{"id":29375,"date":"2025-09-05T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=29375"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:40:47","slug":"fully-utilizing-full-text-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/fully-utilizing-full-text-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully Utilizing Full-Text Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Save 30% on Cyber Monday use code cyber2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar\/\"><strong>Check out our <em>separate <\/em>common name search webinar. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to offer this completely new presentation on the full-text searching at <em>FamilySearch<\/em>. We&#8217;ve redesigned our presentation as this functionality continues to change. And&#8230;we&#8217;re adding an extensive handout complete with forms to help you find more people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fully Utilizing Full-Text Search: A New Approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your purchase includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A two-hour presentation<\/strong> you can view as often as you want.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Detailed handout<\/strong> with charts and forms to help organize your searches. Charts and forms sent as separate files you can edit and customize and not as a locked PDF you have to re-create yourself as a new document.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll be including and discussing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Determining what is in Full-Text Search\u2014<\/strong>what you can access at home and what you will have to be in a FamilySearch facility or affiliate to access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seeing How AI Transcriptions are different<\/strong>\u2014they aren\u2019t like the transcriptions made by humans. That can change your approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Remembering that Full-Text means every word<\/strong>\u2014approaches need to differ as we aren\u2019t looking up a name in an index any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Asking Who<\/strong> is in the record? We aren\u2019t just searching for the main person like we did with traditional indexes. We\u2019ll discuss how to determine who could be mentioned in a record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Determining How to search?<\/strong> There are a variety of ways to search and filter results. We\u2019ll see how each one works to help determine the best strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Creating search strategies<\/strong>\u2014how full-text search changes your approach and why just dumping terms in search boxes is not always effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Determining what you found<\/strong> The interface does not always make this clear. 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