SEARCH HELP

This blog is intended to contain searchable data rather than readable articles although occasionally it might achieve both.

In any search engine, or in the address bar of your browser, specify the name of this blog and the term you want to search for (here indicated as "blah").

site:https://dibley-history.blogspot.com/ blah

You can also use the search engine provided inside this blog which collects some articles that contain your search term and lists them one after the other. A few steps are required to find more information. The instructions below assume you are using a computer, not a phone.

STEP 1

Search across the entire blog. Start with a broad search term like a surname or a placename.
Type your search term into this box on the right hand side of your screen.

If there is no matching data you will get a message like this:

In this case, feel free to email goodimanglg@gmail.com to see if I have any relevant data I haven't uploaded yet.

If your search term does match data in the blog, you will get a results message like this :

In this case, proceed to Step 2.

STEP 2

Once you have been provided with one or more articles considered relevant to your search term, use your browser's "Find" function to find all instances of that term within the article(s).

NB: In Google Chrome, CTRL + F will open the following box. At this stage you can repeat the original search term or make it more precise.

Every "hit" for your search term will now be highlighted and you can use the up and down arrows in the "Find" box to move between each instance.

It's a bit clunky but it's faster than reading thousands of articles to find what you're after.

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EXCEPTIONS

The collection of newspapers added to this blog as embedded PDFs will not be picked up by the blog search engine. You can search these by:

1. Navigating to the newspaper of interest;
2. Placing your cursor outside the newspaper images (eg somewhere in the black area) and using the CTRL+F page search. For example, go to this page and search for quadrille.

This will find all instances of your search term within the current blog article (in the example above you should get six hits for quadrille across four PDFs that represent all of the Gulgong Evening Argus papers for 1874. 

You will need to repeat the process for each article of interest (eg, other years of this newspaper or other newspaper titles).

HINT

If you were searching for "James Lambert of the Rock and Fountain Hotel" it would be best to use "Fountain" as your search term because James and Lambert and Hotel are all very common words in the context of Gulgong History.