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Too Much Information :
Searches usually fail because too much information has been entered into the query. If the search doesn't find an entry that EXACTLY matches your search term it will not find the information you want, although it may still be on the website.

If you want to find Thomas Proctor born 1760 at Newhouses then putting all that into the search box is unlikely to find any likely candidates, so start with the minimum and just run a search for Proctor. If that provides too many matches for you to browse then add his first name and run a search for Thomas Procter to reduce the number of results.

Spelling Variations :
The second most common reason for a search to fail is because of spelling variations. These are very common and a surname my appear in a single document spelt in 2 or 3 different ways, the older the document, the more common this becomes. In the example above, Proctor is also very commonly spelt as Procter, and in some old documents as Prockter or other variants too.

The Sound-alike Matching feature in our search box doesn't find ProctOR entries if you enter a search for ProctER.
You can however use the wildcard character * to replace any single letter, so searching with the term Proct*r will find all the entries for both the common variations.
The * wildcard character replaces 1 or no letters, so a search for Smith* would find both Smith and Smithe and if you modified it to Sm*th* it would also find Smythe etc. too.

***Remember that once you have found a page you are interested in, you can use your browser's search Find facility (usually obtained by selecting the Edit menu, then the Find or Find on this page option).