
It can also be a great help when accessing restricted records at affiliate libraries or FamilySearch Centers.
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I have worked numbers of probate records and marriage records through Full-Text Search that have not been available before.
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