Hello,

I love the fact that many old newspapers have been scanned, OCR'd and posted on the website.  

Although I saved the link and have spent a good deal of time searching and correcting text, I deleted the original email from the person that notified us of the availability.

My question is how is the advanced search 'supposed' to work versus how it 'actually' works.  It appears that the Boolean 'AND' is ignored.

I started off doing some simple searched like "Dunn" and "Dunkum" (no quotes) and then correcting the text that was found around those names.  Next, I tried things like "Frank L Dunn" (in quotes) and found the following (which I have already corrected the spellings)"
Alexandria Gazette, Volume 97, Number 297, 12 December 1896 
Miss Grace L. Alsop and Mr. Frank L. Dunn, both of Petersburg, eloped on Thursday and were married in Weldon, N. C. 

But now if I search for "Grace AND Alsop AND Frank AND Dunn" (without the quotes), there are 56 results returned -- and the entry I am interested in is like number 46!

Yes, I have selected the option to sort by "Best Match First".

If I use Google and search simply for "grace alsop frank dunn" (without quotes), then it is the first entry returned. Naturally, if I click the link, I am taken to the correct page on the LVA website, but since I didn't use LVA's search engine, the text is not highlighted.

Am I doing something wrong with the LVA search?

Thanks,

Wayne Dunn

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