Using the Search Function

Using the Search feature can speed up your quest for answers or information. The Village search feature examines all the forum posts and articles that have been published on the site. Clicking into Advanced Search enables you to also search the Links and Downloads.

The biggest part of learning to use any search utility is knowing what word or phrase to search for. It helps to know that if you enter more than one word in the search box, the utility treats those words as a phrase. So if you search for the words "Great Britain" (without the quotes), the search utility will scour the site for all articles and forum posts that contain those two words together.

Want to see what words or phrases other people have been searching for? When you're in the Advanced Search screen, click on Recent Searches. You'll get a list of the last five searches that were done on the site. Next to these hyper-linked search listings, you'll see a number in parenthesis. That number indicates how many results were returned on that particular search term.

You can click the search term to see the results, if you like. Sometimes the best way to learn how to use a tool is by following great examples. The Recent Search link could be very helpful to those who are unfamiliar with using a search utility.