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Dates

Dates can be entered in a variety of ways:

• The Full date, e.g. 12 January 1933
• Partial dates, e.g. 1934 or March 1935
• A date range, e.g. 1937-1939

Wildcards

Wildcards can be used in text search fields, but not as the first character.

To perform a single character wildcard search use the "?" symbol, e.g. "Lev?" will find Levy or Levi and any other word beginning with "Lev" with four characters, but won't find "Levey".

The multiple character wildcard * (asterisk) looks for any number of characters (or none) within the nominated text. "Lev*y" will find Levy and Levey. "S*war* " will find many variations of the name including Swartz, Schwartz, Schwarcz, Szwarc. "Davi*s" will find both Davis and Davies as well as Davidowits. "Lev*" will find any name beginning with "Lev", eg Levine, Levinstein, etc, as well as Levy, Levi and Levey.