If you are searching a library catalog, newspaper archive, or digital collection, get help building queries that match the collection’s metadata and naming conventions. Compare keyword, date, place, and subject terms, then assess catalog records or search results you paste in. Leave with query variations, likely metadata terms to try, and a shortlist of records worth checking in the archive.
Searchable Collections
Build search queries and sort pasted catalog results to find archival records faster.
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What it writes
- Search queries with spelling variations
- Catalog terms worth trying
- Shortlist of promising pasted records
How to use it
Include the archive name, your exact research question, date or place limits, and any spelling variants you know. Paste a few catalog records or search results so the query suggestions match that collection’s terminology.
What you bring
- Collection or archive name
- Names, places, dates, or subject
- Catalog fields or results you can paste
- Access to the archive’s search page
A good fit for
- Searching a newspaper archive for a local business from the 1920s
- Looking for family records when names have several spellings
- Finding photographs in a collection with unfamiliar catalog fields
Ways to start
A few requests this Agent can handle.
I’m searching a city newspaper archive for the Harbor Mill fire around 1924. Give me query variations for the company name, street, and event.
I’m looking for my great-grandmother, Anna Kowalski, in immigration records from 1905 to 1915. What name and place variations should I search?
This catalog record says “gelatin silver print,” “urban renewal,” and “South Ward,” dated 1962. Which terms should I use to find related photographs?
Good to know
This workspace provides text assistance.
- Searching or retrieving records from archive websites
- Identifying people from private records
- Cannot open archives, files, images, or catalog links
- Search suggestions depend on records you paste in
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