If you've had difficulty using Footnote.com
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Searching on Footnote.com
Footnote.com
is not always the easiest site to search in my opinion. I usually browse using the main page until I get to the era I want for the database I'm searching. Then when I'm on that specific database, I search just that database. Personally I rarely search the entire database because I am not happy with the ways to refine searches.
If you've had difficulty using Footnote.com you might want to try searching specific databases instead of the whole site. Even that has problems, but I've generally had better luck tackling specific databases.
If you've had difficulty using Footnote.com
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I, too, prefer to search within a collection with Footnote as well as the new https://FamilySearch.org. Footnote seems to be an "exact" search, although wildcards are allowed. That doesn't help much when the person is listed by initials! FamilySearch provides for variant spellings with names.
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