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---+ Searching the Carmarthenshire Historian

*What you need to know about searching* <br>
The search mechanism does not support wild cards.  Use only whole words. Partial words will not return results.  For example, if you are looking for references containing the word _Carmarthen_, type in _Carmarthen_ not _Carm_.

The search is *not* case-sensitive.  _Carmarthen_ will return the same results as _carmarthen_.

You can search for phrases. Surround the phrase in double quotes: _"Carmarthen past"_ will find documents with exactly those two words, and in that order.  Don't use quotes if you want to match documents with one or more words:  _Carmarthen past_, will find documents with the word _Carmarthen_; documents with the word _past_; and documents containing both _Carmarthen_ and _past_. 

The historian is orgianised into two formats: PDF and web page.  After a search, you are urged to click on web page results rather than pdf file results. The pdf files are large, usually in the 7-8MB (Mega-Byte) range.  If you need to download one of these files (see [[Historian.CarmarthenshireHistorianConversion][conversion]] for a reason) make sure you have one (or both) of the following:

   * Plenty of bandwidth (High speed internet, cable/DSL)
   * Patience

I've noticed that the search will not find numbers.  For example, if you're trying to find the date _1555_, you're out of luck.  And by the way _1555_ is a date that is present in at least one of the volumes.  If you *do* need to search for a number (date/year) then you can use the _other_ search - it can be found [[Historian.WebSearch][here]]. [Note: it won't search PDF files].

Anyway, enough talk, have a go. Type a word into the following box and hit return.

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