Search Tips
- A keyword search is used to retrieve a term or phrase that is found anywhere in the catalog record.
- Church will locate any record containing that term.
- Church building will locate any record containing that phrase.
- Use AND, OR, NOT and ( ) to narrow or broaden your search:
- Church AND building will locate any record containing both terms anywhere in the record.
- Church OR building will locate any record containing either term anywhere in the record.
- Building NOT church will narrow your search to locate only those records containing the first term and not the second term.
- (Church OR building) AND people will locate any record containing either of the terms in parentheses and the term following the parentheses.
- Use an asterisk to search varying forms of a word
- Build* will search for build, builder, building, buildings.
- Church* will search for church, churches, and Churchill.
- Search for dates to limit your search.
- To search a date range, you must use TO in the search, for example 1900 to 1905.
- The Library recommends searching only by four-digit year, and not by month or day.
- Use an asterisk to search dates within a decade. For example, 186* returns results from 1860-1869.
- To search for a specific photograph for which you have the item number, use the main keyword search page and enter the last six digits of the item number in the search field.
