{"id":394,"date":"2011-12-28T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2024-12-30T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:24:09","slug":"genealogy-search-tip-searching-by-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-search-tip-searching-by-topic.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Search Tip: Searching by Topic in GenealogyBank\u2019s Database"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a genealogy site, most people use GenealogyBank by searching on the name of an ancestor. But there are other ways to search for genealogical information in GenealogyBank\u2019s online database.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you realize that you can search using any topic or search terms? It is not necessary to always enter an ancestor\u2019s name for every search you do. GenealogyBank makes it easy to research a specific historical event, place or war battle.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you know, from an old family letter, that your ancestor fought during the Civil War\u2019s Battle of Vicksburg, a\"GenealogyBank<\/a>nd you want to read all you can about the battle to learn something of your ancestor\u2019s actions and understand a little better what he must have experienced.<\/p>\n

GenealogyBank lets you do that\u2014by simply searching on the historical Civil War battle without including your ancestor\u2019s name. \"GenealogyBank<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to search by topic in GenealogyBank\u2019s database<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, use the \u201cInclude keywords with search\u201d box that appears on the search form on GenealogyBank\u2019s homepage, and leave the other boxes blank. Remember: you do not have to search by personal name; you may search on any word that appeared in a newspaper, document or map.
\nEnter the search term Battle of Vicksburg into the box field and click on the green \u201cBegin Search\u201d button. <\/span>\"GenealogyBankAs you can see on the Search Results Page, GenealogyBank has more than 20,000 documents in our database about the Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, including 17,245 newspaper articles!<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps you want to start your genealogy research by reading contemporary newspaper reports of the famous Civil War battle. Click on the historical newspapers link to access the newspapers\u2019 search form.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then perform a search on the term Battle of Vicksburg and limit the year to 1863 by putting 1863 in the Date box.\"GenealogyBank<\/a><\/p>\n

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This search query returns 2,983 news articles from our newspaper archive database about the Battle of Vicksburg, all written in 1863, including reporters\u2019 first-hand accounts of the action, official military reports, maps, and other documents about that important Civil War battle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plenty of good newspaper readings to help you better understand what your ancestor went through, and thereby flesh out that name on your family tree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a genealogy site, most people use GenealogyBank by searching on the name of an ancestor. But there are other ways to search for genealogical information in GenealogyBank\u2019s online database. Did you realize that you can search using any topic or search terms? It is not necessary to always enter an ancestor\u2019s name for every […]<\/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":[3,5290,422,5300,1129,1656,11,12,1033,430,5318,1070,5366,5370,5430],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestry","tag-civil","tag-civil-war","tag-database","tag-family","tag-family-tree","tag-genealogical-societies","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-webinars","tag-georgia-genealogical-society","tag-green","tag-military","tag-news","tag-people","tag-research"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99779,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/99779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}