Searching for an Ancestor

1. Choose the site you wish to search. Click on the SEARCH button for that site.
2. A new window will appear with  your search results for your ancestor at that site. You may browse that window as you wish. It might also help to resize this window depending on your browser's settings.
3. To search another site, simply click on the SEARCH button for that site. You do not need to re-enter information about your ancestor. Again, the information you saved earlier is used to automatically query the next site that you choose.
4. You do not need to close the search window to conduct another search. It is OK, however, to close the window before conducting another search if you wish.
5. It is also OK to leave the "hints" window available for reference while you are searching.

In this example, the SEARCH button for Ancestry.com was selected. A new window appeared with the search results from the Ancestry.com site. The site was automatically queried using the information you saved on your ancestor. The word "started" also appeared under the selected SEARCH button. This helps keep track of which sites you have searched and which you have not. If you would like to reset the "started" entries, just follow the instructions in the green text above the SEARCH buttons.

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