The Dartmouth Archives - A Dartmouth History Research Group Project

USEFUL INFORMATION

Performing a document search
There are three main ways of finding documents within the archives:

1. By Keyword Search: Simply enter a keyword or words into the 'ARCHIVE SEARCH' box on the left and press 'GO'. This will display a list of all documents that contain that keyword in their description or title or their associated keywords field. This search will not look inside the documents themselves. See 'Advanced search' below for information on this function.
2. By A-Z listings: Click on a letter from the list to display all documents and categories which start with that letter. For example you will find Burials information under the letter 'B'.
3. By Category: Probably the best way to find less specific information. Have a browse through the categories, clicking a category will display a list of sub-categories. Clicking on one of these will display a list of all the documents within this sub category.

Each of these methods will result in a list of documents. Click on the 'View Document' button to display the full document in a new browser window.

Performing an advanced document and record search
Many of the documents contained in this archive are records such as Births, Marriages, Burials, Deaths and Census information. With the advanced search you can search within these documents and pull out single entries. This is particularly useful for researching family history where you might want to find all records related to a specific family name.

To start an advanced search click on the 'Advanced Search' link in the 'ARCHIVE SEARCH' box on the left.

The 'ADVANCED SEARCH' will search for specific items within specified sets of documents. Enter either a name, date or location or combination of the three into the appropriate boxes, select the type of documents you want to search and click on the 'SEARCH' button.

The results will be displayed in a similar way but where it has found specific entries within a record these will be displayed under the title. Click on a record to show all data from that single entry or click on 'View Document' to view the entire record with the appropriate entries highlighted.