Search for occurrences of single words within the collections. First select a collection to search, then apply a filter, if desired. Enter your search term – this search is designed for single words. Click the search button or push Enter/Return on your keyboard.

• Use the * as a wildcard for zero or more characters: loyal* to truncate search terms: loyal* returns matches for loyal, loyalty, loyalties, etc.
• Use the ? as a wildcard for one character exactly: sm?th returns matches for smith and smyth.

Search across all content for specific phrases. First select a collection to search, then apply a filter, if desired. Enter the phrase you’d like to find – do not use quotation marks. Click the search button or push Enter/Return on your keyboard.

• Since this search looks for exact phrases, wildcards (*) on terms are not permitted.

Include or exclude multiple search terms to perform powerful searches. First select a collection to search, then apply a filter, if desired. Enter up to three search terms, selecting a Boolean operator (and, or, not) between each. Click the search button or push Enter/Return on your keyboard.

• Use the * as a wildcard: loyal* returns matches for loyal, loyalty, loyalties, etc.
• Use the ? as a wildcard for one character exactly: sm?th returns matches for smith and smith.
• Terms may be grouped within a single field: soldier in the first field, selecting AND, and entering (killed OR wounded) in the second field will return matches that contain soldier, as well as either killed or wounded.