Searching Trove

[Wiggy]

Hi Joyful,    Interesting and helpful advice here.

Must remember Rusted's trick. 

I look up Daley and find there was an undertaker of that name so thousands of hits.  I look up Burke and find one of the main thoroughfares in Melbourne - must make use of the without these words feature.
As for looking up Brown . . . . .     

Someone told me to put underscore between names to limit the search too - work for others??

Wiggy

[Jennaya]

Trove also has a help section that gives lots of hints and tips. I also use the phrase section a lot. It's good for places such as Richmond River or names that are in two parts such as de ville

Regards
Jennaya

[majm]

  If you have an address, then put this address (but don't include the suburb) into the "the phrase" option.
  If looking for a married woman, then try looking for her under her husband's given names .... eg Mrs John SURNAME or Mrs J SURNAME
  remember to try the usual abbreviations for given names .... Jno, Thos, Wm, Saml, etc
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Abbreviations_for_English_given_names
  if you are looking for BDM announcements, then "Family Notices" can be a good option
  use the 'then' spellings for the surnames/localities/

And, please please please sign in to Trove, and where you have spare moments, use the OCR options and transcribe if you see the need.    "it only takes a minute and its free"



Cheers,  JM

[rusted]

I agree with JM about fixing up the transcription, it is wonderful when you get an article that someone has fixed. Such a fantastic resource its worth giving a little back.

[Joyful]

Thanks JM, I always transcribe any entries that I stop to read, and I'm always getting

side tracked so I have done quite alot

Thanks again rusted I agree Trove is a wonderful resource

Joy

[Middie01]

Definately advanced search and then narrow it down as much as possible from there, 'less is better'.  Thanks Ros for the tip on the 'tilda' search, I didn't know about that one.  One of the surnames I have been looking for is Miner and another is Grant so you can imagine how many articles have those words in them.
Bette

[Joyful]

Thank you so much everyone for your advice...obviously there are a lot

of successful researchers out there

Joy