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Subject: new option for searching list archives
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:17:55 -0500

I was searching through various listserv archives recently, and kept finding myself annoyed with limitations of the Rootsweb searching interface (http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=NCBERTIE). So being the programmer that I am, I setup an alternative that puts a different front-end on the the same listserv archives.

This has a number of advantages to make your life easier:
-- it optionally requires all words entered (Rootsweb requires you to type "AND" between words)
-- it automatically searches and returns results for all years at once, so you don't have to keep repeating the same search for each year.
-- it brings up the list of search results and the individual documents in frames, making it easier to navigate through the list.
-- all of your keywords are high-lighted in yellow in the document, so you can easily see where the references are without having to hunt for them.
-- in some cases where text in posts were not wrapping, and continuing on and on off to the right, these are changed to wrap normally. So you only have to scroll down, not across.

It's still in "beta" testing, but feel free to go ahead and try it, and let me know what you think...

http://www.gurganus.org/genes/list_search.cfm

If there would be enough popular support, perhaps Rootsweb could be convinced to make these improvements themselves... :)

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