(+) Boolean Basics - Part #2

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Last week's article introduced the concept of Boolean search terms for use on Google. That article is still available to Plus Edition subscribers at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=22388. You might want to read that article again now to refresh it in your mind before proceeding with new topics. This week I will describe several advanced topics.

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Last week's article described the use of the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT (minus sign), and the concept of placing terms inside parenthesis. These search terms work well for single words, but you may find you need to include multiple words or phrases. For instance, you might be searching for an ancestor with an unusual name but perhaps not as unusual as you first thought. Perhaps there were two or more men of the same name who lived in different places at different times.

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