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Searching He Rārangi Pukapuka Papakāinga

Searching the references contained within He Rārangi Pukapuka Papakāinga is a similar process to searching Google.

Simply type a word into the search box and the search engine will find all records that contain the word you specify. Click on 'View' beside any of the results to bring up more details of that reference.

You can enter an individual word, or words with spaces or AND between them, or use the following operators:

OR

whenua OR plan will bring up records that contain either word

AND

whenua AND plan will bring up records that contain both words

NOT

whenua NOT plan will bring up records with whenua but not plan

NEAR

whenua NEAR plan will bring up records where the words whenua and plan are in close proximity to each other.

" "

"whenua plan" in quotes will bring back results with that exact phrase

&

Ampersand is the same as AND

|

This is the same as OR

–

Minus sign is the same as NOT

space

Using a space is the same as AND

*

The asterisk or wildcard is used to find forms of a particular word, by replacing possible word endings with an *, e.g. plan* will bring up records that contain the words plan or plans.

+

Prefixing a word with + will ensure only that specific word is searched for, not the plural or any tenses.