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<\/a>Scanning this list of search results we can quickly see articles about coffee roasters, flavor and other irrelevant articles\u2014clearly not what the genealogist is looking for.<\/p>\n
How do you find the genealogy records you are<\/em> looking for?<\/p>\n GenealogyBank\u2019s search results page has search tools to help you eliminate some of those extra newspaper articles and increase the likelihood of finding articles about your Coffee ancestor.<\/p>\n Look closely at the left column on the search results page. That is a list of \u201carticle types.\u201d<\/p>\n GenealogyBank classifies the articles in our collection of over 6,100 newspapers into types: Historical Obituaries, Marriage Records, etc.<\/p>\n These article types can really help narrow the results of your genealogy search for your Coffee ancestor.<\/p>\n For example, try clicking on \u201cHistorical Obituaries.\u201d<\/p>\n Now we\u2019re not seeing any articles about coffee roasters or flavors of coffee\u2014most of these obituary search results are about deceased people named Coffee.<\/p>\n If we click on \u201cMarriage Records\u201d we see similar results.<\/p>\n We can immediately see that these articles are mostly marriage and wedding announcements for people with the surname \u201cCoffee.\u201d<\/p>\n This genealogy search approach will save family history researchers a lot of time by limiting the website\u2019s search results to the ones you want to use to document your family. The results will still include obituaries or marriage records that contain the word \u201ccoffee\u201d in the text of the article. For example, perhaps the person was not named Coffee, but instead was employed by a coffee company or lived in Coffee City, Texas. The word \u201ccoffee\u201d might appear in these articles for all types of reasons, but at least this genealogy search tip will help you get more relevant articles about Coffee the person, not the object.\u00a0When looking for your ancestors, use\u00a0GenealogyBank’s \u201carticle types\u201d to better focus your search results.<\/p>\n If your last name is a common word it can be an indicator of your ancestors\u2019 lives. For example, did you know that the Miller last name origin<\/a> began as an occupational surname for a “miller.” Many last names reflected a profession or specific lineage. Learn what your last name means<\/a> and where it originated.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We often get this question: What do I do when the surname I\u2019m searching for generates thousands of hits because it is a common word (like Brown, Green or Coffee)? Yes, searching for information on ancestors with ambiguous surnames can be a problem. GenealogyBank often recommends searching using only the surname as the best way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[5245,2427,3722,1129,1658,2233,12,1661,5318,465,2424,2191,22,2045,27,1084,5370,5426,2426],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-announcements","tag-article-types","tag-brown","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-green","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-historical-obituaries","tag-history","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-records","tag-newspapers","tag-obituaries","tag-people","tag-records","tag-search-results"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/a>