We make use of the Google search engine so you
can search our sites. So by using this search engine it will only
search electricscotland.com, electricscotland.org, electricscotland.net and
scotsindependent.org. The benefit is of course that all the results will
have something to do with Scotland.
Some tips on using
our site search engine
On looking for a Mac name.
In my case I am a McIntyre but there are also MacIntyre and
M'Intyre so to search for all variables you can search for
M?Intyre where the ? will pick up ac, c, and '.
Two word or more searches. Let
us say you were looking for Fort William. Doing a search
for that will of course find Fort William but it will also find
any pages with both Fort and William. So to get more focused
results you can put your search with in quotes ( "") meaning if
you searched for "Fort William" it will only give results for
Fort William and not Fort or William.
Searching for a name.
Quite often you find yourself searching for a particular
spelling of a name Spelling of names can be a nightmare as
so often spellings changed for many reasons. The person you are
looking for might have been a Gaelic speaker and so when they
pronounced their name on entering the USA the clerk there would
often have spelt it as it sounded and thus got it wrong.
Many people weren't able to read and write and so they wouldn't
have known that there name was spelled incorrectly. Our advice
is thus to try alternative spellings. Say the name out loud and
see if you can't find any alternative ways to spell the name.
It's amazing how often this will find some previously hidden
information. For example I remember talking to one person who
had been searching for years for the "Scots American Land
Company" and had found nothing. It was only when someone
suggested looking for the "Scotch American Land Company" that he
hit pay dirt!
