Search Tips
Enter keywords into the search box and click the "submit" button to do simple searches. If you want to, you can do more sophisticated searches
by using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR) and by grouping words and phrases using parentheses or quotes. You can add an
asterisk (*) at the end of a word or word fragment to denote a wildcard character. Examples:
- Phillips Academy
- finds records containing both 'Phillips' and 'Academy'
- Phillips and Academy
- same as above
- Phillips or Academy
- finds records containing 'Phillips' or 'Academy'
- Phillips near Academy
- finds records containing both 'Phillips' and 'Academy,' where the two terms are located within a few words of one another
- "Phillips Academy"
- finds records containing the exact phrase 'Phillips Academy' -- would not find 'Phillips Andover Academy,' for example
- (Phillips not Academy) and George
- finds records containing 'George,' plus 'Phillips' but not 'Academy'
- Phillip*
- finds records containing words that begin with 'Phillip'