Searching List Archives by Joan Young
From the Rootsweb Review , 25 April 2007, Vol. 10, No. 17. This article is by Joan Young, not me. Using RootsWeb: THE NEW ARCHIVES SEARCH ENGINE By Joan Young joan@volunteer.rootsweb.com Until recently, if you wanted to search the archives of a RootsWeb mailing list from within RootsWeb, you had to search one list at a time and search year by year for keywords or surnames of interest. This worked just fine if you knew you were looking for ROBINSONs on the ROBINSON mailing list, for example, although searching year by year could become cumbersome at times, especially if you were not sure which list you wanted to search--or if you preferred to search all lists. RootsWeb has retired the veteran ISearch or Interactive Search engine and unveiled a spiffy new search engine. It is able to search the nearly 31,000,000 messages posted to all RootsWeb mailing lists over their entire history--all at one time. An easy and convenient way to access the new Archives search engine is to click on the